|
hummermania00
Strange Son of aBitch
Registered: 04/07/07
Posts: 327
Last seen: 14 years, 6 months
|
Christian Holiday Dilemma
#6764358 - 04/09/07 08:12 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I think it is time for society to have people declare their statutory holidays based on belief. Right now, this North American society we live in, gives all people the benefit of Christian holidays, such as Christmas and Easter. There is no point in having Muslims or any other non Christian belief, or evolutionists, Darwinians, etc, off work for these celebrations. The only people entitled to take advantage of, and to properly use these days are Christians. So, declare your faith and be given alternative holiday days.
This has the potential to be very lucrative for commerce. As well, most government services would remain open during these times; presuming of course, that diverse hiring tactics have been successful and there are sufficient numbers of alternate belief people to maintain services.
-------------------- You are a fortunate person indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, and unexpected turns of events. When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 3 years, 24 days
|
|
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
|
I kind of like the idea myself. If I can create my own holidays (lets say we each get the same number) then all mine could fall in a row and I'd get an extra week and a half paid vacation. (That is if I wasn't retired);)
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
vigilant_mind
unfazed
Registered: 01/19/07
Posts: 1,717
Loc: boco
Last seen: 14 years, 8 months
|
|
Not all people celebrate those holidays in the same fashion as you do. They're usually enjoying the secular aspects of those dates.
And you do know that both Christmas and Easter have pagan origins, do you not? Your "Christian" holidays are really not yours to begin with, so I'd say it's perfectly acceptable that other religions "take advantage" of those "Christian" holidays.
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 3 years, 24 days
|
|
Quote:
vigilant_mind said: Not all people celebrate those holidays in the same fashion as you do. They're usually enjoying the secular aspects of those dates.
And you do know that both Christmas and Easter have pagan origins, do you not? Your "Christian" holidays are really not yours to begin with, so I'd say it's perfectly acceptable that other religions "take advantage" of those "Christian" holidays.
More to that, these holidays are already so commercialized that it would be a hell if that would happen like that with some other holiday. Imagine a big campaign for some Muslim holiday, people borrowing "customs"... oh what a terror lol.
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
OrgoneConclusion
Blue Fish Group
Registered: 04/01/07
Posts: 45,441
Loc: Under the C
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: Icelander]
#6765172 - 04/09/07 12:50 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
retired = lazy
--------------------
|
blewmeanie
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 28,984
Loc:
|
|
Yes because creating more bureaucracy will fix everything, great idea. Or heres an idea, if you want a day off work tell your boss you want a day off.
|
fivepointer
newbie
Registered: 08/03/02
Posts: 1,428
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: blewmeanie]
#6766349 - 04/09/07 04:19 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I don't consider Easter or Christmas a "Christian" holiday. These are from pagan/romanist roots and no example in scripture shows anyone observing them.
The way a day becomes a holiday is so many people observe them that it doesn't make sense to have things open. Things sort themselves out.
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 3 years, 24 days
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: fivepointer]
#6766398 - 04/09/07 04:31 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
So you say you don't celebrate them? Not even Christmas?
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
fivepointer
newbie
Registered: 08/03/02
Posts: 1,428
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: MushroomTrip]
#6766427 - 04/09/07 04:37 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
MushroomTrip said: So you say you don't celebrate them? Not even Christmas?
Not even ChristMASS.
|
hummermania00
Strange Son of aBitch
Registered: 04/07/07
Posts: 327
Last seen: 14 years, 6 months
|
|
Quote:
vigilant_mind said: Not all people celebrate those holidays in the same fashion as you do. They're usually enjoying the secular aspects of those dates.
And you do know that both Christmas and Easter have pagan origins, do you not? Your "Christian" holidays are really not yours to begin with, so I'd say it's perfectly acceptable that other religions "take advantage" of those "Christian" holidays.
How do you know those holidays have pagan origins?
-------------------- You are a fortunate person indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, and unexpected turns of events. When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 3 years, 24 days
|
|
Quote:
hummermania00 said:
Quote:
vigilant_mind said: Not all people celebrate those holidays in the same fashion as you do. They're usually enjoying the secular aspects of those dates.
