The " I Hate Xmas " Thread
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:grouch:Get out of our thread! Bah humbug!
Hate Christmas.
My mother HAS to spend every Christmas with me or she will go into one of her classic Catholic mother guilt trips so it's a whole thing with her flying here. I have to plan stuff, (last year was the Rockettes...$350 for that saccharine horseshit) plus dinner in Manhattan not to mention fighting the holiday crowds & traffic.
Sometimes I wish I could just sit on a beach one year.
My mother HAS to spend every Christmas with me or she will go into one of her classic Catholic mother guilt trips so it's a whole thing with her flying here. I have to plan stuff, (last year was the Rockettes...$350 for that saccharine horseshit) plus dinner in Manhattan not to mention fighting the holiday crowds & traffic.
Sometimes I wish I could just sit on a beach one year.
I thought we were besties!?!
I thought you were my dog?
I forgive you. Call me after new years.
One day your mother isn't going to be here and you are going to cherish those dinners.
Are you Catholic? B/c you got the guilt trip thing down!!
...ummmm...wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was raised Catholic, but I am not really religious.Are you Catholic? B/c you got the guilt trip thing down!!
lol you know we goodI thought we were besties!?!
I thought you were my dog?
I forgive you. Call me after new years.
49 days and its over !
Still got one of those here somewhere.
is it a door stop now ?
if only that were true. We could do without a lot of bad kids in this country.
42 more days and its over.
have any of you ever given a fruit cake as a Xmas gift.
God damn people who give that shit!
God damn people who give that shit!
I was watching that show Divirce last night and it was a Christmas episode. I had an anxiety attack. I hate Thanksgiving and Christmas more and more each year. I think I'm gonna hide under a rock until January. The only thing I like about the holiday is putting a pretty tree up and I don't even feel like doing that this year.
How far into the Divorce season are you?
I am two episodes in and struggling a bit. SJP looks awful
and I'm having trouble believing she and that guy were ever married to begin with.Should I stick with it? Does it get better?
I've seen some houses around here with their Christmas trees up already. When I was a kid we always got a real tree and couldn't do that until about a week before Christmas.
I only exchange gifts with my sister and a couple of other people but still end up with some expensive shit that I have no use for. Besides I celebrate Yule instead.
I only exchange gifts with my sister and a couple of other people but still end up with some expensive shit that I have no use for. Besides I celebrate Yule instead.
20 more days and its over
How much money have you sunk into it so far ?
How much money have you sunk into it so far ?
Would you consider atheism a form of religion?
I have no clue.
I wouldn't say that Hanukkah is ignored. But one needs to understand what it is, and what it isn't.
Hanukkah is not one of the major holidays on the Jewish calendar but it is a significant one. Preceding the birth of Jesus by about 170 years, Hanukkah marks the military victory of a small band of Jews over the much more powerful Seleucid empire, which resulted in the liberation of Jerusalem and the surrounding area, resumption of Temple services and free Jewish religious practice. This was deemed to be a miracle and so the holiday of Hanukkah was established by the rabbis of the time. A Jewish commonwealth was thereafter established, which unfortunately proved to be short-lived due to the ascendancy of Rome.
It is worth noting that the Hanukkah story takes place in the Jewish month of Kislev, which usually overlaps with some part of December. Conversely, Christmas is celebrated on December 25 because early Church fathers wanted to take an already established pagan holiday on that day and make it a Christian holiday. Most historians agree that Jesus was not born in December but in the spring - Mary and Joseph were traveling to Jerusalem for Passover.
The story of Hanukkah was memorialized in the Book of the Maccabees. However, this book was not given canon status by the rabbis because it attributes the victory of the Jews to military skill more so than Divine intervention. While it is included in Christian bible canon, along with other lesser known works such as the Books of Tobit, Judith and Jubilees, it is not considered canon in Judaism.
There are many customs involved in Hanukkah but there is NO custom to buy gifts for people or to hold parties or feasts. Those are reserved for another holiday, known as Purim (which ignorant people call the Jewish Halloween because of the custom to wear costumes). While there is a custom on Hannukah to give to charity and perhaps some coins to young children, the modern day notion of Hanukkah presents and parties are the direct result of Christian influence. Basically, Jewish children saw Christian children getting presents on their holiday around the same time of the year and were upset that their own holiday didn't feature presents. So, now it does.
I hear ya
Because it seems that a lot of atheists are determined to get religious people around to their way of thinking - which to me sounds a lot like proselytizing.
How far into the Divorce season are you?
I am two episodes in and struggling a bit. SJP looks awful
Should I stick with it? Does it get better?
I'm so sorry! I didn't see your post until now, @Petal!
Did you watch any more episodes? It's not that good. It's not very believable. We've seen every episode on so far. My husband likes it more than I do, or I would have stopped watching. SJP looks gross. All that makeup doesn't help her face. Back to the show, I can't see how they can pull off additional seasons of the show - who wants to watch them go through a Divorce for seasons upon seasons. There's one good part of the show - the husband's lawyer is the "Mayhem" guy from the Nationwide insurance commercials. He's good in the cut-throat lawyer role.
None yet. I was always a last minute shopper. That's part of my Christmas denial.
Husband and I don't exchange gifts really, other than he gives me a new ornament for the tree every year (he picks something with meaning) and I make a custom calendar with pictures of the stuff we did the year prior. I have no idea what to get my mom and stepdad. I always get my Dad and his girlfriend restaurant gift cards.
I'm old enough that I wish people would quit buying me gifts. I tell them this every year and they still buy stuff. I throw away/donate a lot of that stuff away because it's just junk. I'd rather they spend their money on themselves.
