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what about Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice? Also, the whole month of December is kind of a celebration of consumption in America. ;)
If you send out your notice on the evening of December 24th it's not for Hanukkah.
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Nice, but since the holiday in question is Christmas you might as well say it.
I think it's more productive to acknowledge all holidays and get 24% more audience, instead of going to extra effort to be sectarian in your good will. There are plenty of people like me out there, for instance. My family celebrated christmas at this time of year when I was younger. I still feel like having a happy holiday right around now, but I don't connect with any of the Jesus stuff. Thanks to the original poste…
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Nice, but since the holiday in question is Christmas you might as well say it.
I think it's more productive to acknowledge all holidays and get 24% more audience, instead of going to extra effort to be sectarian in your good will. There are plenty of people like me out there, for instance. My family celebrated christmas at this time of year when I was younger. I still feel like having a happy holiday right around now, but I don't connect with any of the Jesus stuff. Thanks to the original poste…
Even if some subset of the population is going to lose the Jesus bit doesn't it make more sense to keep the name of the holiday the same? For instance, if you are going to send out holiday well wishes (which I appreciate, I also upmodded the original poster) and going to send them out at a specific time (for example, Dec. 25) doesn't it make sense to refer to the holiday as 'Christmas' ?
In my own limited personal campaign of holiday well-wishes, I usually end up only wishing Christmas greetings to people I know are Christians, sending more general holiday greetings to others at a time other than Christmas.
In conclusion, my contention is that if you are going to send your greeting on Christmas, you might as well call it a Christmas greeting. If you send it Dec. 20, or 27, then maybe a holiday greeting.
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I think it's more productive to acknowledge all holidays and get 24% more audience, instead of going to extra effort to be sectarian in your good will. There are plenty of people like me out there, for instance. My family celebrated christmas at this time of year when I was younger. I still feel like having a happy holiday right around now, but I don't connect with any of the Jesus stuff. Thanks to the original poste…
Actually, since I'm not celebrating the holiday in question either and am more to happy to argue on the Internet, here are my more extended thoughts. Even if some subset of the population is going to lose the Jesus bit doesn't it make more sense to keep the name of the holiday the same? For instance, if you are going to send out holiday well wishes (which I appreciate, I also upmodded the original poster) and going t…
Will mass confusion ensue if generic "happy holidays" cards are sent on the same day as christmas? Will people not know what day of the year it is? There is no utility to the nomenclature. No religion owns the day, and it's hardly a religious holiday to begin with.
It doesn't offend me when people say merry christmas, it only offends me if they are attempting to correct somebody who says happy holidays. It's a superset. You're correcting someone who says "yes! it's the weekend!" with "no, but thank god it's Saturday!".
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Actually, since I'm not celebrating the holiday in question either and am more to happy to argue on the Internet, here are my more extended thoughts. Even if some subset of the population is going to lose the Jesus bit doesn't it make more sense to keep the name of the holiday the same? For instance, if you are going to send out holiday well wishes (which I appreciate, I also upmodded the original poster) and going t…
It's terribly more efficient to send out generic holiday wishes to everyone and stop associating with anyone who gets too offended that you didn't conform to their particular brand of holiday. I really don't want to keep a 6 billion row spreadsheet of holiday associations for everyone I might encounter and wish well of. Will mass confusion ensue if generic "happy holidays" cards are sent on the same day as christmas?…
To my Christian friends Merry Christmas. To my Jewish friends Happy Hannukah. To my Atheist friends Happy Holidays. And to all a happy New Year. (Unless you're Chinese, then I'm a few weeks early.)
You karma whore... ;) (Yes, I upmoded you xD) But happy holidays!
I was a few hours too early... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92249
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Nice, but since the holiday in question is Christmas you might as well say it.
I think it's more productive to acknowledge all holidays and get 24% more audience, instead of going to extra effort to be sectarian in your good will. There are plenty of people like me out there, for instance. My family celebrated christmas at this time of year when I was younger. I still feel like having a happy holiday right around now, but I don't connect with any of the Jesus stuff. Thanks to the original poste…
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Nice, but since the holiday in question is Christmas you might as well say it.
I think it's more productive to acknowledge all holidays and get 24% more audience, instead of going to extra effort to be sectarian in your good will. There are plenty of people like me out there, for instance. My family celebrated christmas at this time of year when I was younger. I still feel like having a happy holiday right around now, but I don't connect with any of the Jesus stuff. Thanks to the original poste…
It's all about market differentiation. You should ideally wish each person a holiday wish based on their unique belief and practices. Lots more karma in that than blanket statements.
It's the long tail of holiday-greeting-karma-whoring strategy. :)
Merry Christmas, all!