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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/24/2005 : 05:43:34
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There are many ways to celebrate Thanksgiving, ranging from staid singing in houses of worship to indulging in a gluttonous eating and drinking binge to the detrement of health. But the most important aspect of the holiday is neither the meal nor the hymns, but that of bringing the family together, old joys remembered; old angers at least temporarly forgotten.
At some times, in some places, the true meaning of the day is only paid lip-service for photo ops. These small people with shrunken hearts and shrivvled souls have bastardized the celebration to the point of removing all meaning. But at least, on this day I cannot hate them for what they are, only for what they have done.
So, I wish you the all of the best, my skeptical family, home and abroad, in agreement and dissent, and ask that you join me in hoping that there will never be another Thanksgiving celebration like this one.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
 Posted - 11/24/2005 : 06:12:39 [Permalink]
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Ah, likewise, my dear F; your rhetoric by far supercedes mine. Best of the best to you and your family - if not in luxury and material things, at least in peace of heart and love.
Alas, we have no such celebration of our own (though we do have our fair share of holidays). |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 11/24/2005 : 09:57:54 [Permalink]
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| Happy Thanksgiving to all of you... |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2005 : 11:02:21 [Permalink]
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Well, while I agree with Filthy's sentiments, mostly, I have to say that any holiday that features great food is a holiday for me...
Happy Thanksgiving! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2005 : 11:57:30 [Permalink]
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Not to rain on anyone's holiday parade, but let us take a moment to actually reflect upon this particular holiday.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_236.shtml
While this holiday isn't actually a celebration of our genocide against the native American people, we should still take a moment to think about the events of the next two centuries that followed the first thanksgiving.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2005 : 13:05:22 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
Not to rain on anyone's holiday parade, but let us take a moment to actually reflect upon this particular holiday.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_236.shtml
While this holiday isn't actually a celebration of our genocide against the native American people, we should still take a moment to think about the events of the next two centuries that followed the first thanksgiving.
Indeed. And, as in the Civil War, I lost long ago family on both sides of that obscenity.
But I cannot change history, only try in some small way, to prevent the repeating of it. So, as a family that is pretty much all secular, we celebrate the get-together and renewing of family bonds as much as anything, and make a bigger deal out of it than Christmas.
We ate early and everyone will be pleased to know that my Cold Mystery Meat Platter went over like Dick Cheney's current poll numbers. Everybody was afraid of it, possibly remembering the time that I made mountain oysters. It was entirely beef tongue, boiled and seasoned, pickled, and also smoked. but unlike Dick Cheney's current poll numbers (19 percent approval  ) it eventually all got eaten, demonstrating a much higher approval rating.
And nobody got shot! 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/24/2005 : 20:12:21 [Permalink]
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quote:
And nobody got shot!
I didn't even get invited to my family gathering for Thanksgiving. Hope all you others had happy ones. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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ronnywhite
SFN Regular
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Posted - 11/25/2005 : 04:37:01 [Permalink]
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| I did OK. Best wishes to all. |
Ron White |
| Edited by - ronnywhite on 11/25/2005 04:40:49 |
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