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Please help out those less fortunate, if you are in a position to do so. Even a smile and saying “Good morning!” goes a long way.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Joyous Solstice, or simply, I hope you enjoy the rest of the year (-:
herejusttopointouterrors
this is excellent on many levels. thanks.
wadatahmydamie
I fully support his choice to give himself chapstick
creegro
Only as much work as you want to put in. I have a tree but no decorations, I like it just blank and sitting in the corner for now. I have Christmas decorations but only enough to fill a few shelves in the living room. My family doesn't do presents with each other much anymore, we all have what we want and any gifts that do pop up are gift cards or special things you saw at a store and just had to grab it for that person. And then meals is the only thing in stone
MrStealUrMeme
Do you have lights on the tree?
kathlTvVillain
Happy First Christmas 🎄❤️
PinballPenguin
I'm
ParallelParkingInABurka
"I bought myself mint chapstick and I will fake surprise". 😂 Love it, thanks for sharing & merry Christmas, @OP.
cousteau
Traditions vary around the world. Christmas trees are a thing around here but where we go crazy is with nativity scenes. I swear some people decorate an entire room with their Warhammer-for-adults hobby, and then compete with their neighbors and family members to see who made the most humongous Bethlem. (One of the figures must be pooping; that is tradition.)
dorenavant
Found this in the X thread and thought it belongs here:
IakobZ
Obviously he is a Cat-holic
wadatahmydamie
We put little toys into a stocking for our cat, so he can dig them out
TheMightyMollusk
Cats don't worship. Cats expect to be worshipped.
dorenavant
Very very true!
Soufange
Can confirm. Sitting on the couch and can hear one of the buggers digging a hole to shit out of sight.
catsnroombas
I loved opening our ornament box - we had some passed down from grandparents, handmade things we'd done as a family when we were little, the ones we bought each year related to whatever was going on in our lives at the time. It was a treasure chest of memories that I got to reexperience as we hung them, and I loved the idea that it would be mine to continue someday. It's one of those small, bitter, adult griefs that it was lost along the way, and one of many reasons I no longer claim a sister.
jammer909
Every year, we round up the neighborhood children and give them as a gift to Krampus. Of course, we gotta move to a new neighborhood and that's a pain, but for the sake of tradition...
shyriath
FurtiveGlancer
Now do a white Christian celebrating Eid
calenti
Checks out. Merry Christmas, OP!
raggeragnar
Have a muslim workmate who’s kids (8&6) asked why they didn’t celebrate like their Swedish friends. With the exception of serving anything pork, he went ALL-IN! Decorated tree, stars hanging and candelabras standing in windows, lights everywhere outside, santas everywhere inside and hired me to be Santa Claus handing out presents to the kids like we do in Sweden. Questioning relatives were told they could leave if they didn’t like it. I’ve done it 4 years in a row. Basically, I’m a crusader.
tavadis
very nice, a Viking working from home ;-)
lujotu
Your first mistake was Sweden.
raggeragnar
How so?
lujotu
Pay me no mind, I was half asleep when I wrote that
asaguda
I'm all for a no-pork Swedish Julbord if that helps include more people, personally, so this warms my cold, dead heart!
Kateness
Santa Vult.
tavadis
apage santana!
dorenavant
Knew a Lebanese Sh’ite Muslim family in Austin who grew up abroad but always loved the Christmas traditions they saw on TV. One winter they went all out and invited a small group of friends; Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and some who missed their flight to go home and celebrate with their families.
It was glorious! From the gigantic tree to the food to the lights to the music. And everyone left with a handmade ornament by the family. They inadvertently started a new tradition. ♥️
ThrowAwayAcct0000
We had "Friendsgiving" at my apt this year, and it was awesome. It was us (white Americans who immigrated to french Quebec), a couple from Chile, a couple from Bangladesh, a mom and kids from China, and a couple from Iran. We had a blast! Everyone wanted to have an "American Thanksgiving" like they had seen on the tv show "Friends," the food was awesome, and afterwards, we took the dog for a walk as a group and got high/drunk and had deep conversations about life. Highly recommend!
TheNotGreatDane
I've always seen the meaning of Christmas as light in the dark, and time for your family. Danes are very pig on pork - but even we have duck on the table as well. Good on your workmate.
raggeragnar
Godt! Var i Danmark bor du? Jag bor i Åstorp, 1 1/2 mil utanför Helsingborg.
Munchman347
I'm pretty sure, (after 78 years of participating), most folks just enjoy the 'feeling' of the season and don't much give it a lot of 'religious' significance. Really, if there were that many dedicated 'Christians', we wouldn't have a fat pedo in the Whitey House and children in cages...
TinyBadger101
Silly peoples, everyone knows the proper non-Christian food to eat is Chinese food! Show some solidarity with your Jewish friends' Christmas traditions :D
AlmostClever
I like this! But I feel obligated to point out not everyone is this intense about Christmas. Also he absolutely nailed it with the special ornament.
Skawomplious
And breakfast traditions. My wife didn't make orange sticky buns this year and my boy about started a riot.
tinyfootprints
My Muslim neighbor in Saudi Arabia put up a properly decorated Christmas tree in his living room. He was still Muslim, but liked the Christmas decor enough to risk jail time to put it up. For that matter, I put up a tree every year even though I don't adhere to any religion, but my parents always put up a tree, so I guess it's a family tradition.
cousteau
Nowhere in the Bible do they mention a tree, so I guess it's more a tradition than a religious thing. I've definitely never seen it as religious.
marsilies
It's something adapted from old Winter Solstice celebrations, since the fir tree stays green throughout winter, instead of losing its leaves in the fall like many other trees. The "evergreen" nature represented the continuation/persistence of life through winter. It got co-opted by Christmas when it was moved to December to take over most pagan Winter Solstice celebrations. Similar to how Easter has bunnies and eggs to represent sex and fertility during the renewal of Sprint.
marsilies
*Spring. Also...
cousteau
I think I hadn't seen the part with Nick crashing the party.
