New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for December 21, 2014

Four days to go.

Shades of Stan Freberg.

How about some good will toward women too?

B.C.E.

Just for the record, there are two biblical narratives of the birth of Jesus, neither agreeing with the other much on the details. In Matthew, he was born in a house, in Luke it was a stable. That alone should give a clue that the particulars just weren’t that important to the authors. Why we get so caught up on the exact details is beyond me. They did not have the concept of journalistic exactitude – you told a story for the larger truth, and if the details happened to correspond with how things went, that was a bonus. And everybody knows Christmas didn’t happen on December 25 – it’s just that most don’t care. The Queen celebrates her birthday on a day oer than the actual date, too.

Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Star”, was about The Star of Bethlehem being found to be a supernova which wiped out a thriving civilization of billions. Ho Ho Ho. Merry Christmas.

I am with you. Happy Winter Solstice. Welcome increasing hours of day light.

Today (not Dec 25th) is the Winter Solstice. Happy Winter Solstice everyone, the TRUE Reason for the Season!!!

i thought Saturnalia got turned into Valentine’s Day.but I COULD be wrong (it’s happened before).

I going to hibernate; wake me up when it is over.

That’s right Mary…and on the day after we can go back to being absolute sihts to one another.

Hey, Pab! I always forget, is the cat’s name BARF-ly (as in vomit)?Or is he a drunken Bar-FLY?

Virgin Mary strikes again!

I’ve always thought the Magi were astrologers, as part of their profession. The “star” then wasn’t a literal star (or comet, or nova) but some alignment of the planets etc. interpreted by the Magi. Jesus was a Capricorn, then (“story-teller, natural leader, Messiah, generous…”)

If you switch to the Jewish religious festival calendar (based on a 28-day lunar cycle), and count roughly nine months from when Jesus was actually born, you get this time of year. So, what we’re actually celebrating may be the Immaculate Conception at about the same time as the Jewish Festival of Lights (Hanukkah). This is one of those situations where we kind of get the best of both worlds. (Check out the video “The Star of Bethlehem” for the details.)

Peace on Earth!!

HAH!!!

That will never happen. Someone will always be fighting or killing someone.

I think if we ever had peace on the whole earth. God would come and wipe us all out and start again.

Merry Christmas………

Random days off for the Queen, eh?

Actually, that idea is up for debate and is not necessarily true, and the evidence for it slim. The Christianization of Yule for the harder to convert northern Europeans is very obvious.