Should we have a Thanksgiving Day?

[mercalia]

Seems like we have all the other ones? Halloween, Black Friday

What would the meaning for us be?
Give our thanks we got rid of them 200 or so years ago?

[NATURAL ANKLING]

NO

[Tigerbiten]

Only if they take "bonfire night" .......

[Si]

To be fair Thanksgiving is a British invention....just happened to be abroad when they invented it.

[softlips]

To be fair Thanksgiving is a British invention....just happened to be abroad when they invented it.

Goes back to Harvest Festivals, first documented ones were Spanish but the practice was widespread already then.

[Cyril Haearn]

We should have lots more holidays and work less

31.10 was a *one-off* holiday in Germany this year, reformation day. Luther was actually against holidays (probably more against catholic rituals)

Now many German politrickians are talking about making 31.10 a regular holiday

The right sort of populism, +1!

[pwa]

We should have lots more holidays and work less

31.10 was a *one-off* holiday in Germany this year, reformation day. Luther was actually against holidays (probably more against catholic rituals)

Now many German politrickians are talking about making 31.10 a regular holiday

The right sort of populism, +1!

If Luther were alive today and expressing the same views he would not be all that popular in Western Europe. He had very strict religious views, and he was certainly not liberal. Likewise the Founding Fathers of the USA. They wanted to create a society in which everyone followed their own Christian ways, to the letter.

[al_yrpal]

A year after 19th March 2019, we can celebrate March 19th as British National Sovereignty Day!

Al

[reohn2]

A year after 19th March 2019, we can celebrate March 19th as British National Sovereignty Day!

Al

So we can all look to the continent and wish we hadn't ?

[mercalia]

We should have lots more holidays and work less

31.10 was a *one-off* holiday in Germany this year, reformation day. Luther was actually against holidays (probably more against catholic rituals)

Now many German politrickians are talking about making 31.10 a regular holiday

The right sort of populism, +1!

If Luther were alive today and expressing the same views he would not be all that popular in Western Europe. He had very strict religious views, and he was certainly not liberal. Likewise the Founding Fathers of the USA. They wanted to create a society in which everyone followed their own Christian ways, to the letter.

yes they wanted to escape a tyranny so they could set up their own - and they have, with all those absurd fundamental christians who deny evolution and the rest

[Mick F]

To be fair Thanksgiving is a British invention....just happened to be abroad when they invented it.

The early settlers in eastern N America eventually managed to survive and get in a harvest, and TGD was in celebration from back then.

Yes, it was an earlier Protestant Reformation festival(?) but as the early settlers were mainly Protestants, so the "tradition" was taken. Not necessarily British though.

[al_yrpal]

I went to Jamestown the first American settlement that actually suceeded. It was a salutory experience seeing the graves of the many pioneers who perished. You could almost sense their presence there on the peaceful river bank. Many Americans look back to that time with pride and fondness. With our turbulent history we dont have any equivalent. Some sort of national day would help to draw us all together though.

Al

[djnotts]

A year after 19th March 2019, we can celebrate March 19th as British National Sovereignty Day!

Al

Delete Sovereignty, insert Disaster.

[Mick F]

The early settlers had a terrible time of it.
Maybe they knew it would be difficult, but better than what they were leaving behind. If they managed to even reach the New World it was a blessing.

Some were shipwrecked at Bermuda in the 1600's and spent years rebuilding a ship from the wrecked ones on the reefs, and then the survivors carried on to America.

[Cyril Haearn]

North America was inhabited before the Europeans settled there, one understands

The first European to *discover* it was Prince Madog, from Wales of course