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Hah...it's nice you take your ass to the Bahamas. Mine stays in the manger most of the time.
Hah...it's nice you take your ass to the Bahamas. Mine stays in the manger most of the time.
Did someone say, "Pilgrim"?
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Thanksgiving... This year, there will be no leftovers.
If you are thanking God for your wealth or good health or full belly, then you are by extension also thanking Him for depriving others of these things. Otherwise, without the context of a shitty world full of suffering, you would have no idea of what to be thankful for. You can say "thank God we're not starving like those poor souls in Darfur." But.... how would you know to be thankful for that, unless there were poor souls starving in Darfur?
To extend your point a bit, there's nothing we need more than oxygen ... and yet no one, within my hearing, has ever thanked God for oxygen.
But that's because we all have access to it.
There you go assuming again...what, oh what shall I ever do with you Rubi? I thank God all the time for the air in my head!:biggrin1:To extend your point a bit, there's nothing we need more than oxygen ... and yet no one, within my hearing, has ever thanked God for oxygen.
But that's because we all have access to it.
...this year my ass (and my family's) will be on a beach in the Bahamas... I enjoy the food, the wine and the football ...
thanksgiving is nonsense...
I don't accept definition three. That would makes us pilgrims when we commute to work or go to the Pub.
The other two do foster this concept that the founding of your nation was some exalted sacred quest though.
Wasn't Jamestown founded earlier anyway?
I am not trying to find information to fit my own interpretation of history, I thought you wanted to know if Jamestown was the first settlement in the colonies. It was. St. Augustine, though settled earlier as KP stated, was not considered a colony. Hope that clears that up.Thanks KP.
I find the choices that people make to characterise their history very interesting. The "Pilgrims" were then by no means the first, whilst the others seem to have also had a very hard time settling, and St. Augustin being named in honour of perhaps the greatest Christian theologian.
It seems to me that those seeking commercial enterprise have been overlooked in favour of those seeking a more idealistic path. This is a common theme in mythology, from Gilgamesh to the Pilgrims.
Thanks KP.
I find the choices that people make to characterise their history very interesting. The "Pilgrims" were then by no means the first, whilst the others seem to have also had a very hard time settling, and St. Augustin being named in honour of perhaps the greatest Christian theologian.
It seems to me that those seeking commercial enterprise have been overlooked in favour of those seeking a more idealistic path. This is a common theme in mythology, from Gilgamesh to the Pilgrims.
There you go assuming again...what, oh what shall I ever do with you Rubi? I thank God all the time for the air in my head!:biggrin1: