I don’t care if you do, or what your reasons are. You can have your holidays, I want nothing to do with them. Have fun. Far be it from me to tell you not to. However, this is a story either worth telling, or just one I’m too sick of having in me to keep any longer. Also, I’ll admit it now. YES, this post cuts down Christmas more than any other holiday, but then, it’s more blatantly celebrated and more widely frolicked about, so sue me, this is my opinion, and you don’t have to read it if you’re going to get pissed off about it. You’ve been warned, this isn’t going to be a happy post. When I was little, I loved Christmas. Motivated, no doubt, by the usual childish greed that, like it or not, was the only real motivation behind the smiles and hugs we all gave our parents on those frigid mornings. I was raised Roman Catholic, so Christmas meant Christmas Mass, which I have always detested. Church in general was always a meaningless waste of my youth in my mind, until I went on my own quest for religion. But on Christmas, when everyone sings out that the whole point is to be with those you care about, we went to church to sit around smelly, old, toothless strangers who wanted me to sit on their laps, instead of spending time together. So, I put up a fight when I was told we had to go to church. This caused problems, as I’m sure you can imagine. We forsake our time together in favor of animosity and discomfort. Lovely. When I was older, after I had officially apostatised, Christmas became no more meaningful to me than any other day. I was good to people year-round, and didn’t see the point in setting aside a specific day for it. I saw even less of a point in buying crap (but only if it’s on sale) to demonstrate how much someone means to you. So, I went on my search for other religions, and several years later, I’d celebrated many holidays, and seen a lot more people celebrating theirs. Nothing made me feel as happy as everyone else at this time of year. For f**k’s sake, every year there are people walking around looking like they’ve just shot up heroin, singing songs nobody likes and waving at people they would more likely flip off on any other day of the year. It comes down to hypocrisy, I suppose. A holiday celebrating good will towards our fellow human beings, when nearly all of those very same human beings are just about entirely devoid of anything even resembling good will. Any other time of year, and people would just as soon stab you and take your wallet than give you the time of day, but on Christmas, everyone’s a saint. Then there’s the hypocrisy of the holiday acceptance issue. Everyone has bumper stickers claiming “Jesus is the Reason for the Season”, everyone will defend, with militant frustration, the nativity scenes all over town, etcetera, etcetera. And that’s fine, right? Not unless they can show the same respect they demand of other people, TO those other people, when they celebrate a non-Christian holiday. I’ve seen people get pissed off at nearly any other faith if they dare to have a celebration. Honestly, think about it. You have Christmas specials, parades, days off of work or school, and entire radio stations that switch to 100% Christmas music. And yet the second someone decides to have a Ramadan special on any major network, or a Chanukah parade, or a Vaisakhi party in Time’s Square, all hell breaks loose. God forbid anyone celebrate the Saturnalia in any public way, right? Go ahead, look them up, I doubt most people even know what some of these holidays are. The point is that if your holiday is celebrating the birth of a guy who taught nothing but how to go about being nice to each other, it’s a bit stupid to freak out when someone ISN’T all too thrilled about not being able to have the same level of celebration as you. ———————————————————————- —————- There’s more, of course. Little, obnoxious things, that slowly add up to be unbearable. One ant bite is annoying, but not enough to throw a fit over, after all. However, if you’re forced to roll around in an anthill every year for three months, just when you were starting to forget the pain from the year before… you’d understand where I’m coming from. Every store I walk into, there’s a guy ringing a bell outside. I walk in, and see some gaudy, ridiculous display of poinsettias and bells and fake snow. And the ever-present Bing Crosby (or equivalent). So I leave the stores, and drive around. There are wreathes and bows on all of the cars. SUVs, hummers and quad-cab pickups, no less. All blasting “Rudolf, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” from their speakers. Oh, you must care so deeply for everyone on this planet. Hang a symbol of love for your fellow man on a vehicle that could tear a new hole in the ozone every three blocks. So, to avoid making moron-paste out of everyone on the highway, I go to a restaurant to get some food. I walk in, and hear “‘Tis the Season”, and walk right back out before the waitresses dressed like elves, the mistletoe hanging over the door, and the holiday foodstuffs display case eat