Happy holidays!

SerephelSerephel
edited July 18 in Events
What do you like to celebrate this season? Since Christmas and X-Mas don't exist here, I will celebrate differently. While I could easily get an aluminum pole for Festivus, I have nobody to share the Airing of Grievances with, nor anybody to challenge me in the Feats of Strength. So I will celebrate the Winter Solstice this year. I will do so with speed kart racing, because it's fun.

Comments

  • Mish42Mish42
    edited December 2009
    You forgot to add an "all of the above" option :)
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited December 2009
    Doesn't Xmas mean Christmas?
  • ReallyCleanSocksReallyCleanSocks
    edited December 2009
    X-mas is sexier.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited December 2009
    I suppose you could say my direct family is celebrating Christmas this year, but only because the rest of my family is celebrating. We basically just avoid the traditions and hang out, 'tis fun.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited December 2009
    By X-Mas, I meant celebrating the holiday with the religious connotation completely ignored. That's my interpretation, but it's whatever you feel better suits you.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2009
    I usually make the same distinction about "X-mas". Christmas with no Christ.
  • ReallyCleanSocksReallyCleanSocks
    edited December 2009
    See, I always felt it was more X is whatever holiday you see fit at this time, and the mas at the end just solidifies it (although only one holiday around this time has mas at the end, but that's simply for class, since mas just means some kind of celebration anyways, and Kwanzaamas is utterly cluttered and redundant [also Socksmas doesn't count 'cause it's in June]). We should celebrate our own holiday, and totally not conform to the oppressive "traditional" holidays (even though no matter what I'm going to celebrate Christmas twice and you can't stop me).
  • mariomario
    edited December 2009
    X-Mas is the time when we huddle together under the palm tree, praying that Robot Santa doesn't kill us all.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited December 2009
    I thought Xmas was just an abbreviation.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited December 2009
    Maybe it started out that way... but I would think that if it was just an abbreviation it probably would have been C-Mas or something. I think it may have been that the X indeed was originally meant to take out Christ and refer to the capitalistic take on the holiday.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited December 2009
    The Greek letter X represents the "ch" sound, so at one point it was the standard abbreviation for "Christ". It's used now out of tradition.

    :tmyk:
  • Mish42Mish42
    edited December 2009
    Really? I specifically remember thinking it was just an abbreviation in grade school, but then at Sunday school my teacher told us to never ever write X-Mas because it was specifically taking out "Christ" in the word Christmas.

    She was pretty crazy though. She was overdramatic about a lot of things... she would give lectures about how ouija boards are talking directly to the devil, and how pets, no matter how much you loved them, would never go to Heaven because they have no souls.

    Seriously, she was really depressing.
  • godgod
    edited December 2009
    Yeah, it's pretty much how DI put it.

    I guess I celebrate the Solstice with a little Sol Invictus thrown in. Like Christmas, but without the tacked on Christian beliefs. I usually just say Christmas to make it easier, though.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited December 2009
    Do you celebrate the summer solstice as well?
  • Shovel Fulla WaffleShovel Fulla Waffle
    edited December 2009
    You forgot a "none of the above" option. I'm always really depressed by this time of year. I put on a happy face for the family, but you know... *sad violin music*
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited December 2009
    Why are you depressed by this time of year?
  • Shovel Fulla WaffleShovel Fulla Waffle
    edited December 2009
    Winter in general is kind of depressing for me. Cold and gloomy and whatnot. And I associate holidays with family nonsense and drama. But I'm spending Christmas Day with Matt's family, so maybe this year will be different! :)
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2009
    Quite possible. I can't speak for nonsense, but drama is not a part of all families. I know this first-hand. I do not associate any sort of drama or strife with family functions. Perhaps, Matt's family is also quite awesome.
  • Mish42Mish42
    edited December 2009
    John the Filleau wrote: »
    Why are you depressed by this time of year?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

    :D

    I think I suffer this in the less frequent summer time. But WHO KNOWS! I probably just have major depression and get bouts of it randomly. I don't think about it too much though.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited December 2009
    It the reason we have celebrations this time of year.

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