The truth about the American Thanksgiving

I just don't like the default smile , it's dopey.

 

I miss the :cheers2: smiley

 

"We, the host of Seraphim, the armies of bright,
We do not rue the dire event
That, with sad overthrow and foul defeat, hath lost us Heaven.
Ever to do ill will be our sole delight,
Reassembling our afflicted powers
On the burning Lake of liquid fire.
Hail horrours! Hail infernal World!
Here at last we shall be free!
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven!"

 

Awesomeness

 

Over 8 million Jehovah's Witnesses and only 144,000 make the final cut...so the majority are wasting what limited time they have. It's like playing the lottery; you could win but probably won't so you'd be better off spending your money on something else.

 

No, the rest get to live on the incinerated Earth.

 

For eternity :-D

 

The earth was made to last forever. As far as evil humans,not so much

 

Sour Grapes much. and Happy birthday to you!

Will be putting up a Christmas tree this December. and enjoyed Halloween.

Door knockers are always welcome though, polite civil people who dont flame about holidays who want to spread the good word.

 

Pissed the Jews didnt get their first and kick the natives off their land..

 

All of the European colonies in the Western hemisphere had conflicts with the Amerindians. New France, Nieu Netherlands, Spain, Russian Alaska, what happened in New England was nothing special.
Conflict is a normal part of the human experience.
The Pilgrims were lucky that Samuel Champlain had landed in Chatham on Cape Cod in the years prior to The Mayflower. The disease left by the French had cleared Massachuctes of its Indian inhabitants by plague and opened space for the Pilgrims.

 

Thanks! But I don’t celebrate birthdays.

 

The only issue here is the overconsumption of meat. I don't know a single person who treats Thanksgiving as a day to celebrate the slaughter of indigenous people. It's just a day of feasting.

Maybe you should start a thread about factory farming if you're that concerned about turkeys?

 

The most glaring example was the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the new world in 1492.

40 years after his arrival 9 out of every 10 natives on both continents or roughly 90,000,000 indigenous people died from various European borne diseases.


In return the natives introduced syphilis into the European population not exactly an FTA or free (fair) trade agreement ...lol...

 

The thing is nobody here is denying that stuff. If the OP was about that and not about thanksgiving being a nasty holiday the threadstarter would have met much less strive (but i guess riling people up in the name of religion is more fun)

 

She's hot!!

 

Perhaps Robert Southey summed up human nature at its worst. The more that you study history, the harder it is to find a nation that has not killed its fellow human beings for some trivial reason.

1
It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar?s work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.

2
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found;
He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.

3
Old Kaspar took it from the boy,
Who stood expectant by;
And then the old man shook his head
And with a natural sigh,
??Tis some poor fellow?s skull? said he,
?Who fell in the great victory.

4
?I find them in the garden,
For there?s many here about;
And often when I go to plough,
The ploughshare turns them out!
For many thousand men?, said he,
?Were slain in that great victory.?

5
?Now tell us what ?t was all about,?
Young Peterkin, he cries;
And little Wilhelmine looks up
With wonder-waiting eyes;
?Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for.?

6
?It was the English?, Kaspar cried,
?Who put the French to rout;
But what they fought each other for,
I could not well make out;
But everybody said?, quoth he,
?That ?t was a famous factory.

7
?My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
And he was forced to fly;
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.

8
?With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then,
And new-born baby died;
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.

9
?They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.

10
?Great praise the Duke of Marlbro? won,
And our good Prince Eugene.?
?Why ?t was a very wicked thing!?
Said little Wilhelmine.
?Nay . . nay . . my little girl?, quoth he,
?It was a famous victory.

11
?And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win.?
?But what good came of it at last??
Quoth little Peterkin,
?Why that I cannot tell,? said he,
?But ?t was a famous victory.?

 

What the hell has this thread turned into??

 

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