Merry Christmas

[Halsafar]

Tis the season to be jolly. Yes thats true but the worlds so blue.
Work together to fix our follies, in the end we all condemn.



The joys of christmas, the cries of christmas. I have such mixed feelings about the sanctity of this day. I do not believe in any religion, I kinda just have my own beliefs but that doesn't mean I don't celebrate xmas. I love Xmas, i love seeing the family and of course presents where great for the majority of my childhood. I can remember as a little guy waking up at 5am, seeing the half-eaten cookies and milk and totally believing Santa came. All fond memories.

I know some families in the new generations that DO NOT let their kids believe in Santa. They figure it is rude to lie to your kid and play with their gullibility. I say, all children should go through the joy of believing in Santa and the suttle blow that came when you learn it was all a hoax. But we must remember, Santa is not to old...Santa is a fairly modern invention compared to the idea of xmas.

Xmas is a holy day and regardless of what you believe in xmas is a beautiful idea. If you remove the gifts and the religious aspect you are left huddled together at a table with your entire family surrounding a suculant ham (or turkey); in my opinion xmas is about the family.

Which brings me to my final point. The idea that xmas is purely christian has spread far enough to reach the cries of those 'uptight' fanatics. The people who say 'no more carols in school, no santa, no trees, no lights, it is offensive to my religion.'....ugh...darn those people, I mean I hated singing stupid carols back in elementary school but now the kids around here don't even get to because schools HAVE to politically correct and abide by everyone. But most of those carols are non-subjective and show togetherness.

Togetherness is something we must all work together on. All across Canada many many years ago all stores used to be closed on Sundays due to the fact it is 'Gods Day'. Well now all places in Canada got rid of that rule except a few. Well, with all the political correctness around how can a country anywhere anyhow publicly show something of favor to one religion and not ALL. So christmas is christian but the nobility of christmas is for anyone. "Be in the loving embrace of your family and friends." I think in our politically correct society someone needs to relate xmas as far away from pure christianity as possible. The dislike of xmas around here stems from the fact that almost every household has a different religion thus nobody gives a $*%( anymore.


Merry Xmas everyone!
Enjoy your families.
Watch out for Robot Santa Claus!
Fake snow for your tree is a good source of ahnibriation

[wossname]

I remember waking up at about 11pm christmas eve (when I was 4 or 5 years old), "santa" used to hang a christmas stocking off my bedroom door handle so i could wake up early and unwrap some small gifts before the whole house got up for Christmas proper.

Since it was still the 24th I was really scared that i'd not be able to get back to sleep before midnight. I found myself crying my eyes out, thinking I wouldn't get any toys. Since those days of innocence I have learned many things, among which...

1. life is a kick in the nads
2. Santa is your dad
3. there is no magic anywhere
4. there's nothing better than loving someone
5. trust is a valuable commodity, use it wisely
6. women are worth dying for

Some of these things are contradictory, mainly 3 and 4. But for an explanation, see number 1.

I've been in a very fortunate position in my life, my primary school was the typical "Christian" suburban middle-class type. The only nod to religion was the Thursday morning hymn practice. My hymn book was (like everyone else's) held together by a bit of wool and had a tassle on it. As you can imagine, this is not an efficient method of book binding, so i spent most of my time either miming to the highly sacharine, nauseating songs, or trying to repair the book, this left no time for contemplation of godliness. My IQ is all the higher for it.

This enabled me to leave primary school with absolutely no clue what this religion crap is all about. Hah, they used to commence hymn practice with the very solemn phrase "Let us pray". Everytime they said that I thought they were saying "letters pray", to which i often thought "do they?".

My dad's side of the family is (on paper) Roman Catholic, my mum's side is apparently C of E. Weirdly, neither family is devout or even inclined to go to church. I was never properly Christened, but my dad did do a very nice thing by Christening me himself in the sea when we were on holiday when i was a baby. That means more to me than any pointless religious dogma in front of 100 people you've got no time for.

I am a devout atheist and stick to that like glue, Christmas still pwnz though. You'd be thrown out of our house for even mentioning god over the holidays!

[señorbadger]

HAPPY XMAS everyone have a good 1 eat loads of turkey
and drink plenty of beer and wine

[Halsafar]

Wossname:
I tend to agree with mostly everything you said but I don't intend on pointing out the ones I don't agree with.

Yes, some christmas's sucked. But as a kid all we cared about was the gifts; now that i'm older I see it in a whole new light. I'm 20 now and I've dated more women than I care to count, each was worth every drop of me I gave and yet always a kid in the nads...So I definetly like that; although my current girlfriend is great and we shared our 1 year anniversery yesterday.

My dads side of the family...Hard to put it, I think my dads mom is where the religion in that generation cuts off. My dads mom used to give pretty much everything she had to the church to an extend where the way of the life she had was poor even though she made alot; the outcome of all that giving to the church was nothing anyone wanted to see happen to her, and the last few years have showed god is not on her side at all. I won't discuss what.
My moms side has no religious ties.

Personally I think religion is a means of controlling people, confusing people, and ultimetly starting wars for a cause which by all means goes against the religions either side is fighting for. Trust me, if you look back on history try and find a war which was not either started by religion, related to religion or being faught with the excuse of religion.
So my stance on religion is that it pushes people to follow a way of life which cannot stand up to the needs of everyone or bet met so everyone tries so hard to follow this way of life that they end up screwing theirselves out of what THEY could have become.
A good example would be fanatics.

The only religion is good for is the belief that someone out there cares for you and everyone. That is all people deeply seek is a belief of something more. Something unattainable by anyone yet we are all in a common bond together attempting to achieve the said religion. The ability to ask a good 'god' for help, that gives you the belief you will get help, which psycosomatic as we all are will push us subconsciously to do better.

I for one was never christianed. My girlfriend has dragged me to church 3 times, the only three times I have ever gone. But I have beliefs; not just one, but I do enjoy the ideas of buhdism minus the no possession thing. More-a-less fantasy is my religion...Video games are my bible.

[Torc]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

[mendhak]

Try my Snake Game and merry christmas to everything.

[grilkip]

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