Solstice

[mibn2cweus]

Solstice greetings to all our heathen friends.

[JimF]

What about nihilism?

[mibn2cweus]

I've never found any value in the joyless pursuit of self-contradiction.

[Khandro]

Mibn ; //I've never found any value in the joyless pursuit of self-contradiction.//

But you find value in the veneration of the shortest day of the year?


and btw, absence of religious belief is NOT an oxymoron.

[naomi24]

Khandro, you’re making no sense. You ask me if I believe in 'nothing' but your argument rests upon a man who says I anything. Which is it?

[naomi24]

Amendment^ - I *believe* anything

[Khandro]

naomi; It is clear that you know exactly what the question is but you are obfuscating with semantics to evade answering it.


It's back to your favourite AB default position; If you can't answer, ask another question! :0)

[naomi24]

Of course I can answer, Khandro. I don’t believe that anything is supernatural - but that doesn't explain your contradictory argument. Perhaps if you do that we'll get somewhere.

[Khandro]

The point is naomi, that Chesterton says those who do not believe in God will believe in anything.

Take the OP poster, - poor soul; he refutes God & replaces he void with the veneration of the shortest day of the year!

Well, why the shortest? why not the hottest (or coldest) ?

[Zacs-Master]

I don’t think the OP did anything of the kind, Khandro. He’s doing the opposite of veneration as indicated by the derogatory ‘heathen’.

[naomi24]

//The point is naomi, that Chesterton says those who do not believe in God will believe in anything. //

But he's wrong.

//Take the OP poster, - poor soul; he refutes God & replaces he void with the veneration of the shortest day of the year! //

No he doesn't. What's he's done is no more than I would do when wishing Christians a happy Christmas. He doesn't venerate the solstice any more than you do.

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO, "Well, why [venerate] the shortest? why not the hottest (or coldest) ?"

When will the hottest and coldest days be in each country this year?

[rowanwitch]

Surely the god thing rep!aced the veneration of the natural cycles of the earth, not the other way round. Better I think to hold something so naturally, visibly provable, with a degree of awe. Nature is a thing of wonder. Even if we are getting a good handle on a) how it happens and b) why it changes.

[Khandro]

naomi ; //No he doesn't. What's he's done is no more than I would do when wishing Christians a happy Christmas. He doesn't venerate the solstice any more than you do.//

Then why is the OP entered as a 'Religious & Spirituality' topic, why not place it in say, Chatterbank?

[Zacs-Master]

That’s a fair point actually, Khandro. One could argue that all Heathens wouldn’t see it in R&S.

[naomi24]

Khandro, //Then why is the OP entered as a 'Religious & Spirituality' //

I guess because some 'heathens' who have beliefs regard those beliefs as spiritual. Why do you have a problem with that?

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, yes, another fair point.

[Zacs-Master]

How many spiritual Heathens do we have in the Answerbank ranks, currently? Anybody?

[douglas9401]

"Nature is a thing of wonder. Even if we are getting a good handle on a) how it happens and b) why it changes."

I'm not completely sure I agree, especially the heating up part which delivers so much to professional adherents while driving the search for better habits.

[Peter Pedant]

Aah the Sun, the original and still the best God, the true giver of life.

worship of Aten didnt do Akhaten ( who dat den: aka Amenophis IV to be clear) a frightful lot of good - neither his son Tutankhaten, soon to revert to Tutankhamen

(who all dey den? oh read a book on Egypt)

and zoroastrians - chased up Mt Sinjar and when they got to the top their muslim liberators - chucked them off !

[Peter Pedant]

happy solstice - shows a reverence for solstices
and so spirituality
and so the right place

this is a bit like the office innit ( not on the agenda and then he sticks his fingers in his ears and says - "cant hear lalalal")

[our Pres tried that when I raised election interference (" not on the agenda") and someone said - Any Other Business. - - -- - That little manoeuvre did the pres no good at all]