What lovely rays of sunshine these DUmmies are, bringing so much happiness and joy to everyone around them!
They're being good little Communists too, combining class warfare, a demonization of capitalism, and anti- Christian hatemongering in a single post!
My Christmas this year will likely not be one of the best I've ever had. See, I'll be spending it with my parents like I always do, and my mother (Who usually handles most of the Christmas- related stuff, from shopping to baking sweet- rolls for Christmas morning) almost died last June when a blood clot caused her to faint and hit her head.
She's recovering slowly yet surely, but regaining her eyesight (The fall seems to have damaged the nerves connecting her brain to her eyeballs) is proving to be a very gradual process, and she is thus in no shape to do any of what she usually does this time of year. I'll try my best to take over her baking, but Dad said instead of presents we'll each just get cash.
However, while this is not ideal, not only do I perfectly understand why it's the case, but I'll STILL celebrate Christmas with a big smile on my face and make the best of everything, grateful both that Mom is still with us, and just in general for this wonderful time of year which is so much deeper than presents.
I'll joyously sing carols in church, watch my favorite Christmas movies and TV specials (I'm compiling my list of them), and most importantly, celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior.
My philosophy on Christmas also contains another element, one which the DUmmies are (Big surprise here) too ignorant and hate- filled to understand or bring up in their posts, and which I think is best expressed through two different- yet- similar pop- cultural quotes:
1. “But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" Fred, 'A Christmas Carol.'
2. "It's Christmas Eve! It's... it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we... we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be." Frank Cross, 'Scrooged.'
In short, even not taking into account that we are celebrating the birth of Christ, it is a season of kindness, cheer and goodwill, all things that I think we can all agree we have been in desperate need of for quite a while.
