I hope you are all planning your 12 hour baby jesus prayer sessions... the savior is born! We are saved!!!! wooo hooOo! Yes your really celebrating the days getting longer... but thats not what *christ*mas is all about!
You see that pic I posted up there... Jesus is speaking to you, he's all up in your soul sellin love to ure brain.
Any man that travels with a group of 12 men is a carnie... not to mention he hung out with the wierdos and did magic tricks for royalty. I'd say he'd probably go for the bearded lady, or the six foot man eating chicken.
I kind of feel bad for all the drunk drivers tonight, trying to weave their way through the swarms of straight-line religious families driving home from midnight mass...
sorry but the winter solstice is about world peace, NOT religeous fanatacism NOR economic feeding frenzy. as for that guy 2000 years ago, try the 25 of OCTOBER which WAS december, tenth month, before gregory put julius and agustus in there, and a much more likely time for the story as told to have taken place. i'll go for 24 hour would peace prayer sessions though! =^^= .../\...
I would settle for a simple 15 minutes that the entire world all at once would have no worries, no suffering, no fear. Just a simple 15 minutes.
I don't see why you people make all of these Jesus jokes. He died for your sins. Praise you, Jesus. Hah That was a good one.
I had to drop my grandma off at midnight mass. I wanted to go in there and inform those folks what they were really celebrating... but I'd probably get my ass kicked, so I left it alone... not to mention I went to grade school at that church, ack.
The underlying themes are great, some folks really embrace the spirit and it has a positive effect... but with the focus of christmas presents, and money in general around this time causes many a problem... people robbin people so they can give their kids presents... what sense does that make? The holidays tend to cause more stress than peace... we wouldn't have this problem if we celebrated these things for what they truly are - astrological.