I Love Xmas

[_Robert_]

Sure the majority have re-purposed the solstice festival but the true nature of the holiday is intact really. We even have a tree, usually a live cypress that I plant out in the woods in the spring. The holiday is based on science, our ancestors who timed their lives by the arcs of the stars. Even the ghosts of the past, present and future have nothing to say except be the best person you can be. I’ll cut Tiny Tim some slack 😉

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I love Christmas in my hometown. But I hate the shopping craze!!!

[Unseen]

I love the family/social aspect of celebrating Christmas. It is not “The Mass of Christ” for me, but a time of connecting and showing appreciation of friends and relatives with gifts.

[Strega]

I thought Thanksgiving addressed the ‘family’ get together here.  Because the children are all adults now, with their own partners and their own kids,  we celebrate Cranksgiving – a convenient Saturday between Thanksgiving and Christmas where we know they aren’t conflicted as to whose family to visit.  We do the full Thanksgiving feast, add all the Christmas presents, and presto!  This year we chose 16th December.

[Simon Paynton]

Crunksgiving sounds good too lol

[_Robert_]

Nice plan Strega…. so you dare serve English pudding to the Americans?

[Strega]

I’m a black pudding fan, myself, Robert 🙂

[_Robert_]

Sounds tasty….I don’t eat meat very often, but when I do I like trying all kinds of sausages, bacons, cold cuts, and even had  a haggis from a can. It was pretty good surprisingly.

[Davis]

 

If you are from Canada or Australia or the Netherlands or Spain…Christmas has become so secularized that one encounters religious elements quite seldom unless they chose to. Religious elements can be enjoyed as cultural-historical artifact in a non-religious way…and if someone puts a nativity scene or a christmas tree with an angel on top  in their shop or cafe or someones house/front-lawn…it is not particularly threatening nor be reasonably seen as harassment. The Danish national orchestra and chorus (made of mostly atheists) put on Handel’s the Messiah every year and is an audience favorite (mostly atheists in attendance) and most continental European atheists would protest the full scrubbing out of religious cultural artifacts of Christmas. For people of these countries, to go to war on Christmas is absurd.

If you live in Haleluja Mississipi were religion is over saturated in every single thing people do and say everywhere all the time, I can understand  how Christmas can be hell. Your children singing Jesus songs in public school and nativity scenes everywhere and almost no Santa Claus or secular Christmas songs…would drive most non-religious people crazy. They live in an enviroment few of us here could appreciate and their war on Christmas is understandable.

What’s sad, in fact, is that they are not able to enjoy religious cultural artifacts in a non-religious way, as we can if we so chose to. The more religious people try to expose them to religious cultural artifacts, the more they want to completely remove it all from public life. I highly enjoy religious Christmas music and theatre and well constructed nativity scenes and I would be sad to see them dissappear. I wouldn’t if I lived in Haleluja Mississipi and I would likely go to war with on Christmas with the city council and avoid any place that shoved Jesus in my face.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Davis.

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Luminarias….biscochitos………tamales, posole….Mexican hot chocolate….cold dry air, snow….and good times…

sigh….

 

I miss home

[jakelafort]

Mexican hot chocolate, Belle?

Had to look that up. It has cayenne pepper!

What in the blazing deuces.  Hot chocolate is an american institution of comfort for children who have returned from sliding on a hill. It is sacrosanct. You cannot add cayenne pepper to it.

Not that i know what luminarias and posole are. But i aint looking em up.

[PopeBeanie]

Yay, that time of the year again! Time to repost a picture of a pickem-up truck I saw down in southern Florida. (But no, I’m not criticizing anyone who likes the tradition, and I like the way Davis says Europe does it, with atheists!)

[_Robert_]

Yeah, my xmas wish is that we all go the way Davis describes it! I really enjoy the movies based on Dickens’ “XMAS Carol” published 19 December 1843 ….and oh boy am I a sucker for the Tchaikovsky Nutcracker score that debuted back in 1892.

[Simon Paynton]

I love the movie Mamma Mia, and normally I don’t even like that kind of thing.  All the big stars really let themselves go.

Apart from that, Xmas is an excuse to get wrecked.

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