Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls.


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. Page: <<   < prev  3 4 [5] 6 7   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/15/2006 4:46:29 PM   
mistoferin


Posts: 8284
Joined: 10/27/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Zensee

Who’s this WE, Erin?

The vast majority of my friends celebrate solstice but, being respectful of other's religious beliefs, we also recognise Christmas and Hanukkah (all the more reason to celebrate). We are happy to share the season, why must Christians insist on monopolising it? By all means join the fun but please don’t piss in the eggnog.

Popeye, do you have a link please? I can’t find the article.

Z.




Piss in the eggnog....oh I wouldn't dare!

When I used the term "we" I simply meant it as in "we the people of today's world". "We"....in as "we" commonly know it today.....not as in "we against you or them".

While you and your friends recognize Christmas you're probably not celebrating it in the same sense as Christians, for if you do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ...then why on earth would you be celebrating his birth?  I know the Catholics started the whole take over the date thing (they've also started a bunch of other shit I don't necessarily agree with even though I was raised Catholic). But if they decided tomorrow that Christmas would now be held on the 4th of July instead.....people would still celebrate the 4th of July and those who believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, aka Christian....would still celebrate the birth of Christ too. I'm not trying to take away your season.

My original point was that Jesus Christ is an integral part of Christmas.....whatever day it gets celebrated on.....otherwise they wouldn't have named it after him. Simple as that, I wasn't trying to knock anyone's beliefs or take joy out of anyone's season.

_____________________________

Peace and light,
~erin~

There are no victims here...only volunteers.

When you make a habit of playing on the tracks, you thereby forfeit the right to bitch when you get hit by a train.

"I did it! I admit it and I'm gonna do it again!"

(in reply to Zensee)
Profile   Post #: 81
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/15/2006 5:00:24 PM   
popeye1250


Posts: 18104
Joined: 1/27/2006
From: New Hampshire
Status: offline 		Misto, last year with all the controversy over "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" I made a big sign on a piece of 3 by 5 poster board and green and red magic markers and taped it to the back of my truck.
It read;
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!
And if the A.C.L.U. doesn't like that
they can KISS MY IRISH ARSE!"
People were crying laughing!
Even the cops who'd pull up behind me were laughing.
I have a pic of it somewhere here in my computer.

(in reply to mistoferin)
Profile   Post #: 82
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/15/2006 9:44:35 PM   
SirKenin


Posts: 2994
Joined: 10/31/2004
From: Barrie, ON Canada
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: mistoferin

Going way out on a limb here.......

Isn't Jesus CHRIST the reason for CHRISTmas???


No actually.  It is an approximation.  The actually Christmas holiday has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever.  It is a pagan tradition if I recall correctly.

_____________________________

Hi. I don't care. Thanks.

Wicca: Pretending to be an ancient religion since 1956

Catholic Church: Serving up guilt since 107 AD.

(in reply to mistoferin)
Profile   Post #: 83
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/15/2006 11:48:37 PM   
dorsaisgirl1


Posts: 156
Joined: 3/13/2006
Status: offline 		chistmass is a comercial holiday there is a pagan holiday called yule  and of corse the winter solstice .but if you ask most kids about christmass they would say that it was about santa clause .a long time ago the was saint nic he was a actule man i beleive from germany who use to make and deliver toys to the kids of his village . in different coultures there are different veriations on him . the idea of a talking jesus doll just dont seem right to me if your going to give your kids a toy give them a toy if your going to give them a bible or bible lesson give them one dont try and mix them into one thing for crying out loud i can se it now talking jesus dolls scareing the hell out of little kids just like thoughs barney dolls

(in reply to SirKenin)
Profile   Post #: 84
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 1:02:33 AM   
ownedgirlie


Posts: 9184
Joined: 2/5/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
...how offensive it is to put someone as sage as Jesus in an action figure... it really is ridiculous.

Now this I wholeheartedly agree with.

(in reply to juliaoceania)
Profile   Post #: 85
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 2:25:44 AM   
mistoferin


Posts: 8284
Joined: 10/27/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: SirKenin

quote:

ORIGINAL: mistoferin

Going way out on a limb here.......

