Same in Ireland. I grew up in Cork and Christmas Eve was a special night. My mother made a special meal like a buffet and I always remember the homemade sausage roles.
We opened presents Christmas Eve and many people went to midnight mass.
Christmas Day was the usual Christmas dinner, turkey (American), sprouts etc and we spent the day watching telly. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Willy Wonka, The Sound of Music etc.
I hated every minute of it and still do today. My old man was an abusive alcoholic. He actually died on Christmas Day. Good riddance to bullying scum.
My girlfriend is going home to France to spend Christmas with her family. It will be just another day for me. I will probably go swimming. I use a heated Lido, it’s open 365 days of the year. I will then spend the day watching Netflix movies and go to bed.
The idea that so many people can be brainwashed into this nonsense sickens me. Anything connected with religion is about making money. There will be freezing, homeless people on the streets of oLondon and the Catholic Church, the biggest paedophile ring on the planet will sit on its £200 billion and not help them which ironically contradicts the teachings of Christianity.
I would rate Marcus Aurelius a more significant man than Jesus and Marcus Aurelius really existed. His writings and medications are real.
I am pleased when it is all over and I can look forward to spring, my favourite time of the year.
Lillyofthevalley. Don’t let any one take away your faith. Faith is believing in what we cannot see. But we, know and feel Jesus’s spirit of love in our own hearts. After all, Marcus Aurelius didn’t die for us Godbless x
But you asked if he is the son of god. I replied, then you say you don’t give a monkey s who he is. Why ask?
If someone was going around behaving like him today he would be sectioned to a psychiatric hospital and given antipsychotic drugs for psychosis + delusions of grandeur.
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
I do have to agree with you on most points, I was born and grew up in England, as a child I loved Christmas, even with my drunken father, who one never knew when he would explode. As I got older, I did not like all the commercialized, falseness, the pushing and shoving in the stores, the fight for a parking spot. After my husband left me at Christmas time I was devastated, I tried to work it out with him but he would not go for it. I sold our tree and decorations in a yard sale. So now I do Not like December, and they could take it off the calendar as far as I am concerned, I think the main thing is money, money, money. People get sucked in and go in debt, I think that is stupid. I get thru the season the best way I can and am always glad to welcome in the New Year. So I wish you well, sending love and hugs....Sprinkle 1.....
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Godbless x 
Husbands depression, adha, has ruined early Christmas with family
Nervous about flying out of O'Hare this Christmas alone.
The Spirit of Christmas!
Past Christmas, on to New Year's!
