<sigh> I find some holiday responses troubling. To wish others a very joyous and happy holiday season and have them respond with bitter anger is disheartening. They behave as if my well-intended wish is not good enough or as if it somehow disrespects their faith. They mindlessly react to my heart-felt wish with a lot of baggage that has nothing to do with me or my intention.
This last angry person spouted a diatribe that demanded respect while being disrespectful. It was clear that he was angry that this season was also filled with other very special holidays; each as important to others for their own personal reasons as his was for him. He was not a positive reflection of his professed Faith and his rage blinded him.
My well-wishes shall continue to be inclusive, regardless of those who feel the need to keep them narrow, dismissive and angry.
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“One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight’s dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart.”
- The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
Image: Psyche Opening the Golden Box by John William Waterhouse, 1903.
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Apocalypse
(n.) -- late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin
apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose,
reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal"
(see Calypso).
The Christian end-of-the-world story is part of the
revelation in John of Patmos' book "Apokalypsis" (a title rendered into
English as "Apocalypse" c.1230 and "Revelations" by Wyclif c.1380).
Its
general sense in Middle English was "insight, vision; hallucination;"
meaning "a cataclysmic event" is modern.
As agent nouns, apocalypst
(1829), apocalypt (1834), and apocalyptist (1835) have been tried.
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Apocalypse
(n.) -- late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin
apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose,
reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal"
(see Calypso). 
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