It's HOW many days til Christmas? o.o;

[kaitodoushi]

As time passes I beging to realize how much I dislike this time of year. And it's the fault of whoever tried to commercialize Christmas. Seriously. It's a religious holiday, can't we keep it that way?

So, yeah, I still need presents for my parents, my brother, and, thanks to my aunt, my nephew. She just had to get him that. Honestly. I am

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[bishonen_girl]

I want to see bedtime story, looks funny! We should get together and see it some time when we can after the new year.

[kaitodoushi]

...I don't really wanna see it, I just thought of that ^^;

[subu]

Christmas stuck the frick up on us all, I think. It doesn't seem possible that it's only a couple days away. o.O Your tree isn't up yet? xD; We don't even have a tree. *sad* Oh well. I dislike holidays. Good luck cleaning!

[kaitodoushi]

Yeah, I know @_@; Aww... Well, I guess we are putting ours up tomorrow XD. We do things last minute. Of course, if we really wanted to be all German in our Christmas we'd do it then anyway.

Thanks. Thanks to my laziness I'm going to need it ^^;

[kiyuu]

When I see the trailers for Bedtime Stories, I think of Inkheart. XD Guy reads out of a book, things come to life. SORRY GUYS IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE.

[candy__chan]

I thought of Inkheart as well! \o/

[kiyuu]

Fuck yeah, Inkheart fan. \o/

When I first heard about Bedtime Stories I thought it was a weird spoof of Inkheart. And now.... I still kinda think that.

[kaitodoushi]

I've never even heard of that o_O; *fails apparently*

[aamalie]

And it's the fault of whoever tried to commercialize Christmas. Seriously. It's a religious holiday, can't we keep it that way?

Aww, but then people can't have their cake and eat it too!

It's worse for Easter, I think. With Easter, they can't even try the excuse about that having "once been a pagan holiday." (I'd really like to start researching that and see what I can find, because I sort of doubt the veracity of that claim...)

[book_wizard]

*too lazy to sign out of this account*

Y'know, honestly, at this point I really could care less about getting presents. But that might be me ^^;

True, very true. I did forget they claim that they picked Christmas for this time because of a pagan festival. But yeah, Easter is more important and it's almost worse that they added in the whole chocolate bunny thing. ...Though I do like chocolate >_<;

[aamalie]

Haha, I understand.

I don't particularly care about presents either. I certainly don't mind them (hehe) but I know they're not the point. Seeing family is nice and important too, but that's not the point either. When you know the real point of Christmas, there's more than enough reason to celebrate without any of that.

I love Easter. Without Easter, Christmas would really be negligible, because Easter is the celebration of the resurrection, and resurrection is the culmination of the gospel. Just thinking about it gets me all amped up, lol. In a good way. That said, I say we declare hunting season open on all Easter Bunnies from this day forward. Seriously - how did that junk even get started?

[ranuel]

I'm not clear on your last paragraph so if you didn't mean that you thought Easter wasn't originally a pagan holiday, sorry.

Anyway, while the date for Easter isn't pagan the name of the holiday comes from the name of a pagan goddess whose fertility festival was celebrated in the Spring and one of whose symbols was the rabbit due to it's great fertility. We get the Easter eggs because eggs are also a fertility symbol. When they converted the pagans they just sort of merged the two holidays.