Re: "Christmas" versus "Holiday" (Vanity) From carrier-aviator | 11/10/2004 2:39:50 PM PST new She doesn't celebrate Christmas? She gets no material or physical benefit from it? She works on this Federal Holiday? I don't think so.
Kiss my ass, carrier-aviator. No, I do not celebrate Chirsitmas. I am a Jew. I know Catholics sometimes do not understand this, but not everyone celebrates your holidays. And yes, I work on this federal holiday. Ther is no law that says you cannot.
Shut your piehole if you have no idea what you are talking about.
(1) The Constitution (the same one that empowered the Congress to make Christmas a national holiday) says I don't have to shut my piehole, and
(2) Like it or not, if you are a U.S. citizen Christmas is YOUR holiday too. Enjoy.
(3) As for kissing the rear part of your anatomy: I'll pass. Buh-bye.
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I really have no idea why you included me in your post (#181).
What was it that I said that made you feel that I am some sort of "brainiac."
And are you in the habit of telling people with whom you disagree to "shut their pieholes"?
I hope you will excuse me for saying this, but it seems to me tha tyou are reacting most angrily to something that is not being said in order to give you offense.
When one of my Jewish friends wishes me a Happy Passover or a Happy Hannukah, I (and I am speaking here only for myself) truly do not feel any sort of need to respond with anything that sounds defensive or with anything that could be perceived as suggesting that the deeply held religious beliefs of my Jewish friends are trivial or have no meaning.
I don't do that because I don't like offending people of other faiths simply because they are of other faiths.
And why would I say, in response to another person wish for my happines on a particular day or during a particular few days of the year with something like, "Thanks, but I don't believe in Passover" Or "Thanks, but Hannukah has no meaning for me."
Both of those comments, it seems to me, are very much "in your face" and truly ungracious responses to a mere wish from another person for my happines.
It is just inconceivable to me, what with all the hatred and evil in this world, that I would ever wish to respoond to another person -- one who has wished me happiness on a day with anything other than a sincere "thank you."
It seems to me that if I were to then extend nmy response to say something dismissive like, "I don't celebrate Hannuikah. Have a good one.", that I might want to take some time to see why it is that I choose to repond to gracious good wishes for my happines with words that telgraph resentment that another person has wished me happiness.
By the way, Happy November 12th.