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Happy Christmas!

Merry Xmas everybody, despite my back pain, i somehow enjoyed christmas this year as well, and my tinnitus has been very quiet today, so thank God for that. Got some nice things for Xmas as well: Money, Kingdom Hearts - 358/2 Days (DS), The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS), Resistance 2 (PS3), Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen on Blu-Ray and that's pretty much it, have a good one guys

I copy/pasted this from the How Do You Feel thread...

Oh, almost forgot...Happy birthday Jesus

I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and all the best.

Heavy Christmas to all.

It's 'merry Christmas', you jew.

rofl

Also, yay Christmas!

No one knows what day Jesus Christ was born on. From the biblical description, most historians believe that his birth probably occurred in September, approximately six months after Passover. One thing they agree on is that it is very unlikely that Jesus was born in December, since the bible records shepherds tending their sheep in the fields on that night. This is quite unlikely to have happened during a cold Judean winter. So why do we celebrate Christ’s birthday as Christmas, on December the 25th?

The answer lies in the pagan origins of Christmas. In ancient Babylon, the feast of the Son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) was celebrated on December 25. Raucous partying, gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift-giving were traditions of this feast.

In Rome, the Winter Solstice was celebrated many years before the birth of Christ. The Romans called their winter holiday Saturnalia, honoring Saturn, the God of Agriculture. In January, they observed the Kalends of January, which represented the triumph of life over death. This whole season was called Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. The festival season was marked by much merrymaking. It is in ancient Rome that the tradition of the Mummers was born. The Mummers were groups of costumed singers and dancers who traveled from house to house entertaining their neighbors. From this, the Christmas tradition of caroling was born.

In northern Europe, many other traditions that we now consider part of Christian worship were begun long before the participants had ever heard of Christ. The pagans of northern Europe celebrated the their own winter solstice, known as Yule. Yule was symbolic of the pagan Sun God, Mithras, being born, and was observed on the shortest day of the year. As the Sun God grew and matured, the days became longer and warmer. It was customary to light a candle to encourage Mithras, and the sun, to reappear next year.

Huge Yule logs were burned in honor of the sun. The word Yule itself means “wheel,” the wheel being a pagan symbol for the sun. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began as a fertility ritual. Hollyberries were thought to be a food of the gods.

The tree is the one symbol that unites almost all the northern European winter solstices. Live evergreen trees were often brought into homes during the harsh winters as a reminder to inhabitants that soon their crops would grow again. Evergreen boughs were sometimes carried as totems of good luck and were often present at weddings, representing fertility. The Druids used the tree as a religious symbol, holding their sacred ceremonies while surrounding and worshipping huge trees.

In 350, Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s birth would be celebrated on December 25. There is little doubt that he was trying to make it as painless as possible for pagan Romans (who remained a majority at that time) to convert to Christianity
. The new religion went down a bit easier, knowing that their feasts would not be taken away from them.

Fuck Xmas btw.

Scrooge.

Merry Christmas to all. I've never experienced a winter storm like the one we are in. 12 inches o fsnow + wind guts up to 45mph = horrible weather. This is supposed to last all Christmas day. However, I'm with family. It's a good Christmas.

Did you type all that out, Supremo, or did you copy-paste it from Wiki? Either way, cheers for letting us know about christmas and that.

Funnily, I'm hoping I got Resistance 1 for Christmas.

Anyway, here's what else I'm hoping for:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Super Mario Galaxy
The Dark Knight on Blue-Ray
Some new clothes



Well, Happy Birthday Jesus "observed," more appropriately.

Why on earth...?

Got a nice check from my folks that'll buy me an interrail ticket.. Should be damn awesome.

Why, is it bad IYO?

Apart from being a dreadful writer, some of the things Rand says are awful. So yes is the answer I suppose.

Well, being that it's a literary classic, I'd like to eventually read it. I'll probably have a pretty firm opinion of it when it's finished.

Also, for myself, I downloaded Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection for PS3 and will download Diablo II for PC from Blizzard's website.

She copy and pastes essays that last several pages and inserts them in as dialogue. I swear that Atlas Shrugged is only a classic because she strokes the Chicago school of economics. Fountainhead is a much better book and I'd look into it instead. The characters are much more likable and the pace is much more tolerable. Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead are basically the same book except one is about trains and the latter is about architectural design. If you have ever read Nietzsche, you'll quickly realize she took his account of master morality and the ubermensch and simply wrote it into a story format, i.e., what Nietzsche already did in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Anthem is decent but it's just so simplistic. Oh my gosh! "Socialism's need to make everyone equal kills individualism." FFS it's not make everyone equal but give everyone equal opportunity to flourish. It is a much easier argument to make that corporations and governments in Western liberal capitalist societies have constricted individualism, propagated conformity and pushed people into systems of production and consumption which they can't escape. Her whole basic account is this tirade against the Left yet she has never read the Philosphical and Economic Manuscripts of 1844 which were actually finally published late in her life but still it in-itself contradicts everything she ever wrote.

This morning has gone right into the shitter! Merry Fkin' Christmas! My daughter spun right into a seizure in the middle of opening her gifts and now she'll send the rest of the day asleep and vomiting. I feel so bad for her. She was about half an hour out of the seizure and she could not remember anything about her Christmas morning. She didn't even know she had a seizure. Fuck fuck fuck!! I hate to see her go through this but right in the middle of Christmas, it's really awful for her.

I don't mean to bring anyone here down but I needed to vent a bit. I hope you all understand.

Rewrap all the presents and do it tomorrow morning.

Good idea. Thanks for the suggestion and I'll talk to my wife about it.