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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» greatjob replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 3:40pm |
 Coolness: 282445 | Well it's that time of year, call your moms!
:D Happy turkey day! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Marie-Gazelle replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 4:07pm |
 Coolness: 56155 | Sorry, it's just fun to reply.... ;)
hum..... it's not realy the thanksgiving.... it's "l'action de grâce".... Thanksgiving is on the last thursday of november... (29, this year) and it's a american holy day.... "L'action de Graĉe" is a catholique one (typiquement canadien français, but now, alla round Canada) and it's on the second Monday of October (today), since years '50 (1957, I think...)... But if you translate the expression "action de grâce" it's ok to say "thanksgiving"... You better say "happy Action de grâce", and say thankgiving on november..... In french, it is what we say :):) But if you are Canadian (I mean, if you come from out of Québec, forget it!!! hiihihihih) It's just beacause the american one has "patriotic" connotation like " thanks god to giving to USA a great land... blablabla" and the french canadian "action de grâce" is more personnal like "Thanks god to giving me food and health every day..." Mais.... Merci quand même!!!!!!! LOL P.S. j'ai kan même mangé d'la dinde chez ma mère hier :) LOL |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moohk replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 4:43pm |
 Coolness: 69050 | like most holidays, we generally don't celebrate thanksgiving because of the 'official' meaning for the holiday. still, i just wanted to put up a little bit of infos about the origins and meaning of thanksgiving. this is not to say that i am not aware that typically, no one is CONSCIOUSLY celebrating the genocide of first nations people on this day. by all means, call your moms! eat the turkey*! at the same time, i think its a good idea to take the time to remember and remind ourselves on a regular basis the parts of history we tend to forget. on that note:
HAPPY ANTI COLONIAL THANKSGIVING!! ... "Lies, Half-Truths, and What a Nation Will Tell Itself Perhaps, given the patent falsehood of the Story of Thanksgiving, one of the better questions to ask as the holiday approaches is what, in fact, it really stands for. As a Cherokee, I have never felt much like celebrating an event that essentially commemorates one of several stages in the genocide of Native Americans by European settlers, a process which continues to this day in the form of environmental racism, structural poverty, and lack of educational resources. There were times, to be sure, when I appreciated sitting with my family and devouring an embarrassment of culinary riches. But those I hold separate from the holiday itself. For me, this now agreed upon Thanksgiving symbolizes first and foremost the alarmingly subjective nature of history, which, as Howard Zinn reminds us, is almost always written by the winners. It symbolizes the triumph of football over religion, and of American commercialism over virtually everything standing in its wasteful path. And perhaps most importantly, it symbolizes the lies and half-truths on which a profoundly diverse country must depend in order to prop up the specious concept of a broadly shared civil religion or national identity. Thanksgiving, then, symbolizes that there is still great work to be done before a nation that readily prides itself in its goodness, honesty, and wholesome relationship with Divine Grace will actually resemble the stories it tells itself.".. -excerpt from: Inventing Thanksgiving, by Brian Basel. see the full article here: [ www.lipmagazine.org ] ): ... Celebrating Genocide! ... "There are many reasons to celebrate and Americans have a lot to be thankful for. Genocide should not be one of those things. What are we doing on Thanksgiving Day? We would be appropriately appalled if Germany or Austria were celebrating a Holocaust Memorial Day, where Germans and Austrians got together with their families for dinner on their official day off, joyously remembering the things that are important to them, just as American families get together for Thanksgiving Day and think of things to be thankful for. (Similar scenarios, just as ugly, could be constructed for white supremacists, rapists, and murderers.) Some activities and events are inappropriate just because of the context in which they occur and the history of suffering they represent. Thanksgiving Day is clearly part of that history. Are Americans thankful for forgetting their own history, for having collective cultural and political amnesia? We do not have to feel guilty, but we do need to feel something. At the very least, we need to reflect on how and what we feel. We should also review our history and what it means to us and others, while we must rethink our adopted traditions, including our Thanksgiving High Holy Day. My personal (and therefore political!) resolution for the new year is to stop celebrating genocide. American Thanksgiving may be sacred to some, but it’s utterly profane to me. " -excerpt from Celebrating Genocide! by Dan Brook. see article in full at: [ www.angelfire.com ] ) Update » moohk wrote on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 4:52pm *or for those who'd rather not eat turkey, eat tofurkey on turkey day. tofurky? is a kinder and gentler substitute. recipe at: [ www.yak.net ] |
| I'm feeling heffalumps right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» greatjob replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 5:03pm |
| Coolness: 282445 | Yeh I've heard of Tofurkey, funny name. I'm Jewish, but I give thanks none the less when it's due and that's about it!
And Turkey is the bomb :p |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» sex.is.boring replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 6:32pm |
 Coolness: 78260 | i prefer tofu |
| I'm feeling busy right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Holly_Golightly replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 8:25pm |
 Coolness: 158725 | turkey scared me. serious.. they go around with their prehistorique eyes. i hate them. they taste dry too. |
| I'm feeling hitched right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» MelooDie replied on Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 11:38pm |
 Coolness: 248415 | AHHEAHhae such a repost but always gold! |
| I'm feeling wino right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Kishmay_Pinas replied on Tue Oct 9, 2007 @ 8:31am |
 Coolness: 103245 | i dunno, i grew up in the country and thanksgiving out here (where I am home visiting the family) it is still very traditionnaly a harest festival.
People get together to share the bounty of the seasons harvest, show off their prized live stock, etc. A name is a name, but its still my favourite long weekend! |
| I'm feeling ez'ly baked right now.. | |
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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