Sep 18, 2014 8:02 PM GMT
Do you love Christmas ?
The Countdown Begins.
The Countdown Begins.
Christmas
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Sep 18, 2014 8:03 PM GMT97 days till X mas -
Sep 18, 2014 8:34 PM GMTI love Christmas, favourite holiday -
Sep 19, 2014 1:02 AM GMTWhen I was a kid growing up Christmas was the most beautiful day of the year. Then as I grew up I saw we were drifting apart so in 2002 I was living in a huge beautiful executive suite making 80K per year and invited the whole family over for Christmas. I mean I REALLY did this one up. I think I spent about 500 bucks on the tree alone. It worked for a number of years then we drifted apart again. My Grandmother died recently and I know now Christmas is over. -
Sep 19, 2014 1:21 AM GMTNo, I don't love Christmas, though I don't hate it.
I send out a few Christmas cards, and I usually have dinner with a few of my friends. -
Sep 19, 2014 1:40 AM GMTI'll confess that Christmas is one of my guilty pleasures.
I was born about a week before Christmas, so as a kid, I loved all the cheerful decorations, music and gift wrapping.
As an adult, it's one of the few times I get to celebrate my inner child... So yes, sign me up for kissing under the mistletoe. -
Sep 19, 2014 2:09 AM GMTI prefer Halloween ... but Christmas is pretty fun too ... it just seems to go on too long and it's inescapable. -
Sep 19, 2014 3:20 AM GMTTime for Chinese food and movies.... (Actually, I'll be in Key West). -
Sep 19, 2014 3:30 AM GMTi like halloween wayyy bettr -
Sep 21, 2014 1:01 AM GMT
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Sep 21, 2014 1:13 AM GMT
It is too damn early to be thinking about Christmas
We haven't even started Fall yet and some fools are already talking about Christmas. At the rate things are going, it won't be long when you start seeing stores and malls all decked out for Christmas in early August. A very sad situation indeed
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Sep 21, 2014 1:40 AM GMTBonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
The Countdown Begins.
My background is generally too ethnic to enjoy Christmas on any consistent basis until our Americanized Teochew Chinese/Cambodian in-laws (I believe they are Teochew anyway, or ethnic Teochews that had resided for generations in Cambodia, and who as a group tend to be highly assimilationist as it is), invited our family to their Christmases.
Just a few random facts about myself that I like to throw around on the rare occasion... -
Sep 21, 2014 1:43 AM GMTBonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
Almost as much as I love Christ's teachings about slavery and the suppression of women. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:45 AM GMTpaulflexes said
Bonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
Almost as much as I love Christ's teachings about slavery and the suppression of women.
I don't think Christ or the New Testament encourages such things... The Holy Bible as it stands, especially the Old Testament surely does though at times... -
Sep 21, 2014 1:45 AM GMTUnnamed6, one of my really close friends who lives in Laguna Beach literally OUT OF POCKET travels the world helping out orphans and cambodia is THE ONLY country she tried to adopt a child in but couldn't because of those trying to grab children and sell them. She spends her WHOLE LIFE doing this and goes to all the countries out there. She has been to every shrine, temple, statue, you name it. She is incredible with a HUGE heart. But cambodia was where she fell in love. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:47 AM GMTUnnamed6 said
Wrong. Jesus explicitly condones slavery.paulflexes said
Bonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
Almost as much as I love Christ's teachings about slavery and the suppression of women.
I don't think Christ or the New Testament encourages such things... The Holy Bible as it stands, especially the Old Testament surely does though at times...
http://www.openbible.info/topics/slavery
Be careful what you preach. Religion is fucking evil. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:48 AM GMTYeah I love Christmas. Its right in the summer where I live so we go to the beach after 12 Am. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:50 AM GMTDavid3K saidYeah I love Christmas. Its right in the summer where I live so we go to the beach after 12 Am.
I live in summer all year long. Your point is? -
Sep 21, 2014 1:51 AM GMTYou don't have to be Christian to enjoy and celebrate Christmas. I love Christmas but for me it's more about the tradition and reliving memories. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:51 AM GMTpaulflexes said
Unnamed6 said
Wrong. Jesus explicitly condones slavery.paulflexes said
Bonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
Almost as much as I love Christ's teachings about slavery and the suppression of women.
