Re: [at-l] non hiking post/ the real meaning of Christmas

[OrangeBug <thornel@ibm.net>]

In some defence for KC, she is certainly not the first nor the worst 
offender/recipient of having the trail rearrange priorities and 
relationships. She may be somewhat more expressive and blatant than others, 
and quick to take offence and to dish it back. It is curious that she finds 
it important to defend the historical significance of the pagan solstice 
rituals while willing to burn Bibles and desecrate other belief systems.

This is part of who KC is, and who we are on this list. Intolerance is 
tolerated, at least until the DEL key is located. I think that the 
religious holidays of Christmas, Honaka, Ramadan and others will hold their 
own if KC and others wish to hike nude tonight to celebrate the solstice.
Hike your own hike, and allow others the same freedom.

At 08:56 AM 12/21/1999 -0800, Tim Rich wrote:
>I generally refrain from posting an objection when I find something
>particularly distasteful, but to not respond to KC's blathyr was even more
>distateful.  Since I'm typing, I might as well add that if the best thyng
>that happened to a person on a hike is that they were unfaithful to their
>partnyr, however rationalized, it's a sad commentary on one's trail
>experience.

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