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[Closed] christmas: is it con? yes it is......

alpin · 2009-12-22T16:13:21Z

i'm not religious in any sense. i believe in myself and those around me, not some story of some baby being born ~2000 years ago. i never go to church (not entirely true as i went yesterday to a catholic funeral (really fecking depressing affair, not a single word said about the departed - just yadda yadda yadda "god" yadda yadda yadda)). easter passes me by and i couldn't tell you what any of the religious holidays mean. i don't think i'm any different from the majority of people. yet, how many of us spend silly amounts on presents, decorate the tree and get all excited about christmas? who goes to church to thank god (!?) for the gift he gave us that is jesus? going by how most people conduct themselves in december christmas has got feck-all to do with the church and has become as institution in its own right. who gets fecked off with being told to be happy and cheerful "beacuse it's christmas"? i do. why should i smile just beacuse we're coming up to 25 december? the only reason i can think of is that the days are going to be getting longer for the next six months (any connection there to the pagan festival of the winter solstice??) why should i spend money NOW and give people stuff that they neither need nor care for? the cynic inside me might say that it is a conspiracy and that the shops want us to spend money. the rational half of my brain may well say that the cynic is right. i'd rather give someone something that they need when they need it or when YOU feel like giving? and if i try and cop out of the whole christmas thing people (my mother included) denounce me as being a miserable shit. i'm not miserable for 11 1/2 months of the year. in fact i'm generally a happy soul. what gets me down is the people's blind devotion to the institution that is christmas. i'm off now to be 'nice' and convivial to those around me. it's my duty. (is it fu.......)

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Drac

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[i]WTF is 'query glass in wound' ???? [/i]

It means there might be glass in the wound. 😕

Posted : 23/12/2009 2:18 pm

jon1973

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big store though so i don't feel too guilty.

Ahhh! the 'victimless' crime myth.

Posted : 23/12/2009 2:45 pm

muddydwarf

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Ah i see. Would the rise be due to increase consumption of booze then?

Posted : 23/12/2009 2:47 pm

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