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Old 12-13-2005, 09:12 PM   #47 (permalink)
pan6467
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Christmas is still very much about goodwill toward people. We just live in a commercialized world now, but people are pretty much the same individually. Now in groups, or places like here where anonymity is the thing people can say how they truly feel and get very little retribution for it.

With commercialism comes Politicall Correct terms and the destruction of the "Christmas"........ Stores do not want to offend their shoppers, thus they can't wish "Merry Christmas" for fear a needed sector of their market maybe lost.

Every time I go out people still say Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays, people still donate heavily to the Salvation Army and good causes and people still get goose pimples watching "It's a Wonderful Life", some form of the many versions of "A Christmas Carol" and when they hear a Christmas song.......

But granted by the middle of December people get sick of it. After all the commercials and the stores start selling the season the day after Holloween.

But the hope, goodwill and beauty of the season are still there..... maybe harder to see because of all the commercialism but the major reason for the holiday still exists.

Which is wonderful because wouldn't the cold of Winter be even worse without the Holiday season and all the good and bad that goes with it?

Just look how from Jan. to Easter and the begingings of Spring are so blase and dreadful.

So whether or not Christmas and the Holiday Season is what is supposed to be, as long as people try and the monotony and just horridness of Winter is broken up by some stranger smiling and wishing me a "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Season's Greetings.... whatever" it makes this time of year more bearable........ at least to me.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Hannakah, whatever it is to you have a great one
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

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