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i love Christmas and ever since I was a child my family has
celebrated it as a religious holiday. Over the years, though,
I've learned some odd facts about Christmas that are fun to
bring up in conversation. Try one of these if you need a conversation starter at your next holiday party:


1. December 25 was originally a pagan celebration. Nobody
knows when Jesus of Nazareth was born and nobody
celebrated his birthday for hundreds of years. December 25
was co-opted from pagan rites connected with the winter
solstice.


2. The nativity story resulted in several wars. In the first few
centuries of the Christian era, controversy over whether or
not Jesus was divine at birth created political and social
unrest that frequently burst out into full-scale warfare.


3. Mistletoe kissing originated with fertility rites. The
hanging sprig is a very ancient symbol of virility and
therefore anybody standing beneath it is signaling that he or
she is sexually available.


4. Santa Claus originated in a newspaper ad. Far from being
a quaint medieval legend, Santa Claus first appeared as a
recognizable entity was in a newspaper ad for toys and "gift
books" in the mid 19th century.


5. Christmas is only recently a "family" holiday. Christmas
was originally celebrated as an adult form of "trick or treat,"
but with the "treat" consisting of booze and the threatened
"trick" consisting of bodily harm or destruction of property.


6. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" was originally a
threat. The ever-popular song was originally sung, loudly
and repeatedly, by crowds of rowdy, lower-class servants
demanding booze from their masters... or else. (I.e.
"We won't go until we get some!"


7. The Christmas Tree is a manufactured tradition. Victorian
intellectuals (like Clement Moore) invented the tradition as
part of a social movement to consciously reform Christmas
away from its tradition of raucous drinking.


8. Scrooge does not celebrate with the Cratchits. While most
cinema versions of "A Christmas Carol" show the reformed
miser celebrating with his lower-class employee, in the book,
Scrooge celebrates instead with his middle-class nephew.


9. Christmas as a "day off" is a recent innovation. As late
as 1850, December 25 was not a legal holiday in New
England, so stores were open, business were open, and
children were expected to attend school.


10. "The 12 Days of Christmas" costs about $1.3 million.
The big challenge is getting the lords to leap in unison. I
figure about $100k per lord, with an extra $100k to cover
the birds, rings, milkmaids, and so forth.

Happy holiday and christmas

Issorite

spreads mat.

Jehovah witnesses don't celebrate Christmas and some few religious groups are getting to know some truths about Christmas.
Proudly a staunch JW.

i only know number 1.. .. still doesn't change anything tho merry xmas.

Dunsin89:
Jehovah witnesses don't celebrate Christmas and some few religious groups are getting to know some truths about Christmas.
Proudly a staunch JW.

U re not a christian

Stop fooling urselfs

lalasticlala baba do the needful

Fidelismaria:
U re not a christian

Stop fooling urselfs

so he doesn't believe in what you believe in made you cast a hush on him, bro if you didn't like it "JUST PASS"

as far as am concerned JW's are very kind. go any were in the world if your a member other members would take you in....


can you do that


*note: am not a member myself

Fidelismaria:
U re not a christian

Stop fooling urselfs

Kettle calling pot black, see your signature

@fidelismaria, Jehovah's witnesses are Christians. Jehovah is the real name of the true living God (Psalms 83:18) and his people here on earth are known as his witnesses which also mean servants or worshippers. The word Jehovah's witnesses is even in the bible (Isaiah 43: 10-12).
Educate yourself and know more about the true God and his people and what he wants from them and the wonderful future and eternal blessings he would give obedient ones very soon @ www.jw.org.
May you have peace @Fedelismaria.

Okay

In orther words, if you are in the shoes of your middle class nephew/master Buhari, what judgement/declaration will you give Christmas now that you have known better?