11/8/2007 12:29:46 AM

11/8/2007 12:32:14 AM

Je t'aime, Snoopy

11/8/2007 12:34:15 AM

11/8/2007 12:39:57 AM

Yay for thieving, small-pox ridden Christian fundamentalist Day!

11/8/2007 2:49:46 AM

^ Damn, Debbie Downer.

11/8/2007 2:58:29 AM

Oh, I'm sorry for be a realist.

11/8/2007 8:03:01 AM

you're not a realist. maybe youre either depressed and you take it out on days that make most people happy... or it could be that you're stuck on what you think you know about the past. either way...

i cant think of a single time my family (or anyone i know) has celebrated it as anything other than a get together with everyone and be thankful day.

anytime you feel like putting down your grudge against dead people you never knew, you can celebrate it in the "now" sense of the holiday like the rest of us. happy thanksgiving!

11/8/2007 8:09:58 AM

Turkey sandwichs kick ass

11/8/2007 8:11:54 AM

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"Yay for thieving, small-pox ridden Christian fundamentalist Day!"

read: I'm trying to be deep and emo so other people reason how smart and advanced I am in my life.

Get off your fucking horse dude. Thanksgiving is viewed in America now as a way for family to gather and share.

11/8/2007 8:14:51 AM

^^^ No no, I feel ya there. The family get-together and good food parts all wonderful. In fact, I plan on seeing family that I have not seen in quite some time. My point is with the idea that the Puritans were some kind of fun loving, peaceful settlers with nothing but kindness in their hearts.

But we all know that Pilgrims are going to come up either as mythology or in discussion and most kids have no idea who they really were.

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 8:20 AM. Reason : .]

11/8/2007 8:18:19 AM

im only familiar with the history side of thanksgiving that they present around the age where you make turkeys with your hand outline and i guess the word pilgrim itself says a lot about what they were, but its not like anyone is celebrating that part of it. so it just didnt seem so "real"

its good to hear you enjoy it for what it is, though. ive decided/"learned" in the past year or 2 that you really should take every opportunity to see the people you care about. and not just cause it can be the last time you see them, but just because its fun. even if your family is batshit crazy.

hahah i have uncles that literally called me a heathen pussy and all this crap and meant it when i said i voted for kerry. it makes it all the more fun to go visit them. actually, i bet they were a lot like the pilgrims

11/8/2007 8:34:23 AM

ps i found this image through a link in another thread in the lounge. early american art or something, in a thread about the museum

http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/khapp.php?SlideNum=328

anyways, it looks like the indians werent exactly peaceful either. and yea i realize it could be 'propaganda' - or even if real, the white man probably seemed like an alien invader and it was insane and they just killed shit

either way. cool pics there

11/8/2007 8:39:27 AM

11/8/2007 8:40:47 AM

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"im only familiar with the history side of thanksgiving that they present around the age where you make turkeys with your hand outline "

YES!!!!!!! Hand turkeys FTW!

In a perfect world, there would be turkeys....../stella reference

11/8/2007 8:45:41 AM

such a lame holiday. especially because it makes it look like the pilgrims started uh-merica.

11/8/2007 9:57:41 AM

I love thanksgiving!

11/8/2007 9:58:54 AM

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"especially because it makes it look like the pilgrims started uh-merica."

You mean this country wasn't founded on ultra fundamentalist Christian teachings that all things other than the worship of their idea of God are evil and should be purged from society?

11/8/2007 10:02:02 AM

just shut the fuck up

11/8/2007 10:15:00 AM

just shut the fuck up

11/8/2007 10:17:33 AM

On Thanksgiving Day I will give thanks to all of the kindness and love on TWW.

11/8/2007 10:19:59 AM

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"You mean this country wasn't founded on ultra fundamentalist Christian teachings "

Precisely. This country was founded by entrepreneurial Deists. The end effect on Native Americans was the same, but it is a fact that is often lost in the New England tradition of Thanksgiving

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 11:24 AM. Reason : e]

11/8/2007 11:24:15 AM

Christmas Rules!

11/8/2007 11:25:18 AM

the above arguing reminded me of the thanksgiving play at camp on addams family values

11/8/2007 11:26:28 AM

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"Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands. And stuff ourselves like pigs, even though children in Asia are being napalmed."

11/8/2007 11:28:07 AM

A happy little thread derailed by wannabe intellectuals.

11/8/2007 3:36:38 PM

the best cigarette of the year!

11/8/2007 3:37:27 PM

i got all my food today so that i don't have to fight the crazies later this week

11/18/2007 1:07:54 PM

Btt

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