Change Christmas?????

Maybe you love Christmas just the way it is - maybe you don't. If not, What would you change about Christmas??

 

I'd change it to 'Capitalist Day'. Have it in summer when it's warm, easier to shop in nice weather, and when many people are on vacation and have the extra time to shop.

Return Christmas to a religious occasion in December, its traditional form.

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I think I would focus the season on kids without anything - no roof, no presents etc. Wasn't Jesus born in a stable and lived his life as a champion of the poor and downtrodden?

 

id give that jesus and santa stuff up..

keep the tree and lights..

xmas lighting is for the creation of more illumination during the darker period of the year..

 

more hookers.

 

more Orison love

 

I think Christmas should be synonymous with LSD, Mushrooms, and other hallucinogens. All hail the Christmas tree lights!

 

Nothing, I like it the way it is :xmastree:

 

Seems pretty fine to me. Every generation since the Byanztine empire though bemoans the current state of Christmas.

 

I think Christmas is overrated and way too materialistic...I could do without it.

 

I have heard many time to "screw Orison" is that what they mean?

 

Not exactly practical, but I like the idea. I like the idea of returning XMAS to it's traditional religious occasion and moving all the presents and stuff to another time. That way we could focus on what's important.

 

Christmas has never really been a religious holiday, especially outside of protestant areas. It's always been a huge day of feasting and celebration since the earliest Christians celebrated it to coincide with a Roman holiday to avoid persecution. Really only following the protestant reformation in Northern Europe did Christmas become a solemn day as one main issue Protestants had was the excesses of the Catholic church, including its holidays. Christmas celebrations were actually banned in some places including the very early Massachusetts bay colony. The Victorian era though had a revival in interest of how the holiday use to be celebrated.

Besides Easter along with Good Friday are the holiest celebrations in most Christian churches and are still culturally much more restrained, and limited to Christians. Christmas has become a holiday celebrated by even on Christians, the overall spirit of the day has long surpassed the observing of Christ's birth, which isn't even near Dec. 25 to begin with.

 

Christmas is a religious holiday???

I thought it was about presents, food, beer and an excuse to ask your girlfriend to do the nasty stuff in the sack.

 

I'd still have presents, but require that they be handmade or I.O.U's for jobs you could do for the other person.

 

I think Dec 25th wasn't officially adopted as the date until 440 Ad - virtually four-and-a-half centuries after the event. Bit like something happening in Tudor times and us just agreeing which day to celebrate it on now.

At other times, Xmas was celebrated on Jan 6th [still is in Eastern Orthodox circles], Jan 18th, March 29th, May 16th, May 20th, and Sept 29th, so if anyone wants to move it, take your pick - there's historical precedent for it !

 

This has to do with time differences though that arose over decades and centuries between the Julian and Gregorian calendar(literally almost a whole month of October disappeared when the pope in the 16th century converted to the Gregorian calender in an effort to get back to the correct time), especially in regards to the Julian calendar as even centuries ago it was starting to become way off in regards to solar time(hence the change and the missing month when the Catholic church converted). Orthodox countries by the 20th century were using the Gregorian calendar but the Church didn't switch to its revised Julian calendar until the 1920's, so Orthodox nations in time wound up with their own tradition of Christmas in January.

 

Yes it is--- greed is worshipped.

 

Instead of kissing under the mistletoe I would change it to free blow jobs behind the thistle hotel

Rudolf the red nosed reindeer would become jesus the amazing magic water into beer man

Santa Claus would become Santana Claus, and instead of delivering presents he would turn up at your door on Xmas eve with a huge bag of weed and would play an impromptu 60's blues rock concert

Christmas crackers would contain random drugs surprises

Instead of sending Xmas cards to each other people would post pictures of their mum's tits on a giant wall, and everyone would play a guessing game to match the tits with the mum

And brandy butter would be replaced with randy buckaroo where everyone would try and balance things on the local jezebels back, while she fornicated nakedly on the floor trying not to move, and the person who managed to balance the most things would get to have anal sex with her

 

Sounds like the old Roman celebrations the week of the winter solstice but not quite as decadent.

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