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Tue 28 Nov, 2006 12:56 am
While I was growing up,
in NYC, and in Phoenix, Arizona,
at Christmas time, we were always surrounded
by an intense environment of Christmas,
and Christmas carols,
from all directions; it was wonderful.
With the passage of time,
starting maybe in the 1960s or 70s,
it dwindled, progressively downhill,
now almost to a politically correct nothing.
Merchants seem to want to have it both ways,
in that thay do not acknowledge Christmas
( calling it " holiday " or one of some anonymous holidays ),
but thay r eager to reap its financial benefits.
I don ' t think so.
It seems to me,
that those of us who loved, and who miss,
the status quo ante can re-direct our financial support
to those merchants
who opt to participate in the Spirit of Christmas,
and allow the others to be politically correct
all the way to the bankruptcy court. HO, HO, HO !
David
Re: CULTURALLY MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASON
OmSigDAVID wrote:re-direct our financial support to those merchants who opt to participate in the Spirit of Christmas, and allow the others to be politically correct all the way to the bankruptcy court. HO, HO, HO!
Brilliant! Especially since the Christmas-observing faithful are clearly the only ones who shop in the winter. I can't wait to see the look on the faces of those "politically correct" shops when they realize just how few non-Christmas-observing pagans are out there to sustain their businesses. Take that, multi-culti heathens! Muahahahaha!
Re: CULTURALLY MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASON
Shapeless wrote:OmSigDAVID wrote:re-direct our financial support to those merchants who opt to participate in the Spirit of Christmas, and allow the others to be politically correct all the way to the bankruptcy court. HO, HO, HO!
Brilliant! Especially since the Christmas-observing faithful are clearly the only ones who shop in the winter. I can't wait to see the look on the faces of those "politically correct" shops when they realize just how few non-Christmas-observing pagans are out there to sustain their businesses. Take that, multi-culti heathens! Muahahahaha!
Actually, we never stop hearing
the bleating of those merchants who perpetually cry about
their reliance upon the Christmas Season to get them above
the red ink. Thay r forever crying the blues about the red ink,
from which thay r separated by only a very few percentage points.
THEREFORE, re-direction of the funds
of lovers of America 's biggest Festival: CHRISTMAS
can and WILL prevail, if we decide among ourselves
to reward the right fellows with our patronage.
FOLLOW THE JOYOUS SOUND OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS !!!
David
I've always bee irritated in those days when I heard christmas carols in the pre-christmas time - there are a lot of own carols for this period.
But I became used to this Americanisation.
I agree, Walter.
Christmas, or the feeling of Christmas, would be so much more special, if it were condensed back down to the preceeding week and the couple of days that are actually celebrated.
Hearing sleigh bell songs being pumped out in the shops from early November, just turns me off the whole thing.
Thank goodness for Thanksgiving! (sorry 'bout that!)
But that holiday helps to contain the Christmas season here
in the US a bit!
I know that when I lived in Germany, the Christmas spirit was
well under way in October and by the time mid December rolled
around, I was sick of Lebkuchen und Dominosteine!
OmSigDAVID wrote:I understand that in some religions,
the Christmas Season continues well into January;
( is it when the 3 Kings arrived in Bethlehem ? )
David [/b][/color]
In the Christian belief, the Christmas period end on February 2nd.
Well, at least in those churches, who follow tradition Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodoxs (only separated by different calendar), Protestants ....
OmSigDAVID wrote:Lord Ellpus wrote:I agree, Walter.
Christmas, or the feeling of Christmas, would be so much more special,
if it were condensed back down to the preceeding week and the couple of days
that are actually celebrated.
Hearing sleigh bell songs being pumped out in the shops from early November, just turns me off the whole thing.
Particularly in my youth,
I felt sad at the end of the Christmas Season.
For me, taking down the beautiful, beloved Christmas Tree
was a very sad event. I wished that Christmas be celebrated
as an enduring FESTIVAL, not just a brief holiday.
I think that the Christmas Season beginning
with the end of Thanksgiving is a good idea.
I understand that in some religions,
the Christmas Season continues well into January;
( is it when the 3 Kings arrived in Bethlehem ? )
David
We don't have thanksgiving over here, for which I give thanks, as if we did, it would probably start being celebrated during the last week in August.
Of course, that would then overlap with the final days of the Easter celebrations, which started two days after the end of the preceedong Christmas.
With all those celebrations going on, I'd never get enough time to get away for a summer vacation.
The 2nd of February is the festival of the "Purification of the Virgin Mary" - Candlemass day.
Does that raise a question
of how pure she was on February 1st, 1 ?
How long does the Festival last ?
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