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Icelander
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Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa?
#7729853 - 12/07/07 05:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Please post your favorite Xmas pictures and have a happy season.


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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7729903 - 12/07/07 05:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have more positive memories of Christmas than I do of most other things from my past, so in that sense it is spiritual to me.
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Lion]
#7729907 - 12/07/07 06:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I owns dis shirt...loves it
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7729946 - 12/07/07 06:06 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Scroogelander, you need to chill.
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7729960 - 12/07/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Of course, the good old pope 

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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7730102 - 12/07/07 06:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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In all honesty, though, I love Christmas, and not just for the presents. It's one of the few times of year when I get to see my family, so it's certainly sentimental, if not spiritual.
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Silversoul]
#7730123 - 12/07/07 06:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Where did you get a photo of Gomp?
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7730155 - 12/07/07 06:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't, know...
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7730206 - 12/07/07 06:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#7730969 - 12/07/07 10:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hahah, great video Markos!
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7731079 - 12/07/07 10:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7731294 - 12/07/07 11:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#7731361 - 12/08/07 12:05 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jesus didn't die. He just got freaked out by his followers and abdicated to the North Pole. Now he's old as shit, and quite softened-up, so he gives presents to all the good little children.
I wonder if that means Jews are elves.
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7732333 - 12/08/07 09:13 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: Where did you get a photo of Gomp?
You can get one here if you really wonder! 
http://195.0.160.130/~geir/Geir%20%c5ge%20Kravik/
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7733785 - 12/08/07 03:41 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Honestly I really don't like Christmas. I have good memories from when I am a little kid...but now its just a hassle. I really don't like getting gifts from people, I really don't like trying to figure out what someone wants me to get them. I dunno its just lame now. I am not a big believer in Jesus so I don't care that it is his birthday. I usually spend my Christmas's drinking and sometimes drugs now.
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: moses]
#7733823 - 12/08/07 03:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
I am not a big believer in Jesus so I don't care that it is his birthday.
This is because he never invited you to his birthday party
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7734422 - 12/08/07 07:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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no pictures, but to answer the subject:
no and no
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: demiu5]
#7734501 - 12/08/07 07:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Christmas used to be "spiritual", before it became a marketing scam.
How many of you i wonder will be consuming the Amanita Muscaria this summer solstice?
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: JonnyDeformed]
#7735627 - 12/09/07 07:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The whole 'Jesus part' of Christmas is surely spiritual, not that it does anything for me. I don't believe in Santa Clause from a rational/logical standpoint, but I can't discredit seeing Santa while lying in the backseat of my mom's car when I was younger. Unless I was sleeping but I can't remember.
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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Icelander]
#7735674 - 12/09/07 08:17 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I heard Santa's flying reindeer represent reindeer high on Amanitas, but I think it really means the jolly Shaman flying around on his reindeer skin drum. When the Shamans would make a drum, they ritualistically captured the animal's spirit in the instrument, and would use that instrument as a method of Astral transportation.
I don't just believe in Santa, I AM Santa Claus. 
Those top pictures are very fitting, because in Tropical Astrology, the Winter Solstice is when the Sun enters the sign of the Goat which rules death before rebirth.
In ancient Rome, Winter Solstice was the celebration of "Saturnalia" where a slave was made king and there were orgies in the streets for 3 weeks, at the end the slave was sacrificed to Saturn...
I'm always really "horny" this time of year, must be because I lost my virginity over Xmas vacation... imprinting, I guess. 
 

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Re: Is Christmas spiritual and do you believe in Santa? [Re: Middleman]
#7737559 - 12/09/07 05:55 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Amanita Muscaria.
- Is Red and White - Was referred to as the Gift of the Gods - Were collected by the sack full for all villagers. - Grows under pines in a symbiotic relationship. - dried above the fire place - During heavy snow the only way into your house is threw the chimney - Reindeer eat them and are noted to leap and bound with joy
The list goes on, but atm i'm a bit too munted to recall it all.
Very interesting though...
Check out James Arthur.
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Edited by JonnyDeformed (12/09/07 07:42 PM)
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