tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793210.post113527752466717514..comments2024-03-28T04:52:31.566-07:00Comments on Toner Mishap: Please don't try to include me.The Misanthropehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697151793588884333noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793210.post-1136434100802265632006-01-04T20:08:00.000-08:002006-01-04T20:08:00.000-08:00Very good post man. Very well put.Very good post man. Very well put.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793210.post-1136116691582856182006-01-01T03:58:00.000-08:002006-01-01T03:58:00.000-08:00chandira. . . well. . . isn't . . . well. . . aren...chandira. . . well. . . isn't . . . well. . . aren't you kinda . . . well. . . isn't that kinda what he's talking about? ummm. . . happy holidays.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138352917567749825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793210.post-1135624082061740442005-12-26T11:08:00.000-08:002005-12-26T11:08:00.000-08:00I'm sorry you have Christmas forced on you. But it...I'm sorry you have Christmas forced on you. But it is becoming absolutely nothing to do with religion any more.. It's about the most secular holiday there is! <BR/>Robert hates Christmas too. But the 'spirit of Christmas' is all about dropping the usual ego and just enjoying your loved ones. ~Like we need an excuse to do that one day a year! I know, that part sucks. <BR/>Our (non-Christian!) community celebrates it on that basis, and it's just a festival of gifting those people you love, and celebrating all that's good in human nature.<BR/>I grew up with Christmas excitement, like most kids in my generation in England, and I can't help love it. I find it hard every year living with somebody that refuses to celebrate it. I forced it on Robert a little this year, and put up a tree.Chandirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629463765622067086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793210.post-1135355660836348062005-12-23T08:34:00.000-08:002005-12-23T08:34:00.000-08:00I heard about this on NPR KPCC-FM this morning, so...I heard about this on NPR KPCC-FM this morning, so I clicked over to Amazon and provided you with the following, and you know, it seems there is minimal religion involved with Christmas, well until the zealous hypocritical Christians got involved.<BR/><BR/>“Nicholas The Epic Journey from Saint to Santa Claus” by Jeremy Seal, shows the evolution of one of the greatest cults of modern times—the rise of Santa Claus from his origins in Byzantine Turkey to his role as the jolly man who grants every child’s wish. It is a compelling story of religious worship and strife, cultural interpretation, and mass commercialization.<BR/><BR/>An unassuming fourth-century bishop become a 21st-century icon who usually went out of his way to be nice to children. Said to have secretly provided a poverty-stricken nobleman with enough dowry to marry off his three daughters, Nicholas had humble beginnings. Despite achieving the not insignificant distinction of sainthood via good works rather than martyrdom, his road to international fame wasn't easy by any means, what with Christian cities that revered him suddenly falling to non-Christians and banishing all things Christ-related. Then there was that pesky Reformation, when all saints became personae non gratae. Those obstacles came to seem speed bumps compared with others that Nikolai/Mikulas/Nicolaos/Nigul Klaus/Sinterklaas/Santa Claus would encounter.The Misanthropehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15697151793588884333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793210.post-1135352913748703922005-12-23T07:48:00.000-08:002005-12-23T07:48:00.000-08:00Have a happy Hannukah, B2!QHave a happy Hannukah, B2!<BR/>Qstchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018824090441668781noreply@blogger.com