Happy Christmas
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everybody relaaaax
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noddy wrote:.
christmas is a rebranded pagan festivity and the pagan festivities evolved and came from migration and contact, persia is part of that chain but hardly the source.
a bunch of people got sick of the politics in africa and settled in india, then a bunch of northern indians got sick of the politics in india and started moving north and east away from that, rinse and repeat.
you should be nicer to the hindus azari, they are the root of your beloved persia
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noddy wrote:.
only problem now is that for those of us that come from a long line of migrators the bloody world is full and we are sick of our local politics
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The origins pre-date Persia.
boom tish, the true meaning of christmas.Typhoon wrote: The present matters more.
Bah humbug.Enki wrote:Christians syncretized local traditions from everywhere they converted people. There is nothing particularly insightful about this, except for the absolutely preposterous arguments put forth about holiday traditions as if people are living in copyright court.