[kj] OT : words of the high one

[Brendan]

I have finally decided this year that I'm not going to acknowledge
Christmas in any way, I'm not going to say Merry Xmas to anyone, send any
cards or give any presents. I refuse to support christianity in any way
shape or form. I realised that I need to do this after I recently turned
down an invite to a Diwali party on the grounds that I don't support
organised oreligions...

So I suppose I better get learning about the winter solstice...except I'm
living in the sthrn hemisphere. Hrm...



> "Christmas, or Yule as it is also known, was primarily a time held sacred

> to the memory of departed family. Feasting and ritual were held in their

> honour and it was not as much a religious ceremony as a service of

> remembrance".

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> * http://www.geocities.com/theashlad/ancestor.html *

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> Therefore much ritual and feasting should be in order in a month's time

> for the extended Killing Joke clan ... first it was the two Rons (Coleman

> and Walker) a few years back then suddenly the big black bird ...

> personally I think a lot about my own dad who left this mortal coil over 7

> years ago ... but when I was going through my teens we argued day after

> day ... mind you, like several others here, I'd been through religious

> indoctrination from a early age, though the likes of Killing Joke and

> Crass contributed to me firmly getting that out of my system ...

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> "Cattle die, kindred die,

> Every man is mortal,

> But I know one thing that never dies,

> The glory of the great dead"

> Havamál ('words of the high one')

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