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Christmas, what I call Christ day, is absolutely pointless. It has been, ever since I can remember it, souly about family members giving presents and money, hoping the other members won't recall the fact that they only see each other maybe, 2 times a year. Or friends, who feel a need to give a present, because they don't want to be scolded. People can make meaning in what they do, but it's rare, and shouldn't be done simply for christmas. Thoughtful presents or cards shouldn't just be for a holiday, if someone wants something badly and you feel you can get it, and that they'd really enjoy it, why only look for it during Christmas? Or better yet, why wait til then? I may be an atheist but I know that Christmas isn't about laptops and mp3 players, christ didn't get those when he (if) was born...It's just another day, families use it as excuses to stay away from each other until that date. I swear, that many people I know see people only on that date. If it weren't for christmas, than people would start getting wise to the fact that... they don't want to see their families just as much as their families don't want to see them. I'd like to spend it with friends, but it doesn't work cause I get guilt trips, so I hate this time of the year.
What I do is, if I run into something that I think someone I know will love, I'll get it. But I find nothing, they get, nothing. My mother: I got her a sterling silver bracelet, that I saw while going through a store, not looking for anything for anybody but there it was... Friend Skylar: Got her the tape of romeo and juliet because I knew she adored the book and would like it, and she did. I could go on but my point is, I'm not going out of my way or buying something I'm unsure about. So it really will, be something to remember. Good gifts or no gifts.
So hey, I'm an atheist but here's one pro about it, I can celebrate any holiday I want cause there's no god telling me I can't. Never gotten any presents for any holiday but christmas but I could in theory. They don't represent much, even if you say what the holiday means, you don't feel it, think on it, you aren't celebrating christ's birth, you know that. You're too busy finding presents.
i see what you mean.
on the other hand if christmas to you is just another day do you think we should ban easter? birthdays? haloween? this could turn in to one long debate
Well, Sincerity, I'm an agnostic, but I celebrate Christmas. Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the way you do things either. Christmas does not have one small narrow meaning. Each person gives it as much or little meaning as they wish. I think my thing is that it's a time for me to kind of feel like a kid again, as I'm 40 years old now. I don't really do any of the religious stuff associated with the holiday. We have a tree up and have the music playing and watch the silly Christmas shows and give gifts and get stuffed with a big dinner, and it seems to work for us. If we're fooling ourselves or are insincere, that's our thing I suppose. And Stargate, I do not in the least think Sincerity was proposing a ban on Christmas or anything. It really couldn't happen in reality anyhow, so any talk of banning any holiday is way way in the land of the hypothetical.
i agree with you. you don't need to do anything more
Sincerity I agree with much of what you said it's a farce, and the emotional pressure is immense, no wonder so many people feel suicidal during Xmas.