Feyokien wrote:
Yo, but I will be forced by my family every year to celebrate what I now just consider to be the winter festival, since no one talks about Santa Claus or Jesus anymore and it's just a time for gift giving and being around family. I'd personally like to ax the gift giving part now that all my siblings and I are adults, I see little point for it plus money is scarce right now with college and all.
So yeah I guess I will be celebrating Christmas, although I'll deny it to the end!
The only reason there is a 'festival' is because pagans had a winter festival, and then christians over-took it as a coercion method, by making it so the christian celebration coincided with it, some Christians even thing celebrating it is wrong due to the underlying pagan themes/traditions associated with Christmas. Anyways point with that is it was initially a winter festival before the christian holiday.
I don't particularly celebrate anything, sometimes I might try and get gifts for a couple people and am certainly open to getting together with people around that time but yeah nothing specific.
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