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Faith 
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Message 1 of 29 (869184)
12-25-2019 4:01 AM


Bob Dylan recites Longfellow's classic Christmas Carol from his despair over the Civil War; and then a version of it sung a cappella

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Message 2 of 29 (869187)
12-25-2019 7:44 AM


Merry Happy
Merry Happy Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Christmas, Capitalism, Bah Humbug Day to all our members, visitors, lurkers and index bots here at EvC.
May you participate in your chosen festivities with family, friends, strangers or solo to your heart’s and your wallet’s content.
Eat hearty or not at all. Laugh, dance, sing or sit in solitude as your circumstances allow and may you be happy with your choices or not.

Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

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Message 3 of 29 (869188)
12-25-2019 8:42 AM


Happy Holidaze
Happy Holidaze to friends, foes and family, and may the population of man on earth find peace.

we are limited in our ability to understand
by our ability to understand
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to share.


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Message 4 of 29 (869189)
12-25-2019 8:47 AM


Feliz Navidad

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Message 5 of 29 (869191)
12-25-2019 10:43 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by AZPaul3
12-25-2019 7:44 AM


Re: Merry Happy or Whatever
Why thank you, AZ Paul3. Christmas i all a marketing ploy, and one could argue that an eternal Deity never really has a birthday except to become human for a season. (I added the whatever to preserve the consensus) But seriously I too hope that everyone has a great time,hopefully with family or friends. Lets all pile in the VW bus and go visit Faiths house. She may be up to baking cookies.

Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain "
~"We, humans, are engaged in an ongoing war of ideologies. I see it in this microcosm of EvC Forum just as I see it in the governments and attitudes of people throughout the world. Take your pick: Oppression or Seduction .
"~Thugpreacha
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
? R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

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Message 6 of 29 (869196)
12-25-2019 11:17 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Phat
12-25-2019 10:43 AM


Re: Merry Happy or Whatever
... Lets all pile in the VW bus and go visit Faiths house. She may be up to baking cookies.
A festivus microbus filled with cheer, caroling around town with the smell of fresh cookies and hot chocolate ...
... can I keep the bus?
ps -- this is what mine looked like:

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Faith 
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Message 7 of 29 (869197)
12-25-2019 11:19 AM
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12-25-2019 10:43 AM


Re: Merry Happy or Whatever
Sure I can do cookies. Also hot chocolate. No egg nog though, but you can bring that. Not very Christmassy around here this year, one of the years when I'm alone and don't do Christmas. So if you want to visit, bring your own tree and lights. I also gave my guitar to my brother because I wasn't playing it but if you bring one I can strum us some carols.

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Message 8 of 29 (869201)
12-25-2019 12:00 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Faith
12-25-2019 4:01 AM


And a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you as well, and to everyone else here at EvC.
And I wish everyone the best in the upcoming New Year.

For this generation of far-right nationalists, religion is not a question of ethical conduct; it is purely about identity and peoplehood. -- Jan-Werner Mller

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Message 9 of 29 (869207)
12-25-2019 1:38 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Faith
12-25-2019 4:01 AM


I would like to strongly recommend spending Christmas with an almost-two-year-old grandbaby. It’s just as much fun as you may remember it.

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vimesey
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Message 10 of 29 (869208)
12-25-2019 2:26 PM


Merry Christmas to one and all :-)
Let’s hope for a peaceful and progressive 2020 :-)

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

  
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Message 11 of 29 (869209)
12-25-2019 3:28 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Faith
12-25-2019 11:19 AM


Re: Merry Happy or Whatever
Merry Christmas to all of the EVC family. You may be on your own this Christmas Faith but your family here is all thinking of you.

He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

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Message 12 of 29 (869211)
12-25-2019 5:12 PM


From Our House to All of Yours
Merry Christmas!
--Percy

  
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Message 13 of 29 (869272)
12-27-2019 11:45 AM


We were at my cousin's place on Christmas Day, 23 people, all related except one, four generations aged 3 to 93.
I collaborated with my 8-year-old second-cousin on a Christmas trivia question, "Which one of Santa's reindeer is featured in two holidays?" I've been trying to remember Santa's reindeer for days but I could only think of seven. She provided the eighth, which was the right answer - Cupid.

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...."
-- Rudyard Kipling

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GDR
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Message 14 of 29 (869274)
12-27-2019 1:39 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by ringo
12-27-2019 11:45 AM


Don't forget Rudolph and Olive.

He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

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Faith 
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Message 15 of 29 (869275)
12-27-2019 1:58 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by ringo
12-27-2019 11:45 AM


A Canadian Christmas
That sounds like the right kind of family Christmas. If I lived in Canada that's what my Christmas could look like too. That's where I have 23 first cousins, though I think a few have died by now that I never met, and all their children who are second cousins to each other, most of whom also have children. None of my parents' generation is still living but a few of them made it into their late eighties and two made it to 90. Must be something in the Canadian water? Air? Prairie? Rockies?

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