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To: Solon who wrote (35495)	4/20/2013 7:13:28 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I give up trying to guess what Brumar is trying to say. 1) He bears false witness, 2) defends longnshort's position that Jesus drives a taxi, 2) and can't clearly explain where Mathew repented of his sins. Like Greg Almighty, Brumar derides Ayn Rand to but is always posting from her websites. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28842905 Greg Almighty has admitted to secret information that indicates Ayn Rand is in final torment awaiting eternal hell fire. Who knows what devil or demon told him this! I'd hate to have either one as an advocate in a court of law. I was however able to establish one thing after years of cross examination of Greg Almighty and Brumar, and that is Christmas is a pagan holiday yet Boxing Day is a Christian one. "Yes, of course. A national holiday, in this country, cannot have an exclusively religious meaning. The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular religion: it is good will toward men—a frame of mind which is not the exclusive property (though it is supposed to be part, but is a largely unobserved part) of the Christian religion. The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one’s friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . . The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle." Ayn Rand "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride—just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation." Ayn Rand