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Anti-Christmas Thread
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There is no rest for the wicked!
Kelly of the Phoenix
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Well, the OP made me laugh. 
Yeah, the house we bought has so many issues Christmas and birthdays are essentially "thank God we're not being condemned", LOL.
Yeah, the house we bought has so many issues Christmas and birthdays are essentially "thank God we're not being condemned", LOL.
We do love the bacon don't we. Also on New year's day our family tradition is to eat hog jowl. Thats really thick bacon. .....I can hardly wait!
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Hee hee!
That is indeed yummy...better than pork belly.
On occasion I must endure low quality ham....the kind which has a rubbery tasteless quality.
Too cheap to buy the fancy Spanishistanian hams, I go with Smithfield.....dry, salty, strong & cost effective.
"Dry, salty, strong, cost effective. " All the best things in life.
That is what I try to tell women but they still don't call me back.
You left off "cost effective"?
That's what a Scot lives for!
I don't know what you're talking about. Your description of Christmas has almost no resemblance to the traditions of my family.
Right. I edited to add that important thing.
What I'm gettng at is doesn't celebrating Christmas:
i) even though you may not believe in Christ or Christianity
ii) and that the "celebrations" have little to do with Christianity even if you did
...strike you as a fairly irrational act of conformity built on generations of reinvented myths?
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Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Aye, cheap is good, free is better!
But the ultimate is a Scottish garbageman.
He gets paid to get free stuff!
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Excellent! Creative recyling! All the house clearance firms are run by Scots no doubt.
Not even a little. There is nothing "irrational" about spending time with family and engaging in family traditions on a particular day of the year. Gods forbid we value our families and behave as the social animals we are.
Perhaps, but his description is pretty accurate regarding a large number of folks who partake in the festivities.
Augustus
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Myths are what we do as humans though and reinvented myths are a particular speciality of ours.
Everyone likes a good myth, especially the people who hate them. It usually takes a fantastical myth to explain why myths are bad
Is it? Last time I checked, Christians did not regard their savior as a "zombie" and parents didn't teach their kids that Santa is a "professional burglar." But if we've got a proper peer-reviewed published study saying that "a large number" (not sure what that is, statistically) of folks have these perspectives, I'll freely stand corrected.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I agree about liking good myths, the problem is the proliferation of extremely bad myths, trite cliched rubbish mostly.