Pigg said

Well I like I because the music and being around my friends and family makes me feel good. Christmas, just like any holiday, is what you make of it. Some people find joy in exchanging gifts, attending Christmas parties, and just having another excuse to be happy instead of shitty.

Some see it as a holy day marking the birth of the avatar of their god, so they find it incredibly important.

Some view it as an commercialized sack of shit meant to make people spend money on shit they don't need.

I see that last group as a group who inadvertently let's other people control how they think.

I probably won't change your mind about any of this, but that's alright. Have a Merry Christmas anyway.   

Everybody let's other people control how they think. It is the human condition.

Ex:

Christmas, just like any holiday, is what you make of it. Some people find joy in exchanging gifts, attending Christmas parties, and just having another excuse to be happy instead of shitty.

There was a time when all of that was illegal. Only a few hundred years ago. Nobody did these things because they were heretical and conflicted with the predominant cultural norm of the time: Puritanism. It wasn't until Dickens wrote a story to criticize capitalism that the framing of Christmas as a family and "peace" oriented holiday came to pass. Most of the traditions you say you love, you only love because you were taught to value them. 

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Some see it as a holy day marking the birth of the avatar of their god, so they find it incredibly important.

People only honor the birth of the avatar of their god on the 25th of December because other people told them to. The Romans wanted to capture a Germanic peoples and dressed their paganism in Catholicism in order to make the transition to their state ordered religion more successful.  Anybody who claims otherwise can not point to a theological reason for his birth to be celebrated in winter.

Ex3

Some view it as an commercialized sack of shit meant to make people spend money on shit they don't need.

Except many of the most iconic symbols of Christmas exist only because of capitalistic enterprises. 

Santa Claus as we know him

Red and white, fat, jolly, Only exists that way because of Coca Cola. The real historical figure he is based on is entirely forgotten by commercial audiences. 

And Rudolph the red nose reindeer was created by Montgomery Wards. It was a marketing trick to get people to buy their products. 

The Christmas tree as we know it, and Christmas lights, are part of a pagan celebration that only came to America because a man who worked for a magazine wanted to sell magazines and a friend of his wanted to be seen as affluent and eccentric, so he invited the magazine guy and others to a party where he did the decorations that he had read about in his studies. The magazine dude wrote about it and it spread across the country. 

So you get to pick who "controls what you think"

• The Roman Catholic Church
• Charles Dickens
•  Coca Cola
• Montgomery Wards
• Some old forgotten Magazine
• Your friends and family
• Or people who opt not to buy into all those other people.

Violent J or Shaggy 2 Dope "Dickhead?"

Juggalos against sanity expansion is out brother. Wanna say i seen it at the gathering and def seen it at Hallowicked.