Tea Tuesday ~It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like The 25th~ Dec 20th

[MsGoodthing1]

I agree with winged 20. Also, I have a friend who doesn't like carols, but it has nothing to do with carols.... he's just a horrible singer.

[curiouscookie]

@MsGoodthing1 I may or may not have just giggle-snorted tea everywhere.

Hint... I did.

[nerdgirlsforthewin]

I liked your face when you said "jolly." :) That gingerbread man is getting feisty with his little dance-y self!

[curiouscookie]

@nerdgirlsforthewin I'm glad someone likes my face XP

I always strive to make the hippest, most... flyest dancing gingerbread men. And with that, I'll return to the present from the 90s...

[nerdgirlsforthewin]

@curiouscookie it's so funny you answered like that because I actually wrote out and then deleted a comment about the gingerbread man because I felt like I was talking as if I was from 1993... :)

[curiouscookie]

@nerdgirlsforthewin I wish it was 1993. Well, I would be 3.. but I wish that we still had elements of the 90s in contemporary society, and not just artefacts.

[winged20]

THANK YOU! (: I liked the dancing gingerbread cookie, if only food could come through the computer screen.

I do celebrate Christmas as a Christian and celebrate the religious side cause I know plenty of people who don't actually. But I also have friends who are pasrt of other religions but still celebrate the culturally side and I think that's perfectly fine and doesn't make you a hypocrite.

[curiouscookie]

@winged20 One day...

It's a strangely communal holiday, isn't it? A giant melting pot of enigmas.

[GoodEveening]

I hear tell that Christmas the date is based on a pagan ritual. Christians just borrowed the date to . . . appease the Romans? I think. Someone correct me. Anyway.

I say that as a Christian and yes, I do celebrate the 'religious' side. But I have a lot of atheist friends for whom Christmas is their favourite holiday.

BUT that said, you are perfectly within your right not to celebrate it as you wish. I used to dislike carols but from December 1st to December 25 I accept that they exist.

[curiouscookie]

@GoodEveening Less borrowing and more appropriating. When the Romans were converted from Paganism to Christianity, they kept a lot of the dates of festivals the same so that people would feel more at ease with the change. What is now the festive season, was Saturnalia in Ancient Rome; the festival of Saturn.

In fact, a lot of scholars believe that gift-giving over Christmas is a tradition left over from Saturnalia, so huzzah for Paganism!

[tetsubo57]

Democracy? We used to have that...

I'm not Christian either. But I still celebrate Xmas with our families. I celebrate Yule myself. I haven't been inside a church in over a decade. I am a filthy Pagan heathen.

But does Carol like you?

Happy Holidays.

[curiouscookie]

@tetsubo57 I've never met a Carol I like, nor that likes me.

How does Yule differ from Christmas?

Damned Constantine, why did he have to ruin the Pagan party by converting the Roman Empire to Christianity. Such a kill joy!

[tetsubo57]

@curiouscookie Celebrating the Winter Solstice. The Pagans were there long before the Christians even considered 'borrowing' the date. Just as the 'borrowed' the evergreen tree, bunny and egg symbols. Not an original lot the Christians.

Who wouldn't like you?

[curiouscookie]

@tetsubo57 I also enjoy the fact that the description of God sounds a lot like Zeus... but we'll leave that conversation for another time =D

[SwimingPolarbear]

haha,the swedish word for chirsmas is: Jul, and it has nothing to do with Jesus or christianity. I think that the missionarys bak in the old times just gave up and said that "ok, fine, you can continue to cal it Jul, just as long as you selebrate Jesus"...So,the point was maybe that: no,I don't selebrate chrismas but defintly Jul,or maybe not that either... since I don't pay tribute to the old gods(pretty obviously, I, think I, lost the point). God Jul (in the meanig:have nice festive season) :)

[curiouscookie]

@SwimingPolarbear God Jul to you too!

That all sounds to badass. Sweden is badass.