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Dont you think its hypocritical.....

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Friday, December 15, 2006 9:20 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by ShinyEd:
I looked thru this thread again..and yes a lot of support for Christmas...but did ya see all those weird posts about Satan, etc etc ??? And a lot of Christian & Jew bashing as well....pretty disgusting stuff.

Don't sweat that stuff, it's PirateNews, the RWED's resident Neo-Nazi. Did you know everything, and I do mean everything, is secretly a plot by the British-Commie-Nazi-Jews. True story, apparently. It's sickening hearing him go on, but since all he can do is scream impotently at his keyboard it's safe to ignore him.

Think of it this way, there's plenty of violent neo-nazi organisation webpages out there, but you don't read them, take the same approach with PN.



More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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Friday, December 15, 2006 9:23 AM

SOUPCATCHER


Quote:

Originally posted by ShinyEd:
I looked thru this thread again..and yes a lot of support for Christmas...but did ya see all those weird posts about Satan, etc etc ??? And a lot of Christian & Jew bashing as well....pretty disgusting stuff.

...

Happy Holidays to you and all your folk.


If you go back and look, you'll see that the weird stuff came from PirateNews (and the response to his post). He's a special case here in the RWED and, if you stick around for a while, you'll find that there are usually at least two conversations going on in any given thread: some back and forth around the topic and PirateNews' take on the topic. I find it helpful to not mix up the two too much.

And Happy Holidays to you and yours.

* edited to add: Looks like Citizen beat me to it.

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Friday, December 15, 2006 9:24 AM

SHINYED


Thank you Citizen!

I appreciate the heads-up on what that was all about.

Happy Holidays!

Ed

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Friday, December 15, 2006 11:42 AM

RAZZA


I guess I'll have to start up my regular Top Ten column on PN's latest wacko theories.

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Friday, December 15, 2006 12:31 PM

SIGMANUNKI


@BionicBatman:

You are aware that the celebration of Jesus's birth and celebrating Christmas do not necessarily go together, right?

There are lots of people that completely ignore the Jesus aspect of Christmas. In fact, there is at least one culture (German) that has a name for this holiday season that has nothing to do with Christianity at all i.e. reality is not necessarily your opinion.

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Friday, December 15, 2006 3:19 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I'm sure you've seen this. But if not.....


For My liberal Friends
"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."

For My Conservative Friends
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


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Friday, December 15, 2006 3:53 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Hey SignyM,

I have not seen that before......it's pretty terrific! Thanks for posting it...a complete utter shameful indictment of a society gone basically insane.

Happy Holidays!

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Friday, December 15, 2006 4:24 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
I'm sure you've seen this. But if not.....

For My liberal Friends
"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."

For My Conservative Friends
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year



Maybe I'm thinking about this too hard (or I've just been doing too much math), but let me see if I understand this:

Let's call the paragraphs a and b, respectively. The equation would then be

a = b

... right?

Regardless, it was a funny read.

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Friday, December 15, 2006 4:38 PM

TRAVELER


I like Jesus. I could care less if he was divine or not. He did a lot of good things. He showed people what it ment to do good things. I will celebrate a really nice guy's birthday in any manor I want. I don't need anybody telling me I am a hypocrite.

Merry Christmas to all.


I aim to celebrate Christmas
Traveler

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Friday, December 15, 2006 5:31 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL


Quote:

Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
Okay. Based on this and HK's earlier response, my example is looking weaker and weaker. It probably says more about the culture of the church I grew up in than anything else. IIRC, foot washing and communion happened four times a year. Whether or not it was ever written out, it was understood that communion was for those who had been baptized. So, because I never chose to be baptized, I would participate in foot washing but not communion.

You’re example is fine. The responses to it are just mud in the water. The problem is not your example; it is that hypocrisy in the classical sense requires a degree of intent and consideration. A person who takes Communion in the Roman Catholic Rite, believing that such action signifies belief in the Roman Catholic faith and acceptance of the virtues and personal conduct of Catholicism, but who actually does not believe or accept the condition symbolized by Communion would probably be a hypocrite. That’s more or less what you said, and a practicing Catholic would understand that example just fine.



Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Friday, December 15, 2006 8:30 PM

SIGMANUNKI


@SignyM:

Hi-larious

@YinYang:

You've definitely been doing too much math.

Out of curiosity, what Field () have you had too much of?

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Friday, December 15, 2006 9:55 PM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:

Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
Ah, Piratenews. Always good for a laugh.



Your illiteracy is showing. Your critical thinking is DOA. Your googlefoo is kaput, since you're admittedly incapable to doing any research on your own, without being spoonfed. What a pathetic way to go through life, as a moron. I bet you never studied in skool, and only barely passed by cheating off other peoples' homework. Or do you really believe the entire internet is composed of only the links I posted?

