Prime's Worm Hole : Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men?

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men?

You wouldn't know that by looking at America today. Its the Christmas holiday season and most Americans are engrossed by the rapid pace of the final days approaching the biggest holiday celebration of the year. But be careful what you say and who you say it to. The phrase Merry Christmas may soon become offensive speech if some in America have their way. Hogwash you say? Who would assail or challenge the "goodwill" tradition of bidding good tidings towards your fellow man? (or woman) Don't be so quick to dismiss the possibility of insult, especially if you haven't been following the news too closely this year.

Most Americans have become familiar with the inclusive recognition of other December religious and secular observances such as Hanukkah and Kwansa, but they remain unaware of the continued attacks on the Christian observance of Christmas. Christmas has been observed on December 25th since 336 AD according to historical resources. The choice of the month of December was associated more with existing pagan celebrations recognizing the end of harvest than the actual date when Christ was born. But the origins of the term Christmas are pretty clear. Christmas is derived from the Latin words "Cristes maesse" which translates: "Mass of Christ." A religious observance begun by the Christians of the Roman Empire and carried forth by all subsequent Christian faiths.

There in lies the problem. Regardless of the fact that most of our Christmas customs of decorating and gift giving are outgrowths of the centuries old common practices of decorating with evergreens and gift giving to celebrate solstice, the real reason for the season is to celebrate and recognize the birth of Christ. Other traditions were only incorporated into the observance after the fact. By the 11th century, Christmas had become the most important holiday observance in Europe and St. Nicolas had been appointed the recognized symbol of gift giving. Christmas traditions were passed down through the generations and many people never considered the possibility that anyone might attack Christmas because of its Christian customs. But it has happened before and it is happening again. After the Reformation and the rise of Protestantism in the 1500's Christmas came to be looked on by many as a celebration inclusive of too many "non religious" customs. The end result of those views was to outlaw Christmas in much of England and in parts of the colonies in America during the 1600's. In essence, Christmas observances were almost permanently banned because the observance had completely strayed from what the Protestant church believed was the original intent and purpose behind the Christian observance of Christ's birth.

Today in America, Christmas is once again being attacked. Not because there are people that want to do away with the holiday or the festivities, but by those that want to completely remove all aspects of Christ and Christianity from Christmas. Holiday displays exhibiting any remote association to Christianity have already been banned from government buildings and most public buildings. Once again there are stories in the news daily from across America where government buildings are taking down Christmas trees and replacing them with the secular symbols that represent the pagan influences of solstice celebrations. Children are not being permitted to exchange Christmas cards in their schools in many districts and all mentions of Christmas have been replaced with the non offensive words of "holiday and season" Christmas trees are now called "holiday trees" in many American communities and many other communities have completely transformed their Christmas parades into "Holiday" or "Yule Season" parades.

No longer do you see decorations on light poles of angels, shepherds, stars or even candy canes. No mangers or crosses or shepherds staffs can be displayed on public property, only secular displays of lights, snowflakes elves, snowmen and Santa Claus. Malls may decorate with seasonal gaiety and lavish "holiday" displays, but look closely and you will note that these displays are carefully choreographed to eliminate any representations or associations with anything that could be remotely construed as Christian in origin. So as you go about you shopping and individual observances this year, take note and be aware that while the observance of Christmas is still celebrated, the observance that Christmas was originally meant to represent is steadily being stolen away from our heritage. Stolen away by those that represent themselves as only seeking equality and inclusion yet armed with the power of state sanctioned exclusionary government and the heinous belief that freedom of religion in reality means freedom from religion.

As you go about your holiday routines of shopping, entertaining and attendance of observance services this year remember this. The simple greeting to a stranger with the phrase "Merry Christmas" is no longer considered a innocuous or friendly salutation by many. After all, Christmas has the word Christ in it and therefore, represents offense to many non Christian members of our "inclusive" society. Someone that is non Christian might be offended by "Have a Merry Christmas" and we can't allow that in a tolerant society seeking "Peace on Earth." Copyright trickworm 2004

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.