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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Every culture in history has had an annual feast celebrating the harvest / crop / end of winter etc. Many of these festivals have historically fallen around the end of December (longest day of the year).
Usually the motivation for this was to have one big bash to use up any surplus (unhoardable) food / resources in one go (over a day / week or even longer).
Preparation for this often lasts months, be it costume making, cleaning up the town, building a maypole, organising events.
This is what Christmas was about in most cultures long before JC came along c. 2000 years ago. A time of celebration, a time of consumption, a time of revelling in whatever bounty there may be.
That's the true meaning of the midwinter festival. JC's birthday was tacked on as an afterthought about 550 a.d. by a European council of bishops.
Roll on the party! It's good to be alive.
Spend! Spend! Spend! If you have the money; and to hell with you if you don't have the money. That seems to be the gist of what you are saying Dave. What ever happened to the spirit of giving and sharing at Christmas? Btw. I'm not religious in case you're wondering. The old pagan Pre-Christian festivals at Christmas were times of genuine festivity and enjoyment and everybody participated. It certainly wasn't commercial in the modern meaning of commercial.
So this is what you regard as news, Paul? You should have done a longer article on materialism and posted it as analysis/opinion. There is certainly scope for discussion on materialism.
Exactly, roll on the party, you've almost made it through another year!! Happy days.
Stop dossing, Paul, and get back to work, or no Xmas Bonus for YOU this year.