Christmas, "clap" (yeah my favorite time of year), or "cringe" (oh no, not Christmas again). Whats your first reaction.?????? I have not always felt like I do now, but I really wish Christmas would just go away, and I am always so relieved when January finally comes around, and it is over. I read somewhere that the original idea of bringing a tree in the house was a kind neighbor who wanted to bring the outdoors inside for a very sick young girl, who could no longer go outside. He put snow under the tree, and hung shiny objects to look like stars. He wanted her to be able to smell and see the outdoors. The original idea of gift giving that started around the Bethleham manger scene, was actually supplying necessities for the very poor itinerants, who had just had a baby, and needed help. The wise men gave them things they could sell easily. How did this turn into such a materialistic, and consumer ridiculous tradition.? I really just can't take it. I wish it would just disappear. Maybe I could just disappear until its over. Actually I love people, gift giving, beautiful colored lights, and the smell of pine trees, I just don't like Christmas.
i'm kind of split about it. all the stupid christmas music in all the stores while we go shopping for everyone gets so f'n annoying! and the fact that no one really recognizes that xmas is about jesus and shit gets annoying as well.
Christmas is overrated. There's no way you can tell me a holiday that I hear about RIGHT after Halloween all the time is that great. People tell me it's giving season - well shouldn't all seasons be a giving season?
I love those little figure moving shows. Except the drummer boy and the one where the donkey saves christmas.
man, i fully dig christmas! call it by whatever name you like, it's still the winter holiday there are some way hip christmas tunes to enjoy, the food and liquor is always delightful, and what better time to indulge in some psychedelics while everything is ablaze in a mass of twinkling multicoloured lights! i agree, the commercialism sucks, but as with anything in life, it's what you do with it, what you make of it - that's what makes the difference between "yippee" and "oh shit"
i fucking hate christmas. the religious hypocrisy, commercialism, materialism, all exploiting individuals for the all mighty dollar. the premise of xmas: peace, love, good will toward all, are wonderful ideals we should work for always. not just in the month of december. people buying a bunch of crap that they really do not need. it is so exploitive to the poor and marginally finiancial secure in society. everyone must have new property items to display. therefore the corporations profit based on an unnecessary retail needs. what would happen if that money went to a charitable organization? how about using that money to help someone that we know on a person basis who is down on their luck? the ideas of xmas are goals we should strive for each day. everyone has that fucking fake good cheer until 12/25 and on 12/26 the western world reverts to its hateful, violent, oppresive, homophobic, sexist pattern. i prefer the everyday honest bullshit. we should try to behave as the best person we are all year. do you want to do something for xmas: volunteer for a charity, help a person you know, who is less fortunate (personally or financially).
i like christmas. i like really old ornaments that smell like a hundred trees, fake uber-glittery snow on shopping mall floors, twinkly multicolored lights at night, people running around giving plates of cookies to eachother, playing with pipecleaners and beads and ribbons... pissed off activists meditating outside of department stores... obnoxious sitcom specials... cheesy family portrait cards... it's ridiculous, and i love ridiculousness... and at least it's ridiculousness masked with faded good intentions. whenever there is one extreme, there is it's opposite, so of course there's rampant materialism on a day when we celebrate jesus and togetherness...
i'm not christian but my son is being raised by his father in that tradition so i try to remind him of the true meaning of "Christmas" in that way of faith/path. i still buy him presents and clebrate with my family as i am the only one that isn't of that faith. i'm currently workng in a store part-time to make ends meet and i am about to yak from hearing the same songs over and over. i do find beauty in the trditional songs though. it is a pity that everything has become about the almighty dollar. i have to agree with the previous poster that suggested giving to those in need. ((peace))
I love the winter holiday, it's never been about jesus with us because we were taught he was born in early fall and the church just took over a pagan holiday and made it their own to drive up membership, so for our family it is a time to gather and make our best meals, drink the best wine we can afford and enjoy each others fellowship. We are weaning ourseves off feeding the consumer beast and slowly but surely we are transforming into homemade presents being the standard. The commercialism does suck and we are all so talented, we've realised the last few years the gifts we do make mean sooo much more. An added bonus is getting to feel like one of 'santa's elves' in our own workshop. It is a precious thing to me to listen to the bluegrass christmas cd my mom burned for me a few years back and just be absorbed in making wonderful things for the ones I love.
christmas is fun. i know it's a sad excuse for family to get together but the point is that they do, well at least mine does. i really like my family, despite our ups and downs so being with them makes me feel happy in a way only family and friends can, yah know? plus I love the food.......oh man! my mom makes an amazing x-mas dinner!
It must be the "commercialism" that really gets me going, because I love making homemade gifts for friends and family, and eating homecooked meals made with love. I despise walking through stores and seeing all the Christmas hype, and hearing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer in November.(or Silent Night either). I don't enjoy reading a magazine and seeing suggested expensive gift ideas on every other page, or the radio pushing it's Christmas agenda on its listeners. It is so not in the spirit of the original and named for celebration, which was about Jesus, which makes the whole consumer thing even more insane. If it was just about Jesus, I would reject it too, as I don't really like to make a big deal about birthdays, and don't think Jesus would have wanted anyone to either. It turns me off to hear kids talking (even crying) about what they want, making lists of things people can buy them.( If they are really good, they will be rewarded with more things) I can only imagine the strange and nightmarish scenes around Christmas trees,as these greedy, self-centered children reject their gifts, or wonder why they didn't get more, and cry and pout about what came their way. These are tomorrows consumers, being practiced in gluttony, so they can continue to rape the earth as they grow up to be materialistic, corporate no-heart business people, who don't give a flying fuck about the planet, or where all the broken plastic crapt is going to be buried, when it all breaks fifteen minutes after they open their packages. YIKES!!!!!! I just love homemade cookies,and warm houses with fireplaces aglow, and loving family around, and people caring about each other. We should do this 24/7, and spread the Love everyday.
I'm rather indifferent anymore, but I tend to lean towards "cringe". When stores start putting out Christmas decorations before Halloween arrives, then I say enough is enough. :::cringe:::
I agree with you, everyone has forgotten Jesus! Christmas is actually HIS birthday! But everywhere and in every movie you find Santa Claus, reindeers, snowmen, elves....whatever except Jesus, the true reason of Christmas. Regards DG
i really dislike the commercialism of christmas.. stores put up the decorations after halloween, they forget completely about thanksgiving and after all is said and done, we still have to say 'happy holidays' just because we might offend someone if we say 'merry christmas'...we can't say merry christmas but what holiday are the decorations for? you sure as hell don't see an inflatable driedel that you can put on your lawn... and i'm spent.
Me and my friends in Arkansas went to a local church, tuned their cross upside down, and painted it red right before the 24th and then made a pentagram out of christmas lights on the side of our house that faces the highway... all while dressed like the grim reaper, a hobo, satan, and lou reed. Might have been a tad drunk, but it was hilarious. People take themselves too seriously.
oh dear! that is hilarious, but its a tad disrespectful. oh well, all that matters is if you had fun and the look on their faces.