Isn't Jesus CHRIST the reason for CHRISTmas???


No actually.  It is an approximation.  The actually Christmas holiday has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever.  It is a pagan tradition if I recall correctly.


No actually, Christmas has always been Christian. The date it is celebrated on was the date of a pagan holiday (actually several pagan holidays) and it was stolen in an attempt to squash those celebrations. Many of the traditions associated with Christmas have come from those pagan roots as pagans carried them over as they converted to Christianity.. But the word Christmas and the reasons for it came with the Christians.



_____________________________

Peace and light,
~erin~

There are no victims here...only volunteers.

When you make a habit of playing on the tracks, you thereby forfeit the right to bitch when you get hit by a train.

"I did it! I admit it and I'm gonna do it again!"

(in reply to SirKenin)
Profile   Post #: 86
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 2:32:56 AM   
gooddogbenji


Posts: 5094
Joined: 11/15/2005
From: Toronto
Status: offline 		I think we need to decide what Christmas is before deciding what it's about.

If, to you, Christmas involves mass, a family dinner, a few gifts, and bed, it's Christian.

If it involves a tree put up 6 months in advance, 300 gifts that are so useless, but another gift to open, the purchasing of "Bing Crosby sings the Christmas Hits vol. 89," and a cheesy Santa costume, you're a dirty fucking Pagan.

Yours,


benji

_____________________________

Prevent global warming. Stop burning patchouli.

(in reply to mistoferin)
Profile   Post #: 87
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 2:41:50 AM   
meatcleaver


Posts: 9030
Joined: 3/13/2006
Status: offline 		Christmas is stocking up with whiskey, Cuban cigars and good books, smashing the TV to bits, putting on some soothing music and locking the world out until all the ersatz merrymaking and pseudo religious shit is over for another year.


Fuck the Christmas Nazis  wir haben Weisen, Sie sich amüsieren zu lassen.

< Message edited by meatcleaver -- 11/16/2006 2:45:12 AM >

_____________________________

There are fascists who consider themselves humanitarians, like cannibals on a health kick, eating only vegetarians.

(in reply to gooddogbenji)
Profile   Post #: 88
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 4:11:09 AM   
FangsNfeet


Posts: 3758
Joined: 12/3/2004
Status: offline 		Have no fear. The T.O. doll and or T.O. kids book is comming out with lessons on not to be shelfish, self centered, and arrogant.  

_____________________________

I'm Godzilla and you're Japan

(in reply to popeye1250)
Profile   Post #: 89
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 4:19:47 AM   
missturbation


Posts: 8290
Joined: 2/12/2006
From: another planet
Status: offline 		You are all going to burn in Hell.
Thats all i have to say

_____________________________

What you don't witness with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. Proverb.

If it fit's in a toaster, i can cook it.

Buying 10 item's or less is not shopping !!

(in reply to FangsNfeet)
Profile   Post #: 90
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 5:19:13 AM   
JerseyKrissi72


Posts: 10238
Joined: 8/21/2006
From: Reed City, Michigan
Status: offline 		I was a tom boy growing up..climbing trees, playing with army men, etc....My sister use to collect Barbie dolls and I would take off their heads and stab them on trees outside my grandma's house...they said i have issues as a child.. i would much rather play with dead things....

(in reply to missturbation)
Profile   Post #: 91
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 6:38:55 AM   
thompsonx


Posts: 23322
Joined: 10/1/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: missturbation

You are all going to burn in Hell.
Thats all i have to say



[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[

missturbation:
That may be so ...I can only hope that I will be amongst friends.
thompson

(in reply to missturbation)
Profile   Post #: 92
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 7:23:03 AM   
Zensee


Posts: 1564
Joined: 9/4/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: mistoferin

Piss in the eggnog....oh I wouldn't dare!


Thing is, of course, there are those on this board for whom it probably isn't a proper celebration unless someone actually does.


