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You're welcome. Whatever you need to get thru this time of oppressive cheerfulness. Me, I'll have some eggnog.

We live in a diverse place, lots of cultures mingling. We each bring something from our own traditions, and our culture is richer for it. If you insist on dealing with that culture on only your own terms—and being offended by all the others—you will miss out on that experience. The space you get to wish people a happy Hanukkah comes from letting them wish you a merry Christmas.

Namaste.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 8:14am

Lazy8 wrote:

hippiechick wrote:

If someone insists on saying Merry Christmas to me, I assume that they think that I should be celebrating their holiday. I don't wish Happy Hanukkah to people who don't celebrate. It's ridiculous, but whatever.

This is the problem with religion, it creates exclusiveness.

In that spirit, I will not wish you a merry Christmas. Have a miserable, thin-skinned, easily-offended Christmas full of imagined slights and religious paranoia.

meanie

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 8:10am

Lazy8 wrote:

hippiechick wrote:

In that spirit, I will not wish you a merry Christmas. Have a miserable, thin-skinned, easily-offended Christmas full of imagined slights and religious paranoia.

Thanks, you too!

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 8:09am

hippiechick wrote:

In that spirit, I will not wish you a merry Christmas. Have a miserable, thin-skinned, easily-offended Christmas full of imagined slights and religious paranoia.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 8:06am

buzz wrote:

You just don't get it, do you. Do you get pissy when someone says "good luck" or "have a nice day"? I think birthdays are a load of crap, but I don't get upset when someone says "happy birthday" to me. Why do you hate it when someone says something nice to you. Show some class and just thank them and move on.

I didn't say I hated it, I just don't get why people insist on saying something to me that is totally meaningless to me. The examples that you gave are not relevant, they are completely different than wishing someone Merry Christmas.

This kind of thinking, that everyone should enjoy Christmas, how could they not? is what leads to Jewish kids being held in the principal's office until they accept Jesus as their savior (that's a true story, one of many).

But it's just my opinion, and obviously I am wrong and you are all right.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 8:02am

hippiechick wrote:

You just don't get it, do you. Do you get pissy when someone says "good luck" or "have a nice day"?

I think birthdays are a load of crap, but I don't get upset when someone says "happy birthday" to me.

Why do you hate it when someone says something nice to you. Show some class and just thank them and move on.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:58am
sirdroseph wrote: What does that mean?

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:57am
hippiechick wrote: You have proven my point, thanks.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:56am
sirdroseph wrote: bend like a reed, mi amigo.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:54am

sirdroseph wrote:

I make it a point to be insensitive to drown out all the whiny PC sensitivity of both "sides"; I am tired of "sides" and in my own way do what I can to point out over sensitivity; incorrect priorities and partisan bullshi'te. {#Yes}

Ala Seth Mcfarlane and the Southpark boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They are my role models using extreme hyperbole to point out just how people get buried in ther own crusades and miss out on just plain ol' fashioned kindness and civility by understanding someones good intent and replying in kind . {#Meditate}

You have proven my point, thanks.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:54am
oldviolin wrote: What the heck is wrong with you, Sird? Get with the program. No one wants your good cheer forced on them. Gosh...Next thing you'll be reading fairy tales out of some Bible or what not...

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:52am

hippiechick wrote:

I find that people who insist on saying Merry Christmas to everyone are insensitive to the fact that not everyone is like them. And, from what I have read of your postings, this is true about you. But I am used to it.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:50am
buzz wrote: Accept it in he spirit in which it is intended. Get over yourself. If someone insists on saying Merry Christmas to me, I assume that they think that I should be celebrating their holiday. I don't wish Happy Hanukkah to people who don't celebrate. It's ridiculous, but whatever. This is the problem with religion, it creates exclusiveness.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:48am

sirdroseph wrote:

That is absolutely correct even though you are trying to be sarcastic.

I find it amusing that that those who have the self perception of being open minded are so often the most close minded. Forest for the trees...........

What the heck is wrong with you, Sird? Get with the program. No one wants your good cheer forced on them. Gosh...Next thing you'll
be reading fairy tales out of some Bible or what not...

buzz

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:47am
hippiechick wrote: I find that people who insist on saying Merry Christmas to everyone are insensitive to the fact that not everyone is like them. And, from what I have read of your postings, this is true about you. But I am used to it. Accept it in he spirit in which it is intended. Get over yourself.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:47am
hippiechick wrote: I find that people who insist on saying Merry Christmas to everyone are insensitive to the fact that not everyone is like them. ha ha ha whoosh

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:42am

sirdroseph wrote:

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:36am
hippiechick wrote: How very open minded of you! That is absolutely correct even though you are trying to be sarcastic. I find it amusing that that those who have the self perception of being open minded are so often the most close minded. Forest for the trees...........

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:33am

sirdroseph wrote:

Yep yep! I think that people who get offended either way need to just STFU and chillax! This devout Agnostic makes it a point to say Merry Christmas cause that is what I want to say and I really don't give a rats ass if someone has their panties in such a wad that either a Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas would offend them. Goes equally for the devout Christians or the devout Anti Christians.....get a life! {#Rolleyes}

How very open minded of you!

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Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 7:30am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Tom Tomorrow's right, of course. "Happy Holidays" is a perfectly valid greeting, not "PC" at all... it's just a blanket term that in my book covers Thanksgiving thru New Year's and any holiday or religious observance you care to include. But that does not mean a person should never say "Merry Christmas," either. Evidently if I say "Merry Christmas" to you you'll bristle. But what if next February, someone says to you, "Gung Hay Fat Choy!"? Do you get irritated then and say "I'm not Chinese so can it, Buster!"? No.

Okay I'm done you get the point. Or not.

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