what little soul I may or may not have left. [Question: isn’t mistletoe poisonous if you eat it? Shouldn’t there be a law against having it in a restaurant? Hm. Maybe it’s my fault for degrading myself enough to go to Denny’s in the first place.] So I brave the roads again, dodging traffic, charity bell-ringers, and Christmas radio stations alike. I end up at the mall. Goody, I need more cloves, and they only sell them here. I walk through the parking lot, and watch little children screaming at and hitting their parents, while the weary-looking adults haul bags and bags of brightly-wrapped presents back to one of those SUVs. (They got to the mall before me. I had to stop at Denny’s, remember?) These parents are the same ones you see beating their kids in Wal-mart and the grocery store every other day of the year. I could see that they’re about to do it again, too, but the parents still manage to plaster a smile on their face whenever anyone’s near them and wish them a loud, happy, “MERRY CHRISTMAS!”. Ugh. So, I walk into the mall, and the Christmas music is playing again. Luckily, there’s a very loud noise that drowns it out… well, mostly. Is this the familiar cacophony of noise that is the Food Court? No! It’s a gaggle of screaming children, all crowded around an obese man in a dime-store beard and a polyester red suit. In a very unorganized fashion, they file up to sit on this man’s lap. Now, at any other time of the year, what parent in their right mind would let their child sit on the lap of a stranger who was dressed as a fat, old man? Honestly, the holidays must contain some kind of thought-blocking agent. (I say it’s in the candy canes.) Anyway, I navigate the Sea of Toddler Screech, and find my cloves. Thank you, Saehid Qin-Muhammad, the man who sells me the cigarettes, for looking just as annoyed as I am at the spectacle around the possible child molester in the red suit. I know Saehid doesn’t speak much English, but we know each other pretty well. He’s the only one with cloves, and I buy five packs whenever I see him, so he remembers me. I look at him, point at the ever-growing mob of children, and grab my head as if I have a headache. He laughs and nods, then shows me he has earplugs in. Smart man, that Saehid. So, I wandered the mall for a bit, and watched the spectacle I know you’ve all seen before. Old ladies tearing each other apart over a $90 toy made by a Malaysian sweat-shop worker who makes three cents a year. People yelling at the frazzled cashiers, who obviously only work retail during the holidays because they need a job, and nothing else is hiring. Kids who throw tantrums because they’d rather be home watching ‘A Christmas Story’ for the four-hundredth time since Thanksgiving, even though they’re here to get more over-priced toys for no reason whatsoever. And to top it all off, that incessant, ear-numbing, repetitive mind-rape that is Christmas music! So, I fall into a seizing, flailing fit of Christmassy doom, killing toddlers with over-sized candy canes, slaughtering old ladies with the cases Furbys come in, mowing down everyone in the Food Court with plastic sporks, and throwing Tickle-me Elmo’s strapped with hand grenades at random bystanders, all while smoking inside! Oh, wait… that last part didn’t really happen. Hm… Oh, well. ——————————————————————– ——— Note: I don’t get pissy when people wish me a merry Christmas. It’s annoying at times, but nothing to kill pixies over. It’s a well-wishing, who cares? Another thing I don’t like is that anyone who has a dissenting opinion of Christmas is grouped in with the militant Atheists who want the whole thing banned and turned into a PC day of ‘Holiday recognition’. Bullsh*t. As much as I dislike all the things I’m ranting about, I’m not about to tell anyone they can’t celebrate as they wish. I’m just ranting about it because it annoys me. Anyway, to wrap this whole thing up, my last problem with the holidays that I’m going to get into here is that everyone is allowed to frolic around, singing carols, praying in the streets, decorating murdered pine trees, and farting pixie dust on each other, but the second anyone voices an opinion against the holiday, suddenly they’re a ‘Grinch’ or a ‘Scrooge’ and everyone has to ask WHY they don’t like Christmas. (F***, that was a long sentence.) No problem there, right? People are allowed to ask whatever they want. The problem is that when they ask it, you can see the disgust and disbelief in their face, as if to dislike a specific time of year is to be possessed by the most despicable denizens of Hell. Well, who cares? I should just ignore them, right? Too bad when it’s my friends or my family doing it. I can’t just ignore them quite as easily as some whack-job on the street. It comes down to intolerance of anyone different than you. I don’t run around showing off that I don’t like the holidays in my real-world life. I mention it when it comes up online, but in the real world, you’d have to ask me to get me to tell you. It goes something like this: “Hey, what are you doing for Christmas?”