_____________________________

"Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water." (proverb)

(in reply to mistoferin)
Profile   Post #: 93
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 8:26:52 AM   
Lorelei115


Posts: 1933
Joined: 8/16/2006
From: Sin City
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: missturbation

You are all going to burn in Hell.
Thats all i have to say


I think we will be in good company then.

_____________________________

A sucessful life is not measured by what we do
But by the realization
Of who we are.

(in reply to missturbation)
Profile   Post #: 94
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 8:48:24 AM   
ShreveportMaster


Posts: 899
Joined: 10/6/2004
From: Dallas, Tx
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Zensee

Who’s this WE, Erin?

The vast majority of my friends celebrate solstice but, being respectful of other's religious beliefs, we also recognise Christmas and Hanukkah (all the more reason to celebrate). We are happy to share the season, why must Christians insist on monopolising it? By all means join the fun but please don’t piss in the eggnog.


I know this was not directed at Me, but I will respond anyway The Celebration of Christmas is a Christian holiday. Chaunakah, or the Festival of Lights is a Jewish holiday, Kwaanza is an  Black American cultural holiday with African overtones. Christians are not Monopolozing Christmas, we are simply celebrating the birth of Christ on the day we, as Christians have set aside to do so. If you wish to celebrate solstice, by all means do so, but do not expect Christians to stop celebrating Christmas.
Perhaps you might like the all purpose winter religious and cultural festival that the cell phone companies were (jokingly) promoting, in which case you would be wished a happy chrismachaunakwaanzakah.

                                      I wish you well,
                                                              Shreve

_____________________________

"And to sooth the Bosk, there was found a Singing Cowboy. To soothe the Cowboy, a kajira is needed."

Riders of Gor
Book 37, Pg 298 ;-)

(in reply to Zensee)
Profile   Post #: 95
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 9:40:10 AM   
Fitznicely


Posts: 1597
Joined: 10/18/2006
Status: offline 		Does anyone know a kid who'd WANT one of those for a present, anyway?

_____________________________

I tell you this: No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
Proud Owner of Darkmoonkat. Such a good girl!

(in reply to ShreveportMaster)
Profile   Post #: 96
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 10:06:24 AM   
KatyLied


Posts: 13029
Joined: 2/24/2005
From: Pennsylvania
Status: offline
quote:

Have no fear. The T.O. doll and or T.O. kids book is comming out with lessons on not to be shelfish, self centered, and arrogant.


Do they come with pills & vitamin supplements? 


_____________________________

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
- Albert Einstein

(in reply to FangsNfeet)
Profile   Post #: 97
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 10:09:49 AM   
Lorelei115


Posts: 1933
Joined: 8/16/2006
From: Sin City
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: FangsNfeet

Have no fear. The T.O. doll and or T.O. kids book is comming out with lessons on not to be shelfish, self centered, and arrogant.


If I say I'm not shelfish.. will you tell me to clam up?

Im sorry! I had to!!! I'm sorry!

_____________________________

A sucessful life is not measured by what we do
But by the realization
Of who we are.

(in reply to FangsNfeet)
Profile   Post #: 98
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 2:50:27 PM   
Lordandmaster


Posts: 10943
Joined: 6/22/2004
Status: offline 		Well, this story is now over:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_re_us/jesus_doll_charity

(in reply to Lorelei115)
Profile   Post #: 99
RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. - 11/16/2006 2:55:02 PM   
LadySeraphina


Posts: 931
Joined: 3/28/2006
From: Calgary, Canada
Status: offline 		I still can't imagine a kid wanting one, but at least if they make sure it's a kid who Believes in Jesus, it will only be a lame toy, not an offensive one.:)

_____________________________

"Men are like wine. They start out as grapes and its up to the woman to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with." -Unknown

www.LadySeraphina.ca

www.SeraphinasToybox.com.

(in reply to Lordandmaster)
Profile   Post #: 100
Page:   <<   < prev  3 4 [5] 6 7   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Toys for Tots refuses Talking Jesus Dolls. Page: <<   < prev  3 4 [5] 6 7   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.156