what do you think of christmas?

Originally posted by Melancholia


The only think I like is that our town is so full of lights (especially this year) and I love walking here and there at night in the cold....


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The lights are the only thing I like too. One of my neighbors has this 12 foot high 3 dimensional 5 sided star {not pentagram}that lights up at night on his front lawn. So cool to walk by...:spin:
 
uaah i hate all the christmas illuminaters. especially the ones who don't feel settled to throw some christmas lights into a tree, but decorate ALL their house (our neighbours) with bright lights, some of them coloured (yuck!) AND flashing! aaaaarrrrrrg!

as for christmas itself, it's the usual sitting around with all your relatives. i don't like most of them, they're strange somehow. i don't see the need so pretend to be some happy community when on all other occassions the rest of the year we don't see each other... i may add that we live approx. 15 kilometers away... not too much of a journey.
 
Christmas is nice because you get presents and because there are holidays afterwards... but that's it - I hate those family meetings where I have to see all the people I don't want to see... and I also dislike that it seems to be a bit closer to its Christian roots here than in the USA, the children here are not told of "Father Christmas" but rather about the "Christkind" that comes and brings presents. But the whole thing is evolving towards the American excess-overcommercialisation...
 
Hanukah - and I don't even care for that. I'm a holiday party-pooper.

I like getting together, eating well, and the holidays do provide a warm and fuzzy feeling - but like other holiday bashers, it's the damn commercialism that makes me sick. I know business is about making money, and what better time to advertise to the masses.

Oh well, I'm stuck in this world - so I'll live with it.
 
I was a kid once. Looked foward to the presents, the reunion with all my cousins, the tons of food. I do not know what happened now i cannot feel exited or happy about anything related to xmas...i wish i would those are good childhood memories but i lost it....

I feel like playing Death - Symbolic now...
 
I see the point that the originator of this thread made...and it has merits, for sure.

Christianity is so mistaken about Christmas, which gets in origin, not from the bible, nor from any command by God, but from pagan Roman customs that had nothing to do with Jesus. Of course, Christmas was originally celebrated to welcome the winter solstace during Constantine's rule.

Christmas tree? Even their own bible tells of its pagan origins (Jer 10:1-5.

For me, I celebrate it, but not the christian side of it...as others have pointed out here it is the time of the year, the festivity, the beer, food, etc...the days off from work...that I enjoy.

I would rather celebrate the winter solstace, myself.

Happy New Years and merry X-mas. lol.
 
I think I'd like the whole getting together and gift giving if it wasn't all...messed up every year.

Every year it seems like someone's mad about something. Every year I find myself trying to make someone happy that...in all actuality, I shouldn't even bother because more than half the time, I end up getting shit on in some way.

It won't change though, so I guess I'll always look at the holidays with a weary eye as they come. I'm glad that everyone else seems to be so happy, but...........................I find myself trying to get away from everyone and everything and just be alone with a few select friends.

There are so many obligations that people hold sacred at Christmas. I'm always thinking "WHAT?!"

"Run away, run away.
Just one second, and I was left with nothing."
 
cards i hate
the carols i dislike
giving presents is alright, but some people are just too god damn hard to buy for!! (people who have no interests/hobbies!)
recieving presents, hmmm i always feel bad coz the presents i get are always better/dearer than the ones i give!!

overall i think its a pretty nice time of year, its just that little period at the end of the year between christmas and new years that always gets me thinking and recaculating everything. And appreciating everything.

obviously there are some negatives about it but i chose to ignore them coz there are negatives in everything, cant spend your life missing out on the good coz of a bit of bad!!
 
Ehh.. I guess I like it, sort of. I have such a small sorce of income and it's always hard for me to get peole gifts, and my parents always get me something overly expensive. And about the highschool thing, I am so hating it, you get thrown into a generalized group the second you do anything, I have one band shirt, an Opeth one, and some people call me a 'goth', wtf, I make an effort to not wear all black. Everything else I own is plain longsleeve and t-shirts, and jeans. I am so sick of all these generalizations, in highschool everyone thinks everyone has to fit with a certain group, I don't have a bunch of friends that dress exactly like me and just copy each other, I am in no group, so i'd appreciate not being thrown in with one.
 
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