Comments on: 06/06/12 – Holiday Blues http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=2181 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Meran http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=2181&cpage=1#comment-295988 Meran Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:50:49 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=2181#comment-295988 "Christmas" is Saturnalia, among other holidays. And pagans ("non-Christians) used to put greenery around, wreaths, trees, to cheer up the dead of winter, to remind them that spring will come. After all, the solstice is near that time. So that's what -I- tell people. “Christmas” is Saturnalia, among other holidays. And pagans (“non-Christians) used to put greenery around, wreaths, trees, to cheer up the dead of winter, to remind them that spring will come. After all, the solstice is near that time.

So that’s what -I- tell people.

]]> By: Phil C. http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=2181&cpage=1#comment-1084 Phil C. Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:52:51 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=2181#comment-1084 I'm an atheist but I still celebrate the Christmas season, mostly because it makes me feel good and because I'm idealist enough to believe, and agree with, Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew Fred Holywell when he says: "Quite a few things from which I have not profited and may yet call "good", I dare say. Christmas among them. But I have always thought of Christmas time, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely to their fellow creatures. And so, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver into my pocket, I do believe that it has done me good. And I say, God bless it." I can be an atheist and still enjoy the warm sentiment expressed here. And I do enjoy the spirit of camaraderie that Christmas brings. I try to add to it year round, but like Fred says -- Christmastime is the one time of the year when others seem to help me out with that. Your mileage may vary, of course. :) cheers, Phil I’m an atheist but I still celebrate the Christmas season, mostly because it makes me feel good and because I’m idealist enough to believe, and agree with, Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew Fred Holywell when he says:

“Quite a few things from which I have not profited and may yet call “good”, I dare say. Christmas among them.

But I have always thought of Christmas time, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely to their fellow creatures.

And so, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver into my pocket, I do believe that it has done me good. And I say, God bless it.”

I can be an atheist and still enjoy the warm sentiment expressed here. And I do enjoy the spirit of camaraderie that Christmas brings. I try to add to it year round, but like Fred says — Christmastime is the one time of the year when others seem to help me out with that.

Your mileage may vary, of course. :)

cheers,
Phil

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