First they cut you. They slice your body and sever you from your roots back home. Your forefathers may have made beautiful furniture or houses. Your cousins make art or books, or are involved in communication. Some of your relatives even make money. Not such a noble fate awaits you. They pack you together and spray paint you because your natural color isn't good enough, and then they put a price on your head--the pretty ones will always get more--selling you at the side of the road. You are thirsty, you need water. You are dying, but first you must suffer final humiliation. You are taken to a hot, dry place where they dress you with plastic and thin metals and gaudy colors, like a cheap hooker. They give you water, but it won't save you. You stay there, propped up, a symbol for some Frankenholiday, part Pagan, part Christian, all Capitalist. But Pagans would not have killed you, they would have let you live and grow. As your final life blood dries hard in your body, you are tossed out to the side of the road where your corpse lays for days, disintegrating, then finally swept up, and shredded into dust. You lived 10 years for this, so that some family in America can think they're "normal?"
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so ann, tell us how you really feel about christmas...
this article would probably make you even more upset. or happy? people aren't spending enough money on shit they don't need so the stock market feels it... what kind of bull shit is that?
think about it, our US dollar loses its value because walmart's sales dropped by .1 percent!
shoot me now!
WalMart owns this country. It's sick.
There is the old European method (mostly German I've heard) where the tree gets to live and the person tied to the tree eventually becomes food for wild animals. I guess it's not murder and only wastful the way we do things now. I think the part I have a hard time understanding is how killing something expresses (symbolicly I guess) some kind of deep spiritual meaning. Wouldn't it be more meaningful if the tree were to be kept alive and then the lights and stuff would all happen outdoors. I think the old European method of tieing a person to a tree in the woods until they died and rotted was an all outdoor experience.
I really find little significance in the whole holiday thing on any kind of spiritual level, I only buy gifts for parents out of obligation and because it's fun to give gifts to Ann. The whole secular part about children sitting on Santa and telling him what they want just looks too child molestor to me.
I have to admit it is fun to put up our flashy holiday light thing in the window too. The whole holdiay experience leaves me with mixed feelings on many levels. I also have to admit that I'm glad people aren't tieing people to trees in the woods any more - that sounds like a really bad tradition.
"The whole secular part about children sitting on Santa and telling him what they want just looks too child molestor to me."
NO SHIT!
and you just reminded me to plug in frosty- i forgot. i just got him hung in the window yesterday! he doesn't flash though! heck, our tree isn't even decorated yet!
I have been studying (or trying to study) yule- and putting evergreen boughs and mistletoes in the house, and burning the yule log or having a bonfire were a winter solstice celebration- but I bet the boughs were pieces that had fallen to the ground, and not intentionally chopped. I would have to do more research about the tree, but I bet they used the darn thing when they were done with it, so that it had meaning. I bet the trees didn't go to waste!
Now I feel bad because we bought the kids a real tree, even though it will robably die before christmas gets here. Hmmm... I am going to have to do something with that baby so I don't feel so damn guilty about it, or have ann come after me for tree slaughter and curb abandonment!
:-D
Fantastic entry!
is that smiley face a threat?
;p
Just a laugh.
:-D
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