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Happy Winter Solstice! Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Giftmas.

And a Happy Festivus to you!

Ah, yes. Christmas. I love it. A time for joy, celebration, Christmas Carols, presents, Santa Claus, the 24 hour "A Christmas Story" marathon. All good stuff. Also reading Dickens, watching the various versions of his "A Christmas Carol", drinking eggnog, seeing The Grinch/Rudolph/Frosty and all those guys.

Yep, love this time of year! Thanks, ChristianWarrior!

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"Happy Winter Solstice! Enjoy!

Hello, welcome to HAF, and thank you, ChristianWarrior.  A Merry Christmas to you.

Don't forget Yule either, it's my favorite

Christmas! Humbug!

I now have another financial parasite! First Grandchild born on 29th November! He's not even a month old FFS! He eats, sleeps, pees and craps (limited crying  :D

Welcome aboard Christian Warrior

Regards
Chris (channelling Scrooge today)

Merry Xmas!  

Happy Hogswatch

Why is this under philosophy...?

But yes, uh, merry Christmas.

I don't do "happy" just because of a holiday season, but thank you for the sentiment.

May you have good time as well.  

You're welcome! And thank you too all of those who wished me a Happy Holiday Season

Gimme an[spoiler:hunimckd]F[/spoiler:hunimckd]
Gimme an[spoiler:hunimckd]A[/spoiler:hunimckd]
Gimme an[spoiler:hunimckd]I[/spoiler:hunimckd]
Gimme an[spoiler:hunimckd]L[/spoiler:hunimckd]

What's that spell?!
[spoiler:hunimckd]FAIL[/spoiler:hunimckd]

Quote from: "McQ"Gimme an[spoiler:dzo9pqcl]F[/spoiler:dzo9pqcl]
Gimme an[spoiler:dzo9pqcl]A[/spoiler:dzo9pqcl]
Gimme an[spoiler:dzo9pqcl]I[/spoiler:dzo9pqcl]
Gimme an[spoiler:dzo9pqcl]L[/spoiler:dzo9pqcl]

What's that spell?!
[spoiler:dzo9pqcl]FAIL[/spoiler:dzo9pqcl]

All I did was wish you a Happy Winter Solstice. There was no need for the rudeness. Would you like it if I did that to you McQ? Probably not.

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"

Quote from: "McQ"Gimme an[spoiler:3py92q73]F[/spoiler:3py92q73]
Gimme an[spoiler:3py92q73]A[/spoiler:3py92q73]
Gimme an[spoiler:3py92q73]I[/spoiler:3py92q73]
Gimme an[spoiler:3py92q73]L[/spoiler:3py92q73]

What's that spell?!
[spoiler:3py92q73]FAIL[/spoiler:3py92q73]

All I did was wish you a Happy Winter Solstice. There was no need for the rudeness. Would you like it if I did that to you McQ? Probably not.

I don't celebrate the winter solstice. Do you? Most atheists don't. So what was your point other than to try and be a smart-aleck? We get trolls in here all the time. So far, you have been acting like one of them. Prove you're not a troll and you will be treated with respect.

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"All I did was wish you a Happy Winter Solstice. There was no need for the rudeness. Would you like it if I did that to you McQ? Probably not.

Not only was it not obviously directed at you(it could have been directed at all the people that responded to you), but I have gotten similar responses for less, and found them hillarious.

Quote from: "Heretical Rants"

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"All I did was wish you a Happy Winter Solstice. There was no need for the rudeness. Would you like it if I did that to you McQ? Probably not.

Not only was it not obviously directed at you(it could have been directed at all the people that responded to you), but I have gotten similar responses for less, and found them hillarious.

Sorry, but how where any responses in here a "fail"? All anyone did in here was wish each other a Happy Christmas/Holiday/Winter Solstice. It was a little mean in my opinion.

Oh, relax, CW. You are acting like such a complete crybaby. Atheists don't necessarily celebrate the winter solstice, as I already pointed out. It would be like us going into a christian forum and starting a thread that said, Happy Hanukkah! Your FAILure is not knowing that and posting such a ridiculous and pointless thread.

Build a bridge [spoiler:clqisrdw]and get over it.[/spoiler:clqisrdw]

Happy Kwanzaa.

Quote from: "McQ"Oh, relax, CW. You are acting like such a complete crybaby. Atheists don't necessarily celebrate the winter solstice, as I already pointed out. It would be like us going into a christian forum and starting a thread that said, Happy Hanukkah! Your FAILure is not knowing that and posting such a ridiculous and pointless thread.

Build a bridge [spoiler:cz5dp6b5]and get over it.[/spoiler:cz5dp6b5]

Happy Kwanzaa.

How rude and insensitive. What do you want me to say? Happy Nothing?  You're incredibly unfriendly. I think you have a prejudice that just because I'm a Christian, I'm a nut-job. Please be more friendly. I thought Atheists would like the Winter Solstice. I know a couple of Atheists in real life. Not well, but I'll say Merry Christmas to them, and they'll say Happy Winter Solstice.  If not all of you celebrate it, then Happy Winter in general. Lighten up.