“Um… nothing, really.”
“What? What do you mean? Why not? Is everything okay?”
“Yeah, everything’s fine, don’t worry about it.”
“But why can’t you do anything for Christmas? That’s sad. You can come to (insert social function here) with me, it’ll be fun!”
“Not that I don’t appreciate the offer, but it isn’t that I ‘can’t’ do anything, it’s that I don’t want to.” Then, of course, I’m sure you can imagine how they react. They question, and question and incessantly question until I have to explain the whole goddamn story above. And then I’m ‘angry’. I’m ‘bitter’. I’m someone to be pitied in their eyes, simply because I have a differing opinion. You know what? Fine. In this case, maybe I am bitter. Maybe I’m bitter for having my own thought pattern and not letting society and commercialism think for me. Maybe I’m bitter because my views on this time of year make me some kind of social leper. Maybe I’m bitter because I can’t live just one year without this holiday getting longer. It was the twelve days of Christmas, now it’s the twelve weeks of Christmas. Who knows? Maybe next Halloween, people will have Christmas lights up. Maybe they’ll be decorating trees and dressing their kids like elves, while they all dress like oversexed versions of Santa and Mrs. Claus. Just watch, if this trend continues, Christmas will eat all of the other holidays. It’s already eaten Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is now, “Christmas, Part 1″. You can’t even enjoy Thanksgiving anymore, because everyone has to run out at one in the morning the next day to go shopping! People are so eager to get presents on Christmas morning that they’re starting the holiday as early as possible. Even on this site, I remember someone writing a post in August, counting down how many shopping days were left until Christmas. SHOPPING DAYS. This holiday has us reserving entire days of our lives to devote to wanton consumerism, and people still think that there’s any meaning left in the Christmas season. I know this was long, and everyone who took the time to read the whole thing probably hates me now, but I don’t care. You can have your opinion, so let me have mine. Yours, as always,
A pixie-killing Xeno Dragon
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Well said, yes i agree there are so many other holidays and things to celebrate why christmas why jesus's birth ? as i don't belong to any religion so ... i just go along with it, but i'm glad that there are people like you, to speak out and say what everyone elese is sceared to =D
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you're right, as usual but i don't give a **** i love christmas
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Well, I don't think there's lots of big parades and stuff for Ramadan just cause Muslims are a minority, so there's less of them around to organize them and fund them and things like that. Anyways, up here I see plenty of Chunakah tv specials lol it actually gets kindof annoying.
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i have to agree with u. i love christmas and i am christian, but i understand what ur saying, and truth be told christmas really started as pegan winter solstace. so keep being you, you are a great writer.
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I feel any celebration must have some kind of personal connection, I don't like the idea of being dictated how and what or even have particular expectations during the time of a particular celebration, life is never perfect and things never happen as planned. But because some holidays are Public, you can just spend it the way you like, unless you insist, you do not necessarily need to buy presents, sing, for example. But I like to celebrate Christmas and join my friends during their Celebrations. Happy holidays everyone :O)
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I think you're missing the overall point of what I'm saying, Jigoku. But no matter, maybe my point will be more apparent once I've finished writing the rest of this post.
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Hay Xeno, i agree with every point you made, i myself don't celebrate anything yesterday was my birthday and it was just an average day to me.. Do you celebrate anything either?
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Not in the conventional sense, no.
