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thoughtfulness
The kind of 'moment of silence' you are talking about is the kind of thing you do for say 9/11 or some such event. Such a moment of reflection I would have no problem with, although I seriously doubt grade school level kids are going to really reflect about life with such a moment. That kind of thing is more about respect in general.
What I am talking about here is the idea that school have a daily 'moment of silence' that is nothing more than provided a prayer time that is unnecessary and really out of place in the public schools. All it does is serve as a forced religious idea and provided nothing of value to the majority of the students.
posted by
kooka_lives
on February 9, 2008 at 8:55 AM
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Merry Christmas I get
I always thought the "moment of silence " was to remember the life someone lived and what they meant to us, or how they touched us, and that we missed them, what's the problem with that? Have you no respect for the dead? Did their lives mean nothing?
posted by
thoughtfulness
on February 9, 2008 at 6:37 AM
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Re: ZenMom
Understood. Like I said, I wasn't tuned into the hoopla over this........didn't know companies were instructed on which greeting to use. But, I have to go now......... I must hurry over to another blog..........read about the parting of the red sea and how it really happened....there is so much to learn.....i guess there's actual PROOF. lol
posted by
ZenMom
on February 8, 2008 at 6:47 PM
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ZenMom
You are correct in how the two issues differ in that respect. But they are alike in how believers use them as tools to force their beliefs. I myself have no problem at all saying 'Merry Christmas', but at the same item I find nothing at all offensive or wrong with "Happy Holidays', just find 'Merry Christmas' easier. But by boycotting stores that use 'happy Holidays' or protesting and playing the victim because of it all, these believers are trying to say that society has got to allow their beliefs a certain level of superiority all over all others. Getting companies to say 'Merry Christmas' instead of 'Happy Holidays' is getting their religious ideas pushed and promoted to society in the same way that a moment of silence in school is getting their religious ideas pushed and promoted in the schools. In both cases it is ridiculous and unnecessary for the common good.
It is all about making a big deal out of such small things in order to try and make it so people cannot escape exposure to their religious ideas.
posted by
kooka_lives
on February 8, 2008 at 6:27 PM
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sam
I am glad you can express your belief in such a polite manner that is not trying to push them on others. If other believers followed such examples I would have nothing to write about.
posted by
kooka_lives
on February 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
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I don't see these two issues (moment of silence - merryxmas) existing under the same umbrella. Moment of silence is GOVERNMENT interference in our lives. I told my daughter if they attempted the moment of silence...it was alright for her to hum.
The whole merryxmas/happy holidays is only a "personal" preference. I like merry xmas......and that's what i will use. I have to be honest, I really didn't pay much attention to the hoopla over this non-issue. It is rather pathetic.
posted by
ZenMom
on February 8, 2008 at 6:00 PM
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This issue will never be resolved. My life goal is to be known by my works not my rhetoric. GOD IS ALIVE AND I LOVE HIM DEARLY! I don't care for people pushing their beliefs either. They drive me crazy. sam
posted by
sam444
on February 8, 2008 at 3:57 PM
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FineYoung
Well said.
posted by
kooka_lives
on February 8, 2008 at 3:45 PM
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I really wish I'd have seen this post before commenting on the previous.
I have to urge everyone that hasn't seen "Charlie Wilson's War" to go see it. It depicts some of the idiocy that Kooka is talking about here in these two posts. It discusses how very UN-important education really is to the US government. Political agendas and power are all they care about. So these little nonsensical issues, such as moments of silence in schools and whether or not we say Merry Christmas are just little distractions for us away from the real issues, such as how much less educated our poor kids are, thanks to a less-than-mediocre education system that focuses on politics over their jobs.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on February 8, 2008 at 3:44 PM
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