Happy Holidays 2009

Hey guys well it's that time of year again where we give goodwill and cheers and wishing everyone a very happy holidays. I hope you all will have a good one as we celebrate the first dedade of the new milleinum. Well as my gift for the Brokenplot fans here is a link to one of my stories on my DA sight Holiday Quick Bits http://koleyl.deviantart.com/art/Holiday-Quick-Bits-146790604 What is Quick Bits? Well it's a collection of funny script-style stories that I do for my friends on the DA. I thought it be something nice I do for you guys on this board.

Merry Christmas, to all atheists,satanists,etc. I love the christ in the mas, Christmas mainly because it was named that way and x-mas just don't feel right it's OFF!!! You can call it Holidays but that sounds a little weak. I think people just hate the fact that christ is in the christmas. Get over it unless you're a satanist or into voodoo. It won't KILL YOU TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

I will say Happy Holidays cause I know and understand that not everone does celebrate christmas. I find it safer to say the holidays then anything elsa. I have learned that you need to be understanding of everones religon and try to not say anything aginst them or what thay belive. Just be understanding you dont have to be acceting. Cause not one religon is going to make trillion of people happy thats why we have mutilple ones and who can't say that we are all right? Then agin we could all be wrong we don't know yet do we.

water_fairy_tattoo wrote:I will say Happy Holidays cause I know and understand that not everone does celebrate christmas. I find it safer to say the holidays then anything elsa. I have learned that you need to be understanding of everones religon and try to not say anything aginst them or what thay belive. Just be understanding you dont have to be acceting. Cause not one religon is going to make trillion of people happy thats why we have mutilple ones and who can't say that we are all right? Then agin we could all be wrong we don't know yet do we.

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Mecingo wrote:Merry Christmas, to all atheists,satanists,etc. I love the christ in the mas, Christmas mainly because it was named that way and x-mas just don't feel right it's OFF!!! You can call it Holidays but that sounds a little weak. I think people just hate the fact that christ is in the christmas. Get over it unless you're a satanist or into voodoo. It won't KILL YOU TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Happy annual non-secular celebration of commercialised greed everybody!!!!

And a trio of points.
1: Satanists are actually Christians too, they just follow the teachings of the other guy. And Voodoo is a deritivative of Christianity mixed with old African tribal beliefs.
2: Christmas was originally a Pagan Holiday, and the Christians accepted it as a celebration. It just happened to be the same day as Christ's birth.
3: If you take the fact that January and February where originally the last months of the year, and where subsequently shifted to the front of the year by a Roman Emperor AFTER Christ's death, that would actually put his birthday on the 25th of October in the modern Gregorian Calender. So technically, you're celebrating his birthday two months late...

Did I just void Grey's greeting?

Teasealot wrote:

Mecingo wrote:Merry Christmas, to all atheists,satanists,etc. I love the christ in the mas, Christmas mainly because it was named that way and x-mas just don't feel right it's OFF!!! You can call it Holidays but that sounds a little weak. I think people just hate the fact that christ is in the christmas. Get over it unless you're a satanist or into voodoo. It won't KILL YOU TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Happy annual non-secular celebration of commercialised greed everybody!!!!

And a trio of points.
1: Satanists are actually Christians too, they just follow the teachings of the other guy. And Voodoo is a deritivative of Christianity mixed with old African tribal beliefs.
2: Christmas was originally a Pagan Holiday, and the Christians accepted it as a celebration. It just happened to be the same day as Christ's birth.
3: If you take the fact that January and February where originally the last months of the year, and where subsequently shifted to the front of the year by a Roman Emperor AFTER Christ's death, that would actually put his birthday on the 25th of October in the modern Gregorian Calender. So technically, you're celebrating his birthday two months late...

Did I just void Grey's greeting?

I just don't like X-mas, And I don't know when christ was really born so I use that day as a reference, Satanists are in christian religion just the negative side of it and do not say merry christmas at all. It sounds weak another way you say it Happy Holidays,X-mas,Ishmas,etc. All sound weak. But I will admit saying merry christmas has caused me to have fights in more ways than one .
But it's worth it, at the end of the day I can say I don't care if I offend someone by saying merry christmas because I truely know that it ain't going to kill someone. On another note I don't know any one in voodoo that respect christianity, A lot of them have been locked up for killing christians.

I do respect your view on this, You most likely know more things than I do because you have been on this earth longer than I have. I just base this on what I see and hear in my own city. Alot of different religions where I live.

Merry Christmas, I should have said it a little nicer in the first reply.

Teasealot wrote:
1: Satanists are actually Christians too, they just follow the teachings of the other guy. And Voodoo is a deritivative of Christianity mixed with old African tribal beliefs.

Satanists are no more Christians than Muslims are. Less, actually, if you're referring to the Church of Satan.

Really, this is such a tired debate, and it ultimately doesn't go anywhere due to a complete lack of anyone having anything of real importance to be concerned with (my opinion, of course). Not a big deal, but bothersome because people get so emotional on the topic.

"Children are dying somewhere, the elderly and sick don't get the medical treatment they need, corrupt politicians are abusing their power, the banks are defrauding the world, but none of that matters because you used something other than my personally preferred phrasing to tell me something nice, and I just can't let that slide."

Isn't it enough that people greet you in a pleasant way?

Does it really matter what specific phrase they adopted?

Do you genuinely feel oppressed when someone says a pleasant thing to you in a specific style or wording that doesn't immediately endorse your particular worldview?

Seriously, I'm just happy someone acknowledged my existence in a non-insulting/degrading/threatening way. For my part, I say, "Merry Christmas!", mostly out of habit, not an agenda.

However, I'll be damned if someone is going to bully me to change it. In fact, I don't even care enough to hear an argument on the topic. I do what I do, and no, my phrasing hurts no one in this particular matter.

Hey, hey first off thank you Night Dragon and Water Fairy. Second listen you guys I didn't set this board up just so people can have arguements. I was only trying to wish people a Happy Holidays. Man no wonder I don't post topics on this forum very often some people have to go and make arguements and I wound up being the bad guy.

Koleyl wrote:Hey, hey first off thank you Night Dragon and Water Fairy. Second listen you guys I didn't set this board up just so people can have arguements. I was only trying to wish people a Happy Holidays. Man no wonder I don't post topics on this forum very often some people have to go and make arguements and I wound up being the bad guy.

One could say that the point to the poll is useless since the actual topic isn't about "Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays"

Koleyl wrote:Hey, hey first off thank you Night Dragon and Water Fairy. Second listen you guys I didn't set this board up just so people can have arguements. I was only trying to wish people a Happy Holidays. Man no wonder I don't post topics on this forum very often some people have to go and make arguements and I wound up being the bad guy.

Hey, it's just some mild debate, not an argument.

Besides, it'd be a boring thread if it was just everyone wishing each other a happy holiday. So lighten up a little, we're just having some fun. Post some more threads, there's plenty of topics that don't even generate debate that we can have fun with. Such as RPs and games. :3

Lord Grey II wrote:

Koleyl wrote:Hey, hey first off thank you Night Dragon and Water Fairy. Second listen you guys I didn't set this board up just so people can have arguements. I was only trying to wish people a Happy Holidays. Man no wonder I don't post topics on this forum very often some people have to go and make arguements and I wound up being the bad guy.

Hey, it's just some mild debate, not an argument.

Besides, it'd be a boring thread if it was just everyone wishing each other a happy holiday. So lighten up a little, we're just having some fun. Post some more threads, there's plenty of topics that don't even generate debate that we can have fun with. Such as RPs and games. :3

True Life on forums would be boring with out debates, even if you lose them, and I like been corrected when necessary.

Wasn't arguing, was just bringing up some facts about Christmas and the people who celebrate it.

I was just saying how I said the "happy hoildays" over "marry christmas". We all made good points as to why we say what we say. We got a little bit off our chest and I think we all earned something from each other. I think we all need to vent about this a little bit. I am sorry that we took your forum.

Uh... Merry Christmas people who try to prove points. You win the internetz.