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Great, appreciate it. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas indeed!
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#372Have a merry Christmas, wonderful Hannukah, and, if you're atheist, a wonderful…birthday of Isaac Newton?
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Jews have contributed significantly to what is recognizable today as Christmas time. Many catchy classic Christmas songs were written by Jewish songwriters.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by a great Jewish man, how cool is that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._May Rudolph has an odd nose, and he gets chosen to lead all the other Reindeer! Kids love this song. You teach it to them when they are young and they'll never forget it!
I’m sure this is just a coincidence than but Rudolph sounds a like Adolf, or in today’s concept Russian Adolf. And word red doesn’t help, as red was favorite SSSR color. 0_o
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#374Merry Christmas!
every Christmas is memorable when family gather together and share what changed during this year.
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The pagan origins thing is a myth, btw—all the various bits which people point to as evidence still date back to a Christian-era Europe and cannot be traced back further. Christianity has been around for a very very long time and has had a lot of time to evolve its own traditions. :) For example, Christmas trees date back no later than the middle ages: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m41KXS-LWsY
> pagan origins thing is a myth, btw Saturnalia? (I’m watching your video.) Given how diversely Christmas is celebrated, it seems wild to conclude that it hasn’t been significantly affected by predecessor celebrations.
Saturnalia is covered here:
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> pagan origins thing is a myth, btw Saturnalia? (I’m watching your video.) Given how diversely Christmas is celebrated, it seems wild to conclude that it hasn’t been significantly affected by predecessor celebrations.
Saturnalia is covered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsctaPJSvo
That’s the video I began watching.
What is the argument for it not having influenced many modern Christmas practices, including but not limited to the celebration’s timing in the West?
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Saturnalia is covered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsctaPJSvo
That’s the video I began watching. What is the argument for it not having influenced many modern Christmas practices, including but not limited to the celebration’s timing in the West?
The fact that there's almost nothing that overlaps with Christmas besides the timing, and that the timing has other plausible explanations.
FWIW, I'm very open to the timing having been shifted to coincide with other festivals, but that's not what most people mean when they say Christmas has pagan origins. They're not saying that Christmas isn't actually the day Jesus was born (I'm totally on board with that idea), they're saying that X, Y, and Z aspects of the Christmas celebration were originally pagan and were adapted for Christianity. I have seen no compelling evidence in favor of that claim about any aspect of Christmas traditions, and I've seen plenty against.
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#379Christmas is also my birthday. On my 30th birthday I ignored all of my friends and family and played Crash Bandicoot on PS4 all day. It was great.
I have a cousin who shares your birthday. Her name is Merry Noel. Hope you're having a merry Noel as well. ^_^
Thank you and merry Christmas!
That's a great name. Do you know if Christmas was her mom's expected due date? Kind of wondering if they had the name planned before she was born or if they came up with it because she happened to come on xmas
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I punched in 1972 and there were some fantastic movies that year (The Godfather, Deliverance, Cabaret, Solaris, Jeremiah Johnson, Aguirre - the Wrath of God, The Last House on the Left, Silent Running, The Heartbreak Kid, Fat City, etc.). Also tried 1973 — same (The Day of the Jackal, Soylent Green, Westworld, The Wicker Man, Papillon, American Graffiti, The Sting, Serpico, Mean Streets, High Plains Drifter, Don't Lo…
Maybe if they stopped the endless reboots, remakes, sequels and derivatives. There’s still a good one every once in a while. Oh well, I know what movie I’m watching today… you’ll shoot your eye out, kid!
Hollywood has done reboots/remakes forever how many remakes of "a star is born" for example has had three remakes (1954, 1976, 2018) since its first version in 1937. There is nothing new.