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Religions > Atheism |
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"quibbler" |
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12 Oct 2005 09:05:28 PM |
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Merry ChristMyth |
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
--
Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "oneeighty" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 04:15:09 AM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
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| User: "georgann" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 05:37:36 AM |
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Yeah, the "Christmyth" thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech
impairment, like in the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front
teeth...." But it gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun
already. Try saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people
notice the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness - towards Christianity in particular and religion in
general.
--
(`'·.¸(`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)
«´¨`·.¸¸ ¸¸.·´¨ `»
(confounding the nonsense of Gnosticism with one verse)
John 14:9 ... "He who has seen Me has seen the Father..."
- Jesus Christ
(¸.·'´(¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸)`'·.¸)
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| User: "oneeighty" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 06:36:21 AM |
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"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF73B12F.851B7%chenault@mindspring.com...
Yeah, the "Christmyth" thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech
impairment, like in the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front
teeth...." But it gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun
already. Try saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people
notice the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness - towards Christianity in particular and religion in
general.
Childish, that's the right word. Yup. People like that dude come
here, to make fun of theists among his flock, his own kind. VERY
mature, and above ALL, very 'brave'!
Nevertheless... to each his own. We need to act accordingly for
the sake of good people among atheists, and there ARE such people.
These fake personalities... fake souls... will... be... aware of it all...
one day when they are old, sick and in need of help. On their
deathbed! What can one do... let them burn in their own ignorance!
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 04:53:19 PM |
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In article <dilgts$8fc$2@domitilla.aioe.org>,
says...
"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF73B12F.851B7%chenault@mindspring.com...
Yeah, the "Christmyth" thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech
impairment, like in the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front
teeth...." But it gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun
already. Try saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people
notice the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness - towards Christianity in particular and religion in
general.
Childish, that's the right word.
It describes yourself pretty well. You whine like a little brat the
moment that you don't get your way.
Yup. People like that dude come
here, to make fun of theists among his flock,
That's called being *considerate* and not trolling. I could very
easily try to stir up flamewars by x-posting to xer groups. But I
elect to talk to fellow atheists whom I'm less likely to offend.
his own kind. VERY
mature, and above ALL, very 'brave'!
It's both mature and brave. I'm still announcing my plan in public,
albeit to a smaller and more focused audience. Furthermore, the
real courage will come in implementing it. It takes no courage to
proselytize for jebus around xmas time. Indeed, it is expected.
OTOH, it takes considerable courage to stand against the myths and
lies of the xer mind-control cult.
Nevertheless... to each his own. We need to act accordingly for
the sake of good people among atheists, and there ARE such people.
These fake personalities... fake souls... will... be... aware of it all...
one day when they are old, sick and in need of help. On their
deathbed! What can one do... let them burn in their own ignorance!
You must be spontaneously combusting, in that case, since your
religion is nothing but ignorance tarted up like a cheap hussy.
There is nothing fake about my personality, though there is no
evidence that anyone possesses a genuine soul. Death will not
impart any particular knowledge, nor will infirmity. Why assume
that there is an "after-life" if there is no "before-life"? Show
some evidence for your claims or shut the ***** up. Since you have
no evidence, go ahead and stfu in advance.
--
"Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been
able to move real mountains ... But it can put
mountains where there are none." -- Nietzsche
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| User: "blood4blood" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 10:32:47 PM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db8853f3a5b3f8b989703@news.readfreenews.net...
In article <dilgts$8fc$2@domitilla.aioe.org>,
says...
"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF73B12F.851B7%chenault@mindspring.com...
Yeah, the "Christmyth" thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech
impairment, like in the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front
teeth...." But it gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun
already. Try saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people
notice the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness - towards Christianity in particular and religion in
general.
Childish, that's the right word.
It describes yourself pretty well. You whine like a little brat the
moment that you don't get your way.
Yup. People like that dude come
here, to make fun of theists among his flock,
That's called being *considerate* and not trolling. I could very
easily try to stir up flamewars by x-posting to xer groups. But I
elect to talk to fellow atheists whom I'm less likely to offend.
No, you are sticking with your guns, and you are safely slandering
other people when you dwell inside your flock. THAT'S what it is
all about! Don't ACT and PRETEND that you got to this 'idea'
by beaing 'considerate'. You may fool yourself, but not me...
his own kind. VERY
mature, and above ALL, very 'brave'!