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lol, hi Xeno, I love reading your posts, great writing, I shall wait for the next half :O) although after readin it again, I have a better picture of what you were trying to say :O)
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First of all Xeno, I want to apologize for sending you a happy holiday message! I was careful when I sent out greetings to not send out Merry Christmas, and if I knew someone ones of another religions I tried to be respectful of that. I do think that during this time that many people of Christian faith think it is all about Jesus. I know Jewish people and Muslims who feel left out. Like you, I was raised Catholic. I was always completely bored by any mass, whether it be on Christmas or on Sundays. I particularly hated having to kneel every few minutes. Personally I celebrate Christmas, but not because of Jesus but because it is a time of family. It is an excuse to spend time with loved ones, although I won't be with family I will be with close friends. Yes, we should be should celebrate family all year long and be giving & kind. I agree with most of what you have said in your post. Today was the last day of school for two weeks, so as a teacher I have to admit I love the holiday break.
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No worries, Maximina, I'm not the type to freak out over a well-wishing. This rant has been building up for a while.
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I always enjoy a good rant from you Xeno! :)
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It is a shame that many people seem to need an excuse to act with good will towards each other, but being an ******* 364 days a year is better than being an ******* 365 days a year. I like presents...
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I agree with you on every point, people who are up in arms over holidays are *** holes. Live and let live.
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I agree with you on that one. My family's catholic and *sigh* I have to go to those Christmas Masses too(waste of time). Fortunately I somehow don't go to regular Mass anymore, although the rest of my family does :P. I agree with you on ever point above but... I do find the free time off school not that bad, eh?? I just wish it wasn't christmas break, but *winter* break. *mumbles something about skiing*
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True that. What we have here is Christ-mas, celebrating the (albeit inaccurate) birthday of Christ. Personally I think Easter should be the more important holiday, but whatever tickles your happenstance I guess. Then there's "CHRISTMAS!!!!!" which is about magic, consumerism and greed. One has to wonder; if Saint Nicholas had known that he would become known as a fat man in a red suit who flew round the world once a year in a single night in a sleigh with magic raindeer and delivered presents hand-made by little elves up at the north pole to all the good little boys and girls... would he still have gone on to become a saint? Personally I'd have hidden very quietly in a basement and slowly starved to death. Tis sad... people will do anything for money, even warping and corrupting possibly the biggest and most important religious celebration in the world.
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with the bit thats like about other religions its the other way round over here they arent christmas lights anymore, they are fairy lights - if you are pc. and some places have decided not to put up christmas lights anymore because its religion-ist? i think that it should just be whenever there is a religious festival do whatever is appropiate.
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D*mn my typos.
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i didnt read all of that it was to much to read...merry christmas and a happy new year,unless your jewish
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Because if I'm not Christian, I MUST be Jewish, right?
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i didnt read all of that it was to much to read...merry christmas and a happy new year,unless your jewish I was responding to this one, Cotton. I could write a whole new rant about this one, but not right now. It annoys me when people assume that you're either a Christian or a Jew. There are thousands of religions besides those two.
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i didnt read all of that it was to much to read...merry christmas and a happy new year,unless your jewish I was responding to this one, Cotton. I could write a whole new rant about this one, but not right now. It annoys me when people assume that you're either a Christian or a Jew. There are thousands of religions besides those two. sorry i didnt know all the billions....i am getting a 58 in social studies
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Hm. Studying might help.
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Oh yeah man do I ever agree, I think the stress of christmas will be enough to kill me one day, it's built around deceit and shameless consumerism. I hibernate at this time of year, no malls, no drinking in town (although I don't drink anymore) and generally I reserve this time to hide from the weather and "cheer". You're right, people who have a problem against christmas are condemned, and for some ****** up reason they feel the need to "cheer" you up!! WHY oh why can't they **** off...Oh well someday I'll create a virtual universe and live in it, converting my brain to silicone and launching myself into space... Who knows at the rate christmas is spreading maybe the fist thing I'll see is a six-legged purple alien singing "Last Christmas" by George Michael... in which case I'll make fast use of my off switch... Anyway, should all be over soon enough, so rather then wishing you a merry whatever, here's to it ending asap ***raises glass of water***
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Party pooper! Ah... you'll get over it... eventually. You say: "Maybe I’m bitter for having my own thought pattern...". Well, how about making slight modifications to it? Well anyways, I like the Holidays because it's festive and fun and that's all that matters to me. If everyone wants to waste their money on unnecessary gift shopping, that's their choice. You can see this whole thing how ever you choose to see it. Why not make the best of it and cut all the annoying stuff out. I don't have to aggree with you, do I? I hope you feel better now that you got this out of your system. Still, I wish you incredible year in 2008. Ha! ha! Happy Holidays to everybody else! ¦)
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I don't celebrate "Christmas" I celebrate Hanukka with my "real" family ( jews) and then I celebrate christmas with my "real" family AND foster family ( catholics ) But we don't celebrate it for religion at all. We just celebrate the fact of being together, having managed to cook something edible (for once) and giving presents not because it's christmas but because we all love each other =)
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ahh Xeno, Wish i had read this post a few weeks ago. Thanks for brightening my day by directing me to this post!
