 is the builders so this is a celebration of all of that now the Christians have taken this holiday which was a Roman holiday a pagan holiday a holiday celebrated around this time of the year in every pagan culture almost every pagan culture all day it's a seller it's a holiday that the Jews celebrate Hanukkah which is a celebration of you know a rebellion of independence of freedom I put freedom in quotes because it's not real freedom not individual freedom it's freedom of the Jews from the from the Greeks it's a collectivistic type of freedom but nevertheless it's Hanukkah was celebrating a rebellion of the Jews against the Greeks for religious freedom reasons the Greeks were trying to impose this is the post Alexander the great and not even Greeks the really Macedonians trying to impose their religion and their culture onto the Jews now I happen to think the Greeks had a better culture than the Jews so sometimes of Hanukkah I kind of regret that the Jews won that one maybe it would be better for the Jews and for everybody else if they if the Greeks had won but but nevertheless Hanukkah is a celebration of against of the victory of those who were trying to defend their religion against religion a religious oppression against the Greeks of that period not the Greeks of 300 years earlier the Greeks of that period who were authoritarian and and and who were nowhere near this is nowhere near the the height of Greek philosophy and Greek art which is a period that I would have embraced over Judaism any day so Hanukkah is the celebration of that it has a lot of mystical elements you know the menorahs because it was a miracle that helped you know that kept a menorah a life of seven days but you know it's kind of a minor miracle who cares and and the Maccabees who won were not good guys there were a bit of religious fanatics and they kind of imposed their religious fanaticism on the Jewish people after they won the victory fine okay but you know but at the end of the day Pager this this this holiday is a holiday to Christians the Christians adopted they you know they initiated a holiday at the end of December I don't think this is when Jesus was born to the extent that Jesus you know Jesus was a real man he was born probably sometime in the spring at least that's what historians suggest but the Christians needed a holiday to compete with the pagans so what did they do they they took the same time frame with the winter solstice the shortest day of the year and they picked a holiday around the same time and then on top of that they stole all the good things that the pagans you know had adopted so for example in Rome this holiday was associated with gift-giving so the Christians took that in Scandinavia and I think in Rome it was associated with a certain worship of trees particularly in the cold environment of Scandinavia where where trees were symbol of life the evergreen tree is the symbol of life they brought the tree in to you know into the into the home all of the customs that today we associate with Christmas were created either by pagans and adopted by by Christians or they were created by greedy capitalists trying to recreate money so for example Santa Claus as we know today is a combination of different characters from different European you know mythologies but the Santa Claus we know today is a creation of Coca-Cola from the 1930s and a creation of retailers who have you know children sit on Santa's lap and ask for presents and all that kind of stuff that's all a creation that's all the creation of Santa Claus you know a lot of the lights and the celebration and the benevolence the benevolence of this right is a consequence of 19th century retail marketing Macy's is to a large extent responsible for much of modern-day Christmas and in the way it's celebrating and I love modern-day Christmas I love jolly Santa Claus I love the idea of giving gifts I don't kind I don't really I love even the idea of Santa Claus judging you and deciding who's good and who's bad that's a very non-Christian right why should a bad kid not get presents that's not right even if he says he saw me how about he goes to confessional you still get presents then Santa Claus judges your bad kid you get you get what Cole you get Cole how cool is that right how cool is that so it's it's it's it's just a you know I love Christmas trees I love the lights I love the idea of decorating them with the gifts underneath the tree and again the tree was was Scandinavia celebrating their ability to survive in the in the face of this harsh winter and here was a tree that also survived in this harsh winter so the tree symbolizes our ability as human beings to survive in spite of that so it's just it's just a wonderful holiday so those of you upset because it celebrates Jesus's birth get over it get over it let those guys over there celebrate Jesus's birth none of us are really celebrating that and you know what they're not even celebrating that because nothing they do actually reflect Jesus's birth now you know some of the music some of them go to church but even church they go why because it's nice music because it's pretty because they get a celebrate with other people because they get a hang out with people you know it's just it's just a cool holiday I mean and and we always celebrated here you know we open presents in the morning and we have a nice dinner in the evening and we have friends over and we have family over and it's great it's great so yeah favorite Christmas song somebody posted this on the chat my favorite Christmas song is Santa Baby particularly when sung and I forget who sings it you know in a really really sexy voice Santa Baby is the perfect Christmas song it's just so much fun right so objectivists if you love yourself if you love your life if you love the life that you can have if you love the life that is there's a potential for you if you love the world in which you live and if you love people because of their potential to create to build to make the discover and you got to love Christmas and you have to remind people all over that we are the benevolent ones we are the ones who celebrate life we we love this we love Christmas we love everything about Christmas and we love human beings human beings who is more benevolent than a good objective is now there are a lot of objectives out there I know who you are we're not benevolent we're nasty dogmatic idiots stop it you got to stop it right I might have been Marilyn Monroe who sang Santa Baby she would be perfect for Santa Baby if it wasn't her she should have sung it but that's that's that's but I think it's earth a kit also thinks it's a number they're probably a number of interpretations but I can just envision Marilyn Monroe singing it it would be it's the perfect perfect kind of combination of sexiness with with song so we got to get over this image that we have as grouches to stop being a grouch life is good life is good stop being fearful and this is my Christmas message to you all and then we'll talk about Christmas movies quickly stop being fearful of Muslims of Mexican immigrants of the economy being destroyed tomorrow there's too much to enjoy in life there's too much good in life to live in fear stop living in fear embrace life think about solutions think about positives look for the positives maybe they're not falling on top of your head but go find them it's your life live it