by VampireDCLXV 103 Replies latest jw friends
ok, I never head any b day or any holiday, but as a kid I always wanted christmas tree. Now, I dont care as an adult at all, but since I have two kids, I may give in .
WOW! I cant believe I am going to get a christmas tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VAMPIRE,
I tend to agree with you about birthdays. I think they are fun for children but that's about it. While I do agree that most of the other celebrations are just commercialized nonsense (and Halloween can be destructive to people's property), I do have a special place in my heart for Christmas.
I just LOVE it. The lights, the decorations, etc. and the smell of pine. I love old-fashioned and traditional Christmas and maybe I am just fond of childhood memories and the idea of loving family. I consider myself grateful NOT to have been raised a JW, thank you very much.
At least, I had my holidays and a fairly normal childhood.
I forgot about this thread, but I knew Vamp was antiholiday like me, and I love him for it. I'm happy for those like SweetBabyCheezits who are celebrating with their families. That makes me feel good, but at the same time...............screw Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, Halloween, Valentines Day, especially Valentines Day, etc.. I hate V-Day, its anti-single people day.
It's hard for this one to die, huh?
@phoebed,
I apprecite that you want to do things for your kids. Thanks for visiting.
Do you have long hair for realz? I'd love to see. IMHO, Christmas is the worst of offenders for being overblown. Why bother with that and not the others?
Love ya too bro! "I hate V-Day, its anti-single people day." LOL! You're too funny man. I agree. I feel like s**t every time it rolls around.
V665
Having grown up a JW and never having experienced the traditions of the holidays, they really don't mean a lot to me even out of the WTS control.
I don't care anything about celebrating my b-day, though I do wish others "Happy B-day" on their day. I go to b-day parties and have fun. I've been to a couple recently. Lot of fun actually.
As for xmas, I don't care for the religious angle of it at all. I don't decorate, I don't go out and kill a tree, I don't put baby Jesuses and donkeys in my yard, I don't put up fake icecicle lights, I don't give gifts. What I do do is enjoy the music, both traditional and modern; I enjoy seeing the city decorated; I enjoy the festive mood that envelopes the area for the month; I go to the company office party; I go to any other xmas parties I'm invited to, of which I'll bring the host/hostess a gift; and I wish people a "merry xmas" in return. I enjoy it as a secular holiday of mirth and merryment, booze and wine, cheesesticks and mystery meat sticks.
Easter is just an extra day off work. Don't give a shit about bunnies that lay chocolate eggs or that some dead guy was supposedly raised from the dead 2 thousand years ago.
Thanksgiving is football. Specifically the Dallas Cowboys. Even in a dismal year as this, my tradition is to pig out and watch my team.
Independance day, I observe by blowing shit up (I love fireworks).
I hate V-Day, its anti-single people day.
One year, (still in high school), I wanted to go out and eat dinner on V-day. I can't really remember much about my boyfriend; he was busy with his friends or something. Anyway, I went to Red Lobster on my own, had a great meal and dessert, and left with the waiter's number on my bill.
Never called, but it felt good. Also, I never even thought about how it would look that I was eating alone on V-day. I never cared about what others were thinking, and I have never had a problem going out to eat or to movies, etc, on my own. At least its peaceful :)
Vamp - I hate the commercialism of Christmas also, and I always get stressed out about it. But that is my own fault. I've done that. What I do love about Christmas though - my dad loves it. It is the one time of year that he spends money like mad, and is so excited about giving gifts. (in a quiet way because he is a quiet man). But I love the happiness that it brings to him. Last year he flew my brother and his wife and new baby up from New Brunswick, and then (since we kids were all dead broke) played Santa to all of his grandchildren and children on top. It was one of my best Christmases ever - a reunion between my brother and I after years and years passed. My mother had her entire brood under one roof (she was in her glory!) and our children got to meet and bond.
If we let Christmas be all about commercialism and things then it will definitely get you down, imo. However, it can also be about doing kindness for others - which is much more in the Spirit of Christ (especially kindnesses for others who cannot repay you)
Oh, I think my favorite memory of Christmas as a child (didn't have my dad then), is the smell of cookies and all manner of treats baking in the oven when I walked in the house after school. Plus my mom was always happy, busy in the kitchen, Christmas music on, pretty lights sparkling through the apartment (and often a glass of wine in her hand, lol).
Tammy
I'm not much on holidays, I did celebrate them as a kid, not becoming a JW until I was an adult,
I will celebrate 420 with ya!!
Nothing feels better than having someone treat you like you are special on your special day.
I think those that don't like celebrating their birthdays never had one of those "you are very special to me " birthdays.
We all need that once in a while..once a year will do it for me..
Course this year I was the only one that thought I was special that day...
Snoozy...
I guess this post attracted me because I had such high hopes for the family to get together this year..
Now my oldlest daughter isn't talking to my youngest daughter..my son isn't talking to his younger sister..my granddaughter isn't talking to either my son or I..and my son and daughter are spending christmas with their in laws..the other daughter is spending it with her ex in laws..and her daughters family.
I have been invited to go with my one daughter and her family to her in laws but I really don't feel like it. I feel like I would be intruding..
So I will probably end up spending christmas eve alone and probably christmas also.
I feel like taking all my presents back and just mailing them money for christmas...
How can someone be so high one day and feel like someone has pulled the rug out the very next day...
I so wanted a nice family christmas...but the kids just don't care anymore.
Am I depressing you?
I am me...
Snoozy
I agree with the vampire.
I dont like a religion controlling my life, but I also dont like the world telling me what day I should celebrate life, be romantic with my wife, appreciate my mother, appreciate my father, stuff my face-hole with turkey, dress up like Wolverine, or blow all my money on someone I love.
There's plenty of ways to be a mindless sheep. Religion is just one. But that's just my opinion.