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mk, but id still like to say:
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LOL! Got a good chuckle. Not that I was missing the point... but WOW ...you really express your thoughts well in writing. I had similar thoughts running through my mind in the mall today. :)) I am really not one for huge crowds...but was just one of em... among the consumers consuming.
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The thing that made me laugh most was there was a wreath set up near the toilet in one of the restrooms. I like fourthings six legged, purple alien singing "Last Christmas"... Hmmm I can see it now ...a six legged, purple alien making its way through the mall, consuming consumers ...wouldn't that be something? Yikes!
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EXCELLENT!!MY FEELINGS EXACTLY!!!!!!
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bah humbug!
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LOL! AS usual, expressive and direct. :)Your personality comes out well in your writing so I hope you are archiving these somewhere. As for the point: Seems like you are frustrated at some people for not respecting your choices as much as you respect theirs. In life I have a lot of international friends that share their respective religious beliefs with me. That can be beautiful and enriching, but what you are experiencing sounds like a full assult on your senses. Worse, it's by people that don't seem to strive for the values they profess. Things that might help: Perhaps don't talk about politics or religion with your parents if they get upset. That might be tough thouh since you live with them for now. The idea is that if you let them see that you are OK in other ways, they might not pressure you so much. Then later you can open up to them when you feel more comfortable. One way to get away from the ambient noise you hate so much might be to run as many errands as you can via the web. Another, if you feel you simply must go into one of those 'mart' stores, is to go to a 24 hour one at a time when the all screechers will be home asleep. You might even want to go during peak hours with friends and laugh like you did with Saehid. Basically, do anything you can to cut down the tension. In some of your other posts it's apparent that you are planning for long-term change. My suspicion is that after you wrote this post you felt that you had cleared your head. It is that level of health that leads me to believe, in spite of the days when you feel your head will explode, you will be just fine :) PS. For the love of god or lack thereof, stay out of Denny's :)
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Cheesy typo up there on my side, but I hope I helped.
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Party pooper! Ah... you'll get over it... eventually. You say: "Maybe I’m bitter for having my own thought pattern...". Well, how about making slight modifications to it? Well anyways, I like the Holidays because it's festive and fun and that's all that matters to me. If everyone wants to waste their money on unnecessary gift shopping, that's their choice. You can see this whole thing how ever you choose to see it. Why not make the best of it and cut all the annoying stuff out. I don't have to aggree with you, do I? I hope you feel better now that you got this out of your system. Still, I wish you incredible year in 2008. Ha! ha! Happy Holidays to everybody else! ¦) It's just as easy for you to modify your thought pattern. How about you try it. You choose to see the good, and only the good. I choose to see the whole picture. Of course you don't have to agree with me, no one ever implied that you did. However, to say that the way my mind functions needs to be changed is to say that there's something wrong with the way my mind functions. No need to insult, now. Actually, Nikko, I moved out two weeks ago. I'm living with the people and animals of what we call the Drama Den. The whole thing is explained in the Xeno Update post I wrote.
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opps, missed that one.
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No worries.
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Did not mean to insult you now, Xeno. That was not my intention. I was only making a suggetion. Geee....... are we in a serious mood! Have a nice 25th of December, then! Ciao! :)
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Hm. Maybe chose your language more carefully, then.
