[ExI] I caught the covid

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 25 01:06:20 UTC 2020


even if neither of us are religious.  spike
Many long years ago when I was a rabid Methodist (if that's not an
oxymoron) I asked an atheist friend if he celebrated Christmas.  He got
huffy and said sure - tree, presents, etc.  And why not I thought?  Their
kids would feel left out, he said, and anyway it's not a religious occasion
for many people.  I know Jews who do the same thing.  So the 'even if'
above is not needed.  Nothing whatsoever wrong with it, although Christians
are always grousing about the 'meaning of Christmas' (a holiday moved to
the end of the year to take over the traditional Winterfests, which really
were prayers in a sense about surviving the winter.  Let's have a big party
before it gets really grim around here. ) So I echo:  Happy Xmas and Merry
New Year to all of us nontraditional types.  Perhaps one day we will be the
traditional ones, eh?

bill w

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 6:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >… everyone is calling me Saint spike (but I decide to mess up everything
> (which you know I would do (I am such a bastard that way …spike
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> I should clarify that harsh self-assessment perhaps.  It really isn’t that
> I am such a bastard.  I realized I am not really such a bad guy once I got
> to know me.  The real situation is just that I am such an extreme
> iconoclast.  So an extreme example of iconoclast am I that the tradition
> definition of the term had to be discarded or modified to cover my case.
> This forcing of a redefinition of the traditional term caused me to be even
> more iconoclastic, which again upset the new definition, for it had to now
> cover one so iconoclasmic as to wreck the usual notion of iconoclasm.
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> But other than that… I am as traditional as Tevye from Fiddler on the
> Roof.  For instance, I am not afraid to wish my online friends a Merry
> Christmas, even if neither of us are religious.  There is no rule that says
> we can’t have fun at the winter solstice too.  May you all have a health,
> happy and prosperous 2021.
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