Celebrating my daughter's second Christmas!
a thread by Vohkaidin started on 2187-12-07 00:40:28 last post on 2187-12-09 05:46:25
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 SteelUnifier Die for the Cause |
Pretty sure you can't change the station in a supermarket, dumbass.
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 Disingenuous-Mechanic Freelance mechanic! Cheap hourly rates or best offer! |
Steel's just a grump. Anyway, so is this holiday about a religious figure, a fat dude who breaks into your house to leave presents, or a solstice? And if it's the last one, why do humans off of Earth celebrate it still? And if it's the first why do the non religious humans celebrate it? And if it's the second... well that's kind of... odd. Sorry never celebrated Christmas before. Don't think I ever really knew anyone who did.
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SteelUnifier wrote:Pretty sure you can't change the station in a supermarket, dumbass.
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WavesHaveBroken wrote:
Nat wrote:
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Nat wrote:I celebrate Christmas. When I was a kid we'd go to mass and then to my grandmother's for Christmas lunch. By the end of those lunches you could practically roll me and my siblings home-so much ham and chicken. It was pretty awesome.
Meaning no intrusion, this one would be thankful if the other could answer a question, as it humbly requests further insight on one aspect of the other's experience. This one understands "ham" to be the flesh of the animal, "pig", a food forbidden to several ideological and religious creeds that are closely related to, yet nonetheless remain distinct from, the tradition that observes the Christmas. Indeed, its understanding is that the tradition in question branched off from one such faith with the arrival of the Enkindler-equivalent whose manifestation in human form the Christmas now celebrates. Given that the precise degree to which a people draw distinction between spiritual perspectives (as ever the first step towards recombination into new and illuminating discourse!) is of interest to this one, may this one inquire as to whether the other's consumption of pig flesh is symbolic of the ideological divide? Or is it instead simply the case that the other enjoys consumption of pig flesh and the choice is not significant to spiritual identity? As ever, this one is thankful for any information offered, and asks pardon if the matter is a sensitive one! Muck said it pretty succinctly. Perhaps it is part of the ideological divide between Christianity and other Abrahamic religions, but as Much said it's basically because our religion says it's okay. A lot of the 'old laws' from the Old Testament (the document that prohibits eating pigs) are no longer followed by Christians. Which is awesome because I fucking love bacon. Many thanks! This one appreciates greatly the willingness of the other to clarify the matter. If this one may be so bold as to ask another question: is the (obviously metaphorical) reference to mating, made as part of the other's declaration of its love for pig flesh, a reference to The Fuckwit, apparently another interpretation of the ultimate Enkindler, of which this one has heard yet is unable to find much in the way of reference? Uh...'fuck' can be used just a profanity, rather than just as a reference to...'mating'. Heh. In this case it was to emphasize that I really like bacon. I'd never swear in a church anyway-my mother washed my mouth out with soap the first and only time I did that. Also it would be disrespectful. Disingenuous-Mechanic
Steel's just a grump. Anyway, so is this holiday about a religious figure, a fat dude who breaks into your house to leave presents, or a solstice? And if it's the last one, why do humans off of Earth celebrate it still? And if it's the first why do the non religious humans celebrate it? And if it's the second... well that's kind of... odd. Sorry never celebrated Christmas before. Don't think I ever really knew anyone who did.
Well, Christians believe it was when Jesus was born so for some it's about the religious figure. A lot of secular humans still celebrate it because in nationalities descended from Christian populations it's a good excuse to get some time off work and eat good food. And kids love presents. And the whole threat of 'be good or Santa won't come' is great when your kid still believes. Even if it hurts your wallet. First Sergeant Natalie King, 2/4th Marines |
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SteelUnifier wrote:Only got worse when the Citadel relocated, too. Now we've got humans coming in by the shuttle making the spirits only know how expensive trip up to do some 'fresh' holiday shopping.
Oh spirits, the shopping. Do you know how much Sapient Slaughter charges were filed for these past few weeks? Apparently there's this one day where all the humans line up at stores and try to beat up and stampede each other to death over low priced items? Spirits, these people. Everyone at the office is working overtime just to file all these documents with the increased crime rate. You think that's bad? Try living down here when you're not Christian. For a religion that claims to about love, charity, and forgiveness , the practitioners are pretty quick to push you out of their way so they can join a melee scramble for a child's toy. The more spiritual amount them do find the rampant materialism shamefull though, and numerous stories are told about the "true meaning of Christmas", which is a bit confusing at times because they tend a 1:8 ratio in favor of Santa and "the joy of giving/love of family" over "the Meshia of the Universe was born". Heck, from what I've read somewhere (I might be remembering it wrong), back in the pre-space days the global information network (a sort of early paranet for just Erath) that people engaged in so much digital shopping that on one occasion the GIN would actually broke down under the strain. I think it was called "Black Friday" due to the GIN blackout. Any sufficiently advanced riddle is indistinguishable from nonsense. - Parson Goetei |