For example:
Quote:


Chinese authorities bust `illegal' Christian meeting

AFP, BEIJING
Sunday, Aug 06, 2006

About 90 children and 40 underground Christians were detained briefly in eastern China after police raided a Sunday school teacher training session, a rights group and an official said on Friday.

Li Lizhong, 40, who provided his home for the meeting, and Cai Yili, 38, were given 15 days of detention, it said.

A staff member at the Gudian township police station confirmed the incident.

Re-education

"They were involved in illegal evangelism ... most have been released after re-education but two are still detained," an officer surnamed Guan said.

"Li Lizhong is always evangelizing illegally at his home so we have to educate him," he said.

China Aid Association said some Christians were beaten in the incident, and police confiscated a number of belongings including a computer, electric organ and loudspeakers.

www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/08/06/2003322041


Three Christians in China Secretly Executed

Xu Shuangfu, Li Maoxing and Wang Jun, leaders of the "Three Grades of Servants" underground church, were secretly executed for murder last week by the Chinese communist regime. Xu Shuangfu's attorney Li Heping received a phone call from the court and learned this news.

This case was internally referred to as the "Thunder No. 1" big case within the Ministry of Public Security. This case has involved as many as 63 people. It started in March 2003, and spread to Shandong, Jiangxi, Sichuan and another seven provinces. To date, 22 people have been sentenced to death, and 12 more people have been executed.

While being interviewed by The Epoch Times, Attorney Li Heping said, "Today the court called me to ask for my address, saying that they need to mail me the final judgment paper. I asked for the status of this case. The judge said that the people were executed last week. I was very shocked. We have not obtained the final judgment paper nor have the family members been able to see the defendants, but they have already been executed. This is indeed too out of control."

Neither the attorney nor the reporter could contact the family of Xu Shuangfu. According to some insiders, because Xu's sister exposed the torture her brother received in jail, she has been tortured to the point of mental breakdown and was arrested and detained in jail.

Li Maoxing's wife told The Epoch Times that she received the phone call from Shuangya Middle Court, telling her to go to the court immediately to get Li's ashes. She grieved, "I have not gone to get the ashes, I can't take this anymore, and I don't want to go anyway."

"Three Grades of Servants" is a denomination of the underground church in China, with a reported number of over half a million followers in China. The leader of the denomination, Xu Shuangfu, was accused of illegal missionary work and organizing evil cult activities and sent to a labor camp and sentenced to over ten years in prison.

This July, the first court hearing sentenced Xu Shuangfu and another three people to death. The other three were sentenced to 15 years in prison. From October 17 to 19, the Heilongjiang Provincial High Court held the second hearing on this case at the Shuangya Municipal Middle court.

Attorney Li Heping said, "All the defendants in this case were Christians. The defendants were accused of committing crimes while their religion was not mentioned. I think there is a problem here."

He said that the evidence presented was illegal, severely lacking and that the legal processes were not followed. Many defendants were seriously tortured while being interrogated. Xu Shuangfu and other defendants were tortured many times. Every time, the torture was aimed at forcing the defendant to admit to fabricated stories. If the defendant refused to admit, the torture would not stop. Sometimes, the defendant's hand was directly pulled to make a signature or fingerprint, and some were even tortured to death during the process.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-11-29/48739.html


Cannibalism is rampant in Communist Chjina today, so a little Christianity is needed ASAP. The Communist govt cannibalizes all executed prisoners, and profits from the body parts sold for cosmetics and Frankenstein transplants. Factory slaves who fail their quotas for Xmas trees and gifts are marched behind the factory and a bullet fired into their brains. Smoke that in your Yule Log from Commie China Mart.

As for sodomites being put to death, that's in the Bible, Torah and Quran, as required for public health.

Quote:


"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
-Leviticus 20:13, Holy Bible KJV
www.biblegateway.com



Good hunting at Bohemian Grove. The Grovers were the same homosexual employees of Congress, White House and Pentagon who manufactured the HIV bioweapon, injected into "promiscuous homosexual males" as a fake "hepatitis vaccine", to genocide the sodomites (and everybody else). By claiming homosexuality is normal, rape victims are denied medical treatment, and the pedophile network is protected from arrest.
www.aidsbiowar.com
www.boydgraves.com

Apparently you believe God is a Nazi. Though the swastika is an ancient Jewish symbol, and Hitler was a Jewish Rothschild (heir ot half the world's wealth), according to Jewish PhDs on History Channel and CSPAN.


Jewish Satanist Blavatsky was a Nazi. All top Nazis were Khazar AshkeNAZI non-Semitic Jews
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-tm/hpbtm-hp.htm



www.reclaimtheswastika.com/photos/


Coronado Naval Base in USA
www.thepowerhour.com/press_release/press19.htm


US Dept of Homeland Security swastika by its director Jewish Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff

What's most disturbing about your insanity of denial or disinfo, is that when you see official photos of Bush worshipping Satan and performing "simulated" human sacrifice, you refuse to face that reality. That's nuts!

