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LED Christmas lights - love 'em or hate 'em?
floobydust:
Look how cheap these chinese Christmas lights tend to be, complete with annoying blink flash blink flash and 1/2 wave flicker.
No fuse, no strain relief, loose strands, inadequate spacings... let's kill the "capitalist running-dogs" or burn your house down or both. I don't know why this stuff is allowed in the country.
http://www.bigclive.com/noflash.htm
https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/Bypassing-multi-function-LED-controllers
james_s:
A lot of the really cheap junk technically isn't allowed in, but it's pretty hard to stop people from buying it direct from China. They can't even stop the flow of obviously counterfeit goods.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 29, 2020, 03:19:21 am ---What has LED lights got to do with the birth of Jesus Christ? Nothing whatsoever.
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Warning: incoming truth bomb...
The Dec. 25 day is disputed.
madires:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 29, 2020, 03:19:21 am ---What has LED lights got to do with the birth of Jesus Christ? Nothing whatsoever.
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It's a way to bring some positive thoughts into the dark winter time.
PS: You're free to use classic Roman oil lamps if you prefer those. :)
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on November 29, 2020, 06:19:36 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 29, 2020, 03:19:21 am ---What has LED lights got to do with the birth of Jesus Christ? Nothing whatsoever.
--- End quote ---
Warning: incoming truth bomb...
The Dec. 25 day is disputed.
--- End quote ---
There is nothing documented in the Bible or by the scribe Josephus or anywhere else that we know of that there were three wise men. There might have been 27. Or maybe only two. And there is nothing to say they were kings. They were probably Persian magi. The great Italian Renaissance painters and the American movie moguls were either racist or just ignorant... Jesus almost certainly did not have to have blue eyes and fair skin. Ethnically he would have had dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin. There is no mention in the Bible of animals at his birth and nowhere does it say he was born in a stable. There is no mention in the Bible of LED lights, happy holidays, seasons greetings (whatever that is, LOL), "I'm Dreaming of White Christmas", Santa, elves, reindeer, stockings, a time for rampant consumerism or any other such crap.
In replicating mindless tradition to the masses year after year, there’s a risk in accepting subtle inaccuracies and convenient assumptions as historical fact.
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