"Agnostica is the only truely secular winter celebration. It is a celebration for the scientist in all of us, celebrating not some contrived story written thousands of years ago and translated seventeen times over until the Hebrew word for "rope" gets turned into "camel," and then inexplicably the whole deal is replaced by consumer-frenzy dictated to us by a fat child-labor mogul in a fur-lined red suit, but rather of ourselves, the perfect self-defining nature of the universe, and of being proud of the human intellect."
"DECEMBER 14 IS QM DAY!
This site, Agnostica.com, was launched on December 14, 2000, the 100th anniversary of Quantum Physics. On December 14, 1900, Max Planck presented experimental results in front of the German Physical Society and announced that they could best be explained if energy exists in discrete packets, which he called "quanta."
Thus, the field of Quantum Physics was born. December 14 is the start of the Agnostica Holiday."
Well I'm still celebrating the commercialized christmas with my family but it's a fun idea anyway. Actually, I'm not sure that I should call what I celebrate with my family "Christmas." I think my dad is the only person who claims to believe anything about Christianity, and even he agrees that it doesn't really matter if others believe it.
Our Christmas is not about some skinny jewish rebel who got nailed to a stick of wood. It's about spending time together. The commercial aspect of gift giving has become a part of that, and I'm okay with it, I enjoy it (except for the whole figuring out how to afford gifts thing).
-Brandon
