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Wishing All Here Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!!!
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same to you 
Merry X'mas and Happy New Year everyone. Just a gentle reminder to all on what a fruitfull year this has been for all Singaporeans. Here is what Santa delivered this year - one whole GRC- a minority and seriously compromised President- a quite, discreet and clear withdrawal of Mdm Ho from public eye for obvious reasons
it's a real fucking christmas...damned sway this year.everything fucking gone wrong!
merry christmas to all....hope the new year will change things for all of you...old uncle fucking damned sway ...hope 2012 will be better....if not not worse!!!
merry christmas to all....hope the new year will change things for all of you...old uncle fucking damned sway ...hope 2012 will be better....if not not worse!!!
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ah lianbeng can find any virgins? ...lianbeng asks, "heard xmas eve is the time to deflower virgins iszit?"
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The Origin of Christmas
Some have traced the Christmas tree back at least as far as the Prophet Jeremiah who wrote the book Jeremiah in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
Opposition to the Christmas tree was intense in past centuries. The early Christian Church in the third century strictly prohibited the decoration of their houses with evergreen boughs. The decorated Christmas tree only caught on in the mid-19th century.
Modern-day opposition continues: some condemn the Christmas tree because they believe it to be a Christian symbol; others condemn it because they believe -- incorrectly -- that the custom of cutting down a tree, erecting it in the home and decorating it is a Pagan custom. 1 For many people today, it is primarily as a secular symbol of hope for the New Year and the future return of warmth to the earth. Its future is assured in spite of opposition.
In Europe, Pagans in the past did not cut down evergreen trees, bring them into their homes and decorate them. That would have been far too destructive of nature. But during the Roman celebration of the feast of Saturnalia, Pagans did decorate their houses with clippings of evergreen shrubs. They also decorated living trees with bits of metal and replicas of their God, Bacchus.
Olden days Brits worship this Winter Solstice celebration. Christians are supposed to be abstained from such observation which is a pagan practice. The Chinese celebrates this too.
Some have traced the Christmas tree back at least as far as the Prophet Jeremiah who wrote the book Jeremiah in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
Opposition to the Christmas tree was intense in past centuries. The early Christian Church in the third century strictly prohibited the decoration of their houses with evergreen boughs. The decorated Christmas tree only caught on in the mid-19th century.
Modern-day opposition continues: some condemn the Christmas tree because they believe it to be a Christian symbol; others condemn it because they believe -- incorrectly -- that the custom of cutting down a tree, erecting it in the home and decorating it is a Pagan custom. 1 For many people today, it is primarily as a secular symbol of hope for the New Year and the future return of warmth to the earth. Its future is assured in spite of opposition.
In Europe, Pagans in the past did not cut down evergreen trees, bring them into their homes and decorate them. That would have been far too destructive of nature. But during the Roman celebration of the feast of Saturnalia, Pagans did decorate their houses with clippings of evergreen shrubs. They also decorated living trees with bits of metal and replicas of their God, Bacchus.
Olden days Brits worship this Winter Solstice celebration. Christians are supposed to be abstained from such observation which is a pagan practice. The Chinese celebrates this too.
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u wanna include in where? ...
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