SubJeff on 19/12/2013 at 09:53
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
And yes that's relevant because as usual the point has gone so far over your head as to be comical
I'd love to hear how the Koran correlates with the Bible.
faetal on 19/12/2013 at 16:37
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
You do realize that there was no such thing as a photograph in the 1st and 4th centuries AD, right?
Eeexactly.
faetal on 19/12/2013 at 16:39
Wow, this Tony guy is an entertaining train wreck.
SubJeff on 19/12/2013 at 22:58
I know! Ha ha.
Taking about xmas - any other ttlgers going to Southbank for A Vintage New Years Party?
faetal on 20/12/2013 at 00:08
Would that I could. I'm holed up at my parent's house in Ballywalter bringing my final thesis draft together.
Tony_Tarantula on 20/12/2013 at 00:44
Quote Posted by faetal
Eeexactly.
So shouldn't it have been obvious that I was posting those images to describe what they probably looked like?
Nicker on 20/12/2013 at 00:49
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
So shouldn't it have been obvious that I was posting those images to describe what they probably looked like?
Given that there is very little cohesion in your thesis, searching for relevance in your posts is a losing game.
faetal on 20/12/2013 at 00:57
Santa Claus is a co-opted cultural symbol used to bestow gifts to young people during a winter festival. Picking one of the many historical figures he may have been derived from and showing me an old painting depicting that person as white doesn't really give a basis for Santa being necessarily white. Santa is a just a name. It's like arguing what colour the Easter bunny is.
Tony_Tarantula on 20/12/2013 at 07:10
Quote Posted by faetal
Santa Claus is a co-opted cultural symbol used to bestow gifts to young people during a winter festival. Picking one of the many historical figures he may have been derived from and showing me an old painting depicting that person as white doesn't really give a basis for Santa being necessarily white. Santa is a just a name. It's like arguing what colour the Easter bunny is.
Much as Christmas itself co-opts the winter solstice festivals practiced by pagan cultures.
For Santa Clause......every origin story for that character( and all the names he goes by in different places) comes out of a European country. Like it or not Christmas is a Euro-centric holiday(ie. It's barely even recognized in Asia) so the mythology surrounding the holiday is probably going to involve Caucasians.
Vivian on 20/12/2013 at 09:10
Quote Posted by NuEffect
I know! Ha ha.
Taking about xmas - any other ttlgers going to Southbank for A Vintage New Years Party?
Still collating options - I'm either doing Silvah Bullett in finsbury park with all my skate-mates or I'm going to a massive warehouse rave with all my degenerate mates, but this is now option 3.
all-caps psa edit: REALITY CHECK HAS AN ARGUMENT ABOUT SANTA CLAUS TURNED INTO AN INTELLECTUAL DICK-SWING? IF SO AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE, FIND MIRROR, POINT AT SELF, CALL SELF A BELLEND UNTIL SITUATION RESOLVED
