I don't celebrate

[dfernandez77]

I don't celebrate Ramadan.

I don't celebrate Christmas.

I don't celebrate Hanukkah.

I don't celebrate Kwanzaa.

I don't celebrate the Winter Solstice.

What I do celebrate is the best wishes, the kind thoughts, the good will, the yearning for peace, and hope for the future so many cultures share and express as we pass through this season.

I wish you all health, joy, peace, prosperity, and a joyous celebration - whatever it is you celebrate - in this holiday and in the coming year.

Love you all. No, Really! I do.

Spread it around a bit,

[Sliabh Luachra]

dfernadez77,

I send this to you with my utmost regards.

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my 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. I 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.

Mark

[Father Emmet]

Not even Festivus?

[Joseph E. Smith]

Not even Festivus?

... especially not that.

[Wombat]

Daniel, may all the gods you don't believe in bless you.

[dfernandez77]

I send this to you with my utmost regards.

Please accept with no obligation...By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms...

Mark

This appears to be a politically correct conundrum.

Not even Festivus?

Not even. I had to look it up. I haven't owned a TV since 1993.

Daniel, may all the gods you don't believe in bless you.

Thanks Wombat!

[amar]

dfernadez77,

I send this to you with my utmost regards.

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my 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. I 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.

Mark

can I use that line?

[scheky]

What you believe in or no, have a happy day or two coming up soon.

Still, I don't get all the fuss....who CARES about all those days when my BIRTHDAY is coming up next week?

40 on the 28th.....where did the years go?

[rh]

I don't celebrate Ramadan.

Good thing, too, because you'd be a little late... Ramadan ended in October

Happy Whatever-yer-celebratin...

[dfernandez77]

Ramadan ended in October

Happy Whatever-yer-celebratin...

Yeah, I know. It's always winterish time.

[rh]

Yeah, I know. It's always winterish time.

in 10 years it'll end around the fourth of July... crazy lunar calendar...

anyway, tis the season to exercise kindness and compassion to your fellow sentient beings. if you live in a cold climate, be kind to those who have no warmth or shelter; if you live in a warm climate, be kind to the tourists

[Walden]

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said:
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead; nor doth He sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!"

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Bloomfield]

[djm]

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead; nor doth He sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!"

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly saying, now now, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

djm

[Lorenzo]

I wish the earth had "System Restore" on it.
Maybe it does. It's hard to imagine all the
power struggles that are taking place. Humans
love combat, I guess, whether verbal or physical,
or sometimes both, and sometimes all the time.