At the rate things are going, future Xmas celebrations will include sacrificing children to giant idols of Molech in every town and city... I wonder how many 10,000s of aborticides will occur THIS Holiday Season? Pagans must be most joyous...

Here's something you'll love for shearing the sheeple of their 1st Amendment right to think:
Quote:


McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom

Republican Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=634200
12&blogID=205904946



Hero is drooling on himself already. McCain must be terrified someone will post videos of him gangraped in the Hanoi Hilton by his faggot commanding officers. Desktophippie must be dancing nekked around his fellow yule logs.



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Friday, December 15, 2006 10:56 PM

REDLAVA


Quote:

Originally posted by BionicBatman:
No i do not celebrate either of those holidays. Good job you know me so well. I dont wear green on St. Patricks Day. And if someone pinches me for not, i get them back twice as hard. Halloween is just an excuse for kids to get candy from complete strangers, parents go out and party, and teens killing animals. Two holidays to where if you dont play along you pay the price.

Just curious here but what do you believe in?



I am pretty much a Realist/Agnostic. I only believe in what I can see, smell, taste, and touch. I personally don't need an invisible man who lives in the sky or a book to tell me what is right and what is wrong. I tend to live by the "golden rule," do on to others as you would have them do on to you. It's that simple.



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Friday, December 15, 2006 11:27 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by Redlava:
Quote:

Originally posted by BionicBatman:
No i do not celebrate either of those holidays. Good job you know me so well. I dont wear green on St. Patricks Day. And if someone pinches me for not, i get them back twice as hard. Halloween is just an excuse for kids to get candy from complete strangers, parents go out and party, and teens killing animals. Two holidays to where if you dont play along you pay the price.

Just curious here but what do you believe in?



I am pretty much a Realist/Agnostic. I only believe in what I can see, smell, taste, and touch. I personally don't need an invisible man who lives in the sky or a book to tell me what is right and what is wrong. I tend to live by the "golden rule," do on to others as you would have them do on to you. It's that simple.



Yes, but do you tolerate Bush dancing nekked at Bohemian Grove and sacrificing his conscience to Molech, then slaughtering millions in the Garden of Eden? Do you believe in citizen's arrest of homicidal dictators? Or only when they kill you or your loved ones, then Jew you out of restitution? Even pagans must realize that "Jewish" Luciferian atheists in the White House are bad for everyone's health.

The design of most religions is to keep society from self destruction. It's a neverending war between criminals who want to hijack religion for mind control, and those who love life. Good vs evil. God vs Satan. Religion says there's God in everyone. Rabbi Jesus said that, so the Jewish rabbis murdered him with false accusations of treason against the Roman Empire, then declared war on all Christians.

The War for Xmas is a battle of Good vs Evil. But which side is Xmas on?


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Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:14 AM

EVILDINOSAUR


No, because Christmas is not just about the birth of Jesus. I know, I know, his name is right there is the name of the holiday, but the holiday has a secular side as I'm sure you've noticed.

I don't recall anything about santa or flying reindeer in the bible's telling of Jesus' birth. Yet these symbols are completely a part of Christmas nowadays, in america at least.

Christmas to the non-christian community is about peace and goodwill, caring more for giving than for receiving, etc. There's alot more to christmas than just Jesus' birth (which didn't really occur in December anyway, it's in March or something if I remember correctly)

So no, it's not hypocritical at all.

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 7:26 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Quote:

Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
In fact, there is at least one culture (German) that has a name for this holiday season that has nothing to do with Christianity at all



OK, I'll admit how ignorant I am. I believe you., but I've never heard it.

What DO they call it? and what does it mean?

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 7:52 AM

REDLAVA


Quote:



The design of most religions is to keep society from self destruction.




Oh yes religion has done an increadible job of just that. Lets see, how many wars have been caused by this?

-Lets start with the Crusades which occured off and on for 170 years between Christians and just about everybody else.

-Huguenot Wars in France between Protestants and Catholics which lasted for 30 years.

-The 30 Years War which started off as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics.

-Amost forgot about the Holocaust during WW2.

-IRA vs. Protestants in Ireland.

-Lets not forget pretty much the entire Middle East has been at war with each other over various things, mostly religion, for hundreds if not thousands of years which has spilled over into our borders with certain recent terrorist attacks.

These are just the ones I can name off the top of my head. I am not saying that all wars are the result of religious conflicts, but religion does seem to pop up in one way or the other in many of them.

I'll leave you with a quote from the movie Dogma that I like...

Rufus: He still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the shit that gets carried out in His name - wars, bigotry, but especially the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it.
Bethany: Having beliefs isn't good?
Rufus: I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.





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Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:42 AM

SIGMANUNKI


Quote:

Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:

OK, I'll admit how ignorant I am. I believe you., but I've never heard it.

What DO they call it? and what does it mean?




So was I until I got a German wife.

The word is, Weihnachten. It means something like, sacred night. But, that translation isn't really that good, as most will probably tie 'sacred' to something Christian. Which it has no ties to.

