It's not the same Newtonmas as when I was a kid

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While web surfing I accidently found a post by Sasha Chislenko about Newtonmas and I thought it is a great idea so now it's p.r. time!

Here is a copy of the original post:

" [ This is my traditional mailing at the end of the year; I am sending it out early this time so that you have time to pass this letter along to your friends. Please let me know if you have any comments on this text. - Sasha ]

--------------------- Merry Newtonmass ! ------------------------

As you may know, Christmas as a holiday was instituted a few centuries after the alleged birth of Christ, on the day when the non-Christian population used to have their festivities anyway.
This operation to ideologize the masses while letting them have their fun may have been one of the most crucial and successful ideological decisions in the history of the human society.

This later became a typical trick of subverting the meaning of an event while preserving people's favorite ritual shell.

As an attempt to do this again for a good cause, some good people (*) came up with a suggestion to celebrate Newtonmas instead of Christmas.
Unlike Christ, Sir Isaac Newton was definitely born on December 25.
Newton's contribution to the world of reason and influence of his thoughts on the essence of the modern civilization and worldviews and occupations of most readers of this message - not to mention on the existence of the technological systems that made sending this message possible - is a lot more certain than contributions ever ascribed to Christ.

So why not put some sense into your festivities and celebrate Newtonmas this year? This can be fun too!
You can play various games with apples (grown and kept fresh until winter by modern industry), and decorate the technological objects that have been bringing you so much joy this year - from your PC to TV set to your car. You can also dress up as
Solar Cause and bring your children (together with sounds "He! He! He!" - an expression of playfulness and the chemical sign for Helium) stories about the real source of life and energy on this little planet.
A figure of Luna, a friendly companion of Solar Cause, may bring an additional participant into your performance, and show the spectators that the best effects result from long-term collaboration of real-life
forces, and that they can learn in every detail how things work, understand the world they live in, and make it
still better with the combined power of their own minds and bodies.

Merry Newtonmas, everybody!"

(*) See also the story of Ex-Mass and Solar Cause by Tom 0. Morrow at http://members.aol.com/t0morrow/Ex-Mass.html

Alexander Chislenko http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Would we get to set up Newton-nativity scenes?

― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure. Improvisation is key while waiting for the commercialisation of more props. As an example 2 years ago I printed a small face of newton that I glued in the face of baby christ.

Wich other games could be play with apples? I was thinking about juggling because it got both the apple and the gravity thematic.

An apple-size sputnik1 could be used as a substitute for the star of david on top of the Newtonmas tree.

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

apple-bobbing = dud (displacement went out with the Archimedes principle (infinitely less successful thievery of gag from university tutor, apologies for pisspoorness, I am pretending I'm not having a deadline crisis, can you tell?))

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

but newton was a horrible person.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, so this is not a thread about Newton, Mass.

― Jen (nstop), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

lol Jen
I mean Arrrh! Oh no! Not a conter-meme so soon! That naissant holiday is still a fragile lil'thing. So now I gotta take care of that Newton, Mass situation... spiriti-poo witch-craft stylee!
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Keith I don't now about the dirt on newton you are referring to but it just can't be worst than all that alienation and hate of the body due to that feel good fiction about impossible bodies of perfection called "god" and "angels" and shit that jesus cooked-up so addictively. No need to go in here on how that friggin crippled humanity for a long while and it's still going on.

"Opticks" and "Principia" on the other hand influenced the way of the modern life, ILx included.

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

For a mascott : bonhomme apple

Newtonmas eve desserts: apple pie, caramel apple

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drinks:
"malibu baked apple"
2 oz. Malibu rum
2-3 oz. heated cranberry juice
2- 3 oz. heated apple juice
Combine in stemmed mug.Top with whipped cream (optional).
Carmel Apple
1 oz Burnett's sour apple vodka
1/2 oz Du Bouchett butterscotch schnapps
Shake with ice and serve in a chilled martini glass.

"Apple-tini"
-one part vodka
-one part apple pucker schnaaps
-two parts sweet and sour mix
Shake in shaker, strain, and garnish with thin slice of granny smith apple

"Hot apple pie"
-1 1/2 oz Tuaca liqueur*
-Hot apple cider
(Makes one mug)

*Tuaca is a Italian apple base brandy with citrus undertones; sometimes referred to as milk brandy since there is milk in it

the one I wanna try this year:
3 cl apple cider
1 cl armagnac
1 cl white vermouth, dry
2 cl calvados
1 cl= (0.33 oz)
in a shaker half filled with ice cubes pour ingredients, hit and serve
in glasses
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Newtonmas wish: Merry Newtonmas, let's build ourselves a better future!

― christbustre, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

At nite the whole gang would watch celestial bodies with a telescope.

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean at nite the whole gang is watching celestial bodies with a telescope.

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Newtonmas needs music!
Anyone game? Where could I continue Newtonmas propaganda?

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Song titles:

Newtonmas dinner
Newtonmas in New York London Paris Tokyo Munich: the communication millenium
Jolly Newtonmas
Launching a Satellite of love
Apple pies and caramel apples
Merry Newtonmas darling
Sweet computer
Rocking around the Newtonmas computer
Bonhomme apple
The newtonmas song
Gravity and Winter solstice

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

but newton was a horrible person

how about Darwinmas, then? or Einsteinmas?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Newtonmas needs more mythos.
It's up against : a drummer boy, rudolph, santa, bells, snow, the color white, the color red.

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Darwin's day now replaces easter day
Einstein's day now replaces All Saint's Day

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

was it washington that had slaves and all that? Nevertheless his name is all over the place...

― bonhomme apple, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

that's right bonhomme apple!
that's the spirit! anarchy is so much better anyway.

and by the way you rule :D

― christbuster, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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