How do we know it's Deciembre Again?

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Nazz
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Post by Nazz » December 22nd, 2008, 9:13 pm

"Xtian" = shorthand for "Christian", same as
"Xmas" = shorthand for "Christmas",

at least as I've always heard it and used it.

and it's somewhat disrespectful shorthand, some would say....

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Post by stilltrucking » December 22nd, 2008, 9:21 pm

ah so

I thought there was more to it

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Post by Nazz » December 22nd, 2008, 9:28 pm

googled it and apparently "X' is actually a symbol for Christ, derived from the Greek letter chi. Interesting. Didn't know that.

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Post by stilltrucking » December 22nd, 2008, 9:54 pm

The X cross symbolism crossed my mind

I did not know about the Chi Greek letter for Christ either.

But I have a morbid infatuation with
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Which has absolutely no relevance to this discussion.

I am sure because I Chi squared it.

I am tempted to google
Cause I sure would like to know if what I just said makes any sense.

If you are studying to be an archeologist you better dam sure make sure you know how to run a chi square equation on a pile of pottery shards.

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Post by tinkerjack » December 23rd, 2008, 2:36 am

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Williams Jennings Bryan wrote his speech about mankind crucified on a cross of gold.

Pottery shards was only the beginning of my crucifixion

I remember the night of an alternative reality coming crashing down in a classroom of the anthropology building on the university of Maryland campus in college park Maryland

It was brown mescaline powder and a course called Statistics for the Behavioral sciences that popped the bubble of my twelve-year college career as a sophomore

When it dawned on me I could not handle the truth. That the only reality I would ever have was statistical.

Pity I had finally decided on a major

When the world flips
And you find yourself standing on your head in the southern hemisphere
and your feet on the ground in the northern.
Like seeing a locomotive upside down.
I just walked away cause I could not handle so much truth.
Like seeing through concrete
Ja JA Chi Square
It blew my mind.
Oiy, look who is kvethcing now
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