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27 Dec 2011, 11:14 am
DerStadtschutz wrote:
NcNbl wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
NcNbl wrote:
hi! wish you all a happy holiday! we all have different kinds of personal christmas and ways to celebrate it, and reasons and what we think about those things. But whats important is that we may feel happy and loved this time of year.. we don't have to conform to everything everyone does to feel such. Lets do what we want to do or do what we have to do with whats planned for the holidays in the family out of love because its not all the time everyone could extend their compassion, care and concern and love to their loved ones, its just almost a reminding question before the year ends if have we given others joy and love more importantly ourselves..
im not saying people should agree with me but its also tradition and/or culture, an activity, we do for the holidays we could just partake to the occasion cuz its is special and only happen once a year, so maybe we could look forward in doing, experiencing and feeling what we usually dont at least just once for this year..
anyways, have a good one everyone! xoxox
im not saying people should agree with me but its also tradition and/or culture, an activity, we do for the holidays we could just partake to the occasion cuz its is special and only happen once a year, so maybe we could look forward in doing, experiencing and feeling what we usually dont at least just once for this year..
anyways, have a good one everyone! xoxox
Sounds nice but I have a hard time understanding what love is and what I should do out of love.
Hi Robdemanc!
sorry, well.. try to do what you think would make them smile or something they would appreciate that u know even if just little things, and out of love in the sense that it is something u want to do for them and would even get out of your way or your comfort zone a bit, which could be as simple as purchasing them a gift, or staying with them during the holiday gathering, doing a gesture u want to do for them that u want to do or is ok for u to do as well.. its the holidays, everyone should be happy or at least okay.. Translation: Screw how you feel, you should just go along with this stupid tradition cuz other people want you to, and nevermind the fact that Christmas doesn't make everybody happy. Holidays are just like any other day. They'll be here for 24 hours, and then they will fade away. And there's nothing special about them either. They come back every year, but they only get worse as time goes on. When I was a kid, we didn't see christmas decorations and promotions go up the second halloween was over. We didn't see any of that sh** until after thanksgiving, and thanksgiving actually existed then. People DECORATED for it, if you can imagine that. Now Santa's fat ass has to occupy half the damn calendar, and everything's "omfg, buy this sh**!" That's all any holiday is anymore, a shopping spree. If you don't partake in all the consumer whoring around, then you're labeled a grinch, an a**hole, whatever, and people say "where's your christmas cheer/spirit?" It's just like when I was in school and spirit week or whatever they called it rolled around, you know, the days near homecoming, where everybody does some stupid theme each day leading up to the homecoming game to show off their school spirit. Everybody would say "where's your school spirit?" Both of these intangible, abstract nouns are planted firmly in your rectum. Now leave me alone and keep me out of your stupid crap.
I've been asking to be left out of christmas now for about 5 years. I'm so damn sick and tired of it, I could strangle santa claus and every one of those stupid elves, and I'd poison the reindeer too for good measure. But sure enough, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, some asshat goes and gets me a present anyway and crams the whole f**** thing down my throat. Then if I don't do the same, even though I specifically said I didn't want ANYTHING in the first place, somehow people see me as an a**hole. I just want to be left the hell alone on christmas. Is that too much to ask for? is that so hard for you people obsessed with this lame ass holiday to do? If people want left out of christmas, LEAVE THEM THE f**k ALONE.
Well said!! !
27 Dec 2011, 2:24 pm
ghostar wrote:
DerStadtschutz wrote:
NcNbl wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
NcNbl wrote:
hi! wish you all a happy holiday! we all have different kinds of personal christmas and ways to celebrate it, and reasons and what we think about those things. But whats important is that we may feel happy and loved this time of year.. we don't have to conform to everything everyone does to feel such. Lets do what we want to do or do what we have to do with whats planned for the holidays in the family out of love because its not all the time everyone could extend their compassion, care and concern and love to their loved ones, its just almost a reminding question before the year ends if have we given others joy and love more importantly ourselves..
im not saying people should agree with me but its also tradition and/or culture, an activity, we do for the holidays we could just partake to the occasion cuz its is special and only happen once a year, so maybe we could look forward in doing, experiencing and feeling what we usually dont at least just once for this year..
anyways, have a good one everyone! xoxox
im not saying people should agree with me but its also tradition and/or culture, an activity, we do for the holidays we could just partake to the occasion cuz its is special and only happen once a year, so maybe we could look forward in doing, experiencing and feeling what we usually dont at least just once for this year..
anyways, have a good one everyone! xoxox
Sounds nice but I have a hard time understanding what love is and what I should do out of love.
