War
There are people who like to destroy others to empower themselves. There are people who like to build themselves, to empower themselves. It is the "destroyer" personality type that chooses war. It is...
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LannSi wrote: Yom Kippur is Jewish. Happy New Year is secular. why do we as a nation get the holidays off from work that we do? because most of the population is christian? the founding fathers were...
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I'm afraid that is kind of what you get when the government assigns holidays to one and skips those of others. For example Ramadan occurs often right in the middle of heavy exam times. We know what...
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This conversation is disgustingly self-congratulatory. Basically, according to your logic, the idea of any day being a national holiday is disgusting. As is the idea of any period being reserved for...
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You are 100% correct Nathan, well... except that the holidays are christian predominately and leave out 99% of everyone else so now that I think about it- you are 1% correct.
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shinobinoz wrote: I'm afraid that is kind of what you get when the government assigns holidays to one and skips those of others. For example Ramadan occurs often right in the middle of heavy exam...
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Which is why we should remove christian holidays and give better timed breaks for people. One for all and all for one or should that be None for all and all for none? No reason why people cannot take...
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Then start your own company where you offer time off for sundance. That's the beauty of a free society.
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Incorrect. Christian holidays correspond well to most pagan holidays, thanks to the persecuted church's and later Roman Catholic practice of adopting dates for Christian holidays that corresponded to...
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The problem is, what you want isn't neutrality, but sterility. Think about it. Even our calendar, our way of telling time, implies culture. But if we were to adopt any other calendar, we'd be adopting...
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Tolerance is part of neutrality. State sponsored religious holidays is neither neutral nor tolerant.
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This is exactly why there MUST be a common culture. You can have your cultural things, i can have my corn beef stew...but we both NEED a common culture to reach the neutrality you state that you want.
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This is exactly why there MUST be a common culture. You can have your cultural things, i can have my corn beef stew...but we both NEED a common culture to reach the neutrality you state that you...
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Sterility? Did you read what i said? How can you define it as sterility when the system preserves rich cultural diversity?
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