Observations Great and Small

[genuineoriginal]

Is anyone going to do the 12 days of Christmas this year? :idunno:

Are you asking the Christians or the pagans?
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History of Yule

For all it's inputs and influences, Yule is still an important time of the year to pagans around the world. In the most direct terms it is still a festival that honors the cycle of nature and the Wheel of the Year. It is not just about the rebirth of the God figure in pagan lore.

Yule is a 12 day holiday, it begins on "Mothers Night" (December 21st) and ends 12 days later on "Yule Night" (January 1st). It's the origin for the Christian "12 Days of Christmas".

For Celtic pagans, Yule is the time when the Sun God Lugh is reborn in human form to rejoin his beloved wife Eriu. She is described as a hag, who transformed into a beautiful Goddess by the marriage and personifies the land of Ireland in her every feature and character. She becomes known in legend as the "Sovereignty of Ireland". Yule is also the celebration of the cycle of life through Eriu and all her incarnations as the Maiden, Mother and Crone Goddess.
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[Quetzal]

My dad goes to the library everyday, reads free national newspapers and checks out old movies. He's 65 and he's been doing this for about 5 years.

Sounds like a smart guy!

 

[Quetzal]

I have a few Jack Benny movies and shows but really enjoy the Christmas one with him buying a watch from Mel Blanc, incredibly funny and Jack Benny in a rare moment cracks up at Mel Blanc's great funny acting.

The same Mel Blanc who did the Loony Toon voices?

 

[fool]

Happy "Dominant Culture "Holy Month"" everybody!

 

[Town Heretic]

Happy "Dominant Culture "Holy Month"" everybody!

You are sooo late to that party.

Man, a guy stops by to wish everyone a merry dominant culture holy month and what the blazes is going on around here? :shocked:

 

[Town Heretic]

Are you asking the Christians or the pagans?

Did the pagans do that around here? Maybe people have forgotten, but a rendition of that particular song was a staple here for a number of years.

 

[Lon]

The same Mel Blanc who did the Loony Toon voices?

Yes! I'm shocked he wasn't also a more popular comedian, the guy was brilliantly funny with characterization.

 

[fool]

You are sooo late to that party.

No doubt that's where I got the meme but it wasn't insincere.

 

[Lon]

Did the pagans do that around here? Maybe people have forgotten, but a rendition of that particular song was a staple here for a number of years.

"This is the day the Lord hath made" - all of them. There is no 'pagan' or 'heathen' holiday that wasn't God's first :think:

Next thing you know, they'll be wanting you to give up your land, once owned by heathen, back to them as if that land didn't belong to God in the first place either :dizzy: and is somehow 'desecrated.'

All about 'keeping up appearances,' working for your salvation, and trying to enslave your neighbor to share the misery? :idunno: Sad bondage, though. :think:

 

[Town Heretic]

No doubt that's where I got the meme but it wasn't insincere.

You're fine by me, fool. Always have been. Even when I wished you had a hat I could pull down over your ears.

"This is the day the Lord hath made" - all of them. There is no 'pagan' or 'heathen' holiday that wasn't God's first :think:

Next thing you know, they'll be wanting you to give up your land, once owned by heathen, back to them as if that land didn't belong to God in the first place either :dizzy: and is somehow 'desecrated.'

All about 'keeping up appearances,' working for your salvation, and trying to enslave your neighbor to share the misery? :idunno: Sad bondage, though. :think:

I prefer gratitude and loving from abundance when I can live up to that. It's getting easier as I grow older and more patient, though I still have my wrestling matches with better angels. Insincerity and lazy thinking, especially in relation to the substantive and important can bring out a side of me I do my best to rein in with varying degrees of success. :sigh:

 

[False Prophet]

The printing press made the Codices obsolete. They were a work of art that was lost due to technology.

 

[Town Heretic]

The printing press made the Codices obsolete. They were a work of art that was lost due to technology.

At least we still have calligraphists...for now. I like writing out by hand. And I have an approach to signature letters that developed over time. I also tend to write in a hybrid of cursive and print. Always have.

This is really taking on a life of its own. But I do believe there is a quality in the effort of writing by hand and crafting a thing of style in appearance that encourages the substantive within the substance of a narrative.

 

[Lon]

At least we still have calligraphists...for now. I like writing out by hand. And I have an approach to signature letters that developed over time. I also tend to write in a hybrid of cursive and print. Always have.

This is really taking on a life of its own. But I do believe there is a quality in the effort of writing by hand and crafting a thing of style in appearance that encourages the substantive within the substance of a narrative.

I was a fairly decent artist in school (art work hung in the museum and many office buildings). But Tommy Knapp had beautiful handwriting.

Missing the accolades of both drawing (Tommy always tried to beat me with his artistic expression) and handwriting, I worked really hard on my cursive. *Alas, Tommy could have almost beaten a computer in elegant and consistent handwriting. He may have even beaten it for elegant.

I did develop a nice style but Tommy at 10 would still beat me today and, I don't use it often. He may even surpass me in art today Shameless plug, both of them and especially since you've seen them. The rough drafts on the comics were being lazy. I have to work to refine a bit different from the better professionals that whip out a drawing they've done a zillion times.

* Love the word "Alas" It isn't defined with its due in dictionaries and is an artistic exclamation of its own in its own right. A neat little challenge: Define it yourself before looking it up I 'think' my definition is better

 

[bybee]

You're fine by me, fool. Always have been. Even when I wished you had a hat I could pull down over your ears.


I prefer gratitude and loving from abundance when I can live up to that. It's getting easier as I grow older and more patient, though I still have my wrestling matches with better angels. Insincerity and lazy thinking, especially in relation to the substantive and important can bring out a side of me I do my best to rein in with varying degrees of success. :sigh:

Did you ever think that side of you was given to fight the good fight?

 

[bybee]

"This is the day the Lord hath made" - all of them. There is no 'pagan' or 'heathen' holiday that wasn't God's first :think:

Next thing you know, they'll be wanting you to give up your land, once owned by heathen, back to them as if that land didn't belong to God in the first place either :dizzy: and is somehow 'desecrated.'

All about 'keeping up appearances,' working for your salvation, and trying to enslave your neighbor to share the misery? :idunno: Sad bondage, though. :think:

Yup!

 

[ok doser]

Happy "Dominant Culture "Holy Month"" everybody!

got it covered: http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114628

 

[patrick jane]

Did ya ever notice . . .

 

[PureX]

If people had to hand-write things, again, I suspect the craft would quickly reassert itself. It's not like we don't know how. We're just out of practice.

 

[ok doser]

not sure how much we should credit our ancestors mad skills:

paston letter from 1454:

 

[Town Heretic]

If people had to hand-write things, again, I suspect the craft would quickly reassert itself. It's not like we don't know how. We're just out of practice.

Looks as though it's going the other way though.

Okay, I touched on this earlier, but Christmas traditions, what are they in your house (a general you including, well, you ).

We have our tree and our movies, for one. We make an hour long Christmas eve journey to my wife's parents' house for early supper and gifts. I think I almost enjoy the ride home more. It's dark and often cool and we're bundled with the heater going and I play our Christmas, cobbled CD with Good King... (the Crosby version) or Angels We Have Heard on High (Andrea version) etc. and we sing along to them and know we're really driving into our personal Christmas, will shortly be in the middle of our most immediate family celebration. This year will be especially sweet given Jack's understanding of things.

Christmas morning my parents will come over to witness the wrapping paper bloodbath that is the aftermath of our human tornado at work and to have hot chocolate and watch him play. Then a lunch that would do Thanksgiving proud and an afternoon of drowsy peace.