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<DIV><FONT size=2>From: "spike" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:spike66@att.net"><FONT size=2>spike66@att.net</FONT></A><FONT
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<DIV><FONT size=2>To: "'ExI chat list'" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:09 PM</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> Even the most hard core atheists among us know all the
lyrics to christmas songs. We do, right? No matter how hard we
try to not know those words, we know em anyway. We have been mind raped,
even the radical Presbyterians, and they are not happy about it at all.
There is nothing we can do. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Yes there is. It's easy - one can simply ignore
Christ-mass (I've done it for 25 years). And If I didn't grow up in a
cultural Christian household to begin with, there would be nothing to
ignore. Even with the secular components that have been added
to Christ-mass, many "other" religious groups do not do
Christ-mass.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> Or rather there is. Find ways to ridicule the
songs. Many of them contain<BR>funny stuff. <snip>
... <FONT size=2>I shoulda been a writer for Saturday Night
Live.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Yes, you would definitely be able to liven things up for
even that jaded crowd! (Although, you know, in these difficult economic
times the SNL people have simply resorted to stealing stuff ...
observe how much interview footage they've managed to lift almost
verbatim from Sarah Palin's interviews earlier this
year ... ;).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>