Hi Robdemanc!
sorry, well.. try to do what you think would make them smile or something they would appreciate that u know even if just little things, and out of love in the sense that it is something u want to do for them and would even get out of your way or your comfort zone a bit, which could be as simple as purchasing them a gift, or staying with them during the holiday gathering, doing a gesture u want to do for them that u want to do or is ok for u to do as well.. its the holidays, everyone should be happy or at least okay.. Translation: Screw how you feel, you should just go along with this stupid tradition cuz other people want you to, and nevermind the fact that Christmas doesn't make everybody happy. Holidays are just like any other day. They'll be here for 24 hours, and then they will fade away. And there's nothing special about them either. They come back every year, but they only get worse as time goes on. When I was a kid, we didn't see christmas decorations and promotions go up the second halloween was over. We didn't see any of that sh** until after thanksgiving, and thanksgiving actually existed then. People DECORATED for it, if you can imagine that. Now Santa's fat ass has to occupy half the damn calendar, and everything's "omfg, buy this sh**!" That's all any holiday is anymore, a shopping spree. If you don't partake in all the consumer whoring around, then you're labeled a grinch, an a**hole, whatever, and people say "where's your christmas cheer/spirit?" It's just like when I was in school and spirit week or whatever they called it rolled around, you know, the days near homecoming, where everybody does some stupid theme each day leading up to the homecoming game to show off their school spirit. Everybody would say "where's your school spirit?" Both of these intangible, abstract nouns are planted firmly in your rectum. Now leave me alone and keep me out of your stupid crap.
I've been asking to be left out of christmas now for about 5 years. I'm so damn sick and tired of it, I could strangle santa claus and every one of those stupid elves, and I'd poison the reindeer too for good measure. But sure enough, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, some asshat goes and gets me a present anyway and crams the whole f**** thing down my throat. Then if I don't do the same, even though I specifically said I didn't want ANYTHING in the first place, somehow people see me as an a**hole. I just want to be left the hell alone on christmas. Is that too much to ask for? is that so hard for you people obsessed with this lame ass holiday to do? If people want left out of christmas, LEAVE THEM THE f**k ALONE.
Well said!! !
It is remarkable that Christmas is the one thing its impossible to get out of. Last year (2010) wasn't so bad for me because I locked myself away in my flat and ignored the phone and door. I had no TV so didn't get reminded of it. But it seemed quite drastic action just to avoid christmas.
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27 Dec 2011, 3:18 pm
Robdemanc wrote:
ghostar wrote:
DerStadtschutz wrote:
NcNbl wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
NcNbl wrote:
hi! wish you all a happy holiday! we all have different kinds of personal christmas and ways to celebrate it, and reasons and what we think about those things. But whats important is that we may feel happy and loved this time of year.. we don't have to conform to everything everyone does to feel such. Lets do what we want to do or do what we have to do with whats planned for the holidays in the family out of love because its not all the time everyone could extend their compassion, care and concern and love to their loved ones, its just almost a reminding question before the year ends if have we given others joy and love more importantly ourselves..
im not saying people should agree with me but its also tradition and/or culture, an activity, we do for the holidays we could just partake to the occasion cuz its is special and only happen once a year, so maybe we could look forward in doing, experiencing and feeling what we usually dont at least just once for this year..
anyways, have a good one everyone! xoxox
im not saying people should agree with me but its also tradition and/or culture, an activity, we do for the holidays we could just partake to the occasion cuz its is special and only happen once a year, so maybe we could look forward in doing, experiencing and feeling what we usually dont at least just once for this year..
anyways, have a good one everyone! xoxox
Sounds nice but I have a hard time understanding what love is and what I should do out of love.
Hi Robdemanc!
sorry, well.. try to do what you think would make them smile or something they would appreciate that u know even if just little things, and out of love in the sense that it is something u want to do for them and would even get out of your way or your comfort zone a bit, which could be as simple as purchasing them a gift, or staying with them during the holiday gathering, doing a gesture u want to do for them that u want to do or is ok for u to do as well.. its the holidays, everyone should be happy or at least okay.. Translation: Screw how you feel, you should just go along with this stupid tradition cuz other people want you to, and nevermind the fact that Christmas doesn't make everybody happy. Holidays are just like any other day. They'll be here for 24 hours, and then they will fade away. And there's nothing special about them either. They come back every year, but they only get worse as time goes on. When I was a kid, we didn't see christmas decorations and promotions go up the second halloween was over. We didn't see any of that sh** until after thanksgiving, and thanksgiving actually existed then. People DECORATED for it, if you can imagine that. Now Santa's fat ass has to occupy half the damn calendar, and everything's "omfg, buy this sh**!" That's all any holiday is anymore, a shopping spree. If you don't partake in all the consumer whoring around, then you're labeled a grinch, an a**hole, whatever, and people say "where's your christmas cheer/spirit?" It's just like when I was in school and spirit week or whatever they called it rolled around, you know, the days near homecoming, where everybody does some stupid theme each day leading up to the homecoming game to show off their school spirit. Everybody would say "where's your school spirit?" Both of these intangible, abstract nouns are planted firmly in your rectum. Now leave me alone and keep me out of your stupid crap.
