Comments | belenen: winter holidays - thanksgiving, christmas, Solstice, new years

belenen

winter holidays - thanksgiving, christmas, Solstice, new years

Nov 22, 2014 22:15

icon: "vivacious (my face, tilted 3/4ths, with a playful smile. you can just barely tell that I'm hugging myself)"I was intrigued by the fact that when I asked y'all about winter holidays, you mentioned thanksgiving. (many thanks for the answers, btw!) I hadn't thought of it as a winter holiday, but I suppose it is. I loathe thanksgiving; I didn' ( Read more... )

aurilion -- visiting 2013-12 (home), solstice, topaz, magic, christmas, aurilion, kylei, giving, abby

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z8z8 November 23 2014, 10:46:23 UTC

Your analysis of what Thanksgiving is all about literally made me laugh
I'm 100% for Native American rights and benefits just for the record

ravensong November 24 2014, 06:38:19 UTC

I adored Christmas as a kid, but once I learned about the Winter Solstice (which, to me, is interchangeable with Yule) I hated Christmas. Chritmas is just capitalistmas day to me now. It's all about buying, and getting each other a million presents. Which, giving is good don't get me wrong. But I think it feeds the greed--everyone just wants more, more, more. Stores have realized this and started coaxing people in on Thanksgiving and started setting up Chritmas shit before Halloween! That's going a bit far if you ask me ( ... )

raidingparty November 24 2014, 17:04:06 UTC

I hadn't thought about Thanksgiving as a winter holiday until I saw others doing it, and decided it was kind of justified. We don't talk about the pilgrims or First Nations at all.

Time is the big thing. Especially if gifted.

raidingparty December 1 2014, 20:37:42 UTC

And then I just saw this: http://strixus.tumblr.com/post/103676784081/gameraboy-have-a-buffy-thanksgiving

kehlen November 28 2014, 08:43:12 UTC

I a similar idea about gifts, though they do not necessarily need to be something I would want for myself. But they absolutely should be something useful or wanted by the other person and at the same time something I do not mind buying and holding in my hands.

I do not like the idea of specific dates for gift-giving though, when you feel obligated to find something. I much prefer giving gifts as I find things that are 'it' for someone. I would sometimes hold onto them until a birthday, but the feeling of obligation superimposed with dearth of ideas on fixed dates that sours them.