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Apr 17, 2006 13:50

I never remember birthdays. It`s just something I`m really bad at. It doesn`t mean I love the person any less, I just don`t have enough free space in my brain for things like that. If I started remembering birthdays, I`d have to let go of something else, something possible really important. I might start forgetting the PIN number for my bank ( Read more... )

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janeanger April 17 2006, 12:08:08 UTC
you're such a good christian.

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ennui83 April 17 2006, 14:38:58 UTC
*points below*

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brewergnome April 17 2006, 14:26:41 UTC
Yeah that's what happens when your birthday and resurection get co-opted in order to co-opt other people's pagan holidays.

Poor guy. Imagining having your birthday moved to christmas? No one would ever remember to throw you a birthday party. Heh heh.

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ennui83 April 17 2006, 14:38:17 UTC
could all the people who majored in medieval history--with a strong focus on history of the Church--at Carleton please raise their hands?

*raises her hand*

I'm so all about the thousands of ways that Catholicism appropriated pagan ideas and rituals and holidays and spread itself across the world. early christians were PR geniuses. it's really fascinating stuff.

doesn't change the fact that Jesus was nothing but one hell of a nice guy.

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brewergnome April 17 2006, 14:40:24 UTC
They were indeed PR geniuses. Rather fascinating campaign really.

I think too many people forget that he WAS one hell of a nice guy. Remember all the "love thy neighbor" stuff? That "let ye who is without sin cast the first stone?" Yeah, and he didn't throw a damn stone.

CHRISTians, my left buttcheek.

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nishtariv April 18 2006, 12:07:49 UTC
Y'know, I would go as far as to argue that culture tends to diffuse across to other countries/societies irrespective of religion. Religion just happens to be the fastest, strongest spreading thing.

You could even take all this stuff a step or two back and trace elements of Greek mythology in Roman mythology, Roman mythology in Christian mythology, etc... Not to mention that Catholics appropriated the Jewish Torah and then renamed it the Old Testament.

I love this stuff.

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