Merry Christmas!
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To all you heathens and Christians! :-D Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
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To all you heathens and Christians! :-D Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
Merry $HOLIDAY to you all too! :-D BTW, if "$HOLIDAY" appears instead of "Christmas" or "Kwanzaa", you haven't setup holidays.ini properly, so you can't be taking it seriously at all ;P
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Merry $HOLIDAY to you all too! :-D BTW, if "$HOLIDAY" appears instead of "Christmas" or "Kwanzaa", you haven't setup holidays.ini properly, so you can't be taking it seriously at all ;P
Ian Darling wrote:
Kwanzaa
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling: it is important to note Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, not a religious one, thus available to and practiced by Africans of all religious faiths who come together based on the rich, ancient and varied common ground of their Africanness. -- from here.[^] It struck me as a socio-economic value system. Clearly it doesn't have any spiritual basis. I found myself wondering, is this a portent of the future? Kwanzaa is 40 years old this coming year, but seems that the trend is to strip off the spiritual essence from traditional Christian values, leaving a shell of ethical codes. Speaking for myself (and realizing others disagree), I have never been able to separate out spirituality from morality/ethics. The two seem to go hand in hand. Thus, Kwanzaa leaves me feeling very unsettled. Thoughts? How well-adopted is Kwanzaa in Africa? I always viewed Africans as rather spiritual human beings, I wonder how they feel about Kwanzaa? Does it help unite people that would otherwise be at each others throats? Is it a real force in Africa? Or has it been reduced to lipservice, used by local politicians to gain emotional favor among the disenfranchised? Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
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Ian Darling wrote:
Kwanzaa
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling: it is important to note Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, not a religious one, thus available to and practiced by Africans of all religious faiths who come together based on the rich, ancient and varied common ground of their Africanness. -- from here.[^] It struck me as a socio-economic value system. Clearly it doesn't have any spiritual basis. I found myself wondering, is this a portent of the future? Kwanzaa is 40 years old this coming year, but seems that the trend is to strip off the spiritual essence from traditional Christian values, leaving a shell of ethical codes. Speaking for myself (and realizing others disagree), I have never been able to separate out spirituality from morality/ethics. The two seem to go hand in hand. Thus, Kwanzaa leaves me feeling very unsettled. Thoughts? How well-adopted is Kwanzaa in Africa? I always viewed Africans as rather spiritual human beings, I wonder how they feel about Kwanzaa? Does it help unite people that would otherwise be at each others throats? Is it a real force in Africa? Or has it been reduced to lipservice, used by local politicians to gain emotional favor among the disenfranchised? Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
Marc Clifton wrote:
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling:
Well, the only time I've ever heard of it was on Futurama. I thought it was some wacky American thing :-)
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Ian Darling wrote:
Kwanzaa
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling: it is important to note Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, not a religious one, thus available to and practiced by Africans of all religious faiths who come together based on the rich, ancient and varied common ground of their Africanness. -- from here.[^] It struck me as a socio-economic value system. Clearly it doesn't have any spiritual basis. I found myself wondering, is this a portent of the future? Kwanzaa is 40 years old this coming year, but seems that the trend is to strip off the spiritual essence from traditional Christian values, leaving a shell of ethical codes. Speaking for myself (and realizing others disagree), I have never been able to separate out spirituality from morality/ethics. The two seem to go hand in hand. Thus, Kwanzaa leaves me feeling very unsettled. Thoughts? How well-adopted is Kwanzaa in Africa? I always viewed Africans as rather spiritual human beings, I wonder how they feel about Kwanzaa? Does it help unite people that would otherwise be at each others throats? Is it a real force in Africa? Or has it been reduced to lipservice, used by local politicians to gain emotional favor among the disenfranchised? Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
If US-style Kwanzaa celebration existed traditionally in Africa, this will be the first time i've heard it. I was under the impression that it originated in the US, celebrated primarily by people dissatisfied with the holidays - as such, secularity is pretty much core. See also: Festivus...
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling:
Well, the only time I've ever heard of it was on Futurama. I thought it was some wacky American thing :-)
Origins of Kwanzaa "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling:
Well, the only time I've ever heard of it was on Futurama. I thought it was some wacky American thing :-)
Ian Darling wrote:
I thought it was some wacky American thing
And right you were! "Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor, Department of Black Studies at California State University". Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power Eric Hoffer All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Ian Darling wrote:
Kwanzaa
Funny you should mention that. I was going to ask about Kwanzaa here on CP. My girlfriend, who works at a daycare, got some information on it. I found it unsettling: it is important to note Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, not a religious one, thus available to and practiced by Africans of all religious faiths who come together based on the rich, ancient and varied common ground of their Africanness. -- from here.[^] It struck me as a socio-economic value system. Clearly it doesn't have any spiritual basis. I found myself wondering, is this a portent of the future? Kwanzaa is 40 years old this coming year, but seems that the trend is to strip off the spiritual essence from traditional Christian values, leaving a shell of ethical codes. Speaking for myself (and realizing others disagree), I have never been able to separate out spirituality from morality/ethics. The two seem to go hand in hand. Thus, Kwanzaa leaves me feeling very unsettled. Thoughts? How well-adopted is Kwanzaa in Africa? I always viewed Africans as rather spiritual human beings, I wonder how they feel about Kwanzaa? Does it help unite people that would otherwise be at each others throats? Is it a real force in Africa? Or has it been reduced to lipservice, used by local politicians to gain emotional favor among the disenfranchised? Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
I thought it was created by US blacks to help create a greater sense of community and instill the desire to inprove the "black economy" by reinvesting into black communities and buying from black merchants. BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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