Merry Christmas 2013

[boredjedi]

To everyone here at GL, the crew at LTE, Magnus, Stefán Karl etc...

And a special Merry Christmas to Julianna

And pooky for all the hard work she's done on GL

[LazyGary]

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Merry Christmas everybody! Have a great holiday season!

[StingX]

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Merry Christmas

Some of Chuck Jones's best work.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

For Pooky, have another totally average day!

[moomoo]

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Pooky doesn't celebrate christmas?

I'm just gonna quote Community's post on facebook here:

Happy non-denominational winter time celebration, Human Beings!

[LazyPooky]

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Not celebrating, but I do have holidays like most of us have and that's just great. I finally have some free time for my music hobby

[SportaKandy]

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I ate so much candy today that it turned my tongue black.

[boredjedi]

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Not celebrating, but I do have holidays like most of us have and that's just great. I finally have some free time for my music hobby

How could you not celebrate such a nice pagan holiday?

[Buzz]

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Not celebrating, but I do have holidays like most of us

How could you not celebrate such a nice pagan holiday?

what?...since when is Christmas a pagan holiday

[SportaKandy]

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Pooky is a grinch? Oh wait we knew that already.

[LazyPooky]

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Whatever. It's over now so all you hypocrites can stop pretending you're religious and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, because I know you don't care for the rest of the year

[boredjedi]

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what?...since when is Christmas a pagan holiday

It has been for a very long time

Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.

In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.

The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.

Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.


The Origin of Christmas Tree
Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshipers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”. Pagans had long worshiped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Church.

The Origin of Mistletoe
Norse mythology recounts how the god Balder was killed using a mistletoe arrow by his rival god Hoder while fighting for the female Nanna. Druid rituals use mistletoe to poison their human sacrificial victim. The Christian custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is a later synthesis of the sexual license of Saturnalia with the Druidic sacrificial cult.

The Origin of Christmas Presents
In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors compelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual expanded to include gift-giving among the general populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavor by re-rooting it in the supposed gift-giving of Saint Nicholas

[boredjedi]

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Whatever. It's over now so all you hypocrites can stop pretending you're religious and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, because I know you don't care for the rest of the year

You've never heard of the 12 days of christmas?

[Buzz]

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It has been for a very long time

Wiki tells otherwise...nice story anyway (tl;dr)...inb4 wiki lies, Illuminati, government did 9/11 and moon landing never happened ;)

[moomoo]

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Whatever. It's over now so all you hypocrites can stop pretending you're religious and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, because I know you don't care for the rest of the year

I don't think that's what most people do tbh :p Come to think of it I don't really celebrate christmas either. I did visit my parents today out of guilt, but other than that it's been business as usual.

[boredjedi]

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Wiki tells otherwise...nice story anyway (tl;dr)...inb4 wiki lies, Illuminati, government did 9/11 and moon landing never happened ;)

There are too many political and religious shills to make it a reliable source

I don't think that's what most people do tbh :p Come to think of it I don't really celebrate christmas either. I did visit my parents today out of guilt, but other than that it's been business as usual.

I like it from a pagan perspective. The snow, the trees the lights.