Quote: chipolata @ April 22 2013, 6:50 PM BSTAlthough to be fair, he is the only person in this thread who's had his each and every post pulled to pieces.
The post he quoted was not angry, and neither were several others that Pingl seemed to find angry. In threads that are a bit high tension, like this one seems to be, it's easy to assume all posts are getting at you and I didn't want Pingl to think they all were. (Some have been, I agree.)
Quote: sootyj @ April 22 2013, 6:52 PM BSTFairpoint
although I find sanitised aetheist Christmas to be such an odd unpleasant festival. I mean you're welcome to it, but do you understand what you're rejecting?
I'm not rejecting it.
Quote: sootyj @ April 22 2013, 6:52 PM BSTalthough I find sanitised aetheist Christmas to be such an odd unpleasant festival. I mean you're welcome to it, but do you understand what you're rejecting?
Er, how many have you celebrated? There are as many different types of atheist Christmasses as there are people! Lots of posters have said silly things in this thread, and you've just joined them.
Well this thread is riddled with assumptions so fair play to you and your faith whatever it may be.
I'm an aetheist but I come from quite a religious background. There's only a few religious rituals I stick to a couple of times a year, but I guess I like the authentic feeling stuff.
Quote: zooo @ April 22 2013, 6:56 PM BSTEr, how many have you celebrated? There are as many different types of atheist Christmasses as there are people! Lots of posters have said silly things in this thread, and you've just joined them.
Working in care for years and being Jewish I always cheerfully volunteered for Easter, Christmas and all that. So the other staff could take leave.
So fake trees, fat turkeys and on occaison dressing up as a morose Santa I done it all.
I also spent some very Christian Crimbos with religious friends, I prefered them.
Quote: zooo @ April 22 2013, 6:51 PM BSTI think if you'd just said that in the first place, without the second paragraph about atheists (which you now say was a joke) hardly anything that came after would have been said.
It was a joke, this is a comedy forum, I still say even if it wasn't you lot seem very touchy about the whole Christmas thing. Which by the way means nothing to me one way or another, apart from the odd comedy Christmas special being on
Now there speaks a truly authentically religiously connected person.
Quote: sootyj @ April 22 2013, 6:59 PM BSTWorking in care for years and being Jewish I always cheerfully volunteered for Easter, Christmas and all that. So the other staff could take leave.
So fake trees, fat turkeys and on occaison dressing up as a morose Santa I done it all.
I also spent some very Christian Crimbos with religious friends, I prefered them.
Right. Well Christmas in a care home, while meaning no offence, does sound possibly rather depressing/sanitised. Not really a typical cosy home Christmas to be fair. Sounds the complete opposite to my experience of Christmas.
Quote: sootyj @ April 22 2013, 6:59 PM BSTbeing Jewish I always cheerfully volunteered for Easter
Christ-killer.
You never saw a Christmas I organsied, but yes I went to school and frankly its pretty hard to avoid it. I mean do you have a secret awesome Christmas behind closed doors; with the snowman shitting snowballs on you from the ceiling and George Micheal chiding you for giving his heart away?
Zooo you seem to have a strong faith, not a religious one but one that definitely exists. I apologise if I give the impression I mocked it.
Lol, I'm a Christmas mentalist. It's my favourite day of the whole year! So I don't take kindly to religious twits rocking up and saying 'that's my festival, you're not allowed, wah wah wah'. Like they do surprisingly often.
(Not meaning you Sooty, or you Pingl, since you were joking.)
I probably do it a lot better than they do, too.
No you definitely believe in your own thing, framed through a prism of family, aetheism public ritual etc.
I't's not a conventional religion. But so few are these days.
Most fundanmentalists Christian, Muslim or whatever are far more political movements not religious ones.
No Christmas has no meaning for me. To be honest I find it a festival of greed and gluttony, but I celebrate it for the Kids. I am not a Christian as I said, I don't celebrate any religious holidays. but you know it breaks up the year and its fun for the kids, its just very commercialised and puts immense pressure on parents, I wish it could be calmed down a bit, but no one is forced to celebrate so live and let live.
You can enjoy and have fun at Christmas without it having anything to do with religion, even if that's what it's really supposed to be about. I like getting presents and eating a lot.
Quote: zooo @ April 22 2013, 7:07 PM BSTLol, I'm a Christmas mentalist. It's my favourite day of the whole year! So I don't take kindly to religious twits rocking up and saying 'that's my festival, you're not allowed, wah wah wah'. Like they do surprisingly often.
Why would that matter? It's not like they can physically take Christmas from you.
Quote: sootyj @ April 22 2013, 7:10 PM BSTNo you definitely believe in your own thing, framed through a prism of family, aetheism public ritual etc.
I't's not a conventional religion. But so few are these days.Most fundanmentalists Christian, Muslim or whatever are far more political movements not religious ones.
This is very true, it is more politics than religion these days. Most religious organisations are fundamentally political, corrupt, immoral and self aggrandising.