One of the myths about that night is that the animals can speak and people can understand them.

EDIT: More from the wife:

Weihnachten, is also known as 'festival/celebration of love', which means that people want to spend time with there loved ones and be nice to each-other, etc. This is of course the idealistic view. One in which comedians take advantage of

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:29 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by Redlava:
Quote:



The design of most religions is to keep society from self destruction.




Oh yes religion has done an increadible job of just that. Lets see, how many wars have been caused by this?

-Lets start with the Crusades which occured off and on for 170 years between Christians and just about everybody else.

-Huguenot Wars in France between Protestants and Catholics which lasted for 30 years.

-The 30 Years War which started off as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics.

-Amost forgot about the Holocaust during WW2.

-IRA vs. Protestants in Ireland.

-Lets not forget pretty much the entire Middle East has been at war with each other over various things, mostly religion, for hundreds if not thousands of years which has spilled over into our borders with certain recent terrorist attacks.

These are just the ones I can name off the top of my head. I am not saying that all wars are the result of religious conflicts, but religion does seem to pop up in one way or the other in many of them.

I'll leave you with a quote from the movie Dogma that I like...

Rufus: He still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the shit that gets carried out in His name - wars, bigotry, but especially the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it.
Bethany: Having beliefs isn't good?
Rufus: I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.




As I pointed out, criminals hijack all organized religions, to convert them into organized crime SINdicates. Luciferian (Jewish) Freemasons have infiltrated all Christian churches at the highest levels. That's why all creeds of Protestants are adopting Celtic Knots (666) as their official logos. The Catholic church prints its official books with Jewish Dell Publishing at 666 Fifth Ave NY NY. Masonic (Jewish) controlled churches and govts stand down and refuse to fight for the 10 Commandments in schools and courthouses, for daring to forbid lying, stealing and killing.

Quote:


"The true name of Satan is, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahweh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism and Idoltry. For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good; but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument for Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythological and horned form of the God Pan; hence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpant, and the Light-Bearer, or Phosphor of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend."
-General Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry", page 102
http://www.srmason-sj.org

"The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the 19th Degree, the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!"
-General Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry", Masonic bible "Morals and Dogma", page 321
http://www.srmason-sj.org

“When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onwards and upwards he must prove his ability to properly apply (this) energy.”
-Mason Manley P. Hall, "The Lost keys of Freemasonry", page 48

"There is in nature a one most potent force, by means whereof a single man, who could posses himself of it, and should know how to direct it, could revolutionize and change the face of the world. It is a universal agent, whose supreme law is equilibrium; and whereby, if science can but learn how to control it, it can be possible to change the order of the seasons, to produce in night the phenomenon of day, to send a thought in an instant around the world, to heal or slay at a distance, to give our words universal success, and made them reverberate everywhere. The Gnostics held that it was adorned in the secret rites of the Sabbat or the Temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of the Baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of Mendes."
-General Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry", page 734
www.freedom-ministries.com/index.php?action=Confession_Leo_Taxilm_and_
Albert_Pike


"All religions issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the dreams of the illuminati is borrow from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and Symbols. The Kabalah alone consecrates the allegiance of the Universal Reason and Devine Word. The Bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the Hebrews. Thus was a second Bible born, unknown to, or rather uncomprehended by, the Christians; a collection, they say, of monstrous absurdities; a monument, the adept says, wherein everything that the genius of philosophy and that of religion have ever formed or imagined of the sublime; a treasure surrounded by thorns; a diamond concelaed in a rough dark stone. One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sancuary of the Kabalah, at seeing doctrine so logical, so simple, and at the same time so absolute. The Absolute Deity, with the Kabalists, has no name. The terms applied to Him are the Most Simple Light. For then there was no space or vacant place, but all was infinite Light."
-General Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry", page 744-5
http://www.srmason-sj.org

"I will obey all signs and summons handed to me by a chapter of Masons. I will assist a Mason when I see him engaged in any difficulty whether he be right or wrong. I promise and swear to forever conceal and never reveal any of the secrets of Masons or Masonry under no less penalty than to have my throat cut across from ear to ear, my tongue plucked out by the roots; my heart taken from under my left breast; my body cut across, my bowels taken out; my body dissected into four equal parts to hang and remain a terror to all those who shall presume to violate the sacred obligation of a Mason."
-Initiation rituals of Freemasonry, President John Quincy Adams, founder of Anti-Masonic Party, "Letters on Freemasonry"
http://texemars.com

"You must conceal all crimes of your brother Masons, and should you be summoned as a witness against a brother Mason be always sure to shield him. It may be perjury to do this, it is true, but you're keeping your obligations."
-Ronayne Handbook of Masonry, page 183

