I just think of it as a harvest celebration

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Post #236,161

by tuberculosis

11/27/05 12:31:50 AM

8/21/07 12:42:23 PM

I just think of it as a harvest celebration

We don't have another one and fall is a good time to celebrate getting the crops in.

I like T-day. The goal is modest, get the family together for a nice meal. Compared with x-mas its a low stress delight.

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:23 PM EDT

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Post #236,167

by ben_tilly

11/27/05 1:50:24 AM

Indeed

Thanksgiving is a harvest celebration coopted by patriotism. Makes for a refreshing change from the usual slew of pagan celebrations coopted by Christianity.

Cheers,
Ben

I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

The case against Turkey Day - (marlowe) - (17) - Nov. 26, 2005, 01:14:19 PM EST

nice screed but a few nits - (boxley) - (2) - Nov. 26, 2005, 01:56:00 PM EST

Those didn't amount to anything, either. - (marlowe) - (1) - Dec. 3, 2005, 09:29:49 AM EST

never been to st augustine? - (boxley) - Dec. 3, 2005, 11:13:14 AM EST

Turkey Day was established by an intensive . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Nov. 26, 2005, 02:17:29 PM EST

I just think of it as a harvest celebration - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:23 PM EDT

Indeed - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 27, 2005, 01:50:24 AM EST

Not bad; of course: we Do just make it all up as we go along -NT - (Ashton) - Nov. 26, 2005, 07:22:15 PM EST

And exactly what IS wrong with family, food and football? - (jb4) - (9) - Nov. 26, 2005, 07:37:45 PM EST

try reading it without your Marlowe filter, here let me help - (boxley) - (8) - Nov. 26, 2005, 08:51:21 PM EST

What's any 'point' gotta do with it? - (Ashton) - (2) - Nov. 26, 2005, 09:46:26 PM EST

Shades of that liberal state shining through? - (ChrisR) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 09:55:46 PM EST

Have no idea what 'liberal' means, except - (Ashton) - Nov. 27, 2005, 08:23:40 PM EST

Isn't that what Easter is all about? - (imqwerky) - (4) - Nov. 26, 2005, 10:03:20 PM EST

nuba, stanley cup and spring training -NT - (boxley) - Nov. 26, 2005, 10:24:15 PM EST

Well, Easter needs a lot of un-Revisionism too. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Nov. 26, 2005, 11:11:51 PM EST

Can we still keep Mardi Gras? :-) -NT - (imqwerky) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 11:32:32 PM EST

What would make you think we couldn't? -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 27, 2005, 12:17:36 AM EST

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