That moment when...

[Norstal]

What are your aspirations?

To be a programmer. If I succeed at this at all (and I probably won't), I'll be a code monkey at best. When that inevitably fails, I'll just work at a restaurant for 2 years then promptly hang myself in my dilapidated apartment.

Find a friend over the internet to mentor you. You can visit one of those Java forums or gaming servers (or, hell, create one yourself, it'll be a good practice).

I myself am a beginner programmer and rely on my mentor (though we don't regularly "do it" that much). And he himself had a mentor before.

[The Truth and Light]

Ah. I've had that one before.

So fucking fun.[/sarcasm]

Have you mentioned that the origins of Christmas have similar parallels to the origin of Halloween, so by their logic, one shouldn't celebrate Christmas either?

Also, how close are these people to you and Gallo?

They don't celebrate Christmas either. They say that is also a holiday steeped into Pagan rituals. That's one of the reasons I'm traveling to spend the Holidays with my family.

As for how close they are? Try his parents.

I wonder what it is that inspires such legalism. It seems that in the rural Bible Belt communities are popping up almos to rererepurify Christianity, and this time it's the shirking of classic cultural holidays. I don't understand it.

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

That moment when your cat falls asleep on your foot and starts snoring.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

They don't celebrate Christmas either. They say that is also a holiday steeped into Pagan rituals. That's one of the reasons I'm traveling to spend the Holidays with my family.

As for how close they are? Try his parents.

I wonder what it is that inspires such legalism. It seems that in the rural Bible Belt communities are popping up almos to rererepurify Christianity, and this time it's the shirking of classic cultural holidays. I don't understand it.

Well, they're Jehovah's Witnesses. Go figure.

[Norstal]

Have you mentioned that the origins of Christmas have similar parallels to the origin of Halloween, so by their logic, one shouldn't celebrate Christmas either?

Also, how close are these people to you and Gallo?

Speaking of Halloween, that reminds me:

http://jesusween.com/

Really, that's worst possible name for a holiday ever.

[The Nuclear Fist]

I wonder what it is that inspires such legalism. It seems that in the rural Bible Belt communities are popping up almos to rererepurify Christianity, and this time it's the shirking of classic cultural holidays. I don't understand it.

I wonder how long before they throw out the Jesus thing for being a carbon copy of Horus.

[Grenartia]

Ah. I've had that one before.

So fucking fun.[/sarcasm]

Have you mentioned that the origins of Christmas have similar parallels to the origin of Halloween, so by their logic, one shouldn't celebrate Christmas either?

Also, how close are these people to you and Gallo?

They don't celebrate Christmas either. They say that is also a holiday steeped into Pagan rituals. That's one of the reasons I'm traveling to spend the Holidays with my family.

As for how close they are? Try his parents.

Ah shit, I forgot for a moment. Him and his family are Jehovah's Witnesses, right?

My sister's one as well. Seems like every celebration is a pagan ritual to them... I've never been around my sister to find this out, but do Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Independence Day?

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

They don't celebrate Christmas either. They say that is also a holiday steeped into Pagan rituals. That's one of the reasons I'm traveling to spend the Holidays with my family.

As for how close they are? Try his parents.

Ah shit, I forgot for a moment. Him and his family are Jehovah's Witnesses, right?

My sister's one as well. Seems like every celebration is a pagan ritual to them... I've never been around my sister to find this out, but do Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Independence Day?

It was my fault. I didn't watch what I was saying and blurted out that I wanted to dress up for Halloween.

As for Independence Day? Nah, they don't celebrate anything (holidays or birthdays). The only 2 things they observe are Easter (one day Memorial) and wedding anniversaries.

[Natty Narwhal]

To be a programmer. If I succeed at this at all (and I probably won't), I'll be a code monkey at best. When that inevitably fails, I'll just work at a restaurant for 2 years then promptly hang myself in my dilapidated apartment.

Find a friend over the internet to mentor you. You can visit one of those Java forums or gaming servers (or, hell, create one yourself, it'll be a good practice).

I myself am a beginner programmer and rely on my mentor (though we don't regularly "do it" that much). And he himself had a mentor before.

