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Christmas has unfortunately become the Commercial holiday.... any other significance has slowly been eroded away.
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Can I assume then that you are getting me the same thing as last year but in a different color?
:-)
Nos an modica tantum nostri somnium
"We are limited only by our imagination"
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No.
This year I'm buying everyone Scotch mist.
Cave canem
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Christmas as is widely practiced today (and perhaps even historically) has no biblical foundation whatsoever. But the underlying spiritual meaning, however much avoided or glossed over, remains true IMHO.
I ordered this book but don't have it yet:
"In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church" by Paul Maier
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Interesting!
No doubt you'll come upon the Mithraic cult. Now there's a curiosity. :/
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Rufus Wrote:No doubt you'll come upon the Mithraic cult. Now there's a curiosity. :/
LOL; and I'm going to write a new book about it: "The Picasso Code."
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I'd hate to see Christmas removed as a public holiday... but then I hate having that feeling that you HAVE to give everyone a gift!
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Welcome cable guy!
I agree with you, on both points. In fact, just yesterday my office decided that our annual holiday luncheon will now be a post-holiday get-together, and one of the reasons is that we've expanded staff and the intra-office gift giving was going to be a burden to some.
Cheers,
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Our (extended) family does what we call a Kris Kringle - each has to buy a gift for one person and there's a price limit too. So everyone gets a gift, and everyone is not made a pauper by having to buy everyone gifts.