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Why Celebrate Christmas?

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  • #32
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Edal wrote: »
    No you are not.

    :pac:

    *sigh*

    You just don't get it. Sad.
    Bye.


  • #33
    Edal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Edal


    Biggins wrote: »
    ...And thats your right - more power to you.

    No I'm giving my opinion on christmas.


  • #34
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/384510_312488365448329_100000615055737_981575_103330436_n.jpg


  • #35
    pokertalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭pokertalk


    **** it op- its the last christmas according to the mayan's so just enjoy it dam it


  • #36
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Edal wrote: »
    But we're celebrating christmas and nothing more.

    You're wrong and you've been told so many times already. A lot of people, now and a long time before the birth of JC, celebrated Mid Winter.

    Which begs the question, what are people in the southern hemisphere celebrating? :pac:


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  • #37
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    Everyone knows its for the empty wrapping paper tube. No matter how old you are, its always a lightsaber


  • #38
    Alright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭Alright


    It's all about spending time with Family, Friends and presents...you can't forget the presents! :D


  • #39
    Edal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Edal


    Biggins wrote: »
    :pac:

    *sigh*

    You just don't get it. Sad.
    Bye.

    I'm not the sad one, trust me.


  • #40
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    everyone knows the true meaning of christmas, its when all people of all races come together and forget their petty differences to celebrate the night he rescued those poor people from Nakatomi Plaza. Our one true saviour, John McClane.


  • #41
    IcedOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭IcedOut


    Edal wrote: »
    I'm not the sad one, trust me.

    Then why did you start a thread bout this?


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  • #42
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Rolli wrote: »
    Everyone knows its for the empty wrapping paper tube. No matter how old you are, its always a lightsaber

    Aaa. my young padawan!
    Wait till you try advanced sex. You have a lot to still learn! :D


  • #43
    Edal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Edal


    IcedOut wrote: »
    Then why did you start a thread bout this?

    What do you mean exactly?


  • #44
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    krudler wrote: »
    everyone knows the true meaning of christmas, its when all people of all races come together and forget their petty differences to celebrate the night he rescued those poor people from Nakatomi Plaza. Our one true saviour, John McClane.

    ...And all he wanted to do was get home during the winter festival. :pac:

    Hail McClane - Hail McClane!


  • #45
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    Biggins wrote: »
    Aaa. my young padawan!
    Wait till you try advanced sex. You have a lot to still learn! :D

    I'm 30..


  • #46
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,451 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Edal wrote: »
    I was passing a few of my neighbor's houses today with all the show-off christmas decorations up. They never go to mass, a few are anti-catholic, and some are actually atheists. The first people to slate the church with the all scandalous revelations.

    Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and nothing else.

    Saint Nicholas who was from Turkey inspired Santa Claus and died 800 years ago and is buried in Newtown Jerpoint in Kilkenny.

    A bit of a farce the whole thing.

    Hypocritical or what?

    Everything is a bit of a farce when you think about it. Why bother with life at all, why live even, your going to die in the end, right?


  • #47
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Biggins wrote: »
    ...And all he wanted to was get home during the winter festival. :pac:

    Hail McClane - Hail McClane!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY


    I do love the classic carols.


  • #48
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    Christmas is about drunkenly singing Fairytale of New York at the end of the night in the club.


  • #49
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Took me 33 yr to exorcise the notion this day is somehow special and deserves to be treated unlike every other day / week / month how long exactly..

    so I grew the fûck up to a degree. stopped wondering why the prezzies n snow dried up


  • #50
    pokertalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭pokertalk


    at the end of the day christmas is about being with the family having a laugh building toys that" santa" bought"[how come ya always have screws and clips left over dam it?] and seeing the smile on their face ,piggin out on crap,drink,falling asleep on front of the fire and watching classic movies.
    worst thing about christmas is the turkey curry's turkey sambos turkey stew turkey milkshakes turkey turkey turkey for a week after
    maybe think about jebus for five mins or so...... SAVE ME JEEEEEBUS cant handle so much dam turkey


  • #51
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Rolli wrote: »
    I'm 30..

    I wish I was again! :o


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  • #52
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    christmas to me is about having a day off work, getting together with some family, eating enough food to induce a turkey coma, and spending the rest of the afternoon slouched on the couch carefully balancing a tin of quality street on my heaving food baby carrying belly. I'm expecting twins this year.


  • #53
    Edal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Edal


    LH Pathe wrote: »
    Took me 33 yr to exorcise the notion this day is somehow special and deserves to be treated unlike every other day / week / month how long exactly..

    so I grew the fûck up to a degree. stopped wondering why the prezzies n snow dried up

    I like to think I always treat everyone with respect everyday, and am generally a happy person. I can also party most days.

    But it made me physically sick this week when my boss was the lovely guy for once. Like, get a bloody grip man. Was it really that hard to be nice? Did it really have to take the christmas buzz to make you 'sound'? And a lot more work was done and everyone went home the happier.


  • #54
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    All I know is it fücks w/ the sports schedule. and that's enough to make me realize something is askew, so fùck off Christmas, go on.. Look; nobody's chasing after you saying come back. Turn my day on it's head will ya..


  • #55
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Why celebrate Christms?

    Because it's fun to. You meet up with old friends, get time off work, spend time with your family.


    I'm struggling to see a downside.


  • #56
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Edal wrote: »
    I was passing a few of my neighbor's houses today with all the show-off christmas decorations up. They never go to mass, a few are anti-catholic, and some are actually atheists. The first people to slate the church with the all scandalous revelations.

    Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and nothing else.

    Saint Nicholas who was from Turkey inspired Santa Claus and died 800 years ago and is buried in Newtown Jerpoint in Kilkenny.

    A bit of a farce the whole thing.

    Hypocritical or what?

    I'm anti organised religion.

    I don't believe in god or any of that crowd.

    I call it 'Christmas' and probably always will.

    Christmas for me is about friends, family, food and drink and looking forward to the 6 nations.

    Am I a hypocrite?

    Perhaps but not a single fuck will be given that day.


  • #57
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I wonder does the OP still worship the sun, or call Sunday by a different name?


  • #58
    Edal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Edal


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    I'm anti organised religion.

    I don't believe in god or any of that crowd.

    I call it 'Christmas' and probably always will.

    Christmas for me is about friends, family, food and drink and looking forward to the 6 nations.

    Am I a hypocrite?

    Perhaps but not a single fuck will be given that day.

    Well at least you're honest about it, and not making up some nonsense.

    Maybe I'm an extremist, but I just despise the church and everything that's goes with it. Christmas means absolutely nothing to me.


  • #59
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Edal wrote: »
    Well at least you're honest about it, and not making up some nonsense.

    Maybe I'm an extremist, but I just despise the church and everything that's goes with it. Christmas means absolutely nothing to me.

    Why would you allow you're views of the Catholic Church ruin Christmas?


  • #60
    pconn062
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,373 ✭✭✭pconn062


    Edal wrote: »
    Well at least you're honest about it, and not making up some nonsense.

    Maybe I'm an extremist, but I just despise the church and everything that's goes with it. Christmas means absolutely nothing to me.

    Really?? Well fly fishing and the X factor mean nothing to me but I don't start a thread moaning about other people enjoying it, chill!!


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  • #61
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    black francis wrote: »
    Why celebrate Christms?

    Because it's fun to. You meet up with old friends, get time off work, spend time with your family.


    I'm struggling to see a downside.

    Mass going.

    I gave that shít up years ago and now Christmas has absolutely no downsides.


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