just wondering what christmas meant to different people?is it the shopping,presents,giving or the baby jesus????/
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just wondering what christmas meant to different people?is it the shopping,presents,giving or the baby jesus????/
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I will ponder your question.Quote:
Originally Posted by shamong
Nothing. Its not even a holiday for me.:(
1. A day off.
2. Family get togethers
3. Rampant commericalism.
That is all.
Jesus has nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
Swealtering heat. Xmas is usually the hottest time of year here.
BBQ on a beach somewhere with the kids. Saves on the cooking and washing up.
And of course we musn't forget whose birthday it is on Xmas day ... Santa.
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Originally Posted by Ava Estelle
Throw another couple of seasonal prawns on the barbie.
Where I live is the prawn capital of OZ, we get them straight off the boat for $8 (£3.50) a kilo, and that includes leader prawns up to a foot long.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
We buy them uncooked and everyone takes their favourite sauce to cook them in, barbies are great for prawns.
It's just a pity about the jellyfish and crocodiles or we could go for a dip too.
I'm not personally a big fan of "seafood" other than fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava EstelleWhere I live is the prawn capital of OZ, we get them straight off the boat for $8 (£3.50) a kilo, and that includes leader prawns up to a foot long.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
We buy them uncooked and everyone takes their favourite sauce to cook them in, barbies are great for prawns.
It's just a pity about the jellyfish and crocodiles or we could go for a dip too.
We sometimes get stuff from Andy Race's shop in Mallaig, which is attached to their factory, right in the harbour.
They only sell stuff which is fresh in from the boats and it is absolutely extraordinary. The lemon soul, if they have it, cannot be described in mere words.
ergo I know whereof you speak.
shamong, you are a milf.
I was kidding :|
and christmas means 2 weeks off of school to do homework and everyone's ina good mood.
whats a milf:cry: :wacko: :( is it badQuote:
Originally Posted by maebach
Maebach, being a lecher.Quote:
Originally Posted by shamongwhats a milf:cry: :wacko: :( is it badQuote:
Originally Posted by maebach
Link removed due to unintended and unwitting prurient content.
It's maebach's fault, anyway; young scalawag.
awwwwwww omg i almost drop my drink over keyboard thenQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Maebach has no social graces that we've noticed. :huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by shamongawwwwwww omg i almost drop my drink over keyboard thenQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
For one Robert Kearns I think it means having his own personal Christmas tree installed. :pinch:
Christmas means magic and sparkle :stars:
However, it looks like all I have to look forward to are some badly thrown prawns :ermm:
awwww poor u doh .i love xmas watching my kid wripping open her pressies n getting excited wiv wot shes had although after that its a bit downhill cos boxing day she goes to her dads for a few days leaving me all alone :( but for her its wkd 2 xmas days lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
:lol: :lol: thanks j2k4Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4Maebach has no social graces that we've noticed. :huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by shamong
You're welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by maebach:lol: :lol: thanks j2k4Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Mind yourself around the women or you'll be wearing the pointy-hat and writing an essay on sexism for review by sArA.
She's no school-marm, I promise. :nono:
lol:PQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4You're welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by maebach
Mind yourself around the women or you'll be wearing the pointy-hat and writing an essay on sexism for review by sArA.
She's no school-marm, I promise. :nono:
I didn't mean you, but you don't look like one either, truth. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shamonglol:PQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
sArA would teach him some manners.
21 days to go tra la im getting so excited
15 days to go
all about fucking money who agrees
It's about what you want it to be about.
So everyone has the Christmas they chose. For some people it's commercial, that's because you chose that way. For others it's about friends and family, again your choice. For some it's religious because that's what's important to them.
For me it's a mixture of all three. In exactly the right balance.
all family together, snow, x-mas tree, presents...
well folks only 8 days to go im getting so excited
It's a great time of year, full of lights, colors, celebration, food and music. The magic of this special time is captured in the wide-eyed gaze of children, reflecting the twinkling lights and bursting with anticipation for that moment when, at long last, the packages are finally distributed and the room fills with an explosion of brightly colored wrapping paper.
