Joined: 13 Oct 2024 Age: 58 Gender: Male Posts: 67
13 Nov 2024, 9:11 pm
Christmas means something different to everyone. For me it means positive energy, celebration and gifts. It can also mean sharing time with those close to you. I have some people in my life though I've been alone for a number of past Christmas's. I expect that to change as my circumstances improve. I've been trying to focus my life on my goals. That is the gift I'm looking for. I've decided to assume that I already have it and so the celebration begins. Merry Christmas everyone.
Christmas means something different to everyone. For me it means positive energy, celebration and gifts. It can also mean sharing time with those close to you. I have some people in my life though I've been alone for a number of past Christmas's. I expect that to change as my circumstances improve. I've been trying to focus my life on my goals. That is the gift I'm looking for. I've decided to assume that I already have it and so the celebration begins. Merry Christmas everyone.
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Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Age: 71 Gender: Male Posts: 11,955
13 Nov 2024, 11:35 pm
Very nice.......what is it?
When my son was small, my estranged wife used to insist on taking him away at Xmas, so rather than escalating the acrimony between me and my ex, he and I switched to having our celebration on the Solstice. It felt quite good to be a bit different. To this day we kind of prefer the Solstice.
Yes you have the idea. Are you familiar with Neville Goddard? I've found some of his material interesting.
No idea , where the idea came to me for sure ? might have been dr. Norman Vincent Peales book ..... " The Power of Positive thinking "". not sure ? but tyvm for that name.
seperate response: Yes ,m celebrating the Solstice has been around ( much older) than Christmas..
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Joined: 4 May 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 27,619 Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in capitalistic military dictatorship called USA
15 Nov 2024, 8:44 am
kokopelli wrote:
I don't watch tv much so I may be wrong about this, but my impression is now that Christmas movies are being broadcast year round.
While I don't mind seeing a Christmas movie in the summer, I sure wouldn't want to watch them all day.
I think your talking about the Hallmark channel. They mostly or only show romcoms & start showing Christmas romcoms during the summer Or maybe they now show some Christmas romcoms all year & from July through December only show the Christmas ones There is something called Christmas In July where Christmas is celebrated on July 25th in addition to celebrating it on December 25th. Some stores like our local Walgreens start selling Christmas stuff in October while still pushing the Halloween stuff. It seems like retail & other businesses push holiday stuff earlier & earlier in an attempt to rake in more money. I liked celebrating Christmas as a kid mostly because I got presents ie toys & video-games & I got out of school for two weeks Otherwise I think there's too much hype around the holidays & that Christmas is waaay too commercialized. Working three Christmases at WalMart made me even more jaded It makes me think of the Cledus T Judd song called, There's Only 364 Shopping Days Til Christmas
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