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"

Quote from: "McQ"Oh, relax, CW. You are acting like such a complete crybaby. Atheists don't necessarily celebrate the winter solstice, as I already pointed out. It would be like us going into a christian forum and starting a thread that said, Happy Hanukkah! Your FAILure is not knowing that and posting such a ridiculous and pointless thread.

Build a bridge [spoiler:3mg9udcg]and get over it.[/spoiler:3mg9udcg]

Happy Kwanzaa.

How rude and insensitive. What do you want me to say? Happy Nothing?  You're incredibly unfriendly. I think you have a prejudice that just because I'm a Christian, I'm a nut-job. Please be more friendly.

You can think what you want. You are acting like a troll. Maybe you're just pretending to act like a crybaby, and I've misunderstood.

And my analogy still stands accurately, so yes, you should have said nothing and not wasted peoples' time with the pointless thread.

I have zero prejudice against you for being a christian. If so, I wouldn't be married happily to one for over 25 years.

Stop acting like a troll (second warning) and you will be treated with respect. Clear enough?

Quote from: "McQ"

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"

Quote from: "McQ"Oh, relax, CW. You are acting like such a complete crybaby. Atheists don't necessarily celebrate the winter solstice, as I already pointed out. It would be like us going into a christian forum and starting a thread that said, Happy Hanukkah! Your FAILure is not knowing that and posting such a ridiculous and pointless thread.

Build a bridge [spoiler:25u7in7b]and get over it.[/spoiler:25u7in7b]

Happy Kwanzaa.

How rude and insensitive. What do you want me to say? Happy Nothing?  You're incredibly unfriendly. I think you have a prejudice that just because I'm a Christian, I'm a nut-job. Please be more friendly.

You can think what you want. You are acting like a troll. Maybe you're just pretending to act like a crybaby, and I've misunderstood.

And my analogy still stands accurately, so yes, you should have said nothing and not wasted peoples' time with the pointless thread.

I have zero prejudice against you for being a christian. If so, I wouldn't be married happily to one for over 25 years.

Stop acting like a troll (second warning) and you will be treated with respect. Clear enough?

How am I acting like a troll? Because I tried to be nice? Please enlighten me. If not everyone of you celebrates it, then I'm sorry but I thought nearly all of you did. Sorry if it offended you, but there was no need for doing a FAIL. You could have politely pointed out to me that not all Atheists didn't celebrate the Winter Solstice. As far as I know, I didn't break any rules. So banning me would be unfair and unjust. In fact, you're acting like more of a troll than I am. Just because you're a mod doesn't give you the right to say whatever you want to.

Ahh. Here comes the martyrdom.

Here´s my summary of this thread:

ChristianWarrior:  Zany holiday time!
random atheists: Lulz OK!
ChristianWarrior: Lol yup!
McQ: WUT, I don't celebrate this holiday?!? He's insinuating that atheists are primitive sun worshippers(not that there's anything wrong with that)!TROLL!
ChristianWarrior: Huh? I´m not a troll!  And you're being so rude! WHaaaaaahhhhh!
McQ: Haha, crybaby troll.
ChristianWarrior: DON'T BLOODY CALL ME A TROLL!!!! ...you're being so rude. Prejudice!!!
random atheists: Oh no, not again...

Methinks that the arguments in this thread don't really have anything to do with this thread.

Quote from: "Heretical Rants"Here´s my summary of this thread:

ChristianWarrior:  Zany holiday time!
random atheists: Lulz OK!
ChristianWarrior: Lol yup!
McQ: WUT, I don't celebrate this holiday?!? He's insinuating that atheists are primitive sun worshippers(not that there's anything wrong with that)!TROLL!
ChristianWarrior: Huh? I´m not a troll!  And you're being so rude! WHaaaaaahhhhh!
McQ: Haha, crybaby troll.
ChristianWarrior: DON'T BLOODY CALL ME A TROLL!!!! ...you're being so rude.
random atheists: Oh no, not again...

Methinks that the arguments in this thread don't really have anything to do with this thread.

Lol! Excellent summary, and very funny.  

Glad you liked it.

Quote from: "McQ"I don't celebrate the winter solstice. Do you? Most atheists don't. So what was your point other than to try and be a smart-aleck? We get trolls in here all the time. So far, you have been acting like one of them. Prove you're not a troll and you will be treated with respect.

I feel your being far too cynical. Trolls are more obvious than a rash and this situation does not stink of it, yet.

I'm one of the few atheists that I know of who does indeed celebrate the Winter Solstice. (I also celebrate the other solstice, as well as equinoxes.) I don't celebrate them because of atheism, however.  I have a fairly large percentage of Celtic blood (I'm a mongrel; probably more Czech than Celt, but whatever) and have always felt an affinity for the Celtic cultures, which seem to have celebrated equinoxes and solstices. In fact that practice is probably much older than the Celtic cultures. The point is that it's a cultural thing, and atheism isn't a culture as such.  Not yet, and most likely not ever.  When I was a bike messenger, I used to burn cinnamon on a little marble altar on Wednesdays, because cinnamon is the incense for Hermes, and Wednesday is the traditional day of Hermes/Mercury. I didn't do that because I actually believed in Hermes per se, but because I got a kick out of celebrating the idea of a messenger god.  Again, a culture thing, which had nothing to do with atheism.

