This probably not the right place to post this but on a tangent- is nihilism intrinsically bad? It seems like the most logical thing, nothing has meaning and everything just is.
Merry Christmas, HN
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#82In case you're homeless and living in your car rejected by everyone you love because you can't stop drinking, but temporarily holed up in a roadside motel over Christmas with a case of vodka... that was me. It gets better. I now have 5 years sobriety, but I'll never forget that despair I felt and how my mind was in a loop thinking about killing myself. I've put a temp email in my profile in case you want to reach out…
You deserve a medal of honor. Thank you.
Thanks, this is the easy part. The hard part is asking for help. I still haven't figured out why asking for help is so hard.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except in the southern hemisphere.
This is my first summer Christmas (down in Chile), it feels quite different! They also celebrate more today on the 24th and do presents at midnight
We also do a lot of beach going.
It still feels crazy for me to be in shorts and putting the barbie on to cook some steaks.
While the northern hemisphere have a celebration in the middle of winter, the young here are preparing for festival season and are on summer school holidays until end of January.
It's a topsy turvy world.
//Plus we can see the Milky Way and far too many satellites to feel truely comfortable looking up at night.
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#84> life is never hopeless
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
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#85To keep a community like HN to be truly informative, helpful and civic is actually not too hard: put aside polarized politics and chill, then discuss.
other social networks divide more than unite communities, sadly, mostly due to politics and ideology differences.
Thanks HN, please stay the same for the next decade. Happy holiday to all.
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#86Merry Christmas everyone, I love HN and all the people here. Just absolutely excellent community with literally 0 complaints coming from me. I’ve learned so much here just by reading comments and submissions and occasionally posting Ask HN posts. You all helped shape the way I think in a really positive way and I’m grateful for that. Thank you.
Have fun and stay safe!
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#87Can someone please explain to me what’s special about Christmas for those who celebrate ? Is it special symbolically ? To me it feels like you get to see your family and maybe have 2-3 days off, which is something most people do many times a year, usually during the weekends.
It’s just fun. I have zero religious background nor do any of my family yet we bloody love Christmas. Decorating the house, lights in the yard, seasonal food that you don’t eat at other times (you “could” but having it only at Christmas is the entire point).
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#88How many of you on HN - like me - do not celebrate Christmas?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> I’ve spent Christmas alone more than I care to admit over the last decade but this community never fails to offer insight, inspiration, and compassion. This is my first ever Christmas eve alone. I'll see my family tomorrow, but no more inlaws, and my kid is with her mom tonight. Divorce is.... different. I've got wine and a blanket. I'm getting back to FLOSS. Dropped a PR on OBS Studio yesterday. I hope it gets ac…
What's FLOSS?
Free/Libre Open Source Software.
“Libre” is French for free as in freedom so it’s sometimes added to emphasise the “free” means freedom of use not necessarily free in price.
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#90Not a Christian, but appreciate the sentiment. Family is all dead so it's just another weekend for me, no big deal. Hope the rest of you enjoy your festivities, whatever it is you're doing.
I'm also not a Christian and also without family, but it's nice to have a day off and to take some time to make some homecooked food, something I enjoy but don't usually find the time to do. Holidays are a cultural excuse to make something deliberately not "just another weekend", it doesn't have to be a religious thing.
The Christians repurposed the existing holiday date themselves, feel free to return the favor and make your own arbitrary Saturnalia feast. :)