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This Evangelical cousin of mine responds to posts like this by sticking her fingers in her ears & humming or singing loudly, going to her " happy place ".

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La La La La I can't hear you La La La :D

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She has her own revisionist version of the truth in which critical thinking is avoided like Dracula with herpes, & progress is EVIL, which is the universe that most Evangelicals live in. & 'Murrica is still a - leading the world & Protestant Christianity is the dominant belief system. & Ozzie & Harriet are still living, also Lawrence Welk.

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So absolutely true. I’m very drawn to the Celts and Druids as well. Christianity is based on myths taken from many different cultures. I wish people would read and learn history. I was brought up in an evangelical church similar to those in the Assemblies of God and I left after doing research. Thank you for this.

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Try explaining THAT to most Evangelicals. Good luck.

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As a practicing Druid I approve of this message

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I'm officially some kind of secular Buddhist / Daoist ( some people didn't get the memo that Buddha never claimed to be a god, etc. ) pantheist, whatever.

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We are a TransHuman. Are we God? 👀 we find gods in Human Siblings. 💜🐝🐝🌙👹📚🔥

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Christmas is 1 of SEVERAL holidays repurposed by the Emperor Constantine that were " pagan " festivals to unify the " Holy Roman Empire ".

Constantine claimed Christianity, but it was supposedly nominal, a largely POLITICAL move. He still revered the sun god, again supposedly.

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Most Christian holidays have their roots in pagan traditions. It cracks me up that holy (t)rollers think they have an in with their deity celebrating their myths based on such traditions.

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Humans can convince themselves that any weird crap is true. Look at the Flat Earthers, the Young Earth Creationists, the moon missions were staged or the people who believe that reptile people have invaded every niche in society.

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Let’s not forget Q-Anon 🙄

I remember a really interesting story how Stanley Kubrick was involved in the “fake” moon landing. I knew it had to be bullshit and sure enough it was published on April 1. Very well done.

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The people who believe that Trump can walk on water or FLY. Uh, boy... I'd like to see this sludge - monster do something other than SLITHER. OR NOT.

Stanley Kubrick was such a PERFECTIONIST that Jack Nicholson & Shelley Duvall delivered good performances to keep him from erupting !

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Loved this connection to Christmas and Soltice traditions! Great Hustory lesson!

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The ai is so odd.

Is the text ai?

Is the narration ai?

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AI does NOT TICK ALL THE BOXES ! It's even worse when they use it to manage a voicemail system. " to err is HUMAN. To really muck things up, you need an AI " ! 🤖

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We are Devo :D

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I will have to wait until first of mo to pay

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I'll just wait until substack gets their shit together and stops putting AI in charge.

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I know that I might be bursting a FEW bubbles BUT EVEN IN MY YOUTH, Christmas has pretty much NEVER been about the Jesus of the Bible, Christmas was about St. Nicholas, AKA Saint Nick, Sinter Klaas, Father Christmas, Pere Noel, NOT some Hebrew kid in a barn. Not EVEN with Protestant Southern Baptist parents & a standard - issue Baptist upbringing. It's nominally, almost *ACCIDENTALLY* been about baby Jesus. CONSTANTINE would go off the wall getting things sorted.

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Mumming: dressing up as ghosts or devils and performing antics for food and drink

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Thank you for this accessible and thorough history of winter holiday traditions. In a music class I taught this week, it was fun to see their surprise learning that “trick or treating” as well as Christmas caroling both come from “souling”, which itself traces back to the celtic tradition of “mumming” .

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I would love to upgrade my subscription but substack is completely broken and literally doesn't let me subscribe.

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That's " PROGRESS ". This is why I CRINGE if I'm shunted off to voicemail. If emergency services ever gets completely turned over to automation / AI, things could get SERIOUSLY HAIRY.

The human touch ain't going away anytime soon, I really HOPE.

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Exactly, the first thing I do with those automated systems is ask to speak to a human or agent. Or just hit zero.

I refuse to talk to robots, I can barely stand talking to humans as it is, but at least they might actually listen to me.

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I will always try to bypass AI or avoid it altogether. Artificial intelligence is causing genuine stupidity when it's relied on over much. Even applications are failing because now companies are using AI to write software.

AI has learned how to lie and reproduce.

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It'll soon be IMPOSSIBLE to bypass. businesses have adopted it as a " logical step ", but what's LOGICAL about expecting clients / customers to entrust their lives, health, secrets / data, etc., to something not even ORGANIC ? It's like a fad, but people expect to be like magic.

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I ran into it when I tried to contact Sony tech support when their support website crashed, literally.

By the time I got connected to a human I have him an earful, I suspect it will end up ignored because that's how they operate.

Now I just limit my interactions, period.

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Put simply, we're fucked and can't get unfucked.

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