How should we celebrate the Pagan Holiday that has been proclaimed for January 24th?

[steve(thelil)]

As another thread points out, January 24th is sort of nature's "Doesn't the World Suck Day" because of the likelihood of a confluence of things that can suck. (At least in the northern hemisphere or the Northeast or something)

Therefore, it should be a holiday for us non-religious types and I think we should have some good rituals to either cheer us up or to revel in the misery (or both or something)

[tippy]

Drinking a bottle of Nyquil on Suck Day Eve while reading nihilistic literature seems like one possible ritualistic preparation.

[Monte Smith]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

How should we celebrate the Pagan Holiday that has been proclaimed for January 24th?

Pagan holiday? I'll ask Pumpy. But it'll probably involve drums and naked people with alternative lifestyles.

Originally Posted by Monte Smith

Pagan holiday? I'll ask Pumpy. But it'll probably involve drums and naked people with alternative lifestyles.

Kinda like Christmas!!

[Richardo Caerleoni]

AND…



RC.

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by tippy

Drinking a bottle of Nyquil on Suck Day Eve while reading nihilistic literature seems like one possible ritualistic preparation.

LOL

I take it you've done some celebrating in this manner?

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

Therefore, it should be a holiday for us non-religious types and I think we should have some good rituals to either cheer us up or to revel in the misery (or both or something)

Hey, nothing doing! Gotta include us religious types. The day is going to suck for us too, and most of us can get behind a good pagan celebration.

For me, it will be a counterinaugural celebration four days late.

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by bluenoter

Hey, nothing doing! Gotta include us religious types. The day is going to suck for us too, and most of us can get behind a good pagan celebration.

For me, it will be a counterinaugural celebration four days late.

Absolutely. The force of the impending High Unholy Pagan event has me even more flailingly sucking than usual.

[Uli]

We should all be getting in touch with our pre-Christian (-Judean or -what else) roots.

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Uli

We should all be getting in touch with our pre-Christian (-Judean or -what else) roots.

is a pre-Judian root an uncircumsized boner?

[bluenoter]

Hey, I know! We can all drink steaming mugs of chamomile tea or hot "chocolate" made with carob powder and soy milk. Then we can put on the sweetest, most soothing New Age music we can find (sorry, no suggestions) and do the two-step around the room. And when we're really getting into the spirit, we can sing "This Old Man (He Played One)," which alludes to the Black Plague.*

Good times!

*Apparently similar theories have been debunked. Never mind.

[Uli]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

is a pre-Judian root an uncircumsized boner?

I was thinking much more pre-. Somewhat along those lines:

[Monte Smith]

Originally Posted by Uli

I was thinking much more pre-. Somewhat along those lines:

Interesting, Uli. I'm attracted to the myths of European fairy lore (not as much as Pumpy is). Because it represents a rich vein of fantastical thought and folk culture, and is darker than our bowdlerized, received versions in Mother Goose would indicate. There is material for a fantastic horror movie in the substratum of forgotten European folklore.

[walto]

If you know what's good for you, you'll treat it like every other holiday--by praying to Jesus and, of course, to His favored land, America.

[steve(thelil)]

I think "favored land" understates it (but the lovely illustration doesn't)

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Monte Smith

Interesting, Uli. I'm attracted to the myths of European fairy lore (not as much as Pumpy is). BECAUSE* it represents a rich vein of fantastical thought and folk culture, and is darker than our bowdlerized, received versions in Mother Goose would indicate.

Yeah. that's why.




*Emphasis added for my own purposes

[Monte Smith]

There oughta be an Unchristian Self-Hating American's Day. We could make it the 14th of July. Or the same night as the Oscars. Cat-o-Nine tails dipped in gall could be provided for flagellants to scourge themselves with while they mutter about the downward spiral of a once great nation. You know, back in Adlai Stevenson's era. Ted Kennedy and Gore Vidal could be floated down Fifth Avenue. No, I don't mean hot air balloons, I mean the real thing.

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Monte Smith

There oughta be an Unchristian Self-Hating American's Day. We could make it the 14th of July. Or the same night as the Oscars. Cat-o-Nine tails dipped in gall could be provided for flagellants to scourge themselves with while they mutter about the downward spiral of a once great nation. You know, back in Adlai Stevenson's era. Ted Kennedy and Gore Vidal could be floated down Fifth Avenue. No, I don't mean hot air balloons, I mean the real thing.

I never heard Bush's brilliant "anyone who disagrees with me hates America" world view expressed so literately.

[walto]

Instead of needlessly (and repeatedly) reminding us how much more patriotic you are than everybody else, I think you really should be getting my $10 bucks ready, Monte. In case you haven't noticed, we still have troops in Iraq, and the Middle East isn't any closer to a Western style democratic paradise than it was during the days of Assyrian glory.

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

Absolutely. The force of the impending High Unholy Pagan event has me even more flailingly sucking than usual.

Don't be so hard on yourself. I'd say your about par for the course.

[Monte Smith]

Come on, folks. I'm not trying to be super-patriotic or put down people who disagree with Emperor, er, I mean President Bush.

Don't be so sensitive.

I'm trying to increase the number of days a year this nation can party by pointing out that we don't have an official holiday for those who feel that Jesus and the GOP repress them.

Jesus and the GOP...great name for a band.

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Monte Smith

Come on, folks. I'm not trying to be super-patriotic or put down people who disagree with Emperor, er, I mean President Bush.

Don't be so sensitize.

I'm trying to increase the number of days a year this nation can party by pointing out that we don't have an official holiday for those who feel that Jesus and the GOP repress them.

Jesus and the GOP...great name for a band.

It's sort of been used: Teenaged Jesus and the Jerks (I swear)

[Monte Smith]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

It's sort of been used: Teenaged Jesus and the Jerks (I swear)

So what? Jesus is in the public domain.

[steve(thelil)]

accental double post*.










*but now pretending I'm building drama for the following post.....

[steve(thelil)]

Good point. I always wondered how Jesus Alou got away with it.

[Gary Sisco]

Fuck the pagans. What about us heathen? We're always left out.

[derek]

Fortunately, George W. Bush is making it His tippy-top priority to lead 5,000 unsaved almost-Americans to Christ each and every week through January, 2009. That's a mighty big quota – and a great and glorious task! But, just as before our glorious Christian Crusade commenced in Iraq, Mr. Bush said, "I feel a victory coming on! Praise!" Verily, we here at the White House Department of Faith will not rest until each and every one of you gets on bended knee and super-sizes his faith in Jesus! This administration may not be able to protect you from the common flu, but we can at least inoculate from the far more horrifying prospect of eternal anal gang rape by monstrously endowed demons in both Guantanamo Bay and the Hereafter! Have a nice day

[Gary Sisco]

Well, if it's Pagans MC, at least it'll be a good party.

[Dr Dave]

Heathen, pagan, who gives a shit?

January 24 is going to be a Monday, so I will drag out that old chestnut. A-one-ah, a-two-ah:

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

All the playings stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain crackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die

The silicon chip ...

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

-30-

Thank you boys and girls!

[Gary Sisco]

Hey, now. A heathen ain't no fucking pagan, Doc. Pagans believe; they just believe in older gods than Jehovafat. Heathen don't believe.

Heathens MC know how to party, too.