Merry Chr… I mean happy holidays, everyone!
I’d like to thank Puke for inspiring this comic with a comment he off-handedly made in the Free Talk Live AMP chat room.
December 5th, 2008
Merry Chr… I mean happy holidays, everyone!
I’d like to thank Puke for inspiring this comic with a comment he off-handedly made in the Free Talk Live AMP chat room.
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Yay me!
great giggle as always, dale, but…
here’s something even MORE topical!!
Happy 75th!!
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On Tuesday, December 2, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition kicked off the ‘We Can Do It Again’ project, marking the 75th anniversary of alcohol prohibition’s repeal (December 5) by calling for an end to drug prohibition.
At a press conference in Washington, DC, LEAP released a new report explaining how ending the war on drugs will put dangerous traffickers out of business and will help our economy by billions of dollars.
When America’s leaders repealed alcohol prohibition, it wasn’t because they suddenly decided that liquor was safe and that everyone should drink. Rather, it was because they were tired of gangsters raking in rich illegal profits and terrorizing neighborhoods. And we simply could not afford to keep enforcing the failed prohibition during the Great Depression, our nation’s worst economic crisis.
Today, America is in the grip of a new economic crisis, but we keep paying for an even more devastating prohibition, the “war on drugs.”
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is making it easy for our supporters to tell Congress and state law makers what we think. For the next two weeks, you can send a letter to your members of Congress and state law makers at http://www.WeCanDoItAgain.com.
If you’re tired of paying for laws that only make our streets more dangerous, take one minute to let your federal and state elected officials know how you feel – We can do it again!
About LEAP
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is a 10,000-member organization started by police, prosecutors, judges, FBI/DEA agents, corrections officials, military and others who fought on the front lines of the “war on drugs” and who know firsthand that prohibition only worsens drug addiction and drug market violence problems. Since its founding in 2002, LEAP’s members in more than 80 countries have helped to put a credible face on the modern anti-prohibition movement by giving more than 4,000 presentations to civic groups, public officials, members of the media and others. More information about LEAP is online at: http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com
Happy Winter solstice (wich is actualy between 20 and 23 December)!
Christmas is just a stolen holiday, the Winter solstice is a celebration long predating christianity, without any religious background and celebrated in various cultures.
As with many holidays the curch just stole it and christianised it in an effort to convert ‘heithens’, so Fuck you christians who think you ‘created’ christmas and ‘own’ it.
I’m familiar with Winter Solstice. I even had a Winter Solstice party one year back when I was still living in Atlanta. It was a lot of fun. The tradition of the Christmas tree and things like wreaths made from evergreen trees was actually what they called “Bringing in the Green”. It was a way to liven up the indoors since people were planning to spend a lot of time there during the winter.
Of course as long as they call it “Christmas” and celebrate with what they call a “Christmas tree”, it will be celebrating Christianity. Maybe Obama will call it a Winter Solstice tree, but I won’t hold my breath.
skip the crowds, skip the religion, skip the birth of the baby jesus. . . .celebrate XMAS! It’s easy, here’s how you do it. December 25th, go see family enjoy food, or sit home and watch some TV, go for a walk, etc. On the 26th, go buy an XMAS tree (probably will be free), go get some decorations for 1/3 the price, go get some presents on the cheap or off the clearance rack. Prepare some food, get some reduced price pies, some booze, some drugs. .. and on the 27th-New Years. . .just get tanked, eat, drink and be merry. . .and do it for peanuts. Stick it to this holiday designed to remove lots of money from your pockets!
Happy Festivus for the rest of us.
This time of year is where I tend to go into my Christian traditions. It’s the only Christian thing I’ve kept. I call it a Christmas Tree (even though it really isn’t, thanks for the history lesson), I say Merry Christmas and I enjoy carolers (if there’s ever to be any found). These things bring me comfort and I hold dear to them. The only thing I’d spread to others is the happiness and love that the season is supposed to bring. I’m foolish, I know and I’ll be happy to die a fool to keep my heart from decay.
I do also say Happy Holidays because of the fact there’s more than one holiday. A simplification in terms.
However you choose to go through the season, just enjoy life.
Christmas is just as much if not more so for many a non-religious holiday as it is a religious holiday. I think that for Christians who believe in the story of the birth of christ they are not even thinking about it as a religious hoiliday when they are stampeding into a store on black Friday. Christmas is a cultural tradition as is the case with holidays such as Thanksgiving, Holloween, Valentines Day etc… I gather with my family around Christmas day or on Christmas Day and exchange gifts eventhough I am not a Christian or a believer in religion. It is a fun tradition.
I’ve concluded that the most important thing about the “holiday season” is to have a party during that part of the year when our days (north of the equator) are shortest. When I was single I loved to have the time to myself. Now that I’m married with kids we do the fake tree and presents routine as early as the 21st but usually whenever it is convenient for us.
