Do U Like Christmas Or Hate?

[TheSkronkDonkey]

I love Christmas. Always have, hopefully always will.

It's not only a time of charity and family (ideals in themselves), but also a time for recuperation and reflection.

Christmas has a special power, I think. Not even the billions of pounds of tacky commercialisation can ruin it. In fact, commerce can sometimes add something to Christmas. I love getting the Boots Christmas catalogue, for instance. And I do enjoy all the decorations in shop windows.

I also love Christmas music and Christmas films ("It's A Beautiful Life", "A Christmas Carol", "Miracle on 34th Street", "The Snowman", "Home Alone 2"). This year, I'm also looking forward to a brand new "Wallace and Gromit" short on TV. And all the great food! Man, I can't get enough mince pies or snowballs down me! Does everyone know what a snowball is? It's a mild alcoholic beverage, very sweet and creamy. << Try not to read any shemale metaphors into that last one. But there *is* even something a little, I dunno, sexy about Christmas.

Yep, I'm goofy and hopelessly romantic.

[SweetCharmer]

Donkey i'm right there with you on the wallace and gromit special and home alone........i don't know what it is abhout christmas but for me it shoots down a sense of nostalgia and i love that

[Big_Willie]

E.) Don't care anymore.

It's not about what it should be. At some families maybe, but mostly it's just business and about the presents. I could go on a long rant but it's Christmas, I don't want to ruin other's joy, maybe later. :D

[ocinteeni]

Originally Posted by Big_Willie

E.) Don't care anymore.

nicely put, I agree it brings a feeling of nostalgia like said above but at this point in my life I just don't care about the holiday anymore. It was fun when I was a kid but I feel like people are still living this holiday out as a fantasy just like when we were kids and we believed in Santa. The reality is it has become a disgusting celebration of our materialism and consumerism and that the real elves are sitting in sweat shops in china and india while "Santa" is really just a giant corporation like Walmart, Target, etc. Tradition needs to be questioned and I can't simply celebrate the holiday year after year just because its what everyone did last year. ya thats what I think

[i love Saenz]

I hate Christmas! In my country (Norway) it's all stress and fuckedup formalities that has nothing to do with Jesus being born. All we do is buy shit we don't need. And eat so much that we need to diet for three months before putting on our regular clothes, while kids around the world is starving to death!

Fuck Christmas!

[Mel Asher]

I have a dispersed family ( deaths, emigration, divorce ) and it has always been my dream to have all the grandchildren sleeping under a family Christmas Tree, while the adults giggle alcoholically wrapping up presents to stuff down the children's beds ( variation on the Christmas stocking ).

I cringe at the over schmaltzification of modern Christmas stories. I think Christmas stories for children should be simple and filled with discovered happiness even for the poorest of people.

I love Christmas Presents that people have made with care overthe preceding months.

I loathe expensive Christmas Presents bought either to impress me or the giver.

I love Traditional Christmas Carols in any language.

I love celebrating Christmas with my Muslim, Hindu and Jewish friends who share mine with me in the same spirit that I share their festivals.

And yes, I am from a Gnostic Christian background, if you want to label me, and the more multinational friends I make, the more Agnostic I become.

I sigh at the frenzied Commercialism appearing even before the leaves begin to fall in the woods near me, but I don't let it bother me, as I have a roof over my head and food on the table for anyone who drops by.

Yes. On the balance I think we would lose a lot if Christmas suddenly disappeared.

:D

[TracyCoxx]

I like the Winter Solstice celebration, which is where all the good parts of christmas came from.

[Be_my_nude]

Originally Posted by Mel Asher

I have a dispersed family ( deaths, emigration, divorce ) and it has always been my dream to have all the grandchildren sleeping under a family Christmas Tree, while the adults giggle alcoholically wrapping up presents to stuff down the children's beds ( variation on the Christmas stocking ).

I cringe at the over schmaltzification of modern Christmas stories. I think Christmas stories for children should be simple and filled with discovered happiness even for the poorest of people.

I love Christmas Presents that people have made with care overthe preceding months.

I loathe expensive Christmas Presents bought either to impress me or the giver.

I love Traditional Christmas Carols in any language.

I love celebrating Christmas with my Muslim, Hindu and Jewish friends who share mine with me in the same spirit that I share their festivals.

And yes, I am from a Gnostic Christian background, if you want to label me, and the more multinational friends I make, the more Agnostic I become.

I sigh at the frenzied Commercialism appearing even before the leaves begin to fall in the woods near me, but I don't let it bother me, as I have a roof over my head and food on the table for anyone who drops by.

Yes. On the balance I think we would lose a lot if Christmas suddenly disappeared.

:D

You seem like a nice guy, Mel - probably too nice. The reality is probably too harsh for you to contemplate. for the sentimentalism though.

[gorilla]

Originally Posted by i love Saenz

I hate Christmas! In my country (Norway) it's all stress and fuckedup formalities that has nothing to do with Jesus being born. All we do is buy shit we don't need. And eat so much that we need to diet for three months before putting on our regular clothes, while kids around the world is starving to death!

Fuck Christmas!

Alle fuckin lujah! What are we doing to our children promoting all this greed?
I liked your reply....it made me laugh. Concise and eloquent.