 You said you came here to learn a bit; well now you know that you can't assume that just because somebody is atheist, they celebrate Winter Solstice. ;)

EDIT:  Thanks for the laugh, Heretical Rants.  

Quote from: "Dretlin"

Quote from: "McQ"I don't celebrate the winter solstice. Do you? Most atheists don't. So what was your point other than to try and be a smart-aleck? We get trolls in here all the time. So far, you have been acting like one of them. Prove you're not a troll and you will be treated with respect.

I feel your being far too cynical. Trolls are more obvious than a rash and this situation does not stink of it, yet.

It stinks enough for me, but I will give it a go and try to see if it works itself out. Thanks for the thought and it won't go unheeded.

Quote from: "Recusant"I'm one of the few atheists that I know of who does indeed celebrate the Winter Solstice. (I also celebrate the other solstice, as well as equinoxes.) I don't celebrate them because of atheism, however.  I have a fairly large percentage of Celtic blood (I'm a mongrel; probably more Czech than Celt, but whatever) and have always felt an affinity for the Celtic cultures, which seem to have celebrated equinoxes and solstices. In fact that practice is probably much older than the Celtic cultures. The point is that it's a cultural thing, and atheism isn't a culture as such.  Not yet, and most likely not ever.  When I was a bike messenger, I used to burn cinnamon on a little marble altar on Wednesdays, because cinnamon is the incense for Hermes, and Wednesday is the traditional day of Hermes/Mercury. I didn't do that because I actually believed in Hermes per se, but because I got a kick out of celebrating the idea of a messenger god.  Again, a culture thing, which had nothing to do with atheism.

 You said you came here to learn a bit; well now you know that you can't assume that just because somebody is atheist, they celebrate Winter Solstice. ;)

EDIT:  Thanks for the laugh, Heretical Rants.   :)  . There wasn't any need to claim that I was stupid though for not knowing that though McQ. And I'm not a troll. If you wan to unfairly ban me and you can live with that, then go right ahead. The few times I tried saying season's greetings to an atheist in real life, they snapped at me. Which is why I said Happy Winter Solstice.

Quote from: "McQ"

Quote from: "Dretlin"

Quote from: "McQ"I don't celebrate the winter solstice. Do you? Most atheists don't. So what was your point other than to try and be a smart-aleck? We get trolls in here all the time. So far, you have been acting like one of them. Prove you're not a troll and you will be treated with respect.

I feel your being far too cynical. Trolls are more obvious than a rash and this situation does not stink of it, yet.

It stinks enough for me, but I will give it a go and try to see if it works itself out. Thanks for the thought and it won't go unheeded.

Thank you.  

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"There wasn't any need to claim that I was stupid though for not knowing that though McQ. And I'm not a troll. If you wan to unfairly ban me and you can live with that, then go right ahead. The few times I tried saying season's greetings to an atheist in real life, they snapped at me. Which is why I said Happy Winter Solstice.

CW, you really need to let this drop now. I've actually been patient with you, considering I think you're really a troll. And you have yet to prove otherwise. Now. Do three things:

1. Show where I called you stupid. Show us right now.
2. Show where I threatened to ban you.
3. Show where I used a false analogy to illustrate that you've started a pointless thread. I bring this last up, because you still refuse to acknowledge that it has been a pointless thread which appeared to be a trollish thread.

You've pushed your luck as far as it will go. Move on and don't make me waste another second on your pointless posts. Oh, that makes four things you need to do.

Quote from: "Dretlin"Thank you.  

Well, I tried. Sorry.

Quote from: "ChristianWarrior"The few times I tried saying season's greetings to an atheist in real life, they snapped at me.

    Yes, I agree it can be difficult to know just what to say.  Just like any widely diverse group, atheism includes some inordinately tetchy folks.  Just laugh it off and move on, is my advice.

EDIT:  I'm talking about real life, not this thread.  If you want to continue this thread, I would suggest answering McQ before proceeding any further.  But he himself has said that you should move on.

 You should understand that this is a time of year in which we seem to get an upswing in our normal troll population.  Many here find that tiresome. The screen name you chose, and certain things you've said make it seem quite possible that you may be one of the holly-bedecked varmints.  Just keep being civil, and if the reaction you're getting right now bothers you, give it a couple of weeks and come back if you still feel like it.

The best thing to say if you don't know what someone celebrates is simply "have a great day/evening" or nothing at all.  Those who are big jerks about requiring that everyone wish them a Merry Christmas will initiate the phrase and then it can be returned (or you can just stare at them for being so stupid that they think everyone needs to tell them Merry Christmas. . .)

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