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filkertomMy local KMart has moved the Hallowe'en costumes and decorations.
You now have to pass by the display of Christmas trees to get to 'em.
Oh, yeah, Christianity is so fucking oppressed in this country.
Update: All you nice folks telling me about commercialism -- I know that. My point had to do with the combination of that with this specious, spurious bullshit. Mm-kay?
You now have to pass by the display of Christmas trees to get to 'em.
Oh, yeah, Christianity is so fucking oppressed in this country.
Update: All you nice folks telling me about commercialism -- I know that. My point had to do with the combination of that with this specious, spurious bullshit. Mm-kay?
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Date: 2006-10-01 02:15 am (UTC)I'm suddenly reminded of the big brouhaha that went on when Halloween fell on a Sunday...would somebody please remind these people that Christmas is also a holiday with pagan roots? I just happen to call it Yule.
I growl with thee.
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Date: 2006-10-01 02:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-01 02:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 02:35 am (UTC)Anything we've got at least two national holidays for isn't at risk.
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Date: 2006-10-01 02:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 02:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 02:41 am (UTC)HOWEVER, the average Wal-Mart could easily start putting it out after Oct 1. Some of us do our shopping in dribs and drabs: an ornament this paycheck, a box of cards next and need the whole quarter to get it done.
All that said, I am tired of the dominant religion acting persecuted. The very minute the "Halloween is eeeeeeeeeeeeevilllllllllll!" or the "War on Christmas" comes up, I think I'll just smack someone. No more Mrs. Nice Dyke.
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Date: 2006-10-01 02:57 am (UTC)However, I remember that the Big Day used to be Thanksgiving. Santa would show up at the end of the parade, and that's when the Christmas season started.
At the very least, they could wait until the day after Hallowe'en.
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From:Oppressed??
Date: 2006-10-01 03:08 am (UTC)OTOH for those of us who think practicing Christianity should mean behaving in such a way that the natural results of one's lifestyle are "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" - yes, that sort of Christianity seems pretty thoroughly oppressed, repressed, and suppressed whenever possible :(
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Date: 2006-10-01 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: Oppressed??
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:12 am (UTC)Save the straw man for Guy Fawke's day. At least he's in role, then.
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Date: 2006-10-01 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:27 am (UTC)the holidays aren't about what started them anymore. the dollar is all.
and christmas is equal pagan and christian. thanx to the competition of the two, it has become a combination of both. the idea is christian, but the date is pagan and so are many of the traditions. a christian holiday done in a pagan way. now, it is neither. just the dollar..
okay, so i did make a comment...i kept it short, though...
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:36 am (UTC)City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in Halloween styles
But in stores there's a feeling... of Christmas!
o/~
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:46 am (UTC)KMart SUCKS!
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Date: 2006-10-01 04:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 04:05 am (UTC)AmericaChristmas? :'(*ducks*
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Date: 2006-10-01 04:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 11:13 am (UTC)Thanksgiving isn't commercialized? Are we talking about the same Official Start of Gluttony Season, here?
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Date: 2006-10-01 04:46 am (UTC)The other day I went to a craft store for some pens.
There was a wing dedicated to Christmas. And a Hannukah shelf. With, like, some blue-and-white candles and some chocolate coins in a little baggy.
If anyone needs me, I'll be here in my corner, spinning my sad little dreidel all by my lonesome.
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Date: 2006-10-01 11:50 am (UTC)For a few years, I've thought there's been a bit of sanity to the Orthodox calendar celebrating Christmas on the Western Churches' Epiphany; even a week detached from the secular cacaphony would help a great deal. Face it, I'm not going to get my day of religious observance back, heck, might as well move it.
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Date: 2006-10-01 05:52 am (UTC)cards and ornaments are. Eid Mubarek Y'all.
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Date: 2006-10-01 05:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 06:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 06:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-01 12:32 pm (UTC)I suppose if the stores stock them, some people might buy them because they're suddenly reminded they need one. Then they stick it in the closet for three months. But that's as true in April as it is in October.
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Date: 2006-10-01 01:43 pm (UTC)"What happened to fall?" one asked. "The buyers went straight from summer to Christmas." I wondered about that, too.
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Date: 2006-10-01 01:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 05:17 pm (UTC)To everyone else: sheesh!
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Date: 2006-10-01 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-02 06:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 08:36 pm (UTC)I have always viewed the war on Christmas more as a war on culture. It has more to do with tradition than religion. Sorta like the French baning American or English words.
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Date: 2006-10-02 09:12 pm (UTC)I'm happy to say "Merry Christmas" to anybody, but it offends me when Christians act like they invented it.
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Date: 2006-10-02 09:10 pm (UTC)