>>64900I don't drink thankfully by thanks of God, and now keep forgetting things like people are all drunk today at this point.
>>64895Your brother looks like he has the Downes, no offense. Somehow that pic makes me realize what a cruel barbaric people your people must've been a millenia ago
or maybe their frown is in perpetual russification :--DDD Great irony, I put a red star on my mini Christmas tree this year just because I thought it'd be funny also everything was sold out, maybe I'll upload pic.
You know everyone says it is pagan but really I think at least on USA if not whole Wect that everything gift giving or Christmassy like trees, decorations, colorful lights, all it is just like wrapping paper and the day is an empty box. What matters is what
you as family have put into that box of your family traditions. I can see how a Jew or Muslim can also celebrate our Christmas while making it about Jewish or Islamic spiritual lessons, just as much as those of us who are also white American can be atheists and celebrate the holiday. I mean just put a date tree and teach about the prophet Jesus ffs probably majority of the people here don't even bother with the alleged Christmas aspect at this point, except maybe Catholics. In a certain sense just going for Chinese food makes it, in my mind, that those of us from Jewish background also celebrate Christmas as well in their own sense, while the people actually going to Mass is really small compared to the whole. I also think it's pretty funny and pretty fitting if eventually another religion steals Christmas from us just like we stole the actual date and a few customs from the pagans by basically saying "so okay you can keep your giant Scandinavian burning goat and put a tree in your house for some reason, just make it about the baby Jesus okay?" I think that in those regard early Christians in the royal houses were like the first burgoids, assimilating all it came across. What's that? Samm Hain you say? Sounds like a saint's day to me. Oh you have a fertility cult? Okay let's hide colorful hard boiled eggs everywhere and talk about Jesus.
I really just don't even know sometimes with the Russians though. Like, it looks like that off branded cheap thing on Alibaba giving me the Gussi purse and Abibas tracksuit, where it works but sometimes you wonder why they are copying it. I do like Grandfather Frost and his mysterious trophy wife figure or daughter or maybe employee
I am actually unclear on what she is supposed to be and am not saying it's cheap and plasticky, just that I really don't get why Russians bothered having a separate holiday if they weren't going to have something original and why they bothered copying us without celebrating our end of year holidays or when it occurred. Was Santa too bougie or something? Or someone told them Santa is a anagram for Satan? I'm having a Dunning moment where I'm realizing I'm not actually aware of the full history of our Christmas from start to finish and thought it was based on some Greek priest/saint figure who gave toys to needy children and that somehow got incorporated into the Christian holiday and pagan seasonal things to then get Disneyified.
>>64900I don't drink thankfully by thanks of God, and now keep forgetting things like people are all drunk today at this point.
>>64895Your brother looks like he has the Downes, no offense. Somehow that pic makes me realize what a cruel barbaric people your people must've been a millenia ago
or maybe their frown is in perpetual russification :--DDD Great irony, I put a red star on my mini Christmas tree this year just because I thought it'd be funny also everything was sold out, maybe I'll upload pic.
You know everyone says it is pagan but really I think at least on USA if not whole Wect that everything gift giving or Christmassy like trees, decorations, colorful lights, all it is just like wrapping paper and the day is an empty box. What matters is what
you as family have put into that box of your family traditions. I can see how a Jew or Muslim can also celebrate our Christmas while making it about Jewish or Islamic spiritual lessons, just as much as those of us who are also white American can be atheists and celebrate the holiday. I mean just put a date tree and teach about the prophet Jesus ffs probably majority of the people here don't even bother with the alleged Christmas aspect at this point, except maybe Catholics. In a certain sense just going for Chinese food makes it, in my mind, that those of us from Jewish background also celebrate Christmas as well in their own sense, while the people actually going to Mass is really small compared to the whole. I also think it's pretty funny and pretty fitting if eventually another religion steals Christmas from us just like we stole the actual date and a few customs from the pagans by basically saying "so okay you can keep your giant Scandinavian burning goat and put a tree in your house for some reason, just make it about the baby Jesus okay?" I think that in those regard early Christians in the royal houses were like the first burgoids, assimilating all it came across. What's that? Samm Hain you say? Sounds like a saint's day to me. Oh you have a fertility cult? Okay let's hide colorful hard boiled eggs everywhere and talk about Jesus.
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