This next post is a very long, contemplative soliloquy that I have been needing to get out of my system for a few.
So, if you are just visiting for your Blog Explosion credits, feel free to wait your 30 seconds and move on. The rest of the post is in the ‘more’ section for those that wish to stay a bit longer.
OK, OK, one more, only because this is almost eerily accurate… (except the life of the party thing. What’s THAT about? heh)
20 Questions to a Better Relationship
eXpressive: 5/10
Practical: 4/10
Physical: 4/10
Giver: 8/10
You are a RSIG–Reserved Sentimental Intellectual Giver. This makes you a People-Pleaser.
This post doesn’t have a title because, well, it’s about a whole bunch of things. Awwww, just look at that little angel. No one would ever guess that just 20 minutes ago he was running around alternating between whipping his brother with his partially-decomposing stinky sock, screaming “No!” and “Shut Read more…
This was cute. You are 45% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between Read more…
Please excuse any wonkiness over the next day or so, especially within the gallery section. I have not been able to remember for the life of me how I had integrated the Gallery application into my site the last time I had it up. (And of course, being the flake Read more…
ABC News: Christians Aiming to Boost Religion
In California, a group called the Committee to Save Merry Christmas is boycotting Macy’s and its corporate parent, Federated Department Stores, accusing them of replacing “Merry Christmas” signs with ones wishing shoppers “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays.” The organization cites “the recent presidential election showing political correctness is offending millions of Americans.”
Though in so many places PC is over the top, putting Christ back into Christmas shouldn’t mean Give December to Christ.
Happy Holidays is an appropriate greeting when one is not sure of the faith practiced by a particular person. It gracefully honors all. I don’t see a problem with that in an inclusive society.
Sure, Christ was actually not even born on December 25, and the Christians conveniently appropriated the story of Mithras to allow pagans to convert more easily, but forget about when Christ was actually born, Christians have chosen Dec. 25 for the honors. Why do they forget that other religions had their holidays first at this time of year? Hannukah has always been 8 days because it is symbolic to the celebration. Why 12 days for Christmas? To make it bigger than Hannukah? What about other winter celebrations such as Kwanzaa, Yule (the Winter Solstice), Ramadan, St. Lucia Day, or Omisoka? Why do so many Christians send Christmas cards with Santa, stockings, candles and candy canes on them? What are they celebrating? Aren’t those cards early attempts for PC among various Christians when you aren’t sure how religious the receiver is?
If you want to put Christ back into your own life, you are welcome to. Why should everyone else have to be polite to Christians at Christmas when groups like those in the article have no desire to be polite to people of other faiths?
Oddly enough, if those Chistians who feel GWB put Christ at the helm take a look at the White House holiday decorations (directed by First Christian Lady, Laura Bush) they would note the utter lack of Christ or allusions to his birth. Santa’s, reindeer, candy canes and Frosty the Snowman but no angels or stars (PC decorations even in public places).
I think a lot of what’s going on is bizarrely overheated. Although I choose to say “Happy Holidays” out of respect for the religious and secular diversity of my area, I’d NEVER be offended by a “Merry Christmas” wish. I don’t stop and think “that’s a Christian thing, don’t say that” or any such nonsense. Yes, political correctness can be a pain, but so are false pretenses of anti-Christian bias, the off-tune carol being sung so obnoxiously in certain Fox-y regions of the media this season. When Bill O’Reilly tells Jews who don’t care for Christmas excesses that they need to move to Israel, is he behaving in a particularly Christian manner? Is he the victim of bias? Obviously not.
We rented The Chronicles of Riddick this past weekend. Mainly because we had seen Pitch Black about a year or so ago on television and thought it was pretty cool, even though it was cut to almost nonsensical ribbons by an over-zealous editor for commercials. First of all, it had Read more…
So I picked DJ up from preschool today, and we were going to go preview one of the schools I have picked as a possibe choice for him to go to kingergarten at next year. As we are waiting for the bus, trying to keep our faces warm in the Read more…
I decided that on this dreary Boston Monday morning, this blog needed to be spiced up with some top-notch eye candy. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have! 😉 (Warning, some rude language contained in this post.) People who ride the bus in Boston are quite interesting. At Read more…
I have been doing a little bit more tweaking, and FINALLY got around to fixing my gallery! I even have a little random gallery image box on the sidebar, so you can decide if you want to see the rest. I still need to fix the layout and whatnot, but all my images are there. Enjoy!
Now I only need to put the forums back up (or decide if I want them in the first place).
Sunday Brunch meme is in the more section.