Yep. Staring at my lil CHRISTmas tree, in the closet ready to come out and be plugged in again, I came to a realization and pitched it instead. Well, I donated it to a friend who pitched it cuz one of the 3 legs was broken and the branches on the bottom 1/4 had come loose.... so SHE pitched it. Point is, I wanted it gone. It really did nothing for me except detract my thoughts away from true meaning of CHRISTmas: HAM! No, that's not it...
I went to my parents and asked them for their old 'Manger' scene and am gonna use that instead to remind me why every year we mob the malls, spend more than we have for stuff to give away and hopefully GET more of, get short in traffic and hate the person in front of us for writing a check, and over book our schedule running from family scene to family scene... all the sales, all the pretty lights, the snow covered trees, some fat guy with a beard and dated red suit... I can't think of a BETTER distraction than 'shiney/pretty' can you? I was parked outside a Target store waiting for a friend, and I could see droves of shoppers going through the checkout lines thru those big front store windows... only saw about 3 smiles. I wondered how many of them celebrate 'X'mas instead of CHRISTmas?? I believe CHRISTmas is the biggest holiday on the planet, and I don't mean dollars and cents wise. I mean GLOBAL RECOGNITION of the birth of one guy that affected the entire planet in a way no future wannbee ever will again. Period. No Hitlers, no Ghandi's no Beatles, no L Ron Hubbards will ever match this. And it's not just because people are sheep [even though some are], it's because the stuff really works - even today. Do you have ANY idea how much of our NORMAL SOCIETY is based on Christ? Small example: 12 steps anyone? A very large percenttage of common cliches about anything are found in the bible. It's a deeper and wider reach than many care to admit. I don't wanna get into a humanist vs messiah thing online cuz there are millions of opinions and 'truths' per individual and this is not the place. I just don't see major holidays for Aristotle and Socrates. There might be a reason for that.
So, anyway, I kinda wonder why we put such a skewed commercial spin on everything? We did it to Easter also.... remember Easter? It's a religious holiday too... or used to be. Are these holidays REALLY supposed to be about US getting STUFF?? CHRISTmas gets us gifts, Easter nets us candy eggs. I'm not bitter or anything, I have plenty of cash to give lots of goodies to family and crap like that, I simply hate feeling like I'm stuck in a Matrix where things have to be like that instead of as they really should be.
And what about "X"mas? Are we that lazy we have to shorten the word, replacing CHRIST with an X? Christ is ONE sylable, Halo is two, lets call it: Xween from now on. Christ is THE reason for the season - we X out the whole reason? Or maybe it IS some deep dark conspiracy... oh oh oh! CAN'T sing CHRISTmas carols in school - it would be wrong... but have ya LISTENED TO POPULAR LYRICS ON THE RADIO blaring in study halls lately? remove ONE NATION UNDER GOD cuz it offends someone. No wonder children SHOOT each other - they've no moral basis for right and wrong excpet "what's right for you" because the world's largest holiday has been X'ed. With every Xmas doled out, you slap the holiday across the face and go "Look! I'm subjegating myself to the slow subliminal reprogramming of the elimination of CHRIST from CHRISTmas." Do we burn flags on the forth of July? I'm sure we could justify it with some lame story like "well, with all the bombs going off I'm sure some flags caught fire, so we burn them in recognition..." Hogwash! And I am way too young to say 'hogwash'!
Yeah, maybe I'll offend someone... well go cry in your coffee, the united states is free and you are free to NOT listen. I don't sit around trying to BAN your lyrics from our kids schools [hope parents take care of that], so shut the heck up and go sit down.
hmmmmm, got off track somehow... Anyway, traded the tree in for a 3D wooden Manger scene with the hut, lil family, some animals, shepards, wise man all standing around in their plasticness, and a tiny baby Jesus in the middle. I look at it and remember why we even HAVE a holiday named CHRISTmas [not Xmas]. Somehow it feels right again.
I'm not sorry for my tone, because it's just the truth and sometimes truth DOES hurt. Just hope it touches one person to snap them out of the trance of reprograming and back to the REAL reality of what it is. If you don't know the story it's all here:
The orginal CHRISTmas script
My family reads it every year so we can remember why it exists. As my friends become inebriated on shiney/pretty, I'll stand back on my consistant foundation remembering the same thing evey year: CHRISTmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ around 2004 years ago and it will ALWAYS be about that even if the generations that remember it die off, the politicians vote it out, the historians erase it....
it's about a baby away in a manger, not a pine tree with colored lights or a fat, bearded guy in a red suit.
If you get frustrated with others this time of year, if you don't have the money to buy stuff, if you feel your missing the point, just relax and take a moment to remember WHY it even happens.
Happy Birthday, Jesus Christ!