"A few weeks ago, someone at work noticed I was wearing a Masonic ring. The few questions he had seemed to show a genuine interest in the Fraternity, and I answered him frankly. Today, I ran into him again, and he asked me if I knew what the Illuminati were. I said it was a small rationalist group founded in Germany by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. He claimed the U.S. Government was controlled by Masons, that we were trying to bring everyone into a "New World Order," and that one of the reasons Afghanistan was fighting us was because they didn't want to become a New World Order country. According to him, even the streets in Washington, D.C., were laid out to form evil Masonic symbols; the eye on the back of the dollar bill is the eye of Satan placed there by Masons; George W. Bush is a Mason (which he's not); Bill Clinton is a Mason (wrong again), and that's why he escaped impeachment; there are hidden Degrees higher than the 33°, and Freemasons who hold these Degrees are dedicated to evil purposes, etc, etc., etc. Freemasons have long been accused of Satanic practices as seen in the ludicrous illustration right from Leo Taxil's The Mysteries of Freemasonry, 1897. Source: Archives of the Supreme Council, S.J., 33° "
-Joseph W. Moss II, 32°, Scottish Rite Journal, "I was called a Satanist today," February 2002
http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/journal-files/Issues/Feb02/moss.htm


Leo Taxil's The Mysteries of Freemasonry, 1897
www.grandeoriente.it/Archivio/1897RMITaxil.htm


Jew Bill Clinton-Blythe Rockefeller is the highest ranking member of DeMolay, the Masonic junior varsity named for Jacques DeMolay, the leader of Knights Templar who was burned at the stake for worshipping Satan.
www.demolay.org/history/people/demolay/index.shtml
http://universe.demolay.org/halloffame/
www.jacquesdemolay.org

The Bushes are of course members of Yale Skull & Bones and Bohemian Grove, both of which outrank the Masons in the Illuminati heirarchy.

General Albert Pike was the Jewish pope of the Masonic Mafia, court martialed for treason for the British Empire during US Civil War, indicted for warcrimes and cannibalism, founder of KKK, president of Tennessee Bar Assn. The Jewish religion is now a pagan religion from Babylon, which is why Rabbi "Jesus" was constantly fighting the Jewish rabbis, calling them the "Synogogue of Satan". Today the Jewish Torah has been replaced by the Babylonia Talmud in all Jewish synogogues.

The entire Catholic Nation is pagan, and has been since its creation, and the pedophile pope is its king (the previous pope was Jewish). The Crusades were perped by psychopathic kings and knights, and led to creation of Knights Templar (Jewish banksters, now the Masonic Mafia). The pedophiles and homos are mopping up where the Masonic Mafia misses out, like Jim Bakker (convicted felon who stole over $100-million, but is back on TV, with Dog The Bounty Hunter who was convicted of murder).

The Jews perped the Jewish Holocaust of World War 2, to justify creation of Israel to slaughter the middle east and create a global slave plantation. Jews ran World War 2 from all 3 sides, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and British Empire, genociding 55-million people, which is the real Holocaust, perped by Jews, in addition to over 100-million Russians and Chinese genocided by Jewish Communism in the past 100 years. The British govt perped 90% of IRA bombings, to justify invasion and martial law in Northern Ireland, and perped the 7/7 Bombings in London to blame the Arabs and "justify" invasion of Afghanistan (the Queen's heroin plantation) and Iraq (Babylon, the REAL Jewish Holy Land). Afghanistan's new "president" in a Knight of the British Empire. The psycho queen of England is leader of the Church of England (Episcopal Church in USA), founded by serial killer King Henry VIII so he could murder all his wives.

45-million US citizens have been genocided by Jewish abortion since US Supreme Court relegalized genocide in 1973 with Roe v Wade. For every baby aborticided, one adult must also be murdered, to keep the Jewish insurance and pension cartel Ponzi Schemes profitable. Over 1-million US citizens are murdered every year in Death Camps in USA, in addition to 1.5-million US babies aborted per year. Jewish doctors, Jewish lawyers and Jewish politicians are leading the way.
www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm


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The design of most religions is to keep society from self destruction. It's a neverending war between criminals who want to hijack religion for mind control, and those who love life. Good vs evil. God vs Satan. Religion says there's God in everyone. Rabbi Jesus said that, so the Jewish rabbis murdered him with false accusations of treason against the Roman Empire, then declared war on all Christians.

The War for Xmas is a battle of Good vs Evil. But which side is Xmas on?


Xmas is anti-Christian and anti-American. Only a Satanist, traitor or idiot would risk celebrating that pagan holiday. But since most sheeple are morons, the holidaze continue.

Dogma is a Luciferian Jewish movie to destroy Christianity, and to destroy USA. It's mind control by the Jewish Media Mafia. Only an idiot would enjoy that movie.


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Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:47 AM

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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
Ah, Piratenews. Always good for a laugh.



Your illiteracy is showing. Your critical thinking is DOA. Your googlefoo is kaput, since you're admittedly incapable to doing any research on your own, without being spoonfed. What a pathetic way to go through life, as a moron. I bet you never studied in skool, and only barely passed by cheating off other peoples' homework. Or do you really believe the entire internet is composed of only the links I posted?

