Approaching holidays...are we thinking the same thing?
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Or maybe, since from your words it happened "more than once", you and your co-workers were actually behaving inappropriately, you just didn't realize it (never being on the receiving part of it). Except for politicized supremacists, people are rarely conscious of their own prejudices: they think of themselves as "colour-blind", and they are will be quick to assure everybody that they don't dislike people for being black (or Asian, or Muslim, or atheist, or any other minority), they dislike them for being "lazy", "rude", "obnoxious", "angry", "contentious" when what they actually mean is "uppity". I've seen it often, including in this very thread. But good job on shifting the blame on the minority: I'm sure it's all their fault.
Bottom line: if people routinely tell you that you are prejudiced, there is a good chance that you actually are, even if you don't realize it.
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Just to say that this "named after Jesus" is just a problem of language. If Christmas is losing some meaning for you because someone else calls it another way then you're the ridiculous one.
Same thing for openly religious decorations. If showing your religious belief in public is so important for you, you're missing an important part of what religious spirituality is.
Same thing for openly religious decorations. If showing your religious belief in public is so important for you, you're missing an important part of what religious spirituality is.
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You mean "public", public, right? I ask because I'm one of those people who like to put up Christmas lights on the house. If you're not getting secondary radiation burns from being within visual distance of the house, I'm not trying hard enough.
You mean "public", public, right? I ask because I'm one of those people who like to put up Christmas lights on the house. If you're not getting secondary radiation burns from being within visual distance of the house, I'm not trying hard enough.
I mean public
.But I don't consider that every Christmas lights have a religious meaning. It's also decorated everywhere over here (to a lesser degree than the USA for houses, I think. Silly Americans ) but I don't really see a religious meaning behind them. When I see the Champs Elysées at Christmas, I don't think "OMG, it's so catholic !" 
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Happy winter solstice celebration, everyone!
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You mean "public", public, right? I ask because I'm one of those people who like to put up Christmas lights on the house. If you're not getting secondary radiation burns from being within visual distance of the house, I'm not trying hard enough.
I mean public
Good. Because I may or may not be the sole cause of global warming.
When I see the Champs Elysées at Christmas, I don't think "OMG, it's so catholic !"
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Ah, I see, I may just do that. You know, I would love to visit Paris at Christmas. Do the authorities in Paris arrest panhandlers? Just... just asking.
Ah, I see, I may just do that. You know, I would love to visit Paris at Christmas. Do the authorities in Paris arrest panhandlers? Just... just asking.
I had to google that and I can safely answer : no except if you come from Romania.
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Ah, I see, I may just do that. You know, I would love to visit Paris at Christmas. Do the authorities in Paris arrest panhandlers? Just... just asking.
I had to google that and I can safely answer : no except if you come from Romania.
Woohoo! Tis the season!
And no where did I advocate for such religious symbols as decoration. Indeed the only place I've ever seen nativity scenes and crucifixes and angels have been in school plays or around churches, and that is as it should be. As far as I know retailers large and small as well as community public areas have always decorated in terms of garland and tinsel and wreaths and lights and snowmen and elves and Santa and reindeer and fake snow and icicles and gift wrapped parcels, etc. There's no real religious symbolism in those.
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I was going to say I wanted to wear garland pants for Christmas, but I wanted to know if they actually existed first. After checking, I found that they do not, therefore, I want them.
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Go for it
I once wore a large trash bag and a hat, pants, and sleeves made from aluminum foil, in order to unclog a toilet. I fear nothing.
Go for it
I once wore a large trash bag and a hat, pants, and sleeves made from aluminum foil, in order to unclog a toilet. I fear nothing.
And I thought I was bad with the OCD, oy
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Go for it
I once wore a large trash bag and a hat, pants, and sleeves made from aluminum foil, in order to unclog a toilet. I fear nothing.
And I thought I was bad with the OCD, oy
It was really bad, and it was not mine, so I was going to be as prepared as possible.
Make yourself a pair.
Some years ago I decided to play a gag on a friend. After I got off work I knew she was working at a nearby restaurant I frequented. This was in winter and so on the way there I picked up some leaves, fake snow, leftover tinsel and evergreen branches. I put the fake snow on my head and added evergreen leaves and stuffed some of the branches up my jacket sleeves and left the ends sticking out over my hands. I also had the tinsel hanging on me. When I walked into the restaurant she saw me and started to laugh, "What are you doing?" I replied that everyone else dressed up as Santa, but I decided to dress up as a Christmas Tree.
According to tradition, Christ was martyred sometime between 30 and 36 A.D.
It's become tiresome to see so many people try to emulate that every December during the season of his supposed birth.
Go home, drink some eggnog, open some gifts and stop fighting to make the rest of us genuflect to your personal preferences.
Christmas displays aren't permitted in my work place and if anyone tried to change the policy much larger forces than us non-Christians would have our employers asses in court faster than you can sing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," thank gods.
It's become tiresome to see so many people try to emulate that every December during the season of his supposed birth.
Go home, drink some eggnog, open some gifts and stop fighting to make the rest of us genuflect to your personal preferences.
Christmas displays aren't permitted in my work place and if anyone tried to change the policy much larger forces than us non-Christians would have our employers asses in court faster than you can sing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," thank gods.
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