Science > Physics > Thanksgiving Holy Feast Day (was: United States blah blah blah)
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15 Nov 2005 10:34:10 PM |
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Thanksgiving Holy Feast Day (was: United States blah blah blah) |
On 15 Nov 2005, wrote:
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NOVEMBER 15TH should have been made a NATIONAL
HOLIDAY, INSTEAD of the RELIGIOUS holiday of
"Thanksgiving".
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You're confused. The national holiday 'Thanksgiving' is
specifically about giving thanks to God for the harvest,
for everything, and for everyone: we give thanks to God
because all good comes from God. And so we are grateful.
Various versions of such thanks-giving feasts have been
celebrated around the world since prehistoric antiquity,
and at various seasons of the year, typically around or
after the harvest, depending on the culture, crops, etc.
Here in the USA, we presently observe 'Thanksgiving Day'
on the fourth Thursday of November each year, in honour
of the great God of giving, Jupiter (IOVIS, Deus, Zeus,
Jehovah), who is the God of the expanse and the fowl of
the air, and for whom the fifth evening-morning ("day")
of creation is recounted (i.e. co-ruling with his older
brother Neptune, Poseidon) in 'Genesis' 1:20-23, to wit:
"dixit etiam Devs prodvcant aqvae reptile animae
uiuentis et uolatile svper terram svb firmamento
caeli creauitqve Devs cete grandia et omnem animam
uiuentem atqve motabilem qvam prodvxerant aqvae in
species svas et omne uolatile secvndvm genvs svvm
et uidit Devs qvod esset bonvm benedixitqve eis
dicens crescite et mvltiplicamini et replete aqvas
maris auesqve mvltiplicentvr svper terram et factvm
est uespere et mane dies qvintvs"--editio uvlgata
However, for anti-religious atheist purposes, the feast
of Thanksgiving is believed to commemorate the pilgrims'
celebration of a good harvest in 1621. President George
Washington proclaimed Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a
day of thanks-giving after the Constitution was adopted:
"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God to obey his will, to be
grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his
protection and favor." --President George Washington
In 1863, inspired by Sarah Joseph Hale's many editorials
calling for an annual national holiday for thanks-giving,
President Abraham Lincoln decreed the *last* Thursday of
each November as Thanksgiving Day, which would sometimes
fall on the fifth Thursday of the month, not the fourth.
Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thanksgiving Day
was moved to the "next-of-last Thursday" from 1939-1941,
then resolved to its present official observance on the
fourth Thursday of November each year.
Thanksgiving is most definitely a religious holy day, in
which we give thanks to God (the Dominant one of heaven)
for *all* that we have to be grateful for, not just good
food, but also for our lives, liberties, and happinesses.
Give thanks to God that our great nation dominates planet
Earth under the universal Dominion of our heavenly father.
That's something to be grateful for EVERY day of the year!
Enjoy Life! (fillet a liberal for lunch)
Daniel Joseph Min
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2B1CCFE7
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| Title: Re: Thanksgiving Holy Feast Day (was: United States blah blah blah) |
15 Nov 2005 11:18:44 PM |
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Min, while I'm not a great fan of the majority of your posts, I want to
thank you for this one.
From my viewpoint, Thanksgiving is a time for us to give thanks for the
blessings that God or nature (same thing) has provided us during the
past growing season, in preparation for the oncoming difficulties of
winter.
In a like way, Easter is the time we select to give thanks for our
survival over the winter, and express our hope and faith for the coming
spring and summer -- the rekindling of human life on what is often an
incredibly hosile planet.
If secular humanists can't relect on the substance of these two
celebrations and acknowledge the significance of these two occasions,
well that's just too damn bad for them.
Harry C.
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| User: "Dylan Sung" |
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| Title: Re: Thanksgiving Holy Feast Day (was: United States blah blah blah) |
16 Nov 2005 02:19:26 AM |
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<hhc314@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1132118324.678161.218130@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Min, while I'm not a great fan of the majority of your posts, I want to
thank you for this one.
From my viewpoint, Thanksgiving is a time for us to give thanks for the
blessings that God or nature (same thing) has provided us during the
past growing season, in preparation for the oncoming difficulties of
winter.
In a like way, Easter is the time we select to give thanks for our
survival over the winter, and express our hope and faith for the coming
spring and summer -- the rekindling of human life on what is often an
incredibly hosile planet.
If secular humanists can't relect on the substance of these two
celebrations and acknowledge the significance of these two occasions,
well that's just too damn bad for them.
Perhaps you need celebrations like these to take your mind off all the
bombings, riots, killings and murders today. So, yes, a little medicine for
the soul.
Dyl.
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| User: "benlizross" |
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| Title: Re: Thanksgiving Holy Feast Day (was: United States blah blah blah) |
16 Nov 2005 06:11:00 AM |
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wrote:
Min, while I'm not a great fan of the majority of your posts, I want to
thank you for this one.
From my viewpoint, Thanksgiving is a time for us to give thanks for the
blessings that God or nature (same thing) has provided us during the
past growing season, in preparation for the oncoming difficulties of
winter.
In a like way, Easter is the time we select to give thanks for our
survival over the winter, and express our hope and faith for the coming
spring and summer -- the rekindling of human life on what is often an
incredibly hosile planet.
If secular humanists can't relect on the substance of these two
celebrations and acknowledge the significance of these two occasions,
well that's just too damn bad for them.
Harry C.
Please give thanks in the privacy of your own home or church, rather
than assisting insane terrorist Min in spamming newsgroups where nobody
wants him.
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| User: "Daniel Joseph Min" |
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| Title: Re: Thanksgiving Holy Feast Day (was: United States blah blah blah) |
16 Nov 2005 10:10:57 AM |
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On 15 Nov 2005, "Joe Bruno" <bruno@indystart.com> wrote:
The Articles of Confederation are not operative now. We have a
Constitution, instead.
You could argue the USA was actually born when we won the Revolutionary
War. If we had lost, the British would have retained control of the
colonies and the Declaration wouldn't mean much.
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In lieu of fanciful "revisionism" and "what-if" scenarios,
actual historical precedent dictates that July 4, 1776 is
most definitely the official birthday of the United States
of America. That's why good U.S. citizens have recognized
this date as such, beginning with the first anniversary of
the founding of these United States of America on July 4th,
1777 in Philadelphia. Actual veterans of the revolutionary
war assembled on July 4th in rememberance of their victory
and hard-earned independence from the Brits.
Even the Declaration of Independence itself begins exactly:
"In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
united States of America,"
That's officially the UNANIMOUS Declaration of Independence
of the UNITED States of America! The July 4th date was good
enough for our great nation's founding fathers, and for the
veterans who actually *fought* in the revolutionary war and
for patriotic Americans across the land: as July 4th became
a national tradition for commemorating the BIRTH of the USA.
Albeit it wasn't until 1941 that Congress declared July 4th
a federal holiday, patriotic Americans have always observed
the anniversary of America's nativity on July 4th each year.
As for your argument about "what if we had lost", we didn't. :-D
Made in America,
Daniel Joseph Min
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2B1CCFE7
*Download Min's Banned (Freeware) Books:
http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/danieljosephmin/
*Min's Google-Archived Home Page On The WWW:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=XJBDEJF138262.9022453704@anonymous.poster
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