[ExI] I caught the covid

[John Grigg]

I have a Jewish friend back home who got very hot under the collar when I
greeted him once with "Merry Christmas!" This surprised me because other
Jews I had known over the years had no problem with the holiday. But then
this guy is a classic old school NYC Jew who was also my chiropractor.

John

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 12:16 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Quoting Bill Wallace:
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> > 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?
>
> Happy Festivus everyone! ;-)
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THzkGSigL6Q
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> Stuart LaForge
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