@All Amiga (and PC and Mac and Atari...) users, supporters and trolls (without regard to the religious affiliation or colour)

Happy Saturnalia!


Any presents for me?

@pavlor

Presents for you?! This is Saturnalia! Society is upended .. putting you in the peasants pants this year.

I am just finishing "The Winter Solstice" by Shirley Toulson copyright 1981.

It is facinatingly written, covering historic events over the span of our now Halloween through approximately January 12. She tracks so many festivals through time's evolution and Saturnalia is not a small part of it.

No activity we see or participate in is in *any way* new or constant. Threads can be followed back to well pre-roman .. each new "regime" striving to stamp out "the people's festivals" with their own imprint.

We low life are the upper crust during these 2 weeks. Maybe our overflowing plates will spill bits for the never-do-well and you soak up the candle light heat through panes of glass as you beg from house to house.

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@pavlor

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pavlor wrote: @All Amiga (and PC and Mac and Atari...) users, supporters and trolls (without regard to the religious affiliation or colour) Happy Saturnalia! Any presents for me?

Wikipedia entry for Saturnalia:

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Feasting, role reversals, gift-giving, gambling

I can see how all that would definitely appeal to 21st Century liberal sensitivities As the UK in praticular returns to a gin soaked society where every sporting event is considered pointless unless you gamble on it, then the need for the 'good news' of CHRISTMAS has never been greater.

Gambling, transexualism, glutony etc are not positive ideals for a festival! Jesus came to bring us joy and to forgive us and free us from a life ensnared by sin and vices like those celebrated by the pagan Romans during Saturnalia.

Jesus is the reason for the season and thank God (quite literally) that western society broke away from these destructive pagan practises.

I guess you're a supporter of Morris Dancing too? Have a look at this animation if that's your bag. You'll probably get a kick out of the anti-Brexit sentiment too:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0btyx1s

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@BigD
What evidence do you have to set your imaginary friend up as any different than Anoia, Benzeiten, Cronus, Dionysus, Eros, Freya, Geb, Hera, Isis, Jupiter, Kephri Loki, Marduk, Nemesis, Osiris, Poseidon, Quetzalcoatl, Ra, Saturn, Tengri, Uller, Vesta, Wadjet, Xanthe, Yakshini, or Zalmoxis.
There are over 1100 different religions, and your preferred religion, Christianity, is subdivided into over 42,000 different denominations, persuasions, movements, communities, schisms, sects, orders and cults. Many of them involved in violent disputes with other "Christians". This very disunity among followers is the best possible indication that there is not a single grain of truth in the entire stinking cesspit of religious ideology.

If Christ-stains didn't want their religious observances "tainted" by association with pagan beliefs, they shouldn't have plagiarised and absorbed so many pagan traditions to popularise their vile cult of death in the first place.

P.S. Thank god I'm an Atheist.

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