I've taught myself Lisp and Python, I'll be starting on Perl next week, then C++ afterwards.

[Grenartia]

They don't celebrate Christmas either. They say that is also a holiday steeped into Pagan rituals. That's one of the reasons I'm traveling to spend the Holidays with my family.

As for how close they are? Try his parents.

I wonder what it is that inspires such legalism. It seems that in the rural Bible Belt communities are popping up almos to rererepurify Christianity, and this time it's the shirking of classic cultural holidays. I don't understand it.

Indeed. Personally, I think such people are the Ruths and Haskels of their respective communities. Their logic is flawed, yet at the sametime, due to inexplicable mental gymnastics on their part, flawless as well... Quite the paradox...

[Radical Edward]

When nobody cares about Halloween anymore. ;_____________;

It's like Christmas dominates the whole bleedy calender with its evil tentacles of capitalism.

[Norstal]

Find a friend over the internet to mentor you. You can visit one of those Java forums or gaming servers (or, hell, create one yourself, it'll be a good practice).

I myself am a beginner programmer and rely on my mentor (though we don't regularly "do it" that much). And he himself had a mentor before.

I've taught myself Lisp and Python, I'll be starting on Perl next week, then C++ afterwards.

That's not bad. I don't know why you thought you couldn't succeed in it. Python is a high-level language, lots of companies would hire you (assuming you're proficient at it).

[Grenartia]

Ah shit, I forgot for a moment. Him and his family are Jehovah's Witnesses, right?

My sister's one as well. Seems like every celebration is a pagan ritual to them... I've never been around my sister to find this out, but do Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Independence Day?

It was my fault. I didn't watch what I was saying and blurted out that I wanted to dress up for Halloween.

As for Independence Day? Nah, they don't celebrate anything (holidays or birthdays). The only 2 things they observe are Easter (one day Memorial) and wedding anniversaries.

Actually, I didn't know they celebrated Easter, though, upon second thought, its not pagan, so they really can't come up with a valid reason not to.

My sister once said that Mother's Day and Father's Day were pagan holidays that stemmed from the Romans worshipping their parents. WTF?

I'd never heard of that, and while it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, it doesn't automatically mean that one shouldn't set aside a day for one's parents, especially when those parents are loving, kind, and supportive. She's my half-sister, by my dad's first wife, who was a total bitch, so I can understand her not celebrating Mother's Day. But not a day for Dad? Yeah, they love each other, and know it, but still...

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

When nobody cares about Halloween anymore. ;_____________;

It's like Christmas dominates the whole bleedy calender with its evil tentacles of capitalism.

^~o; I've always preferred Halloween. I dislike Christmas to an extent.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

When nobody cares about Halloween anymore. ;_____________;

It's like Christmas dominates the whole bleedy calender with its evil tentacles of capitalism.

But Halloween is the holiday with the second-highest spending on shit people don't need, business loves Halloween almost as much as Christmas.

[The Great Market]

It was my fault. I didn't watch what I was saying and blurted out that I wanted to dress up for Halloween.

As for Independence Day? Nah, they don't celebrate anything (holidays or birthdays). The only 2 things they observe are Easter (one day Memorial) and wedding anniversaries.

Actually, I didn't know they celebrated Easter, though, upon second thought, its not pagan, so they really can't come up with a valid reason not to.

My sister once said that Mother's Day and Father's Day were pagan holidays that stemmed from the Romans worshipping their parents. WTF?

I'd never heard of that, and while it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, it doesn't automatically mean that one shouldn't set aside a day for one's parents, especially when those parents are loving, kind, and supportive. She's my half-sister, by my dad's first wife, who was a total bitch, so I can understand her not celebrating Mother's Day. But not a day for Dad? Yeah, they love each other, and know it, but still...

Easter is pagan. It comes from the fertility goddess Eostre.

[Grenartia]

When nobody cares about Halloween anymore. ;_____________;

It's like Christmas dominates the whole bleedy calender with its evil tentacles of capitalism.

^~o; I've always preferred Halloween. I dislike Christmas to an extent.

