Christmas

I'm not particularly down on Christmas, nor do I go out of the way to celebrate it.  It is important though to understand that it's origins are not Christian, Saturnalia, baby.

What really cheeses me off are the "war on Chrismas" bloviators.

So have a good time as the official year for most of us winds down for whatever reason you choose to.

Additional text pertaining to above comic:

-i mistyped "christmas" as "christman" and thought "hilarious! he can be a superhero of christmas!" but then i was all "oh wait nevermind i have just invented christianity"

-labour day is giving you the bedroom eyes. listen, come into our store. you need to sex up labour day.



Edited by TheCaptain - November 16 2009 at 21:40

I did not add the alt-text, it appears on the website that I lifted it from (qwantz.com). All I did was drag the image into the reply box.

TheCaptain wrote: I did not add the alt-text, it appears on the website that I lifted it from (qwantz.com). All I did was drag the image into the reply box.

I never tried that with comics like that before, it probably is what makes the difference.

Henry Plainview wrote: I possibly hate Christmas music more than anything else in the world.

:(

This isn't particularly surprising, though.

I love Christmas. It's hard sometimes, so far I've never had a significant other during the holiday season, so it's always a bit of a struggle to remain optimistic and less cynical and in the holiday spirit. Double-true since I don't believe in God. It doesn't matter though. Shouldn't there be at least one day where we can give and get presents from people we care about? It even feels sort of disingenuous to try to cover up what you really care about during Christmas (presents, family) with it's "official reason for existing" (Jesus) which only the select faithful really, really believe is the reason for the season. But anyway, yes it's a bit too early for Christmas now. At least wait till after Thanksgiving. Everyone says that, though.

We're going to get super busy during the holidays at Unnamed Coffee Cartel Co., but I don't mind usually.

When I was a christian I was also quite young, so I really enjoyed christmas. I did know some christians who were opposed to the commercialisation of the season, and a few who avoided some of the more pagan elements and a small group who didn't celebrate it at all. As a wiccan (ish... more a half-hearted pagan - spiritual without the ritual) I found all the pagan tokens still present in the christian festival rather amusing (yule logs, holly & ivy, wreaths, father christmas (aka the green man), mistletoe, fir trees, wassail, mince-pies etc...). Then as a father it was "just for the kids". But now I enjoy it purely for what it is at face-value - a week off work, good food, friends, family and a few small gifts.

Edited by Dean - November 17 2009 at 03:37

I think I've decided to write Santa for that Magma box-set 

mystic fred wrote: Christmas is really for the kids - i enjoy the holiday of course but the true spiritual values of Christmas have long gone, nowadays for most people it is all about greed and selfishness...   I used to know a few people who worked at a homeless soup kitchen for a couple of hours on Christmas morning just to make themselves feel less guilty when sat with far more food than they could possibly eat, most of it got thrown away - why not help the homeless every week, not just on one day.     Just look at the bad behaviour in the greedy stores, no goodwill to all men there, no more Christmas bonus, no time off with your family in retail which is one of the reasons i left.  Everybody has nothing better to do than stand outside shops on Boxing day waiting for the "Sales" to start - believe me they are not sales in the true meaning of the word like they used to be, they're just selling off imported crap and odd sized and overpriced leftovers, the sweat shops will be getting even less money for their efforts..   Now they're suggesting scrapping the Queen's Christmas day speech.....with TOTP Xmas Special gone what is there to look forward to..?  Maybe Dr. Who       .

Bang on there. Boxing Day? More like Boxing month and a half where I live in Montréal. The economy is so bad that some businesses actually make it or break it during Nov.Dec & part of January. No more 12 days of Christmas. More like the 120 days of Christmas. 

Edited by Vibrationbaby - November 18 2009 at 10:36

I find very strange all the Christmas haters, I don't know if it is for social differences but I find this holidays quite warm and good for the soul... here in my country people construct altars in every house, with little scenes of Belen and we do little "Posadas" which are the ritual of asking for a place to stay, just like Mary and Joseph did... you know, I think it woud be to long if I discribe it... but, well, there's a very strong traditional way to do things here in my country and a lot of good intentions about it... so I really like it, the rituals, traditions and the real meaning of christmas... Dean has a good point also, there's a lot of merging in the pagan and Christian rituals, which is not a bad thing at all... but well... I like Christmas... that's what I want to say...

Dalezilla wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: What I do miss though is that sense of credulous wonder I had when about 6 years old and my dad sent the hand written list of gifts we all wanted up the chimney. I really believed it somehow went to the North Pole and a fat red clad bearded child benefactor set to work making the Arsenal Subbuteo team from scratch. That type of precious innocence is not to be squandered by adults, irrespective of their spiritual orientation. If it went to the North Pole, it went to the wrong address!

Jeez...Geography was never my Dad's strongest suit