For example:
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Chinese authorities bust `illegal' Christian meeting

AFP, BEIJING
Sunday, Aug 06, 2006

About 90 children and 40 underground Christians were detained briefly in eastern China after police raided a Sunday school teacher training session, a rights group and an official said on Friday.

Li Lizhong, 40, who provided his home for the meeting, and Cai Yili, 38, were given 15 days of detention, it said.

A staff member at the Gudian township police station confirmed the incident.

Re-education

"They were involved in illegal evangelism ... most have been released after re-education but two are still detained," an officer surnamed Guan said.

"Li Lizhong is always evangelizing illegally at his home so we have to educate him," he said.

China Aid Association said some Christians were beaten in the incident, and police confiscated a number of belongings including a computer, electric organ and loudspeakers.

www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/08/06/2003322041


Three Christians in China Secretly Executed

Xu Shuangfu, Li Maoxing and Wang Jun, leaders of the "Three Grades of Servants" underground church, were secretly executed for murder last week by the Chinese communist regime. Xu Shuangfu's attorney Li Heping received a phone call from the court and learned this news.

This case was internally referred to as the "Thunder No. 1" big case within the Ministry of Public Security. This case has involved as many as 63 people. It started in March 2003, and spread to Shandong, Jiangxi, Sichuan and another seven provinces. To date, 22 people have been sentenced to death, and 12 more people have been executed.

While being interviewed by The Epoch Times, Attorney Li Heping said, "Today the court called me to ask for my address, saying that they need to mail me the final judgment paper. I asked for the status of this case. The judge said that the people were executed last week. I was very shocked. We have not obtained the final judgment paper nor have the family members been able to see the defendants, but they have already been executed. This is indeed too out of control."

Neither the attorney nor the reporter could contact the family of Xu Shuangfu. According to some insiders, because Xu's sister exposed the torture her brother received in jail, she has been tortured to the point of mental breakdown and was arrested and detained in jail.

Li Maoxing's wife told The Epoch Times that she received the phone call from Shuangya Middle Court, telling her to go to the court immediately to get Li's ashes. She grieved, "I have not gone to get the ashes, I can't take this anymore, and I don't want to go anyway."

"Three Grades of Servants" is a denomination of the underground church in China, with a reported number of over half a million followers in China. The leader of the denomination, Xu Shuangfu, was accused of illegal missionary work and organizing evil cult activities and sent to a labor camp and sentenced to over ten years in prison.

This July, the first court hearing sentenced Xu Shuangfu and another three people to death. The other three were sentenced to 15 years in prison. From October 17 to 19, the Heilongjiang Provincial High Court held the second hearing on this case at the Shuangya Municipal Middle court.

Attorney Li Heping said, "All the defendants in this case were Christians. The defendants were accused of committing crimes while their religion was not mentioned. I think there is a problem here."

He said that the evidence presented was illegal, severely lacking and that the legal processes were not followed. Many defendants were seriously tortured while being interrogated. Xu Shuangfu and other defendants were tortured many times. Every time, the torture was aimed at forcing the defendant to admit to fabricated stories. If the defendant refused to admit, the torture would not stop. Sometimes, the defendant's hand was directly pulled to make a signature or fingerprint, and some were even tortured to death during the process.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-11-29/48739.html


Cannibalism is rampant in Communist Chjina today, so a little Christianity is needed ASAP. The Communist govt cannibalizes all executed prisoners, and profits from the body parts sold for cosmetics and Frankenstein transplants. Factory slaves who fail their quotas for Xmas trees and gifts are marched behind the factory and a bullet fired into their brains. Smoke that in your Yule Log from Commie China Mart.

As for sodomites being put to death, that's in the Bible, Torah and Quran, as required for public health.

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"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
-Leviticus 20:13, Holy Bible KJV
www.biblegateway.com



Good hunting at Bohemian Grove. The Grovers were the same homosexual employees of Congress, White House and Pentagon who manufactured the HIV bioweapon, injected into "promiscuous homosexual males" as a fake "hepatitis vaccine", to genocide the sodomites (and everybody else). By claiming homosexuality is normal, rape victims are denied medical treatment, and the pedophile network is protected from arrest.
www.aidsbiowar.com
www.boydgraves.com

Apparently you believe God is a Nazi. Though the swastika is an ancient Jewish symbol, and Hitler was a Jewish Rothschild (heir ot half the world's wealth), according to Jewish PhDs on History Channel and CSPAN.


Jewish Satanist Blavatsky was a Nazi. All top Nazis were Khazar AshkeNAZI non-Semitic Jews
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-tm/hpbtm-hp.htm



www.reclaimtheswastika.com/photos/


Coronado Naval Base in USA
www.thepowerhour.com/press_release/press19.htm


US Dept of Homeland Security swastika by its director Jewish Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff

What's most disturbing about your insanity of denial or disinfo, is that when you see official photos of Bush worshipping Satan and performing "simulated" human sacrifice, you refuse to face that reality. That's nuts!

