30 Apr 10 08:41, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> [May Day]

 RW>> The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times,
 RW>> with the festival of Flora, the Roman Goddess of flowers, and the
 RW>> Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries.

 RN> Don't forget it's also the Russian New Year.  (-:

Were the Russians even around before 3-BC? :o) If May 1st was your or my
birthday, that's as good a reason as any to celebrate the day. The
alternative is un-thinkable.

 RW>> For one thing, from the bible description of the era. The shepards
 RW>> were in the fields with their flocks, means that it was either
 RW>> spring or summer. If it were in December, they and their flocks
 RW>> wouldn't be in the cold, cold fields. Of course, one has to believe
 RW>> the bible only is one is a christian.

 RN> No one knows exactly what the weather was like back then because of
 RN> the obvious.

They actually do/did. Ask a scientist or a Jew, they'll know what it was
like.

 RN> As for the Bible, it is one heck of a story and nothing else written
 RN> to date comes close.

I consider the older books as an embellishment of the times and the
latter books as a hoax upon mankind by the Jews. i.e. if we're all related
to Adam and Eve, why aren't we all syphlitic and as crazy as the Marquis
de Sade from all of the in-breeding?

 RN> I had to do a reading in front of the congregation as Simon the
 RN> Canaanite, AKA Simon the Zealot.  What fun!  (-:

What would be more fun is explaining your actions to the Canaanites as
Joshua and his deeds after the battle of Jericho.

                R\%/itt

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