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My favorite thing about Christmas is... |
Getting stuff. |
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19% |
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Eating yummy food. |
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0% |
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Giving gifts to those I love. |
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9% |
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Santa Claus. |
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9% |
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The lights. |
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9% |
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Something the idiot who wrote this poll left out. |
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23% |
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I hate christmas. |
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28% |
[ 6 ] |
Random extra option to particulary bored individuals. |
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0% |
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 6:55 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:50 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:49 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:23 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:08 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:20 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:40 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:47 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:33 pm
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Christmas does have a strongly secular element in it these days. I think that's what has a lot of Christians up in arms and getting kinda loud about that whole "putting Christ back in Christmas" thing. But, they don't have the monopoly some of them would apparently like to have on whippin' out the punchbowl at that time of year and gettin' all merry up in there. The 25th, according to the older Julian calendar, was the Winter Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), and celebrations around that time in one way or another are extremely ancient and widespread. Besides, the Bible indicates that there were lambs in the fields at the time that Jesus was supposedly born. There just aren't any of those left anymore by December because of the mating schedules and gestation periods amongst sheep, so the idea that it's his birthday anyway is pretty much nugatory. Moving that celebration to the Solstice when everybody else is partyin' down is blatant syncretism in action. Just like the Saturnalian evergreen tree inside the home, decorated up to the nines, complete with lights. Go Team Pagan!
That said, the incessant carols played on loudspeakers everywhere turn me a rather unfestive shade of green around the gills. So seriously tired of the same damn'd 7 songs, repeated ad nausem. But, to keep myself happily insane in the face of all that, I have a few CD's of popular carols, reworded in sometimes the most hilariously blasphemous fashions. They amuse me. My favorite two are Lovecraftian and often twist it all merrily back to Solsticetide festivity, even if it does involve tentacled monstrosities from "beyond the stars." And anymore, when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I just use the opportunity to wish back at them a Felicitous Brumalia or Io Saturnalia. It usually confuses people a great deal and they often seem to feel too weird about not knowing what I actually mean by that to demonstrate as much by asking. To everyone else I just wish a Happy Solstice. It's all one, after all.
Still, it's getting to the point anymore where I am beginning to actively loathe a pretty good chunk of what's left of Christmas. The commercialism is a heavy burden. It's an awful lot of pressure, after all. The perfect gift for everyone, all obtained in a rather short amount of time. And absolutely tons of highly populated social obligations. It's an awful lot to recover from and there's just too little time in which to effectively do so. Maybe next year, everybody just gets sun-shaped snickerdoodles and beaded ornaments, particularly if I start the ornaments early. Or I cop out entirely and everybody gets mail-order pears from a certain company in Oregon....
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