At the rate things are going, future Xmas celebrations will include sacrificing children to giant idols of Molech in every town and city... I wonder how many 10,000s of aborticides will occur THIS Holiday Season? Pagans must be most joyous...

Here's something you'll love for shearing the sheeple of their 1st Amendment right to think:
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McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom

Republican Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=634200
12&blogID=205904946



Hero is drooling on himself already. McCain must be terrified someone will post videos of him gangraped in the Hanoi Hilton by his faggot commanding officers. Desktophippie must be dancing nekked around his fellow yule logs.



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Touchy, aren't we?

There's really no point in getting upset because someone actually read the websites you posted as references to your claims. It's also pretty pointless calling the person who did read them illiterate, since you obviously didn't.

The Google-fu image was aimed at you. If you like I can spend a few minutes in Google and come up with a bunch of links proving black is white and JFK was shot by Elvis wearing a pink tutu, but I really don't see the point. Especially since you've made it so easy to debunk your own references.

By the way, since all this child sacrifice is going on all over America every day, how come more kids aren't reported missing? In fact, how come there aren't bodies everywhere? Have all records of them disappeared, along with the 9 million a year suffocated while cutting down Christmas trees?

Oh, and we don't dance naked in Ireland. It's cold and rainy here, and there are hedgehog issues. In fact, most of your opinions about Paganism sound like they come from the fevered imagination of someone who spends too much time in dark, stuffy rooms hunched over a computer reading strange websites and not enough time out in the nice, fresh air.




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Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:22 AM

CITIZEN


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In fact, most of your opinions about Paganism sound like they come from the fevered imagination of someone who spends too much time in dark, stuffy rooms hunched over a computer reading strange websites and not enough time out in the nice, fresh air.

NO! Don't give him another excuse to post pictures from those "strange websites". If I wanted to look at animal porn I'd type bestiality into google myself.



More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:56 AM

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John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:

By the way, since all this child sacrifice is going on all over America every day, how come more kids aren't reported missing? In fact, how come there aren't bodies everywhere? Have all records of them disappeared, along with the 9 million a year suffocated while cutting down Christmas trees?

Oh, and we don't dance naked in Ireland. It's cold and rainy here, and there are hedgehog issues. In fact, most of your opinions about Paganism sound like they come from the fevered imagination of someone who spends too much time in dark, stuffy rooms hunched over a computer reading strange websites and not enough time out in the nice, fresh air.



I said 9-million suffocated, not 9-million killed. That's how many trees are killed for Xmas each year - enough to supply oxygen to 9-million people. Best to let the trees keep growing and generating oxygen.

So where do you run around nekked in your pagan rituals? What kind of rituals do you do? My friendly neighborhood Wiccans here in Knoxville Tennessee always perform their "church" services naked (including animal sacrifices and homosexual S&M tortures), while putting murder contracts on each other (poison is their weapon of choice). My black cat was rescued from Wiccans who split up. So I saved her from sacrifice in a ritual, or sacrifice in the "animal shelter". I learned alot about paganism and Masonry from reading books loaned from my Wiccan friends. My richest relatives are Masons, and I bought a large library of official Masonic books, when they were sending me Masonic magazines trying to recruit me (to shut me up under penalty of death). They are deacons in the Baptist church where they hold their Masonic ritual funerals for burial in "Masonic cemetaries". They love Xmas, and have big "family reunions" with Santa and the manger ritual play. Some are members of Senior Secret Societies franchises of Skull & Bones, and guests of Bohemian Grove. They invite convicted murderers, convicted homosexual pedophile rapists and confessed mobsters to their homes to celebrate Xmas. Been there, done that.

FBI refuses to keep statistics on kidnapped children, which is why Noreen Gosch founded the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. When pagans and pedophiles murder their own children, born outside a hospital without record, their is no evidence of the crime. Cannibalism and dismemberment destroys evidence.
www.johnnygosch.com

Millions of aborted babies are cannibalized in cosmetics, "flu vaccines" and Satan knows what else. Even abortion doctors have been arrested in USA for cooking babies in microwave ovens for lunch, which is very popular in Commie China, where dead babies are sold in grocery stores. Cannibalism of ex-govt employees was very popular during Mao Tse Tung's "Cultural Revolution".