Sadly, the celebration of Christmas becomes more commercial and disconnected from its true meaning every year.
Only 5 days to go :)
Settle Petal.:rolleyes: It wont go past you.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by shamong
just a another day
Christmas has everything to do with celbrating the birth of Jesus Christ and nothing else.
Don't talk rubbish, Christmas is what people make of it, if they aren't Christian it has nothing to do with Christ. The Christian church stole the holiday anyway, it has nothing to do with anyone's birthday, it was a celebration of the Winter Solstice. This is the same with the other major Christian holy days too, Easter is still celebrated according to the date of the full moon nearest to the Spring Equinox, the start of the planting season.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermit
They hardly "stole" it, mate. They had to chose a time to have it, so plumped for when others were celebrating things anyway. I think it's commonly accepted that His birth was probably in the summer (maybe he was an aussie :O ).Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava EstelleDon't talk rubbish, Christmas is what people make of it, if they aren't Christian it has nothing to do with Christ. The Christian church stole the holiday anyway, it has nothing to do with anyone's birthday, it was a celebration of the Winter Solstice. This is the same with the other major Christian holy days too, Easter is still celebrated according to the date of the full moon nearest to the Spring Equinox, the start of the planting season.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermit
Some Christians hardly even acknowledge Christmas btw. Going back to my Wee Free chum. He told me that they don't even have a service for Christmas, as they consider it of no importance, far less a holy day. They have a service on new year's day, to give thanks for the year gone and ask for a blessing on the year to come. Their only real holy day is Easter, which as you say is also, let's call it "borrowed" shall we.
For Catholics, and I would venture most other Christians, the big day is Easter. As this is when things were finally fulfilled. Christmas is a holy day, but of lesser importance.
Christmas means gifts haha
Borrowed it is then. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
The thread is what does Chistmas means to me. I gave you my answer and because you disagree with it you want to try bash it. It seems that unless someone lines up with your way of thinking they are wrong! I am not wrong and will continue to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas. Whether you are Christian or not he is the one and only Savior and will come back one day. I personally look forward to his day of return.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava EstelleDon't talk rubbish, Christmas is what people make of it, if they aren't Christian it has nothing to do with Christ. The Christian church stole the holiday anyway, it has nothing to do with anyone's birthday, it was a celebration of the Winter Solstice. This is the same with the other major Christian holy days too, Easter is still celebrated according to the date of the full moon nearest to the Spring Equinox, the start of the planting season.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermit
How intolerant of you to stand foursquare behind your own beliefs.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermitThe thread is what does Chistmas means to me. I gave you my answer and because you disagree with it you want to try bash it. It seems that unless someone lines up with your way of thinking they are wrong! I am not wrong and will continue to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas. Whether you are Christian or not he is the one and only Savior and will come back one day. I personally look forward to his day of return.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava Estelle
I'm quite sure you have also violated several of Ava's Standards of Free Speech as well.
I hope so, anyway. :)
Then you should have made it clear that that was your opinion, saying "Christmas has everything to do with celbrating the birth of Jesus Christ and nothing else." smacks of a statement of fact, which, of course, it isn't. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermit
I should not have to make it clear that it is my opinion when the title of the thread does that for me! :huh: I remind you that it is Christmas and not presentmas, drunkmas, whateveryouwanttocelebratemas etc. So by definition is about Christ! no one else in this thread that voiced their opinion, but did not state it was their opinion got argued with for it. HUH, I Wonder why that is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava EstelleThen you should have made it clear that that was your opinion, saying "Christmas has everything to do with celbrating the birth of Jesus Christ and nothing else." smacks of a statement of fact, which, of course, it isn't. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermit
Likely a reaction provoked by your boldface. Or maybe it's an anti-Christian conspiracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt_kermit
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