Happy Thanksgiving

[Elly 0]

I know I am a day early but I don't want to forget to post because I might tomorrow. I wanted to wish all those who celebreted the American holiday Thanksgiving a wonderful day and don't eat too much.

 

For those who don't know what Thanksgiving is here is a link

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-wall/wal-g007.html

 

 

 

 

[JimmyBanks 0]

Happy Thanksgiving!!

[birdluv 0]

i;m a few days late but l hope you had a good Thanksgiving

[Papa Doc Duvalier 0]

Thanksgiving! Sounds like a load of Yankee **** to me. The most pointless day ever! Oh, lets stuff ourselves full of Turkey and then do it all again 20 days later! We've had to endure Halloween, and Valentines day, hope Thanksgiving doesn't become an international holiday, just coz the Yanks do it.....

[JimmyBanks 0]

Out Halloween, Valentines Day or Thanksgiving, I'll take thanksgiving any day. What's wrong with showing a bit of gratitude? Never hurt nobody I say...

[RIPbudgies 0]

Papa Doc your comment is just a little rude to say the least.

 

Thanksgiving is much like our Australia Day. There are many written references for TGD but that Elly is a rather one eyed religous view. It makes it sound as though the Native Americans came to their rescue. A little far from the truth actually. The Pilgrims went to America for one reason – to form a separate community in which they could worship God as they saw fit. They had fled England because King James I was persecuting those who did not recognize the Church of England's absolute civil and spiritual authority. A Pilgram called William Bradford (his wife died)kept a journal and it is from those pages that reveal the reason why so many perished. They practised an early form of socialism. Needless to say a reform was imminent and Bradford as governor implemented change towards a common wealth system (free enterprise) and they then begun to prosper.

 

Oh and don't forget that Indian Massacre.

 

Much is written on the founding of America and Australia for that matter but not all is correct.

 

Quote: "Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality." Pieter Geyl

 

And there is that other quote about history is written by the victors.

 

Halloween is another festivity whereby people seem to have lost the plot. It is a Celtic (possible roman origins too)festival called All Hallowes Eve whereby the souls of the dead walk amongst the living for one night of the year.

 

It has always amused me that both America and Australia have there origins in England. Yet the Americans still practise a lot of the old country festivals where as Australians have shed them. Australians are quick to critic the influx of so called Amercian traditions i.e. Halloween, and yet both countries hare a common ancestry and so by default share the same traditions.

 

Was only gonna make a quick reply here. Reckon I got carried away a bit so I will step off my soap box and leave it there for now.

[JimmyBanks 0]

lol. get carried away RIP, nothing like a good ol' history lesson. Was my favourite subject in High School.