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This is a simple Christmas cool/cold salad.
Cook some kidney beans, some rice (basmati is best, but a well washed long grain will doo very well too), some chopped mushrooms, and some corn and some peas. Let them cool down, (you can cook the rice with Turmeric to make it yellow if you like)...
Occam's razor and the optics of photos containing one large bright object washing out the faint light of other objects make me think that both NASA abd Facebook didn't lie on the matter of a globe shaped Earth. :)
I do not doubt that some Christian feasts fall on the same days as some pagan feasts did in ancient times but I do not see any good reason to assume that the coincidence of days and dates exist BECAUSE Christians were keen to recruit pagans and used the days as the means of facilitating such...
I marked two statements in your post with bold red text because I intend to reply to the claims made in those statements.
The first statement is 1. "The Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word was God" – meaning the Word was with Himself.
The Greek of John 1:1 ends with καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος...
Why are "we" not talking about a local celebration? If we want to know when/where a practise started then local celebrations matter. Your post is dismissing the facts to make a "point" that is irrelevant to the question of when/where 25-Dec first was celebrated by Christians as Christ's birthday.
The news said that the weather forecasters are having a hard time because two tropical cyclones are brewing in the north of the state (about 2,500 Km away from me). They say that they have created unstable air masses that are messing everything up :P
17c now (06:55) heading for 35c.
I question the value (except as an emotional comfort) of feeling close to God when being close to God is not [necessarily] the same thing as feeling close.