Hey, what did all of you ridiculous atheists do today?

[Orrex]

I ask because this ridiculous atheist and his atheist wife spent a lovely Christmas day with our two zany (and, so far, atheist) children who were awash in what might be described as an embarrassment of toys.


Peace and good will to all!

[TZ]

1. I spent a lovely day

With my family. With the exception of a I'm bored and tired meltdown from the five year old at the end of the day it was a nice secular family get together.

[Orrex]

20. Sounds lovely!

The down-time at the end of a kid-crazy day can be a unique delight!

[WCGreen]

2. I got the remastered Beatles and had a Prime Rib dinner with my Sister

and BIL...

[RoccoR5955]

3. This atheist went to the soup kitchen and helped feed people.

Also helped out at the town's community dinner.
I have no family, and do not believe in a man in the sky who sent his son to Earth to be offed for the good of Earthlings. I don't believe in a talking snake, that a man lived inside a fish, or that an alien impregnated a women.
Sorry, but I don't believe in your brand of mythology.

May you be touched by His noodly appendages.
Arrgh and Ramen.

[Orrex]

34. I think perhaps you missed the full intent of the OP

But you picked a wonderful way to spend your day!

[panader0]

4. This unreligious person gave a two hundred titheing

to each of my three kids. Several beers.

[Orrex]

19. Ah, the tithes that bind.

Enjoy!

[Edweird]

5. Mostly nothing. Actually, totally nothing.

And it's gonna be like this till Jan 4th.

[Orrex]

29. Was it all that you dreamed it could be? And more?

[ZombieHorde]

37. Nihilist!

:P

[Edweird]

63. Guilty as charged.

[taterguy]

6. Unspeakable things with goats

Why do you ask?

[Orrex]

9. Because I noticed that a few of my neighbor's goats were behaving strangely

and I didn't want to get blamed.

[RoccoR5955]

65. Personally, I prefer sheep this time of year.

Their fluffy wool is warmer.

[Odin2005]

7. Had a great time with family.

My niece and I playing her new Wii games

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Lovely day with parents celebrating festivus

in the name of the FSM. Actually we had to go visit my nanny's son and daughter in law. Her brother died two days ago.

[BlueJazz]

10. This Atheist performed an all-day chore for a retired lady down the street.

When I crawl in bed tonight I'll think "I'm happy with myself and this was a wonderderful day"

[MattBaggins]

11. Had a great time

Sister in law and her husband are visiting from Germany. They went to mass yesterday and I had fun chiding them for wasting time when they really don't believe the nonsense anyway. Had a great brunch and spent some time with good friends at their house this morning and a decent dinner at home this evening.

Kids had a grand time with the presents and were happy with what they got.

Got a Wii so me and the kids were playing together all day.

[Orrex]

32. That sounds like a blast!

Every few years I consider attending a Christmas Eve mass just for old time's sake, but I usually talk myself out of it around 1:30 on Christmas morning, after I realize I've missed all of them.

And by that time it's too late to wake up for the morning mass on the 25th!

[UTUSN]

12. Us PAN-THEISTS have a good day EVERY day!1 n/t

[Warpy]

13. Very quiet day, baked some bread

and grilled myself some halibut with buerre blanc, something I haven't done for a long time.

Mythbusters has been on all day, diverting TV and a great change from all the pious fare on other stations all over the dial.

I'm out of family, so the holidays are very quiet for me. After years of drama, it comes as a great relief.

[Orrex]

31. That sounds delicious--save me some!

And, because I like you, I'll even spare you the "just for the halibut" jokes.

[aikoaiko]

14. I partipated in a cultural tradition with verve and gusto.

Plus my 4.5 year old is a true believer....in Santa.

[Orrex]

26. Verve *and* gusto? That's a full day!

My five-year-old didn't believe last year but was afraid not to believe this year, at the risk of missing out on the haul.

[AndrewP]

15. This atheist was snowed in his house today. LOL

Well, nothing was open anyway I guess. Lots of Animal Planet channel watching.

[Orrex]

30. Just be glad you still had cable!

And that you caught a rare day when there was programming worth watching!

[krawhitham]

16. celebrated chistmas

Well gave the boy toys anyway

[Orrex]

24. That's how it was here.

Madness, I tell you. But good madness.


Mostly...

[netania99]

17. I ate 1/2 a flan

Not such a great idea. :-)

[Orrex]

21. If you feel bad now, wait until tomorrow

You'll feel the wrath of custard's last stand.

[CANDO]

18. I had the joy of setting up an iPod Touch.

You just don't pull shit out of the box and press the on button anymore. It has to be connected to a PC and synced and updated and screwed around with until you just want to break the damned thing. Same went for the GPS for my wife. Altogether, I'd say I spent 4 hours setting up the two devices.

[Orrex]

23. If them damn iPods were so great, it would have set up the GPS *for* you.

[Occulus]

38. Just wait until you decide to jailbreak it.

And you should learn how, you really should. Since it's an iPod Touch and not an iPhone, you can safely use Blackra1n to do it, even with firmware 3.1.2 (which I assume you already have if you've updated it as you imply). After doing so, when you need to reboot (this should be fairly rare), you use Blackra1n and not iTunes.

With a jailbroken iPod Touch, your device can look like this:



(yeah, that's a five-icon dock)

or this:



Jailbreaking is just awesome. I highly recommend reading about it and then doing it (following all instructions carefully, of course). It allows a lot of customization Apple doesn't want you to be able to do.