It's both mature and brave.
Than you should check what these words actually mean, ok?
Don't say 'they are brave and mature' just because you are
selfrighteous, ok? THAT is immature!
I'm still announcing my plan in public,
albeit to a smaller and more focused audience. Furthermore, the
real courage will come in implementing it. It takes no courage to
proselytize for jebus around xmas time. Indeed, it is expected.
OTOH, it takes considerable courage to stand against the myths and
lies of the xer mind-control cult.
Atheism is a mind control cult TOO! But hey, you are maybe just too
dumb to see that. You prolly are. Like 90pct of this NG.
Devil works on BOTH sides ya know? Oh yes, devil doesn't exist.
Ok, I could change the devil part into; hatred, lies, hypocrisy, envy...
That should make you understand better of what I meant to say.
Just so you don't start talking crap, like 90pct of this NG, about how
sie devil doesn't exist, how sie evol Jesus is just looking how to
judge and kill people and throw then into hell, and stuff like that. OK?
Nevertheless... to each his own. We need to act accordingly for
the sake of good people among atheists, and there ARE such people.
These fake personalities... fake souls... will... be... aware of it all...
one day when they are old, sick and in need of help. On their
deathbed! What can one do... let them burn in their own ignorance!
You must be spontaneously combusting, in that case, since your
religion is nothing but ignorance tarted up like a cheap hussy.
Spontaneously? THAT is not real. Bwahahahahahaha... how can
someone set himself on fire from out of nothing? Tell me. If THAT
is real, so is God. Dumb atheist...
There is nothing fake about my personality, though there is no
evidence that anyone possesses a genuine soul.
I do. Am not ashamed to claim that. At least, when I see the sheer
stupidity here and among the most of theists... yeah... am not perfect,
but better than you... fckyeah! Pfff...
Death will not
impart any particular knowledge, nor will infirmity. Why assume
that there is an "after-life" if there is no "before-life"?
Before life? Where do you come from? Hm, tell me that? You fell
from heavens? You just appeared? God turned the switch on? Hm...
I guess the 'before life' would be you, me or anyone else being a little
sperm in yer dad's nutsack, and the other part inside the bloody vagina
of yer mother. I'd call that 'before life'. You heard about genes and other
stuff? DNA? You prolly have.
And 'after life'? Hm... maybe 'after life' is that thing when you die, and
you start decaying and then little worms and ants start you eat yer ***** up.
WHO knows for sure? It COULD be. Anyway, I'd rather look at things
in that way than to be a hate ridden atheist, OR theist.
Show
some evidence for your claims or shut the ***** up.
Wow, you ARE so mature, and reasonable! You want evidence?
Ok, lookie here... go to yer stove, light the fire, and then put yer finger
into the fire. Hold it for about 20 mins, THEN get back to me. OK?
You don't see a point in this little experiment? Oh well, then you are dumb.
Since you have
no evidence, go ahead and stfu in advance.
Wouldn't YOU like that, am I right... whatsyaname... 'quibbler'.
Stick with yer guns atheist... cause only then I can see how much
hatred dwells inside you. OK? Don't change, be the same! Pfff...
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
14 Oct 2005 04:15:02 AM |
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"blood4blood" <blood4blood@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Atheism is a mind control cult TOO! But hey, you are maybe just too
dumb to see that. You prolly are. Like 90pct of this NG.
Oh brother. Another ***** of a troll. PLONK
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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13 Oct 2005 07:24:08 AM |
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"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF73B12F.851B7%chenault@mindspring.com...
Yeah, the "Christmyth" thing makes is sound like you've got a minor
speech
impairment, like in the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front
teeth...." But it gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads
of fun
already. Try saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other
people
notice the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season
in a
long while :))
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness - towards Christianity in particular and religion
in
general.
Yes, and?
--
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 04:42:09 PM |
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In article <BF73B12F.851B7%chenault@mindspring.com>,
chenault@mindspring.com says...
Yeah, the "Christmyth" thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech
impairment, like in the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front
teeth...." But it gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun
already. Try saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people
notice the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness
Oh, please, there's nothing more childish than a christer. You all
are forever crying like babies and running to your sky-daddy every
time life gets complicated.
--
"Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been
able to move real mountains ... But it can put
mountains where there are none." -- Nietzsche
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| User: "georgann" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 06:29:24 PM |
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oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness
quibbler wrote:
Oh, please, there's nothing more childish than a christer. You all are
forever crying like babies and running to your sky-daddy every time life gets
complicated.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't. I usually go running to Him when I feel great joy and gratitude.
