January 6, 2007

• P.S. The bottom of the post is a long way down, so I thought I would start with a Pre Script. I know there are a lot of pics, they they thin out as it gets to the end, but it does make a long post easier to read and I was trying something new. It was a lot of work and I don't believe I will be doing it anytime again soon. So take the time read thru it, find out why I hate Christmas and what I am going to do about it. If you think I should put this much effort into every post tell me so, it doesn't mean I will do it, but I could be sooner then never if you liked it. I would like to get my own pics in a post like this, but as of right now all thanks goes to google.

  So after to a few worried phone calls and a couple of shocked comments left by some of you think that I have a giant tumor growing out of the front of my head and am going to be dead before next Christmas, unfortunately that is not going to happen. The Dr. assures me "Besides being fat, you are in perfect health." I did take the liberty of exchanging the words obese for fat, but its the same thing essentially.

  I was referring to three different things, two being reasons for my complete and utter disdain for this now pathetic holiday called Christmas, the other one is do to a recent addition to my internal knowledge base.

  Lets start with number . . . . . . .

  Sorry to interrupt this post in progress but this has just came over the news lines Momofuku Ando has died, I repeat, Momofuku Ando has died at the age of 96 today, the inventer the Ramen Noodle. We all need to take a moment and morn the passing of this great and influential man, he has contributed greatly to many of our lives, and in some cases the only reason some of us are still alive, thank you for your Ramen Mr Ando, thank you.

  Photo Stolen from the Online Fox News article which you can read over there ----» http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242215,00.html

  And now back to your irregularly scheduled post, which was paused so you wouldn't miss anything.

  . . . . . . one, its as good a spot as anywhere. It seems to me that Christmas has became more and more NOT about the birth of Christ , but much more about selling and buying and giving . While those things are far from bad, I think they should be done in moderation and can easily be done at anytime during the year. I am a giving person, I do it all year long sometimes on numerous occasions for one person. I have been known to accidently freak out a girl or two who thought I was in LOVE with them by doing this. I pick up a meal here or there, I buy a trinket I think someone will like and I usually give it to them at the next opportunity. I usually do it in a frugal manner, not spending to much all at once just picking up what I can when I can.

  Todays Christmas is about going into debt to buy that latest gadget or whatnot on credit between the day after Thanksgiving up till Christmas day, and when that is all over a good chunk of the gifts just go back to the store, or tucked into a closet , or re-gifted to someone else. All because the person you got it for didn't like or even want what you got them . The reason for this is cause you were trying to buy for everyone at once you couldn't concentrate and think of what each individual person really wanted or needed . Then in an attempt to save money you go right out after Christmas and prepay all the stuff on sale for next year. And all you do is waste money on left over outdated junk that you will put in a special box in a special place and then forget where its at by next Christmas.

  Reason two, and this annoys me even more then the first reason, I don't even know why it is second, it should be number one, Christmas music, for two months that is all you hear, I have XM Radio, and not to get into my other pet peeves but this is a great example, there is one Christian Radio station that is barely tolerable as it is, its only about three quarters gay, one out every four songs or so is actually good and not a carbon copy production of something else that might have made a couple bucks, anyway they throw on the Christmas music for a month and try to mix it into this already nearly sinful pot of crap and make it unbearable. Not to pick on Christian music but it is the worst example of an industry wide problem.

  I mean how many different versions of Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire , Silent Night , Jingle Bells , etc. do we need. Every good ole Christmas song has been performed in every conceivable way, classic , rock , punk , pop , rap , and country , all sung by at least twenty different males , females , dogs and cats , chipmonks , and plumbers all trying to sing it in a new and unique way. And to make it twice as bad, you can double the hell by knowing that every category I mentions is duplicated in the Secular music world as well as the Christian music world. Hell I consider suicide every Christmas just because of the music.

  I may be ranting at this point.

  And thirdly , I love that word, thirdly , lets all say it together, thirdly over the past couple years I have found myself to be doing some limited study on the roots of the Christian faith , on how it was brought about by a dude named Jesus Christ, actually there is some argument about if that was his name, but thats not what thirdly is all about, thirdly is about Jesus being not a Christian but a Jew , yes folks Christ was a Jew and not Christian , think about it it will get to you .

  He was raised not in england as an englishman , or scotland as a scottish man , or ireland as an irish lad , or greece as a greek , or in america as an american , or in china as a chinaman , he was raised in Israel during a time of occupation by the Romans , strong trade in those days from Egypt , Greece , Turkey(not called that at the time) africa and many other locations, all of this while training as and becoming a Rabbi , not an easy attained achievement for anyone . All that to say that he had a number of influences as a jewish lad , and when he said or did something it was in the context of that life as a Jew, under Jewish customs and traditions.

  A few of those customs bring up the possibility that could lead to the conclusion that the date of Christs birth was not in December , but in the fall . I won't argue the points here if you are interested click on the link over there -----» http://hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Christmas/christmas.html and it will take you to a very well two sided research page with reasoning and evidence for both dates of his birth. You can make up your own mind at that time.

  I do suggest that you find some good resources and look at Jesus as a Hebrew, find the roots of you faith, saying that it is Christian, and if it is not then study it anyway so you can make Christians look life fools for not knowing why they believe what they believe and that you know more about it then them, you could fool me most of the time.

  Now reasons one and two push me to want to not celebrate Christmas at all, reason three, it gives me a good excuse to just move the celebration of Christs birth to a seemingly more accurate time of the year, and while doing so enjoy limited selections of Christmas music that I have personally picked out, and are at the very least decent, and are not forced on me. Not to mention that I can actually celebrate the birth of Christ. The whole gift giving thing, I will continue to do it as I do now, with the exception of the big pile at the end of December. Not to say that I won't give anyone presents at that time, just not everyone.

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