Happy Solstice!
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Miggs
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Any relation to the Green-Eared Spaghetti Monster?
I believe the FSM begat the Big Eared Spaghetti Monster, who begat the Green Spaghetti Monster who interbred and begat the Green Eared Spaghetti Monster. But I don't have my scriptures handy so I can't say with 100% certainty.
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May he wrap you and yours in his noodlely appendages this Solstice Season.
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Merry Solstice everyone!!
I am an ex-pastafarian. I had to leave when I realized that they discriminated against the ravioliarians, and I view them as a legitimate part of the religion. Stupid fundamentalist pastafarians.
I am an ex-pastafarian. I had to leave when I realized that they discriminated against the ravioliarians, and I view them as a legitimate part of the religion. Stupid fundamentalist pastafarians.
I'm actually not saying "Merry Christmas" again because I do not celebrate Christmas, because I'm not a Christian. I think it is far more honest for me to not participate in Christian customs than for me to do so in order to fit in with a Christian society. For me to say "Merry Christmas" is phony. It's just a way to conform and to get along while subverting my own truth.
To be honest, it's hard and often uncomfortable for me to not participate in Christmas. As a person who usually wants to be low key being different in this way forces me into a spotlight I don't want to be in. But I feel it is important to have the integrity to be who I am regardless of how difficult it is for me to not just go with the flow.
I celebrate the Solstice, and I'll be upfront on this, I do so because it coincides with the predominate winter celebration in the culture in which I have lived my entire life. It gives me a chance to celebrate the passing of the darkest days of the season and the ushering in of longer and warmer days ahead, while others celebrate the birth of a supernatural deity. I feel my celebration is more natural, is the more important thing in our life cycle, than to imagine a being and story and focus on that, than the actual thing that is happening, which is the longest night of the year and beginning of longer warmer days ahead. All of us, in our heated homes, are protected from the cold, not by Jesus, but by the technology that many Christians are waging war against while calling the war they started the "war against Christmas."
I didn't start this war. All I ever wanted to do was to be true to myself. To have integrity in my actions and my expressions. I did so with a certain degree of risk. I do so at my own discomfort. I'm not taking the easy road, but I am taking the honest road, the high road. I will not tell you "Merry Christmas" because I am not a Christian and I would be playing a part instead of being myself if I did that. I would simply be conforming and surrendering. I would be lying. So I will not lie to you, I will not insult you and I will not degrade myself.
I will wish you a happy Solstice, and I will gladly accept your Merry Christmas, if you will offer it to me.
May all of us be here for the next trip around the sun! We can do it over again and celebrate the coming of spring one more time.
To be honest, it's hard and often uncomfortable for me to not participate in Christmas. As a person who usually wants to be low key being different in this way forces me into a spotlight I don't want to be in. But I feel it is important to have the integrity to be who I am regardless of how difficult it is for me to not just go with the flow.
I celebrate the Solstice, and I'll be upfront on this, I do so because it coincides with the predominate winter celebration in the culture in which I have lived my entire life. It gives me a chance to celebrate the passing of the darkest days of the season and the ushering in of longer and warmer days ahead, while others celebrate the birth of a supernatural deity. I feel my celebration is more natural, is the more important thing in our life cycle, than to imagine a being and story and focus on that, than the actual thing that is happening, which is the longest night of the year and beginning of longer warmer days ahead. All of us, in our heated homes, are protected from the cold, not by Jesus, but by the technology that many Christians are waging war against while calling the war they started the "war against Christmas."
I didn't start this war. All I ever wanted to do was to be true to myself. To have integrity in my actions and my expressions. I did so with a certain degree of risk. I do so at my own discomfort. I'm not taking the easy road, but I am taking the honest road, the high road. I will not tell you "Merry Christmas" because I am not a Christian and I would be playing a part instead of being myself if I did that. I would simply be conforming and surrendering. I would be lying. So I will not lie to you, I will not insult you and I will not degrade myself.
I will wish you a happy Solstice, and I will gladly accept your Merry Christmas, if you will offer it to me.
May all of us be here for the next trip around the sun! We can do it over again and celebrate the coming of spring one more time.
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Yeah but you could say "I hope you have a merry Christmas" without espousing the religion while also showing respect for those who do. I don't find it a big deal either way. I say "happy Hanukkah" to my Jewish friends and I'm not Jewish. To each his own really.