--
(`'·.¸(`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)
«´¨`·.¸¸ ¸¸.·´¨ `»
(confounding the nonsense of Gnosticism with one verse)
John 14:9 ... "He who has seen Me has seen the Father..."
- Jesus Christ
(¸.·'´(¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸)`'·.¸)
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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13 Oct 2005 08:46:55 PM |
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"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF746613.855EE%chenault@mindspring.com...
oneeighty wrote:
Pathetic. Not one ounce of respect. You atheists are pathetic.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't know about "pathetic". Its seems to me its more like a dedicated
childish rebelliousness
quibbler wrote:
Oh, please, there's nothing more childish than a christer. You all are
forever crying like babies and running to your sky-daddy every time life
gets
complicated.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
I don't. I usually go running to Him when I feel great joy and gratitude.
And you occasionally go to the beach in hopes of hearing from the holy
spirit on what to do next with your crackpot diagram.
--
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "blood4blood" |
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13 Oct 2005 11:27:19 PM |
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"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote in message news:3r8h0cFiak9cU1@individual.net...
"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF746613.855EE%chenault@mindspring.com...
oneeighty wrote:
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
But science DOES neglect poor people! So, tell me, WHAT is
the difference?
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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14 Oct 2005 04:15:48 AM |
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"blood4blood" <blood4blood@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dinc49$eg3$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote in message
news:3r8h0cFiak9cU1@individual.net...
"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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oneeighty wrote:
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
But science DOES neglect poor people! So, tell me, WHAT is
the difference?
I didn't make the original quote, dipshit.
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
14 Oct 2005 11:31:57 AM |
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In article <dinc49$eg3$1@domitilla.aioe.org>,
says...
"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote in message news:3r8h0cFiak9cU1@individual.net...
"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BF746613.855EE%chenault@mindspring.com...
oneeighty wrote:
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
But science DOES neglect poor people!
Science is an ABSTRACT field of human knowledge and therefore it is a
category error to claim that it "neglect[s] poor people". In actual fact
many scientific breakthroughs have been *applied* for the benefit of the
poor. However, the application of science is a separate issue. What
science does to is hear and evaluate evidence with the aim of improving
human undestanding of the world.
So, tell me, WHAT is
the difference?
Your non sequitur aside, the statement stands. Science, as an abstract
field does not burn people and that is a fact. You're obviously too
stupid to understand the difference between science and some
anthropomorphized god concept, so naturally, people won't take you
seriously.
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 09:35:31 AM |
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In article <dil8n4$nhf$2@domitilla.aioe.org>, says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
Pathetic.
Yes Jesus is certainly pathetic.
Not one ounce of respect.
You haven't earned any respect and thus you don't deserve even an ounce
of respect. Not that respect can be measured as a unit of weight/mass.
You atheists are pathetic.
You christers are even more pathetic because you believe the ***** in
the bible.
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| User: "blood4blood" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 10:37:46 PM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db81e9a25e56cd09896a6@news.readfreenews.net...
In article <dil8n4$nhf$2@domitilla.aioe.org>, says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
Pathetic.
Yes Jesus is certainly pathetic.
Nope, Jesus was and IS the man... every good man or woman IS Jesus.
Of any colour, of any religion, even YOU atheists that are good, honest,
caring and loving... YOU are Jesus too. SEE how Jesus was and IS smart?
I guess THAT is the ONLY reason you lost souls HATE Jesus! He nailed
all of yer sorry asses down! I can see... no doubt!
Not one ounce of respect.
You haven't earned any respect and thus you don't deserve even an ounce
of respect. Not that respect can be measured as a unit of weight/mass.
I have to earn it? WHAT? You are better than me? GO look yourself
in the mirror hate ridden soul. Which you prolly lost somewhere along the way!
You atheists are pathetic.
You christers are even more pathetic because you believe the ***** in
the bible.
I don't read the bible. I am just watching people around me... THAT is enough
for me. I come here, look at your posts, and that's all I need. PEOPLE are
all I need to see how dumb they really are. No bible, no church, no priest...
