Holiday Greetings

Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and 
a Happy New Year!

Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those 
of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims, 
Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
Australians, and Rastafarians.

[-Rick-]

On 23/12/2019 09:13, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
> Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
> a Happy New Year!
> 
> Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
> of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
> Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
> filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
> U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
> Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
> Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
> Australians, and Rastafarians.

We Areligionists (AKA Atheists by the Religionists) do celebrate
Christmas and the Christian churches are entirely to blame for this
because for centuries, millenia even, our ancestors were subject
to very cruel deaths if we did not conform (and in Brit the
Recusancy Acts were not repealed until 1888) so it is in our
traditions to celebrate at Christmas even when we knew all
religion to be infantile make-believe, a veritable bucket of
cowshit.

Richard Dawkins coined the word, "meme" for mental traditions
that perpetuate through the generations.

On 2019-12-23, Richard (Rick) Lyons <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:
> Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and 
> a Happy New Year!
>
> Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those 
> of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims, 
> Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
> filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
> U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
> Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
> Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
> Australians, and Rastafarians.
>
> [-Rick-]
>

Hey, we Australians celebrate Christmas, even if singing about snow and white Christmas doesn't make a lot of sense here right now. Many are too busy trying to put out bushfires this year instead of celebrating.

Have a Good One. And don't get caught!

On 12/23/2019 04:13, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
> Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
> a Happy New Year!
> 
> Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
> of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
> Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
> filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
> U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
> Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
> Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
> Australians, and Rastafarians.
> 
> [-Rick-]
> 
Merry Christmas,
And for those who don't celebrate Christmas, enjoy whatever Solstice 
holiday you do celebrate.

-- 
Best wishes,
--Phil
pomartel At Comcast(ignore_this) dot net

Hi Areligious Republican.
OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 01:13:44 -0800 (PST), "Richard (Rick) Lyons"
<r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:

>Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and 
>a Happy New Year!
>
>Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those 
>of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims, 
>Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
>filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
>U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
>Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
>Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
>Australians, and Rastafarians.
>
>[-Rick-]
>

Warmest seasonal salutations to everyone!

;)

On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 3:28:55 AM UTC-8, Fred Smith wrote:

> 
> Hey, we Australians celebrate Christmas, even if singing about snow and white Christmas doesn't make a lot of sense here right now. Many are too busy trying to put out bushfires this year instead of celebrating.
> 
> Have a Good One. And don't get caught!

Hi Fred. I added Australians to my list just to poke fun at my Australian DSP pal Peter Kootsookos (who used to frequent comp.dsp regularly). Good luck fightin' the bushfires. (Your bushfires have been reported on in the television news here in the States recently.)

On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
> Hi Areligious Republican.
> OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."
> 

Then you'd be mistaken.

Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.

Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
in my opinion a certifiable loony.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

Have a happy
Mark

On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 2:03:47 PM UTC-5, Areligious Republican wrote:
> On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
> > Hi Areligious Republican.
> > OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."
> > 
> 
> Then you'd be mistaken.
> 
> Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
> it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.
> 
> Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
> past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
> in my opinion a certifiable loony.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

Have a happy

Mark