The reason I love Christmas is that is the one true, purely Capitalist holiday, unblemished with religious flim-flammery. Here’s wishing you and yours excellent sales and lovely new toys!
Merry Christmas to everyone. I don’t see many pagans celebrating Festivus these days, but to them I say, have fun celebrating a planetary/solar equilibrium, if that’s what floats your boat. I’ll stick to celebrating the birth of Jesus, no matter what month it actually happened (and evidence exists that shows it may have actually taken place around this time of year.)
I’m not sure why so many anarchists and atheists hate Christians/religion so much. I don’t issue personal attacks and invective against atheists. If you find anything in the words of Christ (or, according to you, words attributed to Christ) that approve of murder, taxation, slavery, torture, and the like, I will become an atheist immediately. Those who do evil things, while claiming to act in accordance with the teachings of Christ, is a liar and hypocrite. As others have said, the mere act of going into a church does not make you a Christian any more than the act of walking into a garage makes you a car.
It seems to me that atheist materialists hold the trophy for “Biggest Body Count Accrued” for the 20th Century, and likely the entire history of humanity. If you want to condemn the actions of those who performed evil acts while claiming it was the will of God, such as torture, murder, and taxation, I will join you. But I won’t join you in insulting the Person in whom they make a bogus claim to believe. Christ, whoever he was, and whatever he said, had absolutely nothing to do with condoning torture, murder, and taxation.
If you look forward to a world where no one believes in anything above themselves but raw science, the field of what can be done, I wish you well. Science can show you anything that can be done. The Germans were the most educated people on the face of the earth in the early 20th Century. They followed raw science to its ultimate ends. What science cannot do is tell you what should be done. “Should” and “ought” are concepts you will have to find on your own. If they come solely from your own mind, or from society as a whole, again, I wish you luck. Because individuals and society keep on giving us the State. And we all know where the State lands everyone, ultimately. Unmarked mass graves.
Merry Christmas, gentlemen.
-Sans Authoritas
I think some people are taking this comic a lot more seriously than it was meant. Sans, I’m not making fun of Christmas or Christianity (right now). I’m poking fun at the obvious national tribute to one specific religion. Just poking fun. That is all. I’m going home to celebrate Christmas with my family, because they celebrate it, and I enjoy hanging out with my family and eating good food. It just ain’t a hill to die on, IMO.
It’s a “snap happy” season for all and I try to celebrate this ALL YEAR LONG…If we could all just celebrate and cherish life and friends and family in “ABUNDANCE”
EVERY DAY…well then I think we wouldn’t have time to consider what the differences are “around us”, but, more what the SAMENESS is we all share with each other and our “Universe”….I give you a song in your heart….and a smile for your soul……and The Oneness with the “SOURCE’.
Dale, I saw what you were trying to do. I was primarily responding to what the other posters were saying, and recognizing that there’s a lot of anger out there toward (self-professed) Christians. I’m trying to point out that not all those who call themselves Christians, (and especially not all those actually striving to adhere to the teachings of Christ,) want to enlist the violence of the State to make people virtuous. Christians know that one cannot use force to make anyone believe anything: belief is a free will acceptance of a truth as perceived by intellect, and force is a negation of the free will. It is a contradiction in terms. Yes, I do believe that deliberate contraception and sex outside of marriage (and yes, the State has no place defining or legislating marriage) are moral evils, but I recognize that they are evils that will not be eradicated by violence. I will not enlist shaved-head goons to kick down the door of two homosexuals who live down the street, nor will I enlist said goons to make anyone go to Mass.
As a Catholic, I lament that my fellow churchgoers, have, in great part, bowed down to the idol god of statism. It sickens me that the flag of the Big State, complete with the Roman standard eagle atop it, darkens a spot right outside the sanctuary. But, like most other statists, they just don’t know what they are doing. These are some of the people Jesus asked forgiveness for as he hung on the cross, dying at the hands of the Roman Empire, because of our sins. They just don’t know. They do not see the damage that statism causes. It is sad. Trust me, I jab into their statist belief system with logic every chance I get. It has led to me getting a tad shunned by some people whom I once counted as friends. I’ve been quite nearly called a heretic by some, an attack I quickly shut down.
Fellow anarchists, I am a Catholic and an anarchist. I may have differing views on many things concerning morality, but you know that I will never initiate violence against you. Why do you try to make enemies of Christian anarchists? We anarchists all have enough work cut out for us in our own lives, in our own fields, and among our own friends. We must continue to try and convince them, and try to advance the cause of individual liberty.
The statists are now trying to throw all of us to the lions. Let’s not fight amongst ourselves.
-Sans Authoritas
Enjoyed it!