And you do know that both Christmas and Easter have pagan origins, do you not? Your "Christian" holidays are really not yours to begin with, so I'd say it's perfectly acceptable that other religions "take advantage" of those "Christian" holidays.
How do you know those holidays have pagan origins?
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 1 month, 19 days
|
|
The company that I work for follows the federal government holiday schedule. We also get a few more "personal free days" each year, that can be used to take off work for religious events, etc.
Personally, I like to see at least one holiday day each month and really don't care if it is a celebration of Mohammad's puberty, the death of Jesus, or remembering all those that died trying to kill other people while at war.
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger
Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 2 months
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: Seuss]
#6768998 - 04/10/07 08:19 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Seuss said: Personally, I like to see at least one holiday day each month and really don't care if it is a celebration of Mohammad's puberty, the death of Jesus, or remembering all those that died trying to kill other people while at war.
Yes, exactly. I do not put much personal investment in cultural holidays. Ironically, my work is very much centered around these holidays. Holidays mean more work for me.
I don't mind at all, because there is profit in it. Much profit. In spring it is huge volume on low sales but high profit spring toy items (such as bubbles, chalk, frisbees) as well as high sale yet thinner profit margin items like bicycles (!), in summer its pool toys and pool chemicals with some great sales and profit, as well as high price point pools. Easter is like a tiny Christmas for the whole department. And, of course, the gigantum known as Christmas. I remember those $30,000 to $50,000 days, or, rather, the night before, working on overnights to stock those sales.
Holidays are money trees.
-------------------- If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
hummermania00
Strange Son of aBitch
Registered: 04/07/07
Posts: 327
Last seen: 14 years, 6 months
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: MushroomTrip]
#6769027 - 04/10/07 08:30 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Where is the evidence that proves these are pagan holidays?
-------------------- You are a fortunate person indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, and unexpected turns of events. When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger
Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 2 months
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: MushroomTrip]
#6769047 - 04/10/07 08:39 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
MushroomTrip said:
-------------------- If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 3 years, 24 days
|
|
Ostara - pagan holiday to mark the Spring Equinox (the birthing of the farm animals) that's thy you get the bunnies, fluffy chicken & the like as an emblem for the Easter
Yule - pagan holiday celebrated on the Winter Solstice, since it's the shortest day of the year, Yule celebrates the returning of the sun as well as the returning of the god who died at Shamhain (Halloween for those who are living on the moon).
These holidays have Pagan roots.
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
hummermania00
Strange Son of aBitch
Registered: 04/07/07
Posts: 327
Last seen: 14 years, 6 months
|
Re: Christian Holiday Dilemma [Re: MushroomTrip]
#6769127 - 04/10/07 09:11 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
MushroomTrip said: Ostara - pagan holiday to mark the Spring Equinox (the birthing of the farm animals) that's thy you get the bunnies, fluffy chicken & the like as an emblem for the Easter
Yule - pagan holiday celebrated on the Winter Solstice, since it's the shortest day of the year, Yule celebrates the returning of the sun as well as the returning of the god who died at Shamhain (Halloween for those who are living on the moon).
These holidays have Pagan roots.
Ok, but where is the proof that these statements are fact?
-------------------- You are a fortunate person indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, and unexpected turns of events. When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 3 years, 24 days
|
|
Dude hit the damn google search button because you're derailing from the main topic.
And yes, this is kind off-topic too but... don't imitate some questions that you see in the P&S without knowing how or why you use them
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
vigilant_mind
unfazed
Registered: 01/19/07
Posts: 1,717
Loc: boco
Last seen: 14 years, 8 months
|
|
Quote:
hummermania00 said:
Quote:
MushroomTrip said: Ostara - pagan holiday to mark the Spring Equinox (the birthing of the farm animals) that's thy you get the bunnies, fluffy chicken & the like as an emblem for the Easter
Yule - pagan holiday celebrated on the Winter Solstice, since it's the shortest day of the year, Yule celebrates the returning of the sun as well as the returning of the god who died at Shamhain (Halloween for those who are living on the moon).
These holidays have Pagan roots.
Ok, but where is the proof that these statements are fact?
Meet your new best friends:
www.amazon.com
www.google.com
|
|