Neurisko
It's all optional. Some uptight assholes will judge you for not "participating" enough in the holiday, but most people are pretty chill about not judging you for not engaging in all levels of activity.
WillemHellfire
I haven't participated in Christmas in a long long while. If I had my druthers, I'd be elsewhere, away from it all.
leonaNoodleBreaker
Not gonna lie a lot of this is unnecessary and over the top. My husband's family and mine both have foods that are traditionally served but if something is missed it's not a big deal. I do get the keeper vs filler ornaments. I specifically like Hallmark bird ornaments (or most any bird ornament) and ones that have meaning. Like one of my favorite movies as a kid was Jurassic Park so we have an ornament that looks like the old VHS. Good ornaments are expensive as they are meant to last.
JustBlarg
This is way I feel we really should have an official, non-religious alternative to Christmas. So much of the decorations and traditions are pagan, anyway! Let Christians celebrate the birth of their messiah, but closer to the estimated actual birth date of Jesus, in the summer of the northern hemisphere. The Winter Solstice should be exactly that. A celebration that the days, in the northern hemisphere, have reached their shortest and will start getting longer again!
Nizedk
Be good to each other, enjoy. If not possible, be good to yourself.
boognish115
This is all true for me except for the menu part. Christmas is supposed to be a big feast to usher in the winter season with warmth and joy rather than doom and gloom. In any case, if you’re having fun during Christmas that’s all that matters. Eat what you like!
Skawomplious
WHAT'S WRONG WITH PEPPERMINT
LeMegachonk
Christmas, for the most part, is no longer primarily a religious celebration, but has become the cultural celebration of Xmas. The vast majority of the traditions people have surrounding Christmas are more pagan in origin anyway, and there's something ironic about Christianity's Big Day falling victim to the same kind of syncretism used to steal the traditions from the pagans in the first place.
marsilies
I'm not sure if you used "Xmas" to indicate a more secular version, but the X is a symbol for Christ, so it's shorthand for Christmas that started with Christians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
LeMegachonk
Like everything else regarding Christmas, Xmas got yoinked from them too. Anyway, the idea is that you call it "Exmas" to differentiate it from Christmas.
swedeonamoose
It might be called christmas but most of it is pagan anyways, now release the julegoat, put some porridge out for the nisse and drink too much glögg.
UngratefulColonial
Amazon had a show on prime that showed all the links between pagans and Christmas. It's practically everything, including deciding when Jesus was born.
TheNotGreatDane
Makes me happy to be Scandinavian - we call it Jul, the only religious thing about it, is some of the songs (and they're pretty songs - I can enjoy them as music). If we had to celebrate Baby Jesus, it would be Kristmesse.
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Who wants to torch the Yule log ?
Therunningsausage5772
I tend to pour a dram of whiskey for the huldufolk, but that’s probably just me. (My skyr is left alone, no doors slamming at night, and no one steals my wooden spoons. I may not exactly believe, but I don’t want to find out that they believe in me.)
AllSeeingAvalin
"I dont believe in the Fay, but the Fay believe in me" is a statement that is exponentially more worrying the more you believe in the Fae.
CanadianLadyMoose
Saturnalia demands we drink and feast in a big crowd, can we make room for that?
swedeonamoose
I mean for many christmas is basically massive family gatherings with a lot of drinking
CanadianLadyMoose
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Zamerine
Yep. Christians basically switched Jesus birthdate from summer to winter to supplant the original big pagan celebration of winter solstice (Yule, Saturnalia, ...).
I'm very happy that modern day christmas is far more laic than religious. I haven't met anyone in a long time that has attended a christmas mess or watched it live.
Zamerine
attended or watched recently *
(and yes I know there are still some that do, but they're less and less every year ! oh yeah =) )
pritolus
The Norse Jól was more of a midwinter celebration, in mid to late January. Of course that was also moved to Dec 24th when the Norse were given the option to change religions or die about 1000 years ago
gatormarc
> I haven't met anyone in a long time that has attended a christmas mess
Every Christmas that I attend is a mess.
Zamerine
=D
Outraider
prepare the boats, we are raiding Gävle tonight since the kids these days dont know how to burn a strawgoat
Margrave9000
Yup, the stories, the figures, the morals, the traditions, the holidays and just about everything else in Christianity is either fake or stolen. Their so-called religion simply doesn't exist even as mythology.
ArchMagos
Most religions have aspects that were absorbed from earlier traditions. And when something like the Jewish Diaspora occurs, you see many other traditions incorporated. You also tend to see radical transformation of the religion, such as the Hebrew faith going from polytheistic to monotheistic. That a religion changes over time and has traditions from the localities it spreads within incorporated into itself does not make it a non-religion.
Margrave9000
Unlike other religions, Christianity is entirely a random patchwork of stolen ideas without any solid core or unique belief system. Or even a historically verified founder.
Zamerine
It was not incorporation in christianity case (and especially Christmas, the dude wasn't even born in winter...). It was supplantation missionary style. They exterminated any existing religion and traditions with their own and hunted down anyone who resisted.
wadatahmydamie
TIL Hebrews had polytheism at one point
SalmySwims
Where do you think "Thou shalt not put other gods before Me" came from? Ba'al didn't just appear in the Torah in a vacuum, either. Yahweh and Ba'al were a part of the Canaanite pantheon.
wadatahmydamie
I always assumed it was because of rival religions, not rival factions within the same faith