I've been asking to be left out of christmas now for about 5 years. I'm so damn sick and tired of it, I could strangle santa claus and every one of those stupid elves, and I'd poison the reindeer too for good measure. But sure enough, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, some asshat goes and gets me a present anyway and crams the whole f**** thing down my throat. Then if I don't do the same, even though I specifically said I didn't want ANYTHING in the first place, somehow people see me as an a**hole. I just want to be left the hell alone on christmas. Is that too much to ask for? is that so hard for you people obsessed with this lame ass holiday to do? If people want left out of christmas, LEAVE THEM THE f**k ALONE.
Well said!! !
It is remarkable that Christmas is the one thing its impossible to get out of. Last year (2010) wasn't so bad for me because I locked myself away in my flat and ignored the phone and door. I had no TV so didn't get reminded of it. But it seemed quite drastic action just to avoid christmas.
I told my family that I had pneumonia for 6 Christmases in a row before they caught on. After they figured out what I was doing, I decided to just be honest and tell them I don't want to come. Now they don't expect me to come anymore. It is a huge relief.
03 Oct 2012, 8:19 am
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03 Oct 2012, 1:27 pm
TheChamelion wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
Is anyone looking forward to christmas day? I am not, can't wait till its over. I am at my mothers and there will be about 20 people here for the day. I cannot spend hours pretending I like it.
How about others?
How about others?
I don't mind the idea of Christmas if you're religious, but when people who don't believe in god celebrate it, it really annoys me!
It's called 'Christ Mass' and if you don't believe in Christ why are you still doing it?
Not to mention once you're an adult you're expected to all give each other equal value presents. For me that just means we have to pay for something we probably didn't want. And if I ask for money people seem to think I suddenly just announced that I'm the devil....
(And don't say christmas is just a time for everyone to exchange presents for the joy it brings either, if that's your reasoning you should do it any time in the year.
)Actually it's called YULE, and it was celebrated by pagans long before christ. And most of its traditions were established by the pagans. The reason why we do the same things as the pagans has to do with constantine converting rome to christianity and adopting old traditions so the people would be more easily accepting of the new religion. But hey, you can believe what you want.
As for why you'd celebrate christmas if you don't believe in anything... Well, have you been out in the real world lately? If you don't celebrate christmas, people react as though you just told them you're a child molester. Family and friends pretty much FORCE you to "celebrate" it, and then they b***h and tell you to stop being ebeneezer scrooge when you're pissed off about it...
And to make matters worse, now stupid christians are claiming there's a war on christmas. Like hell there is, christmas is shoved in my f*****g face everywhere I go starting in like September. And people will literally KILL each other to get stupid f*****g christmas presents. But because some businesses choose to acknowledge that there's more than one damn holiday taking place around the same time of the year, stupid ass christians claim a "war on christmas." Heaven forbid we acknowledge anyone else's customs and traditions... This is why I hate christians and christmas. Santa claus needs to get his fat ass off my f*****g calendar, and people need to leave me the f**k out of christmas. I hate the holiday. What always happens is some a**hole pressures me into buying stupid gifts, and then they're not appreciated, so I end up feeling like I wasted a lot of time and money. And I try telling them every year to just leave me the hell out, but they never do. They insist on getting me s**t I don't want and forcing me to go waste my time and money on s**t they don't want.
I wish there WAS a war on christmas... and self righteous sh***y christians.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about some stupid black lady pepper spraying people to get a f*****g xbox and store clerks getting trampled to death so little timmy can have that f*****g furby. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
03 Oct 2012, 1:33 pm
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03 Oct 2012, 1:45 pm
Robdemanc wrote:
It is over 2 months away so I am not too concerned about it now. I don't get anxious until December when everyone seems to go beserk suddenly. I usually steer clear of shopping centres and never watch TV so I don't sense it until I see others decorations and trees in their windows.
Hopefully in the UK this year we will have a harsh winter and that will put a stop to it.
Hopefully in the UK this year we will have a harsh winter and that will put a stop to it.
There are already Christmas decorations for sale here in Los Angeles stores. And I HATE Christmas with a passion. Christmas music makes me surly and violent. Winter Solstice, on the other hand, is pretty chill (lol at pun).
03 Oct 2012, 2:22 pm
gretchyn wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
It is over 2 months away so I am not too concerned about it now. I don't get anxious until December when everyone seems to go beserk suddenly. I usually steer clear of shopping centres and never watch TV so I don't sense it until I see others decorations and trees in their windows.
Hopefully in the UK this year we will have a harsh winter and that will put a stop to it.
Hopefully in the UK this year we will have a harsh winter and that will put a stop to it.
There are already Christmas decorations for sale here in Los Angeles stores. And I HATE Christmas with a passion. Christmas music makes me surly and violent. Winter Solstice, on the other hand, is pretty chill (lol at pun).
I love the solstices. The winter solstice is the original festival that we now call christmas anyway so I try to see it that way. When we have our christmas day meal in my mind I am thinking of our ancestors who waited for that day so they knew the solstice had passed and the spring would return.
03 Oct 2012, 2:34 pm
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