Hard Christmas time
This will be my first ever Christmas with out my Grandma and its really hard and I know there are a lot of members who have lost someone this past year. So I thought I should make a thread where we could support and or vent our feelings about Christmas when everyone is all 
for the holiday and its hard to show your sad or depressed when ppl are psyched for it.
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Also, I don't eat Christmas dinner (I am an extremely fussy eater). I usually just have a cheese and marmite sandwich whilst everyone else eats themselves sick on turkey and stuff.
But yeah, I remember my first christmas after I lost my dad was pretty hard. That was the year I learnt that
We still do it because its also on the same day as my autistic little brothers birthday and we'll all be damned if he doesn't get double presents! XD
(And all the Christmas trimmings. He loves it and he deserves it.)
Me? I just get stuff for myself anyway these days. Seems like a pointless exchange and we would be better off trying to save some money really.
Then everyone gives me clothes in return. It's almost like they're trying to send a message. Like they're trying to say that now that I'm a working adult I should have a more professional wardrobe than thirty T-shirts and three pairs of jeans. I dunno.
I’m a religious person, so that’s one of the factors towards that, how it totally derives from what the purpose of the holiday is and is instead used as commercialism as a cash pool. Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole Santa Claus, Christmas Trees and all that stuff, but it’s not what Christmas is about.
Of course, before we get to that, there's the hurdle of Thanksgiving. We've been invited to dinner with my sister's boyfriend's family, which includes his sister, who I didn't exactly get along with in high school, so this ought to be interesting.
it is a common myth that xmas is a way to take christ out of christmas.
even then, you shouldn't let how others celebrate a holiday effect how you celebrate it.
idk. If it's all about getting free stuff for somebody, it's not that big of a deal to me because it has little bearing on what I'm going to do. I personally don't think Christ is essential in celebrating this, but if folks make him the main figure of their celebration, that's fine as well.
It's about death.
Also, you're being kinda redundant with presents and cash because often they end up being one and the same.
Presents and Johnny Cash. I have no Idea what this Christ is you mentioned.
Just some guy 2000 years ago who suggested that people could be nice to each other once in a while. Don't worry, they killed him for it.
And that is the story of Easter!
or more likely some random pagan festival.
No, they killed him because they saw him as a blasphemer because of what he would say and do. They believed his miracles were just devil magic and the fact that he claimed to be the Messiah meant he had to die for it. The people had their chance to save him, but they didn’t take it. Even Pilate did not want to kill him at first, but he gave in to pressure from the Sanhedrin (Jewish high priests in Jerusalem) and a large bunch of Jewish people who probably just agreed with everything they said. But then again, he knew he was going to die long before the Passion. He knew his mission in life, and some of the last words he said on the cross was “It is accomplished.”
Horrible writing. Who comes up with crap like that.
Actually, weren't his last words something more like "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit?"
2000 years ago. I wonder if its when Ken and Deirdre Barlow got married.
Umm. Isn't that irrelevant for a fictional character?
If that thing would have been written today it would include some product placement like "I really wish I'd have a Pepsi and a Marsbar right now.
No its still important like saying the Tenth Doctors last words where I don't want to leave insted of I don't want to go.
Well it was definitely before On demand TV anyway! XD
Accurate records are required regardless of realism. You should see me arguing with my brother over exact wordings of TV shows we saw ten years ago. It gets pretty brutal. Then we go watch the thing and see who won. Unfortunately, that's not really possible here.
(Also, I'd say that his last words were probably more like "Ahhhhggghhhh...")
Would be somewhat out of character, though.
Even believing it to be a fictional account, one should consider it as a myth telling an underlying moral, so what he says does matter especially when it's become one of the world's most famous literature. I unno.
I know you're talking in jest, but still.
It's hard to stay in character when someone's shoving a spear in your heart.
You can reach your heart through the side. I always thought it was kinda of an "up through the ribcage" kind of move.
Sorry. I am not.
You clearly don't know what my name means.
Also, this site's a little less cluttered when it comes to German->English translations.