I don't think Christ or the New Testament encourages such things... The Holy Bible as it stands, especially the Old Testament surely does though at times...
http://www.openbible.info/topics/slavery
Be careful what you preach. Religion is fucking evil.
On the old testament I agree with you Paul, but when it comes to Jesus ALONE and fuck the bullshit crap besides his quotes... Jesus was a damn good man. I am not superstitious nor will I become that but all I know is Jesus taught the world FOR THE FIRST TIME what we now call humanity. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:56 AM GMTJerred said
Many of these are from the New Testament. Some are direct quotes from Jesus.paulflexes said
Unnamed6 said
Wrong. Jesus explicitly condones slavery.paulflexes said
Bonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
Almost as much as I love Christ's teachings about slavery and the suppression of women.
I don't think Christ or the New Testament encourages such things... The Holy Bible as it stands, especially the Old Testament surely does though at times...
http://www.openbible.info/topics/slavery
Be careful what you preach. Religion is fucking evil.
On the old testament I agree with you Paul, but when it comes to Jesus ALONE and fuck the bullshit crap besides his quotes... Jesus was a damn good man. I am not superstitious nor will I become that but all I know is Jesus taught the world FOR THE FIRST TIME what we now call humanity.
Do your own research. You'll fucking hate Jesus and religion after you do. I promise.
http://www.openbible.info/topics/slavery -
Sep 21, 2014 1:57 AM GMT
Actually Paul the site is full of Old testament stuff, and stuff the disciples in the NT said, that condoned slavery. -
Sep 21, 2014 1:57 AM GMTpaulflexes said
David3K saidYeah I love Christmas. Its right in the summer where I live so we go to the beach after 12 Am.
I live in summer all year long. Your point is?
Dude chill out, or buy a dragon dildo, thats what people like you do to keep themselves quiet and for the way you behave it shows you need it badly. -
Sep 21, 2014 2:06 AM GMTpaulflexes said
Unnamed6 said
Wrong. Jesus explicitly condones slavery.paulflexes said
Bonapart saidDo you love Christmas ?
Almost as much as I love Christ's teachings about slavery and the suppression of women.
I don't think Christ or the New Testament encourages such things... The Holy Bible as it stands, especially the Old Testament surely does though at times...
http://www.openbible.info/topics/slavery
Be careful what you preach. Religion is fucking evil.
I believe when the Apostle Paul speaks of slaves for example, or to slaves rather, it's in the same spirit that he speaks to everyone else that he wants to convert to Christianity, in the sense that they need to abide by the kind of spiritual authority Christ is supposed to have on Earth. And a general history of Christianity would reveal that the first converts to that religion were in fact Roman Greek speaking slaves. And one of main criticisms from the pagans of antiquity was that the teachings of Christ were sort of made for slaves, prostitutes, murderers, and tax collectors (or at least to the extent that they perceived such a religion)... And I believe there is even a statement from Paul affirming such...
Now among the Jews, I can't say there was much of a tradition for liberty, that you would readily find among ancient Anglo-Saxon or Roman persons (unless you count the rather recent and numerous famous Libertarians that just so happen to be Jewish as well), is that there is that one famous story from the Old Testament concerning Moses and his Jews escaping slavery from the Egyptians... The Old Testament was a book written towards a Jewish audience (contrary to what billions of Christians might think for the last 2000 years), and Jews should never have had to be slaves to anyone, but he surely had a right to them. -
Sep 21, 2014 2:15 AM GMTPaul, I made it clear I am not a believer of the New Testament either... But Jesus himself did not support slavery. He taught nothing but forgiveness and treating your neighbor as yourself. I am not bringing his spiritual beliefs into this because he got killed over that. But what he stood for was love only and I know because I read everything he wrote while living on the streets for many years. It is because of Jesus many nolonger throw babies off of cliffs in some countries. It is because of Jesus that all these corrupt governments who have tried to manipulate the bible come back to ONE THING ONLY and that is love because Jesus STOOD for love. AND HONESTLY I don't even know that he was a real human being but the end result of all these words comes down to this character which may be the backbone of the human spirit in verbal form for all I know.
