Strife767

Yes, I'm sure no one thinks of anything but baby Jeebus at their Christmas parties. http://www.history.com/minisites/christmas...age?pageId=1252

All you have to do is see (and this wouldn't even count the families that go and cut down a real tree) what sells faster in stores, and what there's higher demand for. If it was close, then it would take more, but it's pretty obvious that more Christmas trees are sold than nativity scenes. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if many of those with nativities had trees too!

It's also canned a tannenbaum. The terms are interchangeable--I suspect it only ever got started getting called a "Christmas tree" as a result of Christian 'assimilation' efforts of pagan holidays, which was common in the early days of Christianity. After all, Yule used to be celebrated following the lunar calendar, so it was about late December to early January. But it was in fact the process of Christianization that moved it to December 25th in order to correspond with what now is called Christmas. Of course, doing that makes it a lot easier to get people to acknowledge your holiday, but makes it a lot harder to get people to celebrate it the way you want them to. I'm aware of that--I used the word along with the general meaning "not Christian, Jewish, or Islamic (in a religious context)". You're confusing paganism (which is a lot broader than the narrow definition you provided) with Wicca, I think. The 1500s isn't THAT modern. And whatever you're talking about above isn't what the tree started as; the first trees were actual fir trees, not just a few branches (indeed, that's what "tannenbaum" is German for, and the tradition of the tree is Germanic in origin). Not sure what the point of your post was, but I'll reiterate that anyone can enjoy this time of year for any number of reasons--"Christmas" as we know it is not something even close to exclusively Christian, and even atheists may call it that instead of "Yule" or whatever else for no other reason than force of habit. Once more, whatever.

And yet people won't stop making juvenile comments about him around here, often derailing threads like this one just to say some stupid shit about the guy. It's clear which side is having trouble accepting the end result. I'd ask to get things back on topic, but apparently the play's over, so...that should be it for this topic.

You really have no idea how foolish you are, do you?

Canessa estimated over 100, but it had to have been over 40, or else the meeting wouldn't have been moved to the high school. Also, period or exclamation point: pick one (and only one of the one you pick, please). And, as a reminder, caps lock is in fact not cruise control for cool, contrary to popular belief.

Oh, is that what you call there being more terrorism in a place now than BEFORE we invaded it? How interesting! Except for when he didn't, right?

This sums it up pretty well.

Keep in mind that most families don't buy/have/erect a nativity scene, but just about everyone's got a Christmas tree (which is a tradition originating from Yule, a pagan holiday). In other words, the holiday is what's made of it. I personally love this time of year, and atheists are not nearly the only people who enjoy it without bothering with any theistic 'baggage'. In conclusion, whatever.

Of course, erring on the side of caution would have been a stupid idea when it came to not touching Iraq unless we were 100% sure there were WMD's there, right? Doublethinking buffoon.

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" --Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Probably way over your head, but worth sharing for those you can actually read the above and understand it.

Was that a question! I couldn't tell? Could you enlighten me.

1. He has yet to apologize for any of his misconduct or lies. 2. Last I heard, he was still making the same kind of comments in class. You don't have to "know it all" to know that teachers aren't supposed to preach in public school. Only because he talked about that Muslim girl behind her back. What difference does it make? Paszkiewicz's dishonest, unethical, and incompetent. Plenty of reason not to keep one's job. I'd agree with you IF I saw the slightest bit of remorse from Paszkiewicz as a result of all of this, but no. How can you say you think he learned from his mistakes if he won't even acknowledge that he made a mistake to begin with?! Not to mention his underhanded attempts to cover up said mistakes through blatant lying. If you're okay with a teacher like that, then that says a lot, all negative. I'd like KHS to have a higher standard than that for its teachers.

Haha, maybe not such a true "OBSERVER" after all.

Concerning your last sentence, do you realize that the original post also has nothing to do with the Town of Kearny particularly? The entire thread from its inception wasn't about Kearny specifically, so I don't see what that last complaint is about, since you don't seem to have any issue with the original post. Just curious.

Yawn, nothing but empty accusations from the inappropriately-named buffoon. How many times have I defied you to cite me lying, yet you never respond? You're full of crap; only your sockpuppets agree with you, which is pretty sad. Don't you have anything better to spend your life doing than antagonizing people with this bullshit?

That's about as concise as you can get it, and you're exactly right.

Someone forgot that he already posted this.

Because they're being harmed. Idiot. Sounds like you just gave yourself away, 2dim.

I'm planning on watching it soon.

Okay, I can understand "lacking," but I think "deplorable" is a bit exaggerated. Yes, no one who isn't there can expect their ideas to magically be heard.

lol, you may have something there.

Oh, am I no longer Paul's gay lover in your fantasy? Why don't you keep this stuff buried in your sick mind where it belongs?

The most ironic thing was that the one thing ("guest") that is supposed to be capitalized, and is by default (this person literally had to type it wrong on purpose), wasn't, but everything else was. Also ironic is that someone who takes the time to write a (CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL, RIGHT?) post like this just to make a juvenile comment is telling me that I need to get a life. You're a very silly person.

Were they on this early in December another year?