• funny story

    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 1 02:42:33 2022
    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, talk.philosophy.humanism
    XPost: alt.religion, talk.religion.misc

    As I have said on here before, I do not believe that I am
    the return of Jesus.

    However in recent months I have been acting as an evening
    and night home support worker for my brother. And he,
    when he has a problem, will say "Jesus Christ!" or
    "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!" which I respond to and ask
    him what is wrong. Only rarely does he use my name,
    and then generally not as loudly as when he takes
    Jesus's name in vain.

    My latest (and ongoing tonight) progress is described on
    the thread "Lughnasadh Eve to Lughnasadh" on alt.religion.druid .

    The Christian equivalent of Lughnasadh is Lammas (loaf-mass).

    The atheist equivalent is a bank holiday in Scotland and
    a federal civic holiday in Canada (though in St. John's
    non-federal employees get Regatta Day, the first Wednesday
    in August, or first non-windy day after that, off instead).

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) ³Sunrise in the morning; Birds singing on every tree; A greeting and a
    warning; The song that they're singing is `Be free!' " (Rawlins Cross)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Mon Aug 1 12:26:11 2022
    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, talk.philosophy.humanism
    XPost: alt.religion, talk.religion.misc

    In article
    <dalton.nfld-E25080.02423301082022@news.eternal-september.org>,
    David Dalton <dalton.nfld@gmail.com> wrote:

    As I have said on here before, I do not believe that I am
    the return of Jesus.

    However in recent months I have been acting as an evening
    and night home support worker for my brother. And he,
    when he has a problem, will say "Jesus Christ!" or
    "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!" which I respond to and ask
    him what is wrong. Only rarely does he use my name,
    and then generally not as loudly as when he takes
    Jesus's name in vain.

    My latest (and ongoing tonight) progress is described on
    the thread "Lughnasadh Eve to Lughnasadh" on alt.religion.druid .

    The Christian equivalent of Lughnasadh is Lammas (loaf-mass).

    The atheist equivalent is a bank holiday in Scotland and
    a federal civic holiday in Canada (though in St. John's
    non-federal employees get Regatta Day, the first Wednesday
    in August, or first non-windy day after that, off instead).

    August 1 is also Emancipation Day in Canada and at least
    some other former British colonies.

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) ³Then you saw me from the cathedral; Well I'm an ancient heart; Yes, you
    saw me from the cathedral; And here we are just falling apart" (T. Tikaram)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)