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Christmas Wisdom

Telly03Telly03 Veteran
edited December 2011 in General Banter
Forget about the past, you can't change it
Forget about the future, you can't predict it
Forget about the present, I didn't get you one

:lol:

Comments

  • dorjedorje
    Good one!!
    :clap: :lol:
  • ZaylZayl Veteran
    BUT I WANT MY TOY NOW!

    P.S. Santa hates poor kids.
  • MamaLotusMamaLotus
    So funny!
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    I actually laughed out loud at that one....!

    I'm going to save that one and put it in all my christmas cards, next year.....! :lol:
  • BarraBarra soto zennie wandering in a cloud in beautiful, bucolic Victoria BC, on the wacky left coast of Canada Veteran
    :clap:
  • craigpoffcraigpoff
    I sang "The Messiah" again this year with the local orchestra and ad hoc chorus, but its the first time I have participated since "converting". For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and his name shall be called 'wonderful, 'counselor', the everlasting Lord, the Prince of Peace.

    Magnificant music.

    Oh-----if it were only true....
  • AMHAMH
    edited December 2011
    Oh yeah! I have time to put that in my annual letter! Thank you very much,

    @craigpoff, I have been between Buddhism and Christianity for some time. For me it is a wonderful story in so many ways. Stories that uplift many people are good (I choose to stay on the positive, mostly because my family are really good people and Christian). So I don't have to believe in order to get something out of it all. But to each their own understanding
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Great one, Telly. :) Enjoy the holiday weekend.
  • JasonJason God Emperor Arrakis Moderator
    edited December 2011
    BUT I WANT MY TOY NOW!

    P.S. Santa hates poor kids.
    You know, if you think about, the modern-day version of Santa Claus is not unlike a Gilded Age industrialist, a philanthropic, fantasyland robber baron. He’s essentially an imaginary, white, 'chubby and plump' old man who 'employs' an entire race of other imaginary beings in some frozen, unregulated tundra sweatshop to make the gifts he then gives and gets all the credit/cookies and milk for. Maybe some class-conscious kid should slip a copy of the Communist Manifesto in with their letter next year, because I bet Santa doesn't bother to read them all himself: "Let Santa Claus tremble at a Communistic revolution. Santa's helpers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Elves of the world, unite!"
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Hilarious, Jason!
  • AMHAMH
    dang it, rise up you elves! Get that profit sharing of cookies and milk! (when I was growing up Santa got pretzels and beer though)
  • JasonJason God Emperor Arrakis Moderator
    lol
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    edited December 2011
    Santa, scholars of this sort of thing say, came from the ancient tradition of reindeerherding peoples in Europe and Siberia's North. The shaman going into his trance viewed the drum as his horse, in horse cultures, or as his reindeer, in deer herding cultures. As he drummed and chanted, going into visionary trance, he'd ride his animal into the spirit world, and into the heaven of the gods to find a cure for his ailing patient. Santa originally was a shaman. Eventually the old pagan ways blended with the Christian traditions, and voila! St. Nicholas ended up riding reindeer, or harnessing them, anyway.

  • aMattaMatt Veteran
    You know, if you think about, the modern-day version of Santa Claus is not unlike a Gilded Age industrialist, a philanthropic, fantasyland robber baron.

    They have a world to win. Elves of the world, unite!"
    I'm pretty sure the elves run the show, keeping their delivery boy incarcerated and fat until their bounty is ready for delivery. Ho ho ho-hum.
  • AMHAMH
    Dakini, I have heard many stories but not that one. It makes a lot of sense actually, I heard the stories of a Bishop (they wore red and white robes) who was extremely generous, especially towards children.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited December 2011
    Here's something I have stolen from an eminent UK comedian:
    Those who live in ChristmasLand are crazy screwed-up individuals.
    They have assigned the skill of flying to animals clearly not fit or built for the purpose. And every robin you see on any Christmas card, is standing still.
    so that cute card, with the robin gazing skywards, at Santa's sleigh being drawn by 8 reindeer (let's leave that rhinally-illuminated figment of the imagination out of it, for now!) is viewed as absolutely normal.
    and that's how the rot set in.....
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