Christmas

[Crash]

i wanna know why the athiests of the board celebrate christmas


I'M GOING TO THE CARIBBEAN FOR CHRISTMAS! BAHAMAS BABY!

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by Crash

i wanna know why the athiests of the board celebrate christmas


I'M GOING TO THE CARIBBEAN FOR CHRISTMAS! BAHAMAS BABY!

I celebrate christmas because it's not just about the birth of Christ, it's about a time when everyone gets together to be together. Of course presents are involved, but normally my family and I get together and have dinner. Everyone is there and everyone has a good time, and really for me that's what Christmas is all about. I would be lying if I said it wasn't about presents too... Hehe.

[Dyne]

Let's see.

Usually about the 15th of December, we put our tree up. The weekend before that, we put up our Christmas Lights.

For Christmas Eve, I used to have to go to church for 5 hours. My mom used to be the organist at our old church, so I had to stay for the "All-purpose" service, and the "Quiet" service. You know how hard it is to stay quiet in a quiet service when you're ten years old the night before christmas? Yeah. It's hard.

Christmas morning is usually the earliest I wake up all year. I run out maybe first, or second, depending on if my brother is out already or not. Then I turn up the lights a bit, and turn on the TV to something like the Christmas Parade, or a Christmas movie. With a bit of sound going, I inspect the presents carefully.

Then my parents wake up around 8/9 am and we open stuff until 11/12, where we head off to my Grandparent's house, mother's side. There, we have lunch, and open gifts from my Grandma. After that, we hijack it over to my other Grandparent's house, where we meet most of our gameplaying cousins. It's tradition to set up a Nintendo system to the small little TV in the upstairs room and crowd around it. Parents usually gather downstairs, and they come up one by one to see what's going on. Then, dinner at some point, then we go for a walk. (Last year was nice, because I was able to play my lighted GBA on the walk.) Then, we play tons of games and watch a movie before it's time to head home.

And that's Christmas. We leave our tree up until the 6th of January, because that's when christmas "really" ends. And my birthday is December 31st, so it's nice to have even more presents appear under the tree then.

[Professor S]

I just want everyone to know that I WILL NOT LET THIS THREAD delve into a religious argument. If you are religious or not there are plenty of reasons to love Christmas and this time of the year. At its most religious Christmas is a celebration of the birth of the messiah, at its least religious it is a celebration of our loved ones, families and the best parts of ourselves.

If you want to talk about your Christmas plans and what you do this time of year, post away. The minute this turns into a "Christmas is bull****"/"You're a miserable self-hating atheist" party, I'll be shutting it down.

Now myself, I've been working so much lately I hardly even realize what time of year it is, which is ironic since I'm working so much BECAUSE of Christmas. One thing I have noticed is that Christmas stress is VERY real. I bounce at a local bar and you would be shocked at how many seemingly calm regilars end up having to be separated over the littlest things. The alcohol releases all that stress in a violent way, even if its just been pushing and shoving to this point. I've bounced for almost a year straight and I've thrown more people out in the past 2 weeks that I have all year long before that.

But I'm in a great mood. My girlfriend is taking me to Atlantic City for Christmas and I can't wait to hit the tables. MONKEY!!!

[DimHalo]

My mom just gave me the go ahead to visit jeepnut in St. Louis for a night! Things just keep getting better!

[ulala06]

mmm... i LOOOOVE teh christmas!!!! but it's 61 degrees right now, so i'm pissed off...

christmas eve, all of our family comes over to our house and we eat and open some gifts... it's usually me, gangan, my great aunt, and a whole truckload of cousins.

that night, after everybody leaves, me and gangan usually open one present each. the next morning we open the rest of them and i play my new video games/listen to my new cds/watch my new dvds/hook up my new electronics until around 3 when i go up north. That evening i eat dinner AGAIN and open MORE presents with my father's side of the family.

then i come home and party it up on new year's. lmao

[Acebot44]

Christmas has a really pleasant atmosphere around it. I love this holiday for the jollyness everywhere, the time off of school, and the gifts

For the first time in my life, my mother put up the tree without my help this year...I was surprised and disappointed when I came home from a friends house to see the tree basically done. I took care of the lights on the roof all by myself again. It looks decent.

The day of Christmas itself is usually just a few minutes of present opening and then eating some food with the family. Maybe something different will happen this year.

[Vampyr]

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. On Christmas Eve, we always used to go to my grandparents house, on my mother's side. But she passed away this year, so I think we'll be going to my Mom's brother's house instead, but the same people will be there. I like it, because we don't usually have a really large crowd. Just my family, my two of my cousins families. About 12 people all together. We exchange gifts, and have a big christmas dinner.

Then we come home, and my brother and I go to bed as fast as possible, so we can go to sleep and wake up early the next day. We get up about 5 or 6 in the morning, then, go to my parents room and get them up.

Then we open presents, and spend the day enjoying them, then have dinner at my house, just the four of us. We usually go to my Dad's parents house on one of the days around Christmas, but not on Christmas day like we used to. We like spending the actual day of Christmas at home, relaxing.

I am also looking forward to the break from school....awesome.