Belgarion wrote on Oct 23
rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:
There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly!
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Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives.
I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.
It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.
I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....
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You-front bottom-Card-grande-png-WEBP-Image-424-600-p.png[/url] Totally agree.
I don't participate in it at all.