⌛ Happy Thanksgiving to all who enjoy

Well to everyone one no matter what you're eating, have a nice holiday and stay safe, there will be drunks on the road tonight, driving on the wrong side with no lights on at breakneck speeds. that's why I'm staying home having dinner with friends.

 

Pfotoguy - and how is that different than any other night here?
LOL......

And thank you for your thought and good wishes.

 

well, the basic thought of thanksgiving is, like mentioned before to thank god for the harvest of the year. The roots of this "Harvest Festival" going back to the ancient Rome before Christ.

The church took that over 300 years AC and (I only can assume) America build the today known Thanksgiving on that tradition.

Protestants in Europe celebrate thanksgiving on the first Sunday after St.Michael (29.September), Catholics on the usually first Sunday in October.

In the States it is a holiday after Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863.

Asian countries celebrate Thanksgiving on different dates.

 

Thank You Rhoody!

You have just answered a Question I was asked Yesterday and had to Admit, that I did not know the beginnings of "Thanksgiving" My Daughter Laughed, she is begining to realise, Dad does not know everything. She is getting like her mother. Can you imagine this?


Jack P.:o

 

Jack I have found through 3 marriages that men only know what their wives allow them to know, and nothing more. In that respect, I am considered to be the "village idiot".

 

Oh so True!

And Ron, I only wear the trousers in my house because they are too big for those 2

Jac P.

 

We had Guenther's thanksgiving dinner at Casablanca tonight; unfortunately, I forgot my camera. Starters we had a special spicy turkey salad and Thai beef salad, and for the main huge servings of turkey (breast and drumstick), mash potatoes, red cabbage, cranberry, vegies, and extra gravy. Washed it down with a fantastic riesling wine, wifey had a mango banana shake, dessert warm strawberries and ice cream with chocolate sauce. Plenty of leftovers for sandwiches tomorrow. First traditional thanksgiving dinner in five years. Life is good.

 

sounds mouthwatering PatO!!! Good stuff

 

ThanksGiving

The meaning of Thanks Giving at least for Americans......
There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding the people responsible for the American Thanksgiving tradition. Contrary to popular opinion, the Pilgrims didn't wear buckles on their shoes or hats. They weren't teetotalers, either. They smoked tobacco and drank beer. And, most importantly, their first harvest festival and subsequent "thanksgivings" weren't held to thank the local natives for saving their lives.

Do you know there are public schools in America today actually teaching that? Some textbooks, in their discomfort with open discussions of Christianity, say as much. I dare suggest most parents today know little more about this history than their children.

Yet, there is no way to divorce the spiritual from the celebration of Thanksgiving – at least not the way the Pilgrims envisioned it, a tradition dating back to the ancient Hebrews and their feasts of Succoth and Passover.

The Pilgrims came to America for one reason – to form a separate community in which they could worship God as they saw fit. They had fled England because King James I was persecuting those who did not recognize the Church of England's absolute civil and spiritual authority.

On the two-month journey of 1620, William Bradford and the other elders wrote an extraordinary charter – the Mayflower Compact. Why was it extraordinary? Because it established just and equal laws for all members of their new community – believers and non-believers alike. Where did they get such revolutionary ideas? From the Bible, of course.

When the Pilgrims landed in the New World, they found a cold, rocky, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, Bradford wrote. No houses to shelter them. No inns where they could refresh themselves. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims died of sickness or exposure – including Bradford's wife. Though life improved for the Pilgrims when spring came, they did not really prosper. Why? Once again, the textbooks don't tell the story, but Bradford's own journal does. The reason they didn't succeed initially is because they were practicing an early form of socialism.

The original contract the Pilgrims had with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store. Each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community. Bradford, as governor, recognized the inherent problem with this collectivist system.

"The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years ... that by taking away property, and bringing community into common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God," Bradford wrote. "For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense ... that was thought injustice."

What a surprise! Even back then people did not want to work without incentive. Bradford decided to assign a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of free enterprise. What was the result?

"This had very good success," wrote Bradford, "for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been."

As a result, the Pilgrims soon found they had more food than they could eat themselves. They set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London much faster than expected. The success of the Plymouth colony thus attracted more Europeans and set off what we call the "Great Puritan Migration."

But it wasn't just an economic system that allowed the Pilgrims to prosper. It was their devotion to God and His laws. And that's what Thanksgiving is really all about. The Pilgrims recognized that everything we have is a gift from God – even our sorrows. Their Thanksgiving tradition was established to honor God and thank Him for His blessings and His grace.

Today we continue that tradition in my home – and I hope in yours. God bless you, God bless America, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Cheers and happy TG.

Ron

 

Thanksgiving was one of the 1st fiestas!

Gobble, gobble, gobble...............burp! :D