Born approximately: December 25th, 0000
Nailed to a cross for being too nice: 0035 ish?
Rose again: Easter, and passed out colored eggs to all the children of Egypt. [okay, I made that very last part up]
Merry CHRISTmas!!!
I went to my parents and asked them for their old 'Manger' scene and am gonna use that instead to remind me why every year we mob the malls, spend more than we have for stuff to give away and hopefully GET more of, get short in traffic and hate the person in front of us for writing a check, and over book our schedule running from family scene to family scene... all the sales, all the pretty lights, the snow covered trees, some fat guy with a beard and dated red suit... I can't think of a BETTER distraction than 'shiney/pretty' can you? I was parked outside a Target store waiting for a friend, and I could see droves of shoppers going through the checkout lines thru those big front store windows... only saw about 3 smiles. I wondered how many of them celebrate 'X'mas instead of CHRISTmas?? I believe CHRISTmas is the biggest holiday on the planet, and I don't mean dollars and cents wise. I mean GLOBAL RECOGNITION of the birth of one guy that affected the entire planet in a way no future wannbee ever will again. Period. No Hitlers, no Ghandi's no Beatles, no L Ron Hubbards will ever match this. And it's not just because people are sheep [even though some are], it's because the stuff really works - even today. Do you have ANY idea how much of our NORMAL SOCIETY is based on Christ? Small example: 12 steps anyone? A very large percenttage of common cliches about anything are found in the bible. It's a deeper and wider reach than many care to admit. I don't wanna get into a humanist vs messiah thing online cuz there are millions of opinions and 'truths' per individual and this is not the place. I just don't see major holidays for Aristotle and Socrates. There might be a reason for that.
So, anyway, I kinda wonder why we put such a skewed commercial spin on everything? We did it to Easter also.... remember Easter? It's a religious holiday too... or used to be. Are these holidays REALLY supposed to be about US getting STUFF?? CHRISTmas gets us gifts, Easter nets us candy eggs. I'm not bitter or anything, I have plenty of cash to give lots of goodies to family and crap like that, I simply hate feeling like I'm stuck in a Matrix where things have to be like that instead of as they really should be.
And what about "X"mas? Are we that lazy we have to shorten the word, replacing CHRIST with an X? Christ is ONE sylable, Halo is two, lets call it: Xween from now on. Christ is THE reason for the season - we X out the whole reason? Or maybe it IS some deep dark conspiracy... oh oh oh! CAN'T sing CHRISTmas carols in school - it would be wrong... but have ya LISTENED TO POPULAR LYRICS ON THE RADIO blaring in study halls lately? remove ONE NATION UNDER GOD cuz it offends someone. No wonder children SHOOT each other - they've no moral basis for right and wrong excpet "what's right for you" because the world's largest holiday has been X'ed. With every Xmas doled out, you slap the holiday across the face and go "Look! I'm subjegating myself to the slow subliminal reprogramming of the elimination of CHRIST from CHRISTmas." Do we burn flags on the forth of July? I'm sure we could justify it with some lame story like "well, with all the bombs going off I'm sure some flags caught fire, so we burn them in recognition..." Hogwash! And I am way too young to say 'hogwash'!
Yeah, maybe I'll offend someone... well go cry in your coffee, the united states is free and you are free to NOT listen. I don't sit around trying to BAN your lyrics from our kids schools [hope parents take care of that], so shut the heck up and go sit down.
hmmmmm, got off track somehow... Anyway, traded the tree in for a 3D wooden Manger scene with the hut, lil family, some animals, shepards, wise man all standing around in their plasticness, and a tiny baby Jesus in the middle. I look at it and remember why we even HAVE a holiday named CHRISTmas [not Xmas]. Somehow it feels right again.
I'm not sorry for my tone, because it's just the truth and sometimes truth DOES hurt. Just hope it touches one person to snap them out of the trance of reprograming and back to the REAL reality of what it is. If you don't know the story it's all here:
The orginal CHRISTmas script
My family reads it every year so we can remember why it exists. As my friends become inebriated on shiney/pretty, I'll stand back on my consistant foundation remembering the same thing evey year: CHRISTmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ around 2004 years ago and it will ALWAYS be about that even if the generations that remember it die off, the politicians vote it out, the historians erase it....
it's about a baby away in a manger, not a pine tree with colored lights or a fat, bearded guy in a red suit.
If you get frustrated with others this time of year, if you don't have the money to buy stuff, if you feel your missing the point, just relax and take a moment to remember WHY it even happens.
Happy Birthday, Jesus Christ!
Born approximately: December 25th, 0000
Nailed to a cross for being too nice: 0035 ish?
Rose again: Easter, and passed out colored eggs to all the children of Egypt. [okay, I made that very last part up]
Merry CHRISTmas!!!