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[limiter3118]

I read a post by saint_vaelor not long ago about the lack of snow during christmas lately. This got me thinking about many other things that seem to have disappeared over the past ten years or so. With that in mind, I present my "Grinch List 2007", or "What in the Hell Happened to Christmas

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Re: I couldn't agree with you more . . .

[drl909]

There's two types of people in the world. There's the Clark Griswold or Ralphie's dad types, the sort of people who have to go through all the elaborate hoops to have that Good Old Fashioned Whatever Family Christmas and actually enjoy it...and then there's people like me.

My idea is...I'm supposed to enjoy Christmas, right? So why make it a yearly ball of tension that's fifty-three times more frustrating than it needs to be?

Plus, Christmas is just a day, and days don't have any more innate meaning than what we put into them. I don't see winter as being any more innately magical than any other time of the year. And since we celebrate Christmas on what used to be December 15 anyway, why tie it down to that time of year? Comparatively few people are using May Day; why not schedule Christmas for then? If America is truly God's chosen country, why not co-schedule Christmas with Independence Day?

I see Christmas as one more rest stop on my way to where I really want to be...which is January 2nd. That gives me a good month before the Valentines Day ads begin running and I start getting ready to stick my head in the oven again.