GP Wish?

[awyala]

1. I love GP Bikes
2. I am Muslim
3. I respect them for standing up for their sincere belief in a high moral code and not abusing the holy-day to push product. Gift giving is NOT a Christian tradition and NOT part of Christmas. It is a late Saturnalia Roman tradition spanning from the 17th to the 23rd of December. I respect GP Bikes for reminding us it is not about gifts, sales or bikes and accessories.
4. GP Bikes promotes well enough all year round that it is refreshing they take a moment out to connect with their customers / clients / friends on a deeper level.
5. I had a great deep chat with Jeff at the Bike Show this December, after having already dumped a load with them in the summer. He took time out to talk to me even though I likely have less to give to them in the near future than I already have. He took time away from lining up another customer. The convo had nothing to do with bikes and everything to do with my new born and the miracle of life. Buying is for other days, bonding is for holy days!

 

[Sussed]

If you are offended go start your own business and mail out whatever you want to your customers.

I wasn't offended. I simply asked a question. And to start a business in order to mail out whatever I want to my customers seems like a lot of work.

 

[OpenGambit]

If GP bikes actually cared that they were wishing something that mattered to the recipent, they wouldn't say that. Thats just my view.

There is nothing admirable about wishing someone something that doesn't apply to them. In my view, it shows that you are more interested in telling that person what you believe, than to actually wish them something that mattered to them.

my view is that it is insincere.

 

[BNKN]

insincere!? say it ain't so.......

 

[awyala]

If GP bikes actually cared that they were wishing something that mattered to the recipent, they wouldn't say that. Thats just my view.

There is nothing admirable about wishing someone something that doesn't apply to them. In my view, it shows that you are more interested in telling that person what you believe, than to actually wish them something that mattered to them.

my view is that it is insincere.

By that reasoning we should all be saying "happy days off work, if indeed you happen to have days off work", rather than risk implying they should view them a holy days, sacred in any way, or be assumed to be rubbing ones paid annual leave in some less fortunate worker's face.

Better yet, there should be no statutory holy-days....just statutory flex leave. Damn offensive insincere government. I'll be taking my Sundays on Friday and Christmas and Eaaters on Eid henceforth you sons of motherless goats!

Or I can realize I am in a majority Christian country, pop a chill pill and appreciate a kind hearted Christian when I meet them.

 

[OpenGambit]

By that reasoning we should all be saying "happy days off work, if indeed you happen to have days off work", rather than risk implying they should view them a holy days, sacred in any way, or be assumed to be rubbing ones paid annual leave in some less fortunate worker's face.

Better yet, there should be no statutory holy-days....just statutory flex leave. Damn offensive insincere government. I'll be taking my Sundays on Friday and Christmas and Eaaters on Eid henceforth you sons of motherless goats!

Or I can realize I am in a majority Christian country, pop a chill pill and appreciate a kind hearted Christian when I meet them.

You are missing my point entirely. which is not unusual.

 

[vociferous]

Or I can realize I am in a majority Christian country, pop a chill pill and appreciate a kind hearted Christian when I meet them.

wow. thats a ridiculous thing to do. you should be fighting everyone for what you want.

 

[awyala]

You are missing my point entirely. which is not unusual.

I didn't miss it at all. My counter point is that in the ethical construct of a person or culture, if they wish what they sincerely believe to the best for them, onto you, then they are sincere. If they wish what is best for them, and only them, at a loss to you then I can see your point. If their intention is to undermine another's faith or ethical system, then I can see your point. But if someone wishes (sincerely) the best (to the best of their abilities to understand it) upon you, then how is that wrong? In this case you are counter imposing your ethics onto them. You are now diminishing their intentions because they don't align with your (relative) code of ethics / system. In that they wish you a Merry Christmas and this does not line up with your value system, for you to take offence at their intention is to counter impose your values on them, to the point of assuming they have alterior motives. It would be like you getting offended if I greeted you with Salaam Alaikum because of some fear of creeping Sharia without considering my intentions.

 

[Sinz]

I say Merry Christmas to everyone during the holidays, I don't care how they take it because that's how I grew up saying that year after year!
If they respond back with Happy Holidays or whatever they believe in to me then so be it, I don't take it personally because really it pretty well means the sane thing...all this political correction is just plain BS, believe in what YOU believe but don't be offended when someone responds with a different saying weather it's to you personally, on a card or email!

I always say: Religion is the root of all evil, wars & fear! But to each their own!