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Rhine Kingdom
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Postby Rhine Kingdom » Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:45 pm

I'm not religious whatsoever, but I observe the holiday anyway. Christmas means a nice, warm living room with my cousins. December is one of the few months I have a soft spot for.
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Postby Neanderthaland » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:22 pm

Neutraligon wrote:
Kowani wrote:The atheists are coming, and we bring candy.

and Chinese food.

All this talk has forced me to go and order Chinese. Mary Xmas everyone!
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Postby Andsed » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:29 pm

Kowani wrote:
Trollzyn the Infinite wrote:It serves as a constant reminder that religious holidays can be forcefully appropriated, secularized, and monetized by corporate greed and no one will care.

The atheists are coming, and we bring candy.

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Personally Christmas does not have much of a spiritual meaning for me(which seeing as I am an atheist makes sense.) For me its mainly a time for relaxing, gift giving, and just vibing and hanging out with loved ones.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:32 pm

Im gona take your holidays and make em atheist and filthy oh yes
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Postby Andsed » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:41 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:Im gona take your holidays and make em atheist and filthy oh yes

Christmas Day, 2020

I sit covered in snow, waiting for my target. I have been sent on a mission critical to win the war on Christmas. I am waiting and then I hear it. The bells of Santa´s sled. I fire my rifle hitting the rope connecting Santa´s sled to his reindeer causing it to plummet to the ground. I see Santa through my scope, hes alive, but wounded. I stand up and brandish my side arm walking over to where he is pinned under his sled. He looks up at me as I point my weapon at his head. I say to him

¨Happy Holidays bitch¨ and shoot him in the skull his blood splattering over his sled. I walk away, it is done.


Why did I take the time to write this?
I do be tired


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Postby Kernen » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:43 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:Im gona take your holidays and make em atheist and filthy oh yes

...go on...
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Postby Adamede » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:45 pm

Kernen wrote:
The Huskar Social Union wrote:Im gona take your holidays and make em atheist and filthy oh yes

...go on...

Gonna be at least semiannual sacrifices to the dark gods of Science!, followed by an orgy on King James Version bibles while covered in the blood of aborted babies.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:46 pm

Kernen wrote:
The Huskar Social Union wrote:Im gona take your holidays and make em atheist and filthy oh yes

...go on...

From now on every mall in America must have a rotating robotic statue of Santa, shirtless and flexing his muscles and all Jesus manger displays must involve baby yoda in his place.

Also sacrificial fountains.
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Postby Baloo Kingdom » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:51 pm

The above posts both confuse and concern me.
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Postby Andsed » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:52 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:
Kernen wrote:...go on...

From now on every mall in America must have a rotating robotic statue of Santa, shirtless and flexing his muscles and all Jesus manger displays must involve baby yoda in his place.

Also sacrificial fountains.

And to make sure Santa does not undermine us by spreading the ¨true meaning of Christmas¨ like ¨joy¨ and ¨generosity¨ I have taken the liberty of assassinating him. Your welcome world.
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Postby Kowani » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:52 pm

Baloo Kingdom wrote:The above posts both confuse and concern me.

then we're doing something right
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Postby Baloo Kingdom » Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:55 pm

Kowani wrote:
Baloo Kingdom wrote:The above posts both confuse and concern me.

then we're doing something right

Well I suppose, if that’s your goal in this.
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Postby Kernen » Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:06 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:
Kernen wrote:...go on...

From now on every mall in America must have a rotating robotic statue of Santa, shirtless and flexing his muscles and all Jesus manger displays must involve baby yoda in his place.

Also sacrificial fountains.

Don't stop yet.

Baloo Kingdom wrote:The above posts both confuse and concern me.

That's because you don't know Great Ideas when you see them.
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Postby Auzkhia » Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:16 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:Im gona take your holidays and make em atheist and filthy oh yes

I've made Christmas pagan again.
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Postby Baloo Kingdom » Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:31 pm

Kernen wrote:
The Huskar Social Union wrote:From now on every mall in America must have a rotating robotic statue of Santa, shirtless and flexing his muscles and all Jesus manger displays must involve baby yoda in his place.

Also sacrificial fountains.

Don't stop yet.

Baloo Kingdom wrote:The above posts both confuse and concern me.

That's because you don't know Great Ideas when you see them.

Unfortunately, greatness is subjective. Otherwise our society would be a much more cooperative place.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:05 pm

Chinese food.
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Postby Ethics Committee of the SCPF » Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:53 pm

Adamede wrote:
Kernen wrote:...go on...

Gonna be at least semiannual sacrifices to the dark gods of Science!, followed by an orgy on King James Version bibles while covered in the blood of aborted babies.

I don’t know if I should be worried.
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Postby Valentine Z » Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:58 pm

I don't really celebrate it fully because of the differences in religion (I'm a Theravada Buddhist), BUT I do appreciate and love the spirit of gifting and I almost always try to gift something to a friend or a family member. It's been a while since I last do that, though...

With that said, most of the time me and my family would just cook something up specially for this occasion, and just have a family dinner at home. :3
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:58 am

Seasonal Affective Disorder/Depression.
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Postby Kowani » Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:54 am

Ethics Committee of the SCPF wrote:
Adamede wrote:Gonna be at least semiannual sacrifices to the dark gods of Science!, followed by an orgy on King James Version bibles while covered in the blood of aborted babies.

I don’t know if I should be worried.

you should not
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Postby Free Las Pinas » Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:39 am

Christmas means a lot to me, as I do a lot of thinking during that time. It’s also 2 weeks of my parents effectively making me fatter, extremely awkward moments with an uncle, and not following a strict sleep schedule.
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Postby Lucaian » Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:43 am

It means to me spending time with family and loved ones and getting ready to welcome in the new year I'm less on the religious meaning of it but yeh I enjoy spending time and eating good food with people I love. And its perfect for kids that exited feeling you used to get opening up gifts i enjoy seeing the next generation getting excited about it as i used to

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Postby Destyntine » Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:46 am

Christmas to me is a day to not have to worry about problems in life, everyone shuts off and enjoys life for a day. It is a day for me to check up on distant family. Me as an agnostic does still enjoys the true meaning of Christmas, although I always ask myself if it really is true. I enjoy Christmas and make the most of it, I have always dreamed for an endless winter but around Christmas is the closest thing I will get.
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Postby Hellslayer » Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:47 am

Christmas is just a time when fiends humans are try to pretend that, in fact, it is not an self-centred, uncaring thing and instead lies and maintains that it is a generous, and kind creature. Bah humbug, I say. It is a falsehood! Do not let yourself be deceived!

(Just kidding, I love Christmas! Who doesn't? The lovely dinners and friendship and fun! But mostly the dinners
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Postby Ghost Land » Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:48 am

To me Christmas means stress. It means having to come up with a long list of things I "want" defensively so I don't end up getting something I really don't want and then getting guilt-tripped for not getting use out of it :roll:, it means having to shop for other people and desperately hoping they like what I get them, and it means terrible music blasted in every store for two whole months.

I used to like Christmas as a kid. I remember waking up early on Christmas morning and running out to the living room, so excited to open my presents and see what I got. It all changed as a teenager; by 16 I'd say I definitely tended more toward the "grinch" end of the scale, and considering I have a December birthday too and am now at the age where I'd rather not celebrate that anymore, December is just the month of depression for me now, especially here in Wisconsin where it's the third-coldest month of the year.
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