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Post by kimikat on Nov 18, 2007 10:42:28 GMT -5
For idiots with more money than brains, shop lifters, parking spot stalkers, greedy people (and their snot nosed little brats), wrapping paper, bows, Timothy the Giraffe and the big toy catalouge, people saying Happy Holidays instead of taking the time to find out WHAT holiday their friends and family celebrates and generating holiday specific greetings, they are lazy...ETC...
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I don't hate this time of the year...but I hate what it's become. I love the holidays and what they mean to me. I just don't like that people don't really CARE about one another anymore. Think about how many gift cards you get, or money or whatever...People put no thought into anything anymore, because they don't really care, and are lazy....
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Post by lavandulagirl on Nov 18, 2007 11:17:38 GMT -5
What kills me are the people who will get up at the butt crack of dawn the day after Christmas and stampede one another for a 20 dollar dvd player at Walmart... have they really gotten to adulthood not recognizing that the same sale runs all the way to Christmas? And would they get up that early for anything worthwhile, like a job interview, or church? Of course, they don't even have to wait for that Friday, now... the local stores are having pre-Thanksgiving Christmas doorbusters, and some are open on Thanksgiving...
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Nov 18, 2007 11:29:44 GMT -5
And then there's this!!! Ho, Ho, Hold it, Dontchya think this is taking Political Correctness over the brink?? thanks to the folks at Snopes.com for having the best google results on the subject!! Happy Ho Ho to you too!! message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=403291 |
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Post by oldgaredneck on Nov 18, 2007 22:43:24 GMT -5
What irritates me is the jump from Labor Day straight to Christmas advertising.
In my humble opinion, Thanksgiving Day should at least get appreciated more.
Way too much commercialization of Christmas ....
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 19, 2007 5:28:05 GMT -5
We are probably the only people in our neighborhood that don't celebrate Xmas. I celebrate the Winter Solstice. The lights, the tree, the star, the Yule Log.. are all pagan customs anyway.
When I was a kid, I would always rearrange the figures in the manger. I would put all the animals right next to the Baby Jesus. I figured he was cold. lol
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Post by lavandulagirl on Nov 19, 2007 6:36:27 GMT -5
When I was a kid, I would always rearrange the figures in the manger. I would put all the animals right next to the Baby Jesus. I figured he was cold. lol |
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 20, 2007 7:25:05 GMT -5
Mostly my decorations are winter or nature- themed- snowflakes, snowmen, trees, animals, suns, stars & moons. I do like Father Christmas too. I have a bunch of those too.
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Post by Alan on Nov 20, 2007 12:08:31 GMT -5
While our family does celbrate Christmas it is more of a winter solstice celebration than anything in the Bishop Household. Christmas to my family has always been a "thank god were half way to spring and it won't be long untill we take our tobacco crop to market in January!" sor of affair.
But I do love Christmas, in all of it's many meanings (except commercial) in all it's different faiths, each is beautiful in it's own way and equally valuable to culture and society as a whole.
On a totally unrelated topic...
oldgaredneck I really like your avatar. Are you a cryptid believer as am I?
-alan
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Post by kimikat on Nov 20, 2007 12:35:15 GMT -5
I work at Home Depot, and have been looking at Christmas decorations since my birthday...And listening to Christmas music...
The only outdoor decorations that I would even consider putting in my yard are an old fashioned iron 'gas' lamp post and two animated grapevine dear with lights.
I try to keep it simple I buy for my immediate family, and Alan and his immediate family, and thats it.
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Post by lavandulagirl on Nov 20, 2007 13:39:07 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Dec 24, 2007 6:42:23 GMT -5
Merry Christmas Grasshopper!!
I agree with you on the bastardization of Christmas. But why don't we stop saying it is not like it used to be. We all live in a different world. As a french canadian, my parents where members of huge families ( 10 to 20 kids, 10 being more common, for mom it was 11) In 1 generation we went from the people with the highest reproductive rate in the world to the LOWEST.
Nobody in the world makes less kids than us. So we all cary this incredible heritage of Christmas party with houses not big enough to accomodate the mass of people unless they all glue themselves to each other, to those almost empty houses now ( the house are much bigger but there is far less people). I guess it brings us to a level more similar to yours. But as far as I know your Christmas and mine were the same, albeit less lively because of sheer numbers. What you, your love John and me and Vivianne and the rest of the world lack is the sincerity of it, lost in pure commercial lust.
This year, we have invited all our friends to come, it is an open two days of ''people welcome''. I guess we decided it was better to do that than lamenting on days gone by...and that a lot of people feeling sick about that bastardization will show up...because love and friendship have never changed, even when we felt our way of looking at the world , and the way the world looked at us did...
You give all of your loved ones a big hug from Canada
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Post by Jim on Dec 24, 2007 10:32:33 GMT -5
When I was a kid, I would always rearrange the figures in the manger. I would put all the animals right next to the Baby Jesus. I figured he was cold. lol I used to do the same thing. The one custom that has followed my family from the old world to the new world is that the animals always get taken care of before we get to celebrate. My Polish ancestors were all farmers ( some relatives still farm there on family land ) My mom would always have us make sure that the cat was fed and had water and he had clean bedding and cat box. We never had livestock so it was as close as I could get. What's funny is that now that I'm married and have a baby on the way I still am keeping the tradition alive. I went and took care of our 3 cats and 3 dogs first thing this morning. Even before I had made coffee. I always figured that if Jesus was born in a stable and was swaddled in a manger that his connection to animals was not co-incidental. That is was God's way of nicely telling us to respect our animals and take good care of them. |
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Post by flowerpower on Dec 25, 2007 7:04:38 GMT -5
Mary would have given birth on some dusty road if it had not been for the donkey. This is why they have a "cross" on their backs. The animals really don't care what day it is or how high the snow may be. They just know they are hungry.  |
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