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I'm a long-term IT professional currently concentrated on SUN Solaris systems administration. Other interests include freelance writing (fiction and nonfiction), playing guitar and motorcycles. I live with Lydia, a PC and network expert, in the Colorado mountains. We both work from home almost 100% of the time.

My passion is ...

SUN Solaris systems administration, playing guitar, motorcycles, freelance writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing.

My parents always told me ...

Don't get her pregnant.

My childhood ambition ...

Get through this! God, they treat me like a kid.

My favorite memory ...

I knew that a minute ago . . .

Why I write ...

Same reason as breathing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Obviously, this place.

My first job ...

Sucked.

My best moment ...

Has yet to happen, and when it does I won't realize it.

My inspiration ...

Comes from all sources, real and imagined.

Religion & Spirituality > Religious Concepts (Other) Is the Christmas tree a religious symbol?

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Sometimes a Christmas tree is just a tree. We have a lot of them around here because we live in a forest. But are they religious symbols? A symbol is something that has meaning in itself and more meaning because people see something beyond what's on the surface. A cross is just a couple of lines intersecting, but it has more meaning when it's considered a Crucifix. The Christmas tree is a borrowed symbol from old pantheistic ideas, or ideas that put God into nature. Where Christianity places God above, behind or in some manner away from the universe, the creation, pantheism puts God right ...

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