And so this is Christmas...
So there we are, it's Christmas.
Merry Christmas to everybody...
BUT
Let me spend a couple of words about why I think that this festivity is the most stupid ever (there you go Bertrand)...
First of all, it is a catholic celebration and I am not catholic...
Even if you are catholic, you should know that Christ was not born in these days at all. Then why do we celebrate Christmas at this time? Easy, the reason is that when the catholic church was born it needed to wipe out traditional pagan celebrations. In this case it is Yule, a festivity that celebrated the return of light over darkness. Indeed after the 21st of december, the winter solstice, shortest day of the year, daylight starts getting longer to prevail over winter darkness. Catholics were smart as they overlapped their new festivities over the old ones so that people could get easily used to them. People did not care what they were celebrating as long as there was a party :-)
And I will not go over the no values, consumistic, materialist rant, as it is banal and everybody heard it so many times.
But yes Merry Christmas everybody anyway.
I wish you all give your own personal meaning to this festivity and that something good comes out of it.
P.S. Being in Italy and seeing my relatives brings out my cynical side :-)
Merry Christmas to everybody...
BUT
Let me spend a couple of words about why I think that this festivity is the most stupid ever (there you go Bertrand)...
First of all, it is a catholic celebration and I am not catholic...
Even if you are catholic, you should know that Christ was not born in these days at all. Then why do we celebrate Christmas at this time? Easy, the reason is that when the catholic church was born it needed to wipe out traditional pagan celebrations. In this case it is Yule, a festivity that celebrated the return of light over darkness. Indeed after the 21st of december, the winter solstice, shortest day of the year, daylight starts getting longer to prevail over winter darkness. Catholics were smart as they overlapped their new festivities over the old ones so that people could get easily used to them. People did not care what they were celebrating as long as there was a party :-)
And I will not go over the no values, consumistic, materialist rant, as it is banal and everybody heard it so many times.
But yes Merry Christmas everybody anyway.
I wish you all give your own personal meaning to this festivity and that something good comes out of it.
P.S. Being in Italy and seeing my relatives brings out my cynical side :-)