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Yeah! It's true that you only see the words and not hear the intonation when reading. I could be misinterpreted.
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It happens all the time. No worries.
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How long are Christmas masses? :O Hmmmm, about the other religions parades and things not happening, and Christmas happening , that one stumps me too. Kind of like the oldest child getting to open their presents first! Not fair. And the screaming children running and leaping at the jolly fat guy in the mall, yikes! :S About the people who go like, "Hey! How can you not like Christmas?! It's awesome!!! Get in the holiday spirit!!! How about you come with me to *social event*?!" There's no law that on Christmas you cannot have a bad mood. Anyways, watch out for the Walmart in my city. :S They ring their bells as loud as physically possible, and there's this one "I love my job" guy (the store greeter who calls out randomly, "I love my job", he's kind of a legend) who yells out "Merry Christmas" every five minutes in a BOOMING voice. But that's not to say that I don't like Christmas. It's my second favorite. Halloween's the first (Halloween birthday = Holiday favoritism). I don't go to Catholic masses or anything, so I can't relate to any mass rants. And I don't have any holiday troubles, so I can't fully say "I know how you feel". That annoys people sometimes when people just say that when they really don't know, doesn't it? Still, you have the right to get steamed about the holiday. So, Dec. 24th and 25th! You sure do know how to rant.
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If memory serves, the masses were three hours long, at midnight. And yes, Halloween is my favorite, too. Socond favorite is St. Patrick's Day. I'm Irish, so... yeah. Favoritism. That, and there's Guinness. Mmmmm.
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Wow, my Christmas Eve services at church are only an hour and a half. :o Yeah, good old holiday favoritism. :) Since I'm born on Halloween, I get extra candy. Thus, favoritism.
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Merry Christmas anyway:) and a hapy new year:)
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Merry XXXmas!
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thanks JDevi..u too
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I am a relatively cheerful person... and have always enjoyed seeing my family on holidays... unfortunately they seem to feel that is the only time acceptable to hang out with each other i guess... anyways, i applaud you for your observations. they are meticulous and some of these things are ... obsurd ? i think would be the word ( i mean the elve suits and droning christmas music, not your point of view ). so, anyways... if nothing else, thanks for the great writing you just entertained me for a whole 9 minutes! and believe me, it's taking alot these days to amuse me. have a good day ;) .
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Xeno, there ARE celebrations for Muslim and Jewish holidays, just not on as big a scale as Christmas cause there's a lot more Christians in North America. I don't see you complaining that anyone who celebrates Christmas in the Middle East gets **** for it. HOWEVER, I work at McDonalds, and if I hear "Noel" interprated one more time by Alvin and the Chipmunks on the speakers, I might just decide to move to Kuwait.
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your rants as always bring everyone together i love this sorry i can write more on the matter i just stoped in to say hi and mabey get a cup of what ever it is i drink
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A pixie-killing Xeno Dragon I absolutly love ur post. I regret to say that i had the very same conversation with someone before christmas. I thought he hated christmas because his mother died, but really he is just like u as far as that goes. oops. i would apologize but he probably already hates me. so i will apologize to u. sorry about that, I'll know better for next year. anyway, you have a great ability. keep it up.
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Xeno, there ARE celebrations for Muslim and Jewish holidays, just not on as big a scale as Christmas cause there's a lot more Christians in North America. quote] That's the point. It's not equal. It's not fair. Nothing that can be done to change it, of course, but it's disgusting nevertheless. A pixie-killing Xeno Dragon I absolutly love ur post. I regret to say that i had the very same conversation with someone before christmas. I thought he hated christmas because his mother died, but really he is just like u as far as that goes. oops. i would apologize but he probably already hates me. so i will apologize to u. sorry about that, I'll know better for next year. anyway, you have a great ability. keep it up. No worries, there are worse things. And thank you for your compliments. I am a relatively cheerful person... and have always enjoyed seeing my family on holidays... unfortunately they seem to feel that is the only time acceptable to hang out with each other i guess... anyways, i applaud you for your observations. they are meticulous and some of these things are ... obsurd ? i think would be the word ( i mean the elve suits and droning christmas music, not your point of view ). so, anyways... if nothing else, thanks for the great writing you just entertained me for a whole 9 minutes! and believe me, it's taking alot these days to amuse me. have a good day ;) . Absurd, yes. That's a very good word to describe some parts of the holidays.