But hey, since you are full of prejudices (don't worry, sign of times we live in,
so you'd better be asking yourself WHO is responsible for it, and IT AIN'T
just the church and religion... but I don't expect you to understand that, since
you are pissed @ Christ for 'setting the standards too high'), I don't expect
you to understand. Aliens prolly stole yer brain... or you are just plain vanilla
dumb! THAT could be the case too... WHO knows? You obviously DON'T!
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
14 Oct 2005 12:23:37 PM |
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In article <din97v$atn$3@domitilla.aioe.org>,
says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db81e9a25e56cd09896a6@news.readfreenews.net...
In article <dil8n4$nhf$2@domitilla.aioe.org>, says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
Pathetic.
Yes Jesus is certainly pathetic.
Nope, Jesus was and IS the man... every good man or woman IS Jesus.
Ho Boy, talk about ad hoc redefinition. There never was a real Jesus.
There was just some fictionalized, preening queen and hypocrite producing
a sermon on a giant mountain of *****.
Of any colour, of any religion, even YOU atheists that are good, honest,
caring and loving... YOU are Jesus too. SEE how Jesus was and IS smart?
I see how you're a fucking loon.
I guess THAT is the ONLY reason you lost souls HATE Jesus!
That and he was a stupid, petty, vindictive jackass, who was thoroughly
inconsistent in his teachings and seemed to think that counter-inituitve
nonsense passed for "wisdom".
He nailed
all of yer sorry asses down! I can see... no doubt!
He nailed nothing other than his tard of a mother and the few of the
buttholes of his favorite apostles, at least according to the story.
Not one ounce of respect.
You haven't earned any respect and thus you don't deserve even an ounce
of respect. Not that respect can be measured as a unit of weight/mass.
I have to earn it?
Yeah, what a revolting development, eh?
WHAT? You are better than me?
Damn right, biatch, but I'm glad to see that you have finally mastered
the obvious.
GO look yourself
in the mirror hate ridden soul.
Your idiotic stereotype of assuming hate when ever anyone disagrees with
you is tiring. Of course, your belief that it is possible to see ones
"soul" in the "mirror" idiotically speaks for itself in terms of your
separation from reality.
Which you prolly lost somewhere along the way!
I don't need a soul, because, unlike you, I've got a functioning brain.
You atheists are pathetic.
You christers are even more pathetic because you believe the ***** in
the bible.
I don't read the bible.
Jebus read the gospels, at least according to the myth.
I am just watching people around me... THAT is enough
for me. I come here, look at your posts, and that's all I need. PEOPLE are
all I need to see how dumb they really are.
You yourself are all you need to see that you are very dumb indeed.
No bible, no church, no priest...
Jesus seemed to believe in all of that.
But hey, since you are full of prejudices
Yeah, idiots like yourself seem to label lots of things as "prejudices",
especially when they don't promote your religious biases. But naturally,
I take your claims about as seriously as I take claims that the KKK is
being discriminated against by not being able to lynch black people the
way they used to.
(don't worry, sign of times we live in,
You can cram your signs up your own ***** sideways.
so you'd better be asking yourself WHO is responsible for it, and IT AIN'T
just the church and religion... but I don't expect you to understand that, since
you are pissed @ Christ for 'setting the standards too high')
No, he actually abolished all responsibility by claiming to wipe away the
sins of his sychophantic followers like some cosmic swiffer dust magnet.
, I don't expect
you to understand.
Considering that your comments made no sense, that's a reasonable
expectation.
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| User: "stoney" |
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16 Oct 2005 08:16:34 PM |
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:23:37 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com>
wrote:
In article <din97v$atn$3@domitilla.aioe.org>,
says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db81e9a25e56cd09896a6@news.readfreenews.net...
In article <dil8n4$nhf$2@domitilla.aioe.org>, says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
Pathetic.
Yes Jesus is certainly pathetic.
Nope, Jesus was and IS the man... every good man or woman IS Jesus.
Ho Boy, talk about ad hoc redefinition.
Talk about drooling idiocy, rampant dishonesty, and invincible
ignorance. It's a prime example of the degeneracy of superstition.
[]
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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13 Oct 2005 12:51:16 AM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
I hope that this is a joke. You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again, and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies. If you are really serious, your
plan is infantile and dangerous. It's one thing to make fun
of an invading troll in alt.atheism, but what you plan to do
is humiliate people who haven't hurt you in public and, if
they get angry enough, could lead to other atheists getting
hurt.