Christmas always reminded me of holidays with Ruth and Haskel...so I'm not really big on Christmas anymore. Except for giving gifts to friends (although I do keep in mind the spirit of the season).

As for me, I was literally born 1 week to the day before Halloween. Its practically my personal holiday.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

It was my fault. I didn't watch what I was saying and blurted out that I wanted to dress up for Halloween.

As for Independence Day? Nah, they don't celebrate anything (holidays or birthdays). The only 2 things they observe are Easter (one day Memorial) and wedding anniversaries.

Actually, I didn't know they celebrated Easter, though, upon second thought, its not pagan, so they really can't come up with a valid reason not to.

My sister once said that Mother's Day and Father's Day were pagan holidays that stemmed from the Romans worshipping their parents. WTF?

I'd never heard of that, and while it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, it doesn't automatically mean that one shouldn't set aside a day for one's parents, especially when those parents are loving, kind, and supportive. She's my half-sister, by my dad's first wife, who was a total bitch, so I can understand her not celebrating Mother's Day. But not a day for Dad? Yeah, they love each other, and know it, but still...

JWs try, according to them, to live by Bible principles. I suppose these holidays aren't in the Bible, but by the life of me I can't see anything wrong with them. Halloween, to me, has always been a cool night to dress up and gorge in candy. Not to worship the devil or anything of the sort. Christmas is a time for families to come together. I don't see anything wrong with it either. But JWs certainly do.

I try not to delve too much in their reasons. They're not, all in all, bad people, but you know, they think differently about certain things. Like, Harry Potter is complete anathema to them. I find the book quite innocent as it is.

[The Truth and Light]

Actually, I didn't know they celebrated Easter, though, upon second thought, its not pagan, so they really can't come up with a valid reason not to.

My sister once said that Mother's Day and Father's Day were pagan holidays that stemmed from the Romans worshipping their parents. WTF?

I'd never heard of that, and while it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, it doesn't automatically mean that one shouldn't set aside a day for one's parents, especially when those parents are loving, kind, and supportive. She's my half-sister, by my dad's first wife, who was a total bitch, so I can understand her not celebrating Mother's Day. But not a day for Dad? Yeah, they love each other, and know it, but still...

JWs try, according to them, to live by Bible principles. I suppose these holidays aren't in the Bible, but by the life of me I can't see anything wrong with them. Halloween, to me, has always been a cool night to dress up and gorge in candy. Not to worship the devil or anything of the sort. Christmas is a time for families to come together. I don't see anything wrong with it either. But JWs certainly do.

I try not to delve too much in their reasons. They're not, all in all, bad people, but you know, they think differently about certain things. Like, Harry Potter is complete anathema to them. I find the book quite innocent as it is.

I wonder how they think about Lady Gaga.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

JWs try, according to them, to live by Bible principles. I suppose these holidays aren't in the Bible, but by the life of me I can't see anything wrong with them. Halloween, to me, has always been a cool night to dress up and gorge in candy. Not to worship the devil or anything of the sort. Christmas is a time for families to come together. I don't see anything wrong with it either. But JWs certainly do.

I try not to delve too much in their reasons. They're not, all in all, bad people, but you know, they think differently about certain things. Like, Harry Potter is complete anathema to them. I find the book quite innocent as it is.

I wonder how they think about Lady Gaga.

Freak is the mildest. Abomination is the strongest. *nod*

[Tiami]

When you realize helping out noobs in the International Incidents forum makes you feel good about yourself.

[Chatkasatan]

That moment when life gives you lemons to make lemon meringue pie and you're zesting them and one gives you the big "fuck you" and sprays juice in your eyes.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

That moment when life gives you lemons to make lemon meringue pie and you're zesting them and one gives you the big "fuck you" and sprays juice in your eyes.

Say fuck you back to it and show it who's the boss.

[Creative Vikings]

Well, my next little adventure into conflicting foods could have turned out better need I say more...

I discovered that a could counter to indigestion is to chew on ciggarette paper, as odd as it may seem.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Well, my next little adventure into conflicting foods could have turned out better need I say more...

I discovered that a could counter to indigestion is to chew on ciggarette paper, as odd as it may seem.

The spaghetti and fruit salad?