Posts Tagged ‘christmas tree’
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Other perhaps some other pagan holiday options? Perhaps we could consider Saturnalia. Or, if it must be organized religion, then the Flying Spaghetti Monster whose mockery-loving followers are known as Pastafarians. “Around the time of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, Pastafarians celebrate a vaguely defined holiday named “Holiday.”
That last line is perennially funny to me.
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Tags: Bumpity Camel, Christmas, christmas tree, holiday, Pastafarian, reindeer, solstice, tinfoil decorations, winter, winter solstice
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
“Xmas greadings,” via Michael Turner’s site websit. It’s Vancouver Art Gallery librarian Cheryl Siegel’s annual Xmas tree.
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Tags: art, books, Cheryl Siegel, christmas tree, librarian, sculpture, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Xmas tree
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
This is my Holiday post, but I’m referring to the Pastafarian holiday known helpfully as “Holiday.” ‘Pastafarians’ for those who don’t know the term are followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (or FSM), the spoof religion invented by American physics graduate student Bobby Henderson who launched his own ‘church’ as a challenge to the Kansas School Board’s attempt to teach creationism in schools.
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Tags: Arrr, Bobby Henderson, Carbo Diem, christmas tree, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, creationism, decorations, education, FSM, global warming, His Noodly Appendage, holiday, Intelligent Design, internationalism, Kansas, Kiva, non-denominational secularism, Pastafarian, pirates, positive atheism, R'amen, religion, secularism, solstice, Talk Like A Pirate Day, Touched by His Noodly Appendage, What Would the Flying Spaghetti Monster Do?
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Bringing a Christmas tree inside is actually a relatively new phenomenon. It does not go back to pagan times. It started in Germany, where one tree was brought into the local guild hall but not into every house. That custom was then brought to England in the early nineteenth century, where for a long time it was confined to royalty.
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Tags: artificial Christmas tree, Christmas decoration, Christmas pyramid, christmas tree, Minneapolis, Possibilitree, sculpture, sustainable, wood, wooden
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
This beautiful Christmas tree or art object is called the PossibiliTree.™ I, a huge pun-hater and disliker of words mashed together, nevertheless really like these and would like to have one. So pretty. There seem to be different sizes, and this is the smaller one. It arrives in a mailing tube and you assemble it yourself, which is apparently not difficult.
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Tags: bad puns, christmas tree, conversation piece, Design Within Reach, favorite, favourite, green design, indoor tree, names that make you cringe, Possibilitree, wood, wooden sculpture
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
The customary greeting of the Roman winter holiday season sounded like “Yo, Saturnalia!” (The latin word “io” is the equivalent of the prayerful “Ho” in ecclesiastical English, as in “Ho, praise to Saturn.”) Saturnalia was a carnivalesque winter festival celebrating the god Saturn’s birthday and it encompassed the winter solstice, running from December 17 – 23rd.
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Tags: christmas tree, drinking, eat drink and be merry, feast, holiday, holidays, holly, mistletoe, pagan, ritual, Romans, Saturnalia, solstice, winter festival, winter solstice
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