--
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Michelle Malkin (Mickey) aa list#1
BAAWA Knight & Bible Thumper Thumper
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
--
Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 09:33:10 AM |
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In article <j8Sdnff6WdtWaNDeRVn-oA@comcast.com>,
says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
I hope that this is a joke.
I think we've been through this conversation before in different guises.
You always seem opposed to anything that assertively challenges theists
in public. That plays right into the hands of theists, since they are
under no such encumbrances.
You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again,
We're only one of a group of people doing decorations and it won't
necessarily be clear who did what.
and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies.
It' won't make any enemies that don't already exist. Christianity is a
myth and there is nothing wrong with a holiday based upon a myth. Easter
is about a mythical bunny and xmas is about a mythical jesus. Knowing
that jesus is a myth doesn't necessarily spoil the essentially secular
holiday of christmyth including the tree decoration or the gift giving or
the stockings, etc, etc.
--
Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "chibiabos" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 05:28:44 PM |
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In article <MPG.1db81e14db3e92a19896a5@news.readfreenews.net>, quibbler
<quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:
In article <j8Sdnff6WdtWaNDeRVn-oA@comcast.com>,
says...
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
I hope that this is a joke.
I think we've been through this conversation before in different guises.
You always seem opposed to anything that assertively challenges theists
in public. That plays right into the hands of theists, since they are
under no such encumbrances.
You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again,
We're only one of a group of people doing decorations and it won't
necessarily be clear who did what.
and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies.
It' won't make any enemies that don't already exist. Christianity is a
myth and there is nothing wrong with a holiday based upon a myth. Easter
is about a mythical bunny and xmas is about a mythical jesus. Knowing
that jesus is a myth doesn't necessarily spoil the essentially secular
holiday of christmyth including the tree decoration or the gift giving or
the stockings, etc, etc.
*Sigh* Maybe it's my advanced age, but I just don't see how alienating
hundreds if not thousands of people by using denigrating labels
advances the cause of reason and freethought.
-chib
--
Member of SMASH
Sarcastic Middla Aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor
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| User: "chibiabos" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 08:07:27 AM |
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In article <j8Sdnff6WdtWaNDeRVn-oA@comcast.com>, Michelle Malkin
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
I hope that this is a joke. You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again, and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies. If you are really serious, your
plan is infantile and dangerous. It's one thing to make fun
of an invading troll in alt.atheism, but what you plan to do
is humiliate people who haven't hurt you in public and, if
they get angry enough, could lead to other atheists getting
hurt.
I'm with Mickey on this one. Two wrongs don't make a right. How about a
very simple "Yuletide Greetings!" or "Happy Solstice!" and let it go at
that. It won't be difficult for those in the know to understand what
you're doing, and those who aren't won't be needlessly offended.
-chib
--
Member of S.M.A.S.H.
Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 08:34:15 AM |
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:07:27 -0700, chibiabos <chib@nospam.com> wrote:
In article <j8Sdnff6WdtWaNDeRVn-oA@comcast.com>, Michelle Malkin
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
I hope that this is a joke. You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again, and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies. If you are really serious, your
plan is infantile and dangerous. It's one thing to make fun
of an invading troll in alt.atheism, but what you plan to do
is humiliate people who haven't hurt you in public and, if
they get angry enough, could lead to other atheists getting
hurt.
I'm with Mickey on this one. Two wrongs don't make a right. How about a
very simple "Yuletide Greetings!" or "Happy Solstice!" and let it go at
that. It won't be difficult for those in the know to understand what
you're doing, and those who aren't won't be needlessly offended.
In fact, anyone who puts up a tree, or holly and ivy, is in fact emblematically
honouring the pagan festival of Yule. Don't forget to burn a Yule log on the
fire, and at the very least eat a Yule log chocolate covered cake. The feasting
is itself part of the pagan festival - enjoy.
Also, the original pagans were merely "people of the land", not worshippers of
any gods or goddesses, so the festival is thoroughly secular.
JPG
-chib
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13 Oct 2005 06:44:29 AM |
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Michelle Malkin wrote:
"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
<snip>
I hope that this is a joke. You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again, and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies. If you are really serious, your
plan is infantile and dangerous. It's one thing to make fun
of an invading troll in alt.atheism, but what you plan to do
is humiliate people who haven't hurt you in public and, if
they get angry enough, could lead to other atheists getting
hurt.
And I thought some of the things *I* say got people's
backs up.... @_@ I didn't see Mickey's response before
I sent the other post.
