I think a big part depends on what kind of family one has the fortune/misfortune to be saddled with......
I actually like it-- December was always the highest-income month when i worked for a living...... was a great excuse to work overtime & weekends, to avoid the nutballs.....
I actually like it-- December was always the highest-income month when i worked for a living...... was a great excuse to work overtime & weekends, to avoid the nutballs.....
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Amen brother!
Top ten reasons why Christmas sucks:
10. Snotty unappreciative brats who won't be satisfied with any present under $300
9. Fake polite BS at the extended family gatherings
8 Getting greetings from people you forgot existed and having to worry about which is worse -- offending them for life or having to send a similarly insincere greeting and hoping they don't offer to get together sometime for fear of offending you.
7. Having to buck the crowds and traffic jams shopping for a zillion useless presents
6. Seeing your in-laws and listening to their new plan to extend their garden.
5. Knowing that the distribution of the damage caused by kids playing in your house has a mean of $350 and a standard deviation of $150 and there's fvck all you can do about it.
4. Those annoying Christmas songs -- when the fukk are they going to play something half decent again on the radio!?
3. Knowing you have to fight the crowds again after Christmas to take back all the crap that doesn't fit your relatives' fat asses.
2. Getting nagged by your wife to help decorate the tree, rearrange the furniture for the guests, take out the garbage etc.
and the number one reason why Christmas sucks is...
1. A complete lack of sports!
Amen brother!
Top ten reasons why Christmas sucks:
10. Snotty unappreciative brats who won't be satisfied with any present under $300
9. Fake polite BS at the extended family gatherings
8 Getting greetings from people you forgot existed and having to worry about which is worse -- offending them for life or having to send a similarly insincere greeting and hoping they don't offer to get together sometime for fear of offending you.
7. Having to buck the crowds and traffic jams shopping for a zillion useless presents
6. Seeing your in-laws and listening to their new plan to extend their garden.
5. Knowing that the distribution of the damage caused by kids playing in your house has a mean of $350 and a standard deviation of $150 and there's fvck all you can do about it.
4. Those annoying Christmas songs -- when the fukk are they going to play something half decent again on the radio!?
3. Knowing you have to fight the crowds again after Christmas to take back all the crap that doesn't fit your relatives' fat asses.
2. Getting nagged by your wife to help decorate the tree, rearrange the furniture for the guests, take out the garbage etc.
and the number one reason why Christmas sucks is...
1. A complete lack of sports!
Hay Sus ( Jesus) being born on 12/25/00 is about a billion to one shot, right there. Jesus is the son of GOD, yeah right !
I never believed this line, called myself agnostic for many years, then I grew a set of balls, declared there is no GOD.
An agnostic is an atheist with no balls. Do one of 2 things. Dismiss it all as not scientifically feasable, or live in the Dark Ages and accept your bible, as the truth !
What bothers me is the least intelligent members of society, are the most religious !
I'm pretty smart, but can't interpret the bible. I can't make sense of it, but inferior intellects blindly believe.
If you're afraid to die, pray to "GOD" , you don't !
Biggest crock of crap, ever ! Let " GOD" strike me dead ! There is no GOD ! I should be dead now. Science proves it !
Religion is for those afraid to face death, little more !
Religious differences are the cause of most wars.
My opinion won't be popular, thread will be moved by moderators.
I'm not afraid of death, not at all.
I apoligize for this thread, but hold my beliefs.
I never believed this line, called myself agnostic for many years, then I grew a set of balls, declared there is no GOD.
An agnostic is an atheist with no balls. Do one of 2 things. Dismiss it all as not scientifically feasable, or live in the Dark Ages and accept your bible, as the truth !
What bothers me is the least intelligent members of society, are the most religious !
I'm pretty smart, but can't interpret the bible. I can't make sense of it, but inferior intellects blindly believe.
If you're afraid to die, pray to "GOD" , you don't !
Biggest crock of crap, ever ! Let " GOD" strike me dead ! There is no GOD ! I should be dead now. Science proves it !
Religion is for those afraid to face death, little more !
Religious differences are the cause of most wars.
My opinion won't be popular, thread will be moved by moderators.
I'm not afraid of death, not at all.
I apoligize for this thread, but hold my beliefs.
Everything/anything in life is actually very good-- but in moderation: this of course, includes Religion.
The converse is true-- just about everything/anything one can think of is bad in excess-- or at least will cause some type of detrimental effect somewhere in one's life.
The potential problem with religion-- any & ALL included is this: show me an ardent devout & I'll show you someone who hasn't learned to think & figure things our for him/herself OR... someone too lazy to want to figure it out.