[notadmblnd]

22. I stayed in bed til 5pm

got up made coffee, cooked some Juicy Lucy burgers my son has been wanting me to make, and have been reading here since. Next stop,, back to bed where it's warm and comfy to watch TV and vegetate.

[mike_c]

25. worked in my home office while the female unit and some friends...

...hung out and cooked a big dinner. Best of both worlds, kind of.

[Orrex]

27. Nice!

Sounds like a lovely day for the female unit, too!

[Orrex]

28. Who's the Scrooge who unrec'ed this thread?

:wtf:

[Orrex]

33. Now that's more like it!

:hi:

[aroach]

35. Same here

I wouldn't call it an embarrassment of toys this year due to our financial situation but it was still a lovely day with family.

The cats have been waging a war on the Christmas tree for weeks now but I don't know it they are atheists or not.

[Orrex]

39. Cats aren't atheists; they're fluffy little bundles of evil

If I posted my most recent reflections about my own cat's evil behaviors, the mods would lock the thread.

[Retrograde]

56. especially calicos

John Ashcroft got one thing right: calicos are spawn of the devil (glances at DestructoCat, sitting on her perch dreaming of what she's going to destroy next).

[Blasphemer]

48. My cat has been having a field day with my mom's tree

Plants which are alive, she generally ignores but she wants to munch on the artificial tree!

[ZombieHorde]

36. Myt atheist wife and atheist kids and I played video games, ate homemade egg mcmuffins, and

read some Dumb Bunny Books.

[Orrex]

40. Ronald McDonald is totally going to sue your godless ass for that

[ZombieHorde]

52. He won't because I KNOW...

[rgbecker]

41. Went to church, sang carols, ate pancakes, fell asleep in front of fire....

Went to friends for a Christmas dinner cooked without a stove in their still under construction house...came home and checked in with the DU only to find everyone still worried about having to buy insurance even though 90 percent already have it and the 90 percent of those that will have to buy it will get it at a huge subsidized discount. Gotta love this life.

[liberal_at_heart]

57. Yeah, you just got to love insurance

I know I love it when I get a $2000 doctor bill because my insurance will only cover what they consider reasonable and customary charges. I wish I could walk into a store and say I think a reasonable price for this coke is 10 cents and hand them a dime and walk out with a coke.

[bikebloke]

42. Took a walk on reconnaissance.

To see what kind of snow melt was needed so I can get back on my back. And it's a lot. There wasn't room to share the roads with cars. That was before the rain started, which is doing a good job of melting all the snow out my window. So perhaps I can ride again by Sunday.

Then I tried scanning photos, which didn't work so well. I'll try again on Boxing Day.

[jmm]

43. This agnostic talked her family into watching "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians."

That alone made my day was a success but I also got some cool gifts :D

[Milo_Bloom]

44. Hope you had a Super Saturnalia!

[GoneOffShore]

45. Went to the movies and set up the Wii!

Saw "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and totally enjoyed it.

Sassy Saturnalia!

[Th1onein]

46. I created a sculture for my new granddaughter.

Turned out really well.

[southernyankeebelle]

47. I think the whole thing is down right funny. I mean I believe in god alright. But

Jesus wasn't born on christmas. People take it to seriously. I do watch the midnight mass from Rome but that is it.

[NMMNG]

49. I called my parents

Other than that it's been a rather average day. Play with the kittens, treat a migraine, usual daily routine, etc. :shrug:

[jgraz]

50. I spent the day with my friend who's recovering from brain surgery

And I was very thankful that I was an atheist, because I wouldn't want to live in a Universe where a magical man in the sky suddenly decided one day to give my friend a brain tumor.

[PDJane]

51. I had a lovely dinner with my son and his spouse,

exchanged and impressive amount of useful stuff...sweaters and scrapbooking and kitchen stuff, some electronics...and some jewellry, talked for hours about memories and politics, played with a funny little furball she says is a dog (I think it's a long-haired rodent that barks, myself), picked my son's brain about all kinds of stuff, and generally enjoyed myself.

Said son is an atheist too, thank you, and we had a very nice secular day just relaxing!

However, they are coming down with some kind of galloping creeping crud that I hope I don't get.

[liberal_at_heart]

53. My atheist daughter played with her Christmas presents

My husband and I only have a few more Christmases with her before she goes off to college so we are enjoying our time with her.

[Marr]

54. I celebrated Christmas.

Had dinner with the family, relaxed, exchanged a few gifts... that sort of thing. I love Christmas.

[Retrograde]

55. Had dinner with my atheist friends

Made a turkey, they brought the sides, we brought our the matching silver (inherited from my grandmother) and the good wines, talked and had a good time.

[Liberal In Texas]

58. Made some food, called relatives, installed a new EVGA 260 video card in my wife's

computer. Had some drinks with friends later. Now on DU having a nitecap.

There you go, a prefect Xmas day.

[Imagevision]

59. My family and I visted inlaws to pick up Christmas gifts...

[Cid_B]

60. Agnostic and my Xbox....

Lovely Christmas...

[JCMach1]

61. Since it is a cultural tradition, we had a blast without all the religious obligations

We ate at an awesome buffet, opened our presents underneath a traditional tree and watched a pagan film, Avatar...

It was awesome. My girls had a blast.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

62. We went and saw "Avatar" and took the dog for a long walk.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

64. This ridiculous atheist watched his 8yo daughter play with her ridiculous presents.

She was ridiculously happy.