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Ah, d*mn. I forgot the coding agin. I'll re-post it if anyone's confused by that.
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i love your writing, and i completely agree with you! what's worst is the christmas music. why would people willingly play terrible tunes with even worse words attached to them? there's no escaping it... where ever you go, to the mall, to the food store, to the gas station, even in your car with the radio on, you hear these atrocious songs. thank god its done for this year!
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Until early October of next year, if the trend of Christmas consumption of the year.
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Hey, I came back to read the whole thing, liked it alot! To tell the truth I'm not the hollyest or jollyest when it comes to Christmas either.
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I appreciate your opinion and I understand what you are saying I only really celebrate christmas because my family does and I can't be bothered with arguing with them although christmas often makes me feel like sh*t..... You are a very talented author... And although you probably hear this waaaay too much Smoking isn't good for... Please try and stop... But no I don't fel like going on a anti smoking rant... Lol
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Xeno Dragon, sometimes your coments can be a little to harsh for me. But I always agree with what you say. And its nice to know Im not alone in my thoughts.
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hey dont wory i m like that too
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I appreciate your opinion and I understand what you are saying I only really celebrate christmas because my family does and I can't be bothered with arguing with them although christmas often makes me feel like sh*t..... You are a very talented author... And although you probably hear this waaaay too much Smoking isn't good for... Please try and stop... But no I don't fel like going on a anti smoking rant... Lol I know it's bad for me. So is drinking, so are drugs, so is premarital sex... come to think about it, everything that's fun is bad for you, isn't it? Xeno Dragon, sometimes your coments can be a little to harsh for me. But I always agree with what you say. And its nice to know Im not alone in my thoughts. I know, but I'm not the type to censor my opinion just because it isn't popular.
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Lol I guess your right......
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New year:)
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I know it's bad for me. So is drinking, so are drugs, so is premarital sex... come to think about it, everything that's fun is bad for you, isn't it? Everything except love, the love for family, the love for a spouse, the love for your pet ect.
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Hm. But love leads to copius ammounts of premarital sex. At least, it has for me. Besides, if you read posts on here for long enough, you'll see quite a few that have girls staying in abusive relationships (which are bad for you) because they love the guy so much. True, one could debate that it's not really love, but there's no way of knowing for sure. There is, in all likelyhood, at least one girl out there somewhere who really IS madly in love with a guy who treats her like sh*t on a daily basis.
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And take it from me, I love animals, but if you have allergies, it can be pretty bad for you to be around them. Cats are sweet, but they make my head explode.
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Your quite the debater!
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I'm just sure of myself and my opinions. But thanks.
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So your saying you don't enjoy debating? Because I think you would be very good at it.... It's nice to see someone expressing there opinion seeing as I am contiually being told not to express mine.....
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Expressing your opinion and debating are different. I've gotten caught up in many, many debates over the years, and yes, I am pretty good at them. However, After a while you get tired of repeating yourself. You hear the same arguments over and over, and you have to shoot them down with the same logic over and over, and you have to watch people get pissed off at you over and over after you prove them wrong over and over...
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Been there, done that. it's why I'm still wanting to delete the ladder. They simply never stop talking do they?
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kwl o_o
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Intresting way of putting it.... Yes it's true that it gets tiring of repeating yourself.... (i am a vegetarian... and i get alot of **** from it) But I enjoy standing up for what I beleive in and if debating is a part of that which it is then I enjoy that to.....
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Give it time. I used to enjoy debating, too. I've been doing this a while, and trust me, it gets old.
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Well I am actually joining a debating team so.... I do understand where your coming from but I think some people enjoy debating as a hobby and don't get tired of it...
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We'll see. Too much of anything is still too much. It took tens of thousands of debates for me to get tired of them, but it still happened.
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Well maybe I will die before that happens.....