The True Meaning Of Christmas — Page 2

A Charlie Brown Christmas is on Tuesday. I wish they'd at least wait until December to start airing the Christmas shows.

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:) = turtle

I couldn't agree more.

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Rudolph
Charlie
Emmett
Grinch
Wonderful Life

Every year without fail.

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I watched The Wedding Singer tonight. I am in a bah humbug mood.

I need to pull out my CD of Cher singing Oh Holy Night. And Bing Crosby's Christmas.

Too bad Sara doesn't have Christmas CD that she isn't just in chorus on. That would absolutely put me in the mood. (Not a Christmasy one, really.)

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THere is only one film that means Christmas to me: "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation". THAT is the true meaning of Christmas.

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Long before the "birth" of "Christ" the time around the winter solstice was special. The world would get colder and darker and people would feel anxious and depressed. So they began to celebrate that while things might seem bad now, they would get better. In fact, only a couple days after the shortest day of the year, (December 21) things are getting better already- the days a little longer, the sun a little brighter. So they celebrated. The celebrated the coming of the light. They celebrated that some trees were still green. They celebrated that life had a cycle and all those spring births were just around the corner, so to speak.

Along comes an upstart religion looking to gain some traction. There are all these pagan festivals around the last week of December. So they put the "Birth" of god on the 25th of December and called him "The Light of the World." They told people they could still celebrate those evergreen trees- just call them Christmas Trees. And so on and so on.

So when someone whines that we've forgotten the true meaning of Christmas, agree and urge them to get back to pagan rituals and druid tree worship- the REAL Christmas.

Not to be a downer, but I wanted to make another point about Christmas, and in fact, the whole holiday season.

To me, this time of year is all about family and friends, celebrations, gift-giving, doing all the hustling and bustling of shopping and cooking. Parties and get togethers abound.

If I'm not mistaken, this time of year is high on the list of suicides and related depression. I think of all the people who have no one, no shopping to do, no parties to go to. Although I have some family (but we don't celebrate Christmas) and I have wonderful friends, I usually feel a little blue during this time of year too. I'm happy when it's over to tell the truth

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Not to worry, taka, usually Christmas Shoes is high on the list of the songs people can't stand around here.

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Over the years Christmas has become my absolute least favorite time of year. I dread it. When you're young it's exciting, but as you get older it just becomes fake and forced and frustrating. That might sound very Scrooge-ish, and maybe I'm being cynical, but "holiday cheer" just does not apply to me.

My dad feels the same way. We aren't really celebrating this year. No Christmas music, no decorations, no tree. We're going to exchange one gift each and that's that. Some complicated stuff has happened in our family on past Christmas days, so we just don't get enthusiastic about it anymore.

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Geek, I'm glad to see that I"m not the only one who's not wild about the holidays!

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Haha, well leave it to me to make the "downer" post!

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If the commercialization of Christmas bothers you, WHY did you go shopping on "Black Friday"? This reaction is no one's fault but your own.

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