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No thanks to disgusting amounts of food.
No thanks to idiotic football games.
No thanks to rediculous shopping sprees.
No thanks to false piety.
No thanks to your self-congratulations.
No thanks to genocide.
No thanks to slavery.
No thanks to exploitation.

Squanto was a Pawtuxet man who saved the Pilgrims from dying during their first winter. In return he was enslaved and his people were completely wiped out. What did he have to be thankful for?

No, thank you, I won't be celebrating your stupid, chauvinistic holiday.

yeah but much like religion, people really arent intrested in the truth. they just wanna feel good and have an excuse to eat and party.
also i relise the cowboys are americas team but jesus christ do they have to be televised every thanksgiving? :boring:

Unfortunately, that tends to be true all too often.

He Has nothing to be Thankful for. He was kind and the white folks weren't. I Do not celebrate Thanksgiving for the white people. I Celebrate it, and remember what happened to those poor people.

Meh, but halloween really isn't that bad.

down here we have the Day of the Dead on November 2nd, but Halloween is already all over the place... There has been campaign to stop it, this year I only saw a bunch of four kids asking for "trick or threat", they were not even dressed =P

It's exactly like non-Christians celebrating Christmas. It has CHRIST in the name. It's a Christian holiday and it is supposed to be for that religion, yet people of different religions- or at least no religions still celebrate it.

(I don't have much room to talk I'm agnostic theist, but I still live with my parents and they are Christian. So I guess that's ok.)

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Thanksgiving is a holiday rooted in what is a celebration for one season, one greedy culture, and a shame for years and the death of many in it's aftermath. But the premise has value, so why do we toss the baby with the bathwater? I'm not a christian, yet I celebrate Christmas... there is something enjoyable in the process of finding the right gift for someone, and in sharing time with those closest. Even if it is stressful and baffling, it still resonates with me. So I find happiness in the event, having sung with choirs and church groups to have the experience of it.

The comments on Halloween baffle as well... which is itself the combination of many different cultural celebrations, and takes on its own meaning in different geographic regions as it has spread. What is the problem with others finding cause for occasion?

*** **** negativity. *chuckle*


M.

Here (halloween) it haves no meaning, zero, nada. Thanksgiving means less than zero, just another marketing day they're trying to shovel down our throats.

The only good thing about halloween is girls dressed up at the disco

Thanksgiving will forever be the most memorial day that my grandfather passed not too long after my grandmother. Oh and also their dog!

No thanks to October and November for this.

..wonder who's next on the list for December!

Here is the most recent result of your decadence, America: man trampled to death outside Walmart