I wish to extend a Merry Christmas to all. My experiences include a
disgusting past as a guest editor for the DLI (Defense Language Institute)
news magazine that was done under orders to exclude everything religeous or
relating to Christ on the cover. The Commandant's reasoning, at that time
was not to offend our Arab students.
Since Christmas is a religeous holiday that celebrates the birth day
assigned to this kid, who grew up with a following and . . . well, the rest
is history. I choose to recognize that event and holiday as such a birthday
and unabashedly wish all a Merry Christmas.
Steve Shapiro, Carmel, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:36 PM
Subject: End-of-time-period greetings (was Re: Christmas greeting gallery)
Renate wrote:
Wishing everybody a wonderful and merry rest of this year and a happy
new one, too!
Renate
Many thanks for these wonderful wishes, Renate, but would you care to be a
bit more specific on which calendar system you are refering to here.
Is it the Gregorian or the Julian, the Mayan or the Persian, the Hebrew or
the French Republican, the Islamic or the ISO-8601 Week and Day and Day of
Year system, the Bahá'í or the Unix time() value system?
Might it actually be the Excel Serial Day Number 1904 Date System
(Macintosh)?
Or, "G*d" (a word meant to represent a deity worshipped by a certain
percentage of the population of a planet in a galaxy of a universe which
could - but not necessarily so - be expanding or contracting or even
possibly be part of a myriad of other interconnected universes,
heretoforth - for purpose of convenience but without prejudice to any system
of belief or lack thereof - called "God") forbid, would you be refering to
the Excel serial day 1900 Date System (PC)?
I have absolutely no intention to start a controversy on the
appropriatedness - or lack thereof - of greeting a particular
"End-of-time-period" day. But clearly your statement is open an invitation
to start what could potentially be a very acrimonious debate.
Notwhithstanding any of the above, please, Renate and all PF'ers, accept my
very best wishes for whatever occasion you might find appropriate to accept
wishes for at this particular juncture.
Guy Glorieux
