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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @zapsammy 20h \ on: Reflections on the recent holiday BooksAndArticles
i will no longer celebrate saturnalia.
there is nothing holy about a holiday, because unholy people do not necessarily become holy on that particular day. gift-giving and gift-receiving cannot fix unholy people.
if good interesting people come together and i get invited, i will attend. i will happily celebrate real events of life as they come, and i am still ok with celebrating yearly birthdays. as i opt out of the cyclical annual holidays, birthdays might go as well. in my family, we already gift each other things ahead of time or after the fact.
i think that today, holidays are a distraction trap, mainly parasitized by marketing companies, and probably created by them too. before we had modern marketing, we had religious propaganda.
i am fine celebrating the end of the snow and the beginning of the sun seasons, and the checkpoints in between (the solstices and the equinoxes). however, the first days of the season no longer get enough attention from people, because they are under a psyop of other Celebrate-by-Fiat Days.
i am not jaded, this is clear reasoning in order to preserve my focus & attention.
interesting...I think I can follow your sentiment, but I wonder if you mean to be the one who decides who is holy and who is unholy? Kinda lost me there.
But I agree, acknowledging the seasons changing feels more meaningful than the hullabaloo of holidays. I see you're reasoning. Have you always felt this way?
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holy vs unholy really deserves a separate post. some synonyms are authentic vs inauthentic, good vs evil, right vs wrong.
there is a slow occult (hidden) agenda to eradicate all good from a previously holy holiday. examples: the X-mas vs Christmas; why not (+)mas if X-mas is not a proper noun at all? Easter: related to Ishtar, the pagan goddess of fertility, with bunnies and eggs being used to somehow be related to... Christ? once u see these connections, u cannot unsee the occult programming.
in case of a "holiday" - ask urself what exactly is being celebrated and why in order to determine the holiness-to-unholiness ratio.
in case of a "person" - does he or she have proper moral standards? it is time to stop the gift-giving to naughty boys (&girls)
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