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⌈ Secret Post #2547 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Christmas is almost over! THANK YOU, BABY JESUS!

I hate how every year it becomes more and more commercialized. Everyone fighting each other in the stores for stuff that a week after Christmas morning, they toss in the back of their closet and forget about it.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, the more I think about it, the more I think there's a lot of parts of our current society that really fucking suck.

[(Anonymous)]

That just means you are getting old! Soon you will be complaining about how you don't understand technology.

[sarillia]

You sound like the people in Miracle on 34th Street and that was made in 1947. I don't think it's a new problem.

Or maybe I just have that movie on the brain since I watch it more than I should every year.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not a new problem but it's gotten worse (not OP for reference)

[othellia]

There is no "more than you should" when it comes to Miracle on 34th Street".

[(Anonymous)]

Hear, hear. I almost had 3 people back over me in a parking lot because they couldn't be fucked to look/wait and see if anything was in their way. OMG OMG OMG RUSH RUSH GO GO GO GO GO.

I just wanted a heating pad for my gecko. Not, you know, death.

[(Anonymous)]

I went out shopping yesterday (not for christmas things, I just needed to get out of the house) and customers were being so rude to people working. Bleh.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh. I heard some awful stories from a retail worker getting screamed at by jerks on the phone who were demanding to know why X toy/item was no longer in stock, despite the fact they knew it was available weeks before.

I like Christmas, but I can't wait for the 26th, when these idiots will mellow the fuck out and stop clogging up the main drag at all hours of the day.

[caerbannog]

Wish me luck, I'm going shopping on my lunch break and I hope the line isn't too long to make me late back to work.

Considering it's the eve here.

but I do not like the giant focus (and social pressure) on getting people expensive gifts and the obligatory "you must go to some kind of event on christmas day". I mean, I like getting my friends and family presents...but xmas sure takes away the joy in it :/ and my wallet.

My family is too big and I have too many friends :(

I like the events and small things either side.

[(Anonymous)]

Why would you thank Baby Jesus? He's the one who started this whole mess.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. It was the people who looked at his birth and thought, "Hey, I can make a buck off of that."

[(Anonymous)]

This. If people want to celebrate the birth of their god, more power to them.

If people want to pile on the greed and cruelty, and claim it's in the name of a god who actively spoke against those things, then there's a problem.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Not just actively spoke against it, but flipped tables too!

[(Anonymous)]

!

wait

you mean this

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

has Christian connotations/origins?!

o.o

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The basic story is that Jesus went to the temple one day to find a whole stack of traders and money-lenders making money off selling and trading sacrifice stuff. He got annoyed, started flipping tables and drove the money-lenders out. Afterwards, people who serious wanted to worship could do so in peace.

So yep! There's a Biblical connotation!

[pantswarrior]

And it's been like that for weeks, like it started getting worse right around Halloween... and since Thanksgiving, I have not been able to go to the store for anything, or travel down the main roads in town, without it being a huge ordeal and taking forever. :/

[(Anonymous)]

That's really clever! I've never heard anyone talk about Christmas that way.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahahahaha. Pretty much my thought. Thought #2 - you can celebrate the season however you choose, nonny. Just because other people are acting in a certain way doesn't mean you have to.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree it's a drag, but it's also easily avoided. You can avoid major stores in December, and you don't have to give any presents at all. You can choose to have a small, meaningful celebration and invite whoever you want or nobody at all.

But I notice that people enjoy complaining about the commercialization of Christmas rather than, actually doing anything about it.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

+1 to the part about giving no gifts. Our family stopped buying presents for each other because we're a large family, it was a hassle and a financial burden for some. We could not enjoy Christmas more now! It's taken the pressure off, and it's back into a family gathering time. Come together for Christmas dinner, visit and catch up with each other. So much more enjoyable.