As direct reply and piggybacking, can I play peacemaker
here and suggest something more apt: a panoply of other
December celebrations placed alongside the christmassacre
decorations, ie. Mithras and other December saviours,
Hannukah, and the solstice? Equal time for all religions
that occur Dec. 20-25 would be only fair.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
-----
"I always thought our house was haunted,
'Cause nobody said boo to me."
- John Hiatt
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| User: "duke" |
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18 Oct 2005 05:23:36 AM |
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:51:16 -0400, "Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net>
wrote:
I hope that this is a joke. You will never be trusted by the
people you are doing this to again, and I wouldn't blame
them. You wouldn't be doing atheists any favor, either,
by making more enemies. If you are really serious, your
plan is infantile and dangerous. It's one thing to make fun
of an invading troll in alt.atheism, but what you plan to do
is humiliate people who haven't hurt you in public and, if
they get angry enough, could lead to other atheists getting
hurt.
Your esteem has just been elevated in my eyes.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
12 Oct 2005 09:13:21 PM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db76ed2354ddb039896a2@news.readfreenews.net...
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
There won't be any ceremonial wrestling as in Festivus, will there?
--
------
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
12 Oct 2005 09:27:45 PM |
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In article <3r5u5vFhlooiU1@individual.net>,
says...
There won't be any ceremonial wrestling as in Festivus, will there?
Not unless some christer wants to start trouble and makes me have to body
slam the twerp.
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
12 Oct 2005 09:53:25 PM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db7740c585f61849896a4@news.readfreenews.net...
In article <3r5u5vFhlooiU1@individual.net>,
says...
There won't be any ceremonial wrestling as in Festivus, will there?
Not unless some christer wants to start trouble and makes me have to body
slam the twerp.
Ah, so dinner AND a show ;)
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Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 02:12:41 AM |
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:05:28 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Oh, come on, dude. It isn't even Samhain yet and you're already
talking about ChristMyth? <very broad wink>
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 02:49:49 AM |
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John Baker wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:05:28 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Oh, come on, dude. It isn't even Samhain yet and you're already
talking about ChristMyth? <very broad wink>
I've been in the Philippines for a few months now, and
they had xmas decorations in the stores *before* the
Hallowe'en stuff!
What the hell do they need with fake snow? It's not
like more than 1% of them have ever seen the stuff....
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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'Cause nobody said boo to me."
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: Merry ChristMyth |
13 Oct 2005 05:42:31 AM |
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:05:28 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:
Our organization is going to volunteer to help put up xmas
decorations around campus this year, including putting out luminarias and
wreathes. However, since we are atheists and therefore necessarily non-
xians, we were thinking about what we could do to make the season a
little brighter, aside from buring xians Nero style. I'm proposing
stapling little signs to the luminarias we put out that say, "Merry
Christmyth" on them.
The only real debate at this point is on the spelling. "Merry
ChristMyth" would be the most straightforward and even slow coach xians
should be able to figure out what is being said. OTOH, something like
"Chrismyth" might take a little while longer to register in the pea
brains of believers and it might be a few days before their reptile
neurons process the data to figure out that they're being played.
BTW, since the Christmyth season is rapidly approaching, I would
encourage others to try out this variant pronunciation everywhere that
one would normally use the word "Christmas". Yeah, the "Christmyth"
thing makes is sound like you've got a minor speech impairment, like in
the song "All I want for Christmyth is my two front teeth...." But it
gets catchy, the more you say it. I'm having loads of fun already. Try
saying "Merry Chrismyth" fairly quickly and see if other people notice
the substitution. This might just be the best Christmyth season in a
long while :))
You could try being a bit more subtle, just in case your scheme backfires and
causes unpleasantness.
Why not put up "Yuletide Greetings" or "Happy Yule" - this is recognised as a
valid salutation in English-speaking countries and is non-controversial. It
will lose the anti-Christian message but you can smugly go around in the
knowledge that the christers are unwittingly approving of and celebrating a
pagan message and festival.
(Yule is the winter solstice Blót (celebration) in Ásatrú, the pagan practices
of the Germanic peoples prior to the arrival of Christianity. Today, it is also
one of the eight solar holidays, or sabbats, of Neopaganism. In modern
neopaganism, Yule is celebrated on the winter solstice: in the northern
hemisphere, circa December 21, and in the southern hemisphere, circa June 21
JPG)
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