This leads to a problem few dare bring up:
Most of us complain about government bureaucracy & rigidity, yet few of us complain about "religious bureaucracy & rigidity"...
DarrylParsons: agree 110% w/ everything-- except for:
4. Those annoying Christmas songs -- when the fukk are they going to play something half decent again on the radio!?
Unless if you were referring to the Chipmunks Christmas Album???
arty:
The converse is true-- just about everything/anything one can think of is bad in excess-- or at least will cause some type of detrimental effect somewhere in one's life.
The potential problem with religion-- any & ALL included is this: show me an ardent devout & I'll show you someone who hasn't learned to think & figure things our for him/herself OR... someone too lazy to want to figure it out.
This leads to a problem few dare bring up:
Most of us complain about government bureaucracy & rigidity, yet few of us complain about "religious bureaucracy & rigidity"...
DarrylParsons: agree 110% w/ everything-- except for:
4. Those annoying Christmas songs -- when the fukk are they going to play something half decent again on the radio!?
Unless if you were referring to the Chipmunks Christmas Album???
arty:
Can't remember who it was in here said it, but it went something like this........
"If it turns out that my belief in God is false, I will lose only a figure of my imagination".........."If it turns out you're disbelief in God is false, you lose your soul"
Something to think about!
Regardless............. Merry Christmas guys, try to "find the mood" and enjoy this once a year holiday!
"If it turns out that my belief in God is false, I will lose only a figure of my imagination".........."If it turns out you're disbelief in God is false, you lose your soul"
Something to think about!
Regardless............. Merry Christmas guys, try to "find the mood" and enjoy this once a year holiday!
Or, perhaps, the teaching of God is that all will eventually be saved,Hache Man said:Can't remember who it was in here said it, but it went something like this........
"If it turns out that my belief in God is false, I will lose only a figure of my imagination".........."If it turns out you're disbelief in God is false, you lose your soul"
Something to think about!
both those that "believe in God" & those that don't, both those that
"lose their soul" and those that don't. Reference tentmaker.org, for
example, for the position that the Christian scriptures taught an
eventual universal salvation, the salvation of all mankind. After all,
how could a God Who the Bible states is Love and Almighty fail to
save any one in the end, let alone torture them in hell forever?
The idea of Love perpetuating an endless torture chamber of the
vast majority of His created beings is ridiculous, to say the least.
Another excellent resource on this subject is concordant.org .
Just for Doug J and Darryl P. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel!
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Grinch!
You're a bad banana with a
Greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Your heart's an empty hole!
Your brain is full of spiders
You've got garlic in your soul,
Mr. Grinch!
I wouldn't touch you with a
Thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole!
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile!
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile,
Mr. Grinch!
Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the, um, seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
You're the king of sinful sots!
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch!
You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a nauseous super naus!
You're a crooked dirty jockey
And you drive a crooked hoss,
Mr. Grinch!
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
You're a nasty, wasty skunk!
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Grinch!
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel!
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Grinch!
You're a bad banana with a
Greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Your heart's an empty hole!
Your brain is full of spiders
You've got garlic in your soul,
Mr. Grinch!
I wouldn't touch you with a
Thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole!
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile!
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile,
Mr. Grinch!
Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the, um, seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
You're the king of sinful sots!
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch!
You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a nauseous super naus!
You're a crooked dirty jockey
And you drive a crooked hoss,
Mr. Grinch!
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
You're a nasty, wasty skunk!
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Grinch!
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Regardless of what some may say, i lean to the view that the whole worldHache Man said:
fears death and nothingness. I think it is natural to fear these things, to
some extent.
But as a believer in God, i look at Him as a primarily loving being {"God is
love"} and believe as most did at a time in the early church that in the
end He will save all humanity.
Jeeeez X-Files, I hope that you are so right! I have struggled with my faith lately for various reasons. I consider myself, like many on here, to be quite intelligent. Throughout my whole life I have deliberately avoided any information, such as magazines, books, television, articles, that was science-related and made "other" claims about how life came about,etc. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of giving in to that and what I had always feared came true, that some of those things do make sense. The main problem came when I was listening to a radio show and one guy called in and said "Anyone with half a brain knows there isn't a "God". For some odd reason that has stuck in my head. Crazy things now go through my head, such as was the bible just made up in the early beginning to lay down some sort of rules for civilization to live by, did Jesus really do that "miraculous" things, or was he simply a "magician" ahead of his time. All kind of crazy things that I DONT want to even consider.This goes back to the statement above about most of us considering ourselves pretty smart. The bottom line is we all think too much the majority of the time,and we more than likely not half as smart as we usually think we are. I know others will scoff, but I know for myself that I have to get back in church and I have to do it quickly........X-Files said:
