My eldest was born the day after Christmas…which really sucks for him I think.
My eldest was born the day after Christmas…which really sucks for him I think.
lol yes i would agree … mine is 9 days before christmas though so he is still worse off :mrgreen:
On the plus side, he never has to go to school on his birthday!
Angel turns the big 30 later this month…
Just before Solstice…
YES, we are having a party, in DC, with a bunch of her college mates! (I love the Connies!)
my daughter’s is the 23rd and my wife’s is the 29th. when we were dating she told me if i EVER got her a “combined” b-day/christmas gift (she got them her whole life) it would be the LAST gift i bought her.
Nope, she got her trip to DC (and I don;t even want to MENTION the $350 bar tab at Chi Cha Lounge on U St). And tonight she got the rest of her B-Day gifts, and Yule gifts are under the Yule tree :-)
yule be havin’ a good evenin’ my friend :wink:
After she is done clearing her e-cards from all the girls I will :-D
Im looking forward to Christmas dinner! The first change in out daily SOS since thanksgiving! :mrgreen:
Merry CHRISTmas everybody. Dont forget to visit your families, and spend every moment as if it were your last.
“If I could work my will any fool who went about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried…with a stake of holly through his heart.” --Scrooge
@M36:
Im looking forward to Christmas dinner! The first change in out daily SOS since thanksgiving! :mrgreen:
Merry CHRISTmas everybody. Dont forget to visit your families, and spend every moment as if it were your last.
And happy HOLY days!
I have to make Christmas Eve Dinner, not looking forward to it!
And happy HOLLY days to you as well.
Damn, once again the pronunciation of the word lends itself more to its Pagan roots than its Christian alteration…
Merry Christmas Y’all! Too bad we can’t do a White Elephant Board Game Exchange…
@ncscswitch:
And happy HOLLY days to you as well.
Damn, once again the pronunciation of the word lends itself more to its Pagan roots than its Christian alteration…
Actually, holiday comes from holy-day. It was contracted later. Pagans didn’t have Holy Days, they had ceremonies, feasts, etc, that coincided with the christian holy days (mainly because we stole them, purified them, sanctified them and made them something worth celebrating, then rammed it all down your throat) but that’s all.
Pagans didn’t have Holy Days, they had ceremonies, feasts, etc, that coincided with the christian holy days (mainly because we stole them, purified them, sanctified them and made them something worth celebrating, then rammed it all down your throat) but that’s all.
:lol:
true jen and there is nothing wrong with adapting to traditional festivities that coincide with God’s will (imho)
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@ncscswitch:
And happy HOLLY days to you as well.
Damn, once again the pronunciation of the word lends itself more to its Pagan roots than its Christian alteration…
Actually, holiday comes from holy-day. It was contracted later. Pagans didn’t have Holy Days, they had ceremonies, feasts, etc, that coincided with the Christian holy days (mainly because we stole them, purified them, sanctified them and made them something worth celebrating, then rammed it all down your throat) but that’s all.
Don;t tell me about Paganism Jen, I think I am a bit better informed in that department :-P
The point was that HOLLY has been an integral part of Pagan celebration around the Winter Solstice for a hell of a long time (thus the Christian mutation of the Holly Berries representing the Blood of Christ).
Every think that HOLY came from HOLLY? I mean the Catholics stole and bastardized everything else (including the story of the Resurrection) so why not Holly/Holy?
what is wrong with metaphorically adapting an integral part of solstice celebrations to christianity? doesn’t God accept usfor who we are and where we came from? (it is we who continually reject Him)
Or is the Christian God simply a construct of people who were rejected by the clergy of the various Pagan denomination who then cobbled together various myths from a variety of religions (Judaism, Mithraism, etc.), slapped a name on it, and it somehow stuck and grew?
somehow?
even in the face of greater persecution than the Jews faced it stuck and grew miraculous one might say
