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Merry Christmas!!!
Chiyachan:
I'm using "Happy Gofuckyourself" at the moment.
Also, Dwarfs?! is on sale on steam and on my wishlist. You know what to do. ;D
Meomix:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on December 25, 2011, 03:34:59 PM ---It's snowing.
Awesome weather.
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Fixed.
Burkingam:
--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on December 25, 2011, 08:46:51 PM ---If CHRISTmas is for celebrating Christ's birthday, then many CHRISTians are hypocrites. If Christmas was for celebrating mass consumption of MONETary based items, then those christians would not be hypocrites because the love of money (prosperity) dominates their hearts while they at the same time hardened their hearts towards Jesus Christ's teachings.
If being a Christian means following Christ's teachings in the New Testament, then why do so many Christians harden their hearts with the excuse that what Jesus taught were merely specific examples for those specific people He was talking to, so those comments are not necessarily applicable to our way of life.... That is just their hypocritical way of saying being Christian doesn't require you to follow Christ's teachings.
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Money and corruption are two different things you know? Also, even though Christmas is an extremely commercial holiday, there is still more to it than that. The fact that every year you have a date where you always meet with your family is important in itself don't you thing.
Otherwise, I agree that the way we celebrate Christmas doesn't have much to do with the birth of Christ.
If I see a movie with Santa Claus giving gift I say it's a Christmas movie but if I see a movie about the birth of Jesus I see it as a religious movie(and I change the channel). Therefor, Christmas has more to do with Santa than Jesus.
AnimeJanai:
It's gusting windy with rain and quite cold outside. We are all happily inside, but the kids, being outdoors types, all want to go outside when the rain stops. It's still up in the air if we want to whimsically decide to drive out and for a semi-random place to eat Christmas dinner at. There's actually quite a few places open each Christmas, so one doesn't have to be limited to the restaurants at the posh hotels or specialty tourist spots downtown.
--- Quote ---Money and corruption are two different things you know? Also, even though Christmas is an extremely commercial holiday, there is still more to it than that.
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For some of us in the bakabt forums, money and corruption are two different things. It is clear from some posts in other threads, unbridled chasing after money is all that matters. In my area, christmas music started up in october in one store until at least one complaint in their suggestion box (mine at least) got them to stop and do it after halloween.
--- Quote ---The fact that every year you have a date where you always meet with your family is important in itself don't you think.
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If you mean family as in our whole family, we almost always eat dinner together at the same table, despite both parents working, and both kids busy with the freedom of being kids which their parents' well-paying jobs have given them. And for spending time together, ha, ha, while I am the oldest, I still like to play games with the kids as well as watch anime which sometimes causes wifey to get on my case about being the most immature one in the family.
If you mean traveling to be with the extended family, we all agreed that we don't need to do that on holidays because that is much more artificial a reason to visit than traveling at other better times of the year when we can have a nicer longer time and without the extra-long holiday wait at security AND the stupid "your christmas present cannot go thru security, sorry sir" talk which forced it to be thrown away because we cannot leave the line (miss the flight) to find a kinko/fedex to mail it home. So, we do visit others from time to time when my wife and I can get long-enough vacation breaks.
Saras:
Laimingų Kūčių ir Kalėdų, o tuo tarpu mano skrandis tegul manęs bemiegančio
Anyway, a wet christmas, that's quite unusual.
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