FBI also refuses to keep statistics on stolen cars, since Gangsta Govt teams with the Jewish Mafiya in their tow-trucking chopshop cartel, which is now stealing cars in USA to bomb US soldiers in Iraq (run by Bushes, Bin Ladens and Queen of England in Carlyle Group, owners of Universal, Serinity and SciFi Channel).
www.geocities.com/towcrime
www.geocities.com/parking_ticket_appeal
www.infowars.com/articles/terror/equating_common_criminals_with_terror
ists.htm

www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/portfolio/portfoliol5-3295.html
www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/10/02/us_car_theft_rings_probe
d_for_ties_to_iraq_bombings
/

FBI paid the terrorist bombers $1-million and provided them the entire bomb to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, as confessed by FBI agents on hidden audiotape, as testified in US District Court and published by NY Times.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/wtcbomb.html

FBI is a terrorist organization designed to protect senior criminals looting USA, aided and abetted by all state and local law enforcement agency Death Squads. Expecting Uncle Scam's pedophiles to arrest pedophiles in insane. That's why the power of Citizen's Arrest and Constitutional right to carry loaded guns in self defense is so critical to survival.

If you think paganism is better than Christianity or other organized religions, read Alister Crowley, Albert Pike and the Babylonean Talmud.


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Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:49 AM

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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:

By the way, since all this child sacrifice is going on all over America every day, how come more kids aren't reported missing? In fact, how come there aren't bodies everywhere? Have all records of them disappeared, along with the 9 million a year suffocated while cutting down Christmas trees?

Oh, and we don't dance naked in Ireland. It's cold and rainy here, and there are hedgehog issues. In fact, most of your opinions about Paganism sound like they come from the fevered imagination of someone who spends too much time in dark, stuffy rooms hunched over a computer reading strange websites and not enough time out in the nice, fresh air.



I said 9-million suffocated, not 9-million killed.





Bwaaahaaaahaaaaaahhaaaaaaahaaaaa.

That part of your post was realy funny. The rest was total Gobshite, as usual.

Shall I send you a copy of this years Queens speech as usual?

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 1:03 PM

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This is some of my own musings that hopefully will be of interest and might provide some point to this discussion that the author failed to implement and hopefully will distract the discussion from PirateNews fruitcakism.
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The design of most religions is to keep society from self destruction.
Oh yes religion has done an increadible job of just that. Lets see, how many wars have been caused by this?

Although religion often defines the division lines between parties in a conflict, it almost never defines the real case for war. Muslims and Christians, during the Middle Ages, fought many wars with the specific stated goal to spread Islam or Christianity to neighboring peoples. While at first this appears to be the cause of religion, in reality it is simply an interpretation and at closer examination, these wars were fought to spread political hegemony, not religion. The Romans had many distinctly religious arguments for there various wars of conquest, but no one accuses them of religious expansionism, because in the absence of the Roman Religion, it is obvious that what the Romans sought was not religious control, but political. The classical Roman religion was known as the Capitoline religion, owing to the Temple on the Capitoline hill in the ancient city that was dedicated to the Roman triad: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. It is not a coincidence that in Latin words beginning with “capit-” all mean head, chief, leader or first, or the English word “capital” meaning the seat of state. The classical Roman state was as fanatically religious as anything that came after it, yet no one views its wars as wars of religious expansionism.

Likewise, various smaller regional struggles that existed throughout Medieval Christendom and modern Islam are more accurately understood as political struggles then religious, regardless of what they may be called. Typically, political stability is easier to maintain in an homogeneous culture. These small ‘religious’ conflicts are not dissimilar from ‘ethnic’ conflicts; the difference is that unlike ethnicity, religion can alter the homogeneity of a culture dynamically, where ethnicity, in the absence of invasion or immigration, is generally a preset initial condition. In almost all cases, what the religious factions of a conflict want is either freedom from the state or control over the state.

When the homogeneity of a culture is disrupted by the development of a new religion which results in a regional conflict such as in the case of religious conflicts during the Reformation, it can’t be said that religion is the cause of the conflict, since in almost all such cases historically religion was a strong influence in the culture to begin with. In fact, it is quite likely that the culture was more stable as a result of a homogeneous religion, then it would have been as simply a homogeneous ethnicity, because religion imparts to its constituents a common value system. “Thou shalt not kill” is a religious commandment, but people following such a religious commandment are less likely to be a destabilizing influence on society, and therefore historically the state has often used religion as a pedestal for stability. People advocating an anti-religious sentiment would view this as the “religion is the opiate of the masses” argument, which I’ve often seen argued simultaneously with the “religion is the cause of war” argument. These two perspectives existing together suggest that religion is not really the correct term for the impetuous behind a religious war.

It wasn’t my intention for this post to be off-topic, I had thought to include some historical musings on the development of Christianity during the post-classical period as it pertains to both the immergence of the notion of a “religious" or "holy war” as well as the immergence of the Christian notion of Christmas, but I find that I’ve run out of time tonight.



Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:24 PM

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I rather naively envision a near future where we label the entire end-of-year festivities as "Potlatch" and get on with our lives. Or, simply accept the hypocrisy inherent in the consumerfest that Xmas festifities have become, at the expense of celebrating the spirit of the ritual of sharing. Of course, I'm one of those who recognises that in the beginning, man created God, though not always to nefarious purposes.

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Christmas trees is nice. Just, y'know, be careful with those candles!

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