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Yvonne wrote:
.....and without Christmas, there would not be Christians, I would not want to ban that either.

Huh? That has got to be the most outrageous thing yet.

"Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world."

There were christians CENTURIES before a formal day of celebration was designated. In fact, many cultures celebrate January 6th, Epiphany, as the true birthdate of Christ.

You disagree with anything that does not fit neatly into your myoptic world & that is truly sad because there are as many good things happening, as bad, that we should all be contributing to.

Christmas celebrations in New England were illegal during part of the 17th century, and were culturally taboo or rare in Puritan colonies from foundation until the 1850s. The Puritan community found no Scriptural justification for celebrating Christmas, and associated such celebrations with paganism and idolatry. The earliest years of the Plymouth Colony were troubled with non-Puritans attempting to make merry, and Governor William Bradford was forced to reprimand offenders.

Haizum wrote:
Um...Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is full of naked and half naked people in close proximity to each other for christ's sake. His statue of David, a biblical figure, stands in full naked glory, pubic hair and all. Equating nudity with pornography is a product of your own perverted mind.

I do not compare these photos to Michelangelo; they're mediocre and derivative at best.

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Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.

The Mezuzah would be in their doorframe. I don?t care about you blessing your condo.

Considering the Catholic Church chooses to depict a nearly naked man with spikes through his hands, thorns around his head and slashes and cuts dripping blood throughout his body, I find it rather comical that a bunch of healthy people in a photograph would be alarming, disturbing or embarrassing?

This is blasphemy and offensive towards Catholics and religion it should be removed and you should be chastised for posting this. I am surprised the webmaster has not done so yet.

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Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.

The Mezuzah would be in their doorframe. I don?t care about you blessing your condo.

Considering the Catholic Church chooses to depict a nearly naked man with spikes through his hands, thorns around his head and slashes and cuts dripping blood throughout his body, I find it rather comical that a bunch of healthy people in a photograph would be alarming, disturbing or embarrassing?

This is blasphemy and offensive towards Catholics and religion it should be removed and you should be chastised for posting this. I am surprised the webmaster has not done so yet.

Yvonne wrote:
.....and without Christmas, there would not be Christians, I would not want to ban that either.

Yvonne wrote:
There is a difference, HeightsBrat, you cannot change people's attire you see in the street but you can change the pictures on the wall.

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Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.

The Mezuzah would be in their doorframe. I don?t care about you blessing your condo.

Considering the Catholic Church chooses to depict a nearly naked man with spikes through his hands, thorns around his head and slashes and cuts dripping blood throughout his body, I find it rather comical that a bunch of healthy people in a photograph would be alarming, disturbing or embarrassing?

This is blasphemy and offensive towards Catholics and religion it should be removed and you should be chastised for posting this. I am surprised the webmaster has not done so yet.

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Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.

The Mezuzah would be in their doorframe. I don?t care about you blessing your condo.

Considering the Catholic Church chooses to depict a nearly naked man with spikes through his hands, thorns around his head and slashes and cuts dripping blood throughout his body, I find it rather comical that a bunch of healthy people in a photograph would be alarming, disturbing or embarrassing?

This is blasphemy and offensive towards Catholics and religion it should be removed and you should be chastised for posting this. I am surprised the webmaster has not done so yet.

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Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.

The Mezuzah would be in their doorframe. I don?t care about you blessing your condo.

Considering the Catholic Church chooses to depict a nearly naked man with spikes through his hands, thorns around his head and slashes and cuts dripping blood throughout his body, I find it rather comical that a bunch of healthy people in a photograph would be alarming, disturbing or embarrassing?

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devilsadvocate wrote:
I find this hilarious, particularly from the point of view of "omg, young children might see this!" Have any of you outraged people been around young children? The sexual connotations you bring to the artwork are the product of an adult mind. It isn't inherent in the artwork, and certainly not going to be brought by a prepubescent child's mind.

Which is all pretty amusing since any child can turn on the TV or browse common internet sites and see things that are dramatically more sexual in nature at any given moment. Hell, certain advertisements are more overtly sexual in nature than this.

I'm with you on this. People are going into OMG mode over pictures hanging in a building that may/may not be offensive but fail to realize that our own children dress in a pornographic manner. Just walk down any street & you see children & adults alike with their pants hanging below their arse's, young women with body parts jiggling with little left to the imagination. The artwork can be taken down but what are you going to do about the exposure the children are subjected to everyday?

devilsadvocate wrote:
I find this hilarious, particularly from the point of view of "omg, young children might see this!" Have any of you outraged people been around young children? The sexual connotations you bring to the artwork are the product of an adult mind. It isn't inherent in the artwork, and certainly not going to be brought by a prepubescent child's mind.

Which is all pretty amusing since any child can turn on the TV or browse common internet sites and see things that are dramatically more sexual in nature at any given moment. Hell, certain advertisements are more overtly sexual in nature than this.

TheBigGuy wrote:
So you are criticizing parents who want to protect their children from something they find offensive??? This building is part of their living environment, not the food court at the Newport Mall. They have a right to object. Curious why the SL only published two photos from the catalogue... were they the only ones fit to print?

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devilsadvocate wrote:
I find this hilarious, particularly from the point of view of "omg, young children might see this!" Have any of you outraged people been around young children? The sexual connotations you bring to the artwork are the product of an adult mind. It isn't inherent in the artwork, and certainly not going to be brought by a prepubescent child's mind.

Which is all pretty amusing since any child can turn on the TV or browse common internet sites and see things that are dramatically more sexual in nature at any given moment. Hell, certain advertisements are more overtly sexual in nature than this.

TheBigGuy wrote:
So you are criticizing parents who want to protect their children from something they find offensive??? This building is part of their living environment, not the food court at the Newport Mall. They have a right to object. Curious why the SL only published two photos from the catalogue... were they the only ones fit to print?

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devilsadvocate wrote:
I find this hilarious, particularly from the point of view of "omg, young children might see this!" Have any of you outraged people been around young children? The sexual connotations you bring to the artwork are the product of an adult mind. It isn't inherent in the artwork, and certainly not going to be brought by a prepubescent child's mind.

Which is all pretty amusing since any child can turn on the TV or browse common internet sites and see things that are dramatically more sexual in nature at any given moment. Hell, certain advertisements are more overtly sexual in nature than this.

"The coolest pictures are not on display, they're in the closet there someplace."

devilsadvocate wrote:
I find this hilarious, particularly from the point of view of "omg, young children might see this!" Have any of you outraged people been around young children? The sexual connotations you bring to the artwork are the product of an adult mind. It isn't inherent in the artwork, and certainly not going to be brought by a prepubescent child's mind.

Which is all pretty amusing since any child can turn on the TV or browse common internet sites and see things that are dramatically more sexual in nature at any given moment. Hell, certain advertisements are more overtly sexual in nature than this.

Yvonne wrote:
Sorry, I don't agree, this is close to porn without being porn, Sommerman.

Yvonne wrote:
Sorry, I don't agree, this is close to porn without being porn, Sommerman.

Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.

Yvonne wrote:
Hey wishful thinking, didn't you read what I wrote? I said my condo, not the building. The place where I reside. The blessing takes places inside my door, not outside. The priest uses Holy Water and prayers. By the way, many Jewish families have Mezuzah which is on the outside of their door. They do not need my OK for that so I am not seeking an OK for the blessing on my condo.