So what are you celebrating?

[Lilith Velkor]

Poll question: So what are you celebrating?

Here's a little levity for my peeps in R/T.

:party: :party: :party:

[Redstone]

1. Christmas with my family. No religion involved, just family.

Redstone

[William769]

2. Christmas, it may be a blue one but it's still Christmas to me.

[brer cat]

3. We celebrate Christmas.

But we continue to try to keep the materialism down. Emphasize the family gathering, de-emphasize gifts...especially plastic and/or requiring batteries. lol

[az chela]

4. I am celebrating winter solstice .Thats what xmas started from

[TRYPHO]

10. No it didn't

Christmas started from a desire to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

The date of that celebration varies between different sects of christians throughout the world - March, September, October and December are all included, and no doubt most of the other months are, somewhere in the world, by lesser know followers.

The 25th December date does coincide with the approximate time of year of the Winter Solstice; but that is not what Christmans "started from", although it may just have something to do with WHY the celebration was chosen to occur then, by Christians following the Nicene creed and western Catholic philosophies.

TRYPHO

[Az]

5. Still call it Christmas

But its about people not some religious claim. Big thing for our family.

[SeattleVet]

6. We celebrate the Solstice every year. nt

[Lilith Velkor]

7. Is it religious or is it based on astronomy?

I'm not being flippant with this, it just occurs to me this morning that it makes sense to have holidays based on regularly occurring natural phenomena.

It does humans good to take long breaks every now and then. We weren't built to be money-grubbing bastards 24/7.

[YankeyMCC]

8. Humanlight

At least with my immediate family (wife and son)

Learn more here: http://www.humanlight.org

We also connect it to the solstice as a way to include nature into the humanist celebration. So Thursday night we burned a Yule log outside, and I'll make a symbolic connection to the solstice and the increasing sunlight as a metaphor for the hoped for increase in human reason when we light the Humanlight candle at dinner today.

I'll still be going to the extended family celebrations for xmas.

[TRYPHO]

9. Chanukah is over...

Now we eat Turkey and Christmas Pudding.

The turkey is a KOSHER turkey, and there's no bacon on it.

There's no cream on the Xmas pudding either.

(we do manage some water-based custard though).

TRYPHO

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Christmas celebrations start tomorrow with

singing at the Fourth Sunday in Advent service at my church. Because there's just one service in the morning, at 10AM instead of the usual 11AM, I'll hear only part of what has become an annual tradition for me, the broadcast from King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve morning. Then I'll go home and wrap presents and relax before heading back to church to sing at the 11PM service.

The choir is on duty again at 10AM Christmas Day, after which I will hurry over to the assisted living complex where my mother and stepfather live to have dinner and presents with them. :-)

[catbert836]

12. Festivus!

I just set up the Festivus pole in the living room, and I'm making a detailed list in preparation for the airing of grievances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus