The Daily Chit-Chat [2008] Page 573

Started by doesn't matter January 1st, 2008 12:23 AM
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Wow... I've actually never heard of non-christians celebrating Christmas. I mean, c'mon; Christmas. o_o' It just seems wrong to me. The same way us Christians celebrating Eid would be wrong. It's just totally sacreligious in my opinion.
I don't think that Christmas is a religion-specific celebration. In Japan, everyone seems to celebrate it only for a certain fat guy (or slim cosplay girl) in a red suit, his reindeer, and the presents.
In Sweden, everybody celebrates Christmas because it's our tradition. It hasn't got much to do with Christ at all... In fact, we don't call it Christmas, we call it Jul. Yule might be a variant of the word? I've heard Yule in an English book, but I don't know if it's the exact same thing as Jul.

Jul and Christmas really clashes btw... it's weird, Jul is about red decorations and a pine tree indoors and gifts and porridge and people going around singing and stuff... Christmas is about a baby in a stable. Yet we've made it the same thing >,< Not only in Sweden, I mean.

As for non-christians celebrating Christmas(/Jul), I'm not very religious at all, but I've grown up in Sweden in a Swedish home, and here we are christians by tradition, so I can be called a christian. My muslim friends though... they con't "celebrate" it in that manner, but they can't help getting pulled along by the feeling in December and all the stores advertising for christmas things and the schools having their Christmas endings in church and all... I think most of them don't care.

I would never celebrate Eid though. I've got nothing to do with that, it's not my tradition nor the tradition of this country.
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I'm asian/buddhist and I celebrate christmas..

But if I lived in my parents country, I don't think I would. XD Heck, they don't even celebrate birthdays and what not, I don't even think they know of dates unless they're related to some asian tradition. But living in a english speaking country where half the population is Christian I guess my parents learnt about christmas and what not, but like everyone else, we just celebrate it as a time when the family gets together, and it's the only time my family gets a day off from work, so they're stress free which I'm happy to see. <3
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Sometimes we go to mass on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. But, even if we don't we still remember what the point of the day is and why we're getting together. Presents are cool and I like having the family come all together. But, we have a couple of nativity scenes set up, we say a prayer before we eat, a good handful of classic Christmas songs we listen to are religious based. We have a balance of both aspects of the holiday

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I sometimes watch the mass on the tv on Christmas, or listen to it on the radio,


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In Sweden, everybody celebrates Christmas because it's our tradition. It hasn't got much to do with Christ at all... In fact, we don't call it Christmas, we call it Jul. Yule might be a variant of the word? I've heard Yule in an English book, but I don't know if it's the exact same thing as Jul.

Jul and Christmas really clashes btw... it's weird, Jul is about red decorations and a pine tree indoors and gifts and porridge and people going around singing and stuff... Christmas is about a baby in a stable. Yet we've made it the same thing >,< Not only in Sweden, I mean.

As for non-christians lagabreyting Christmas(/Jul), I'm not very religious at all, but I've grown up in Sweden in a Swedish home, and here we are christians by tradition, so I can be called a christian. My muslim friends though... they con't "celebrate" it in that manner, but they can't help getting pulled along by the feeling in December and all the stores advertising for christmas things and the schools having their Christmas endings in church and all... I think most of them don't care.

I would never celebrate Eid though. I've got nothing to do with that, it's not my tradition nor the tradition of this country.
It's called Jól in Iceland;)
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We're religious, but then we are not that religious. We'll celebrate Christmas but it isn't, "Oh praise Jesus for being born," it's "Where the heck is my presents!"

We DO go to church most Christmas's Eve. It's fun. 8D

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I consider myself Agnostic, while my brother's an Athiest, my mom a Catholic, and my dad Protestant. And we've always celebrated Christmas for as long as I can remember.

The four of us and grandma have always been together for Christmas, but this time, my brother won't be around. He'll be in Alberta, unable to make the trek back home. But I don't doubt that he'll call. XD

And I can honestly say I've never been to church during the Christmas season. I was only there a few times when I was younger, and we stopped for some reason. But as an Agnostic, I'd prefer to not go anyway.
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I don't think that Christmas is a religion-specific celebration. In Japan, everyone seems to celebrate it only for a certain fat guy (or slim cosplay girl) in a red suit, his reindeer, and the presents.
It certainly depends on what country you're in, but traditionally (and obviously), Christmas is a Christian celebration.

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Sometimes we go to mass on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. But, even if we don't we still remember what the point of the day is and why we're getting together. Presents are cool and I like having the family come all together. But, we have a couple of nativity scenes set up, we say a prayer before we eat, a good handful of classic Christmas songs we listen to are religious based. We have a balance of both aspects of the holiday
Just to add to that. We're not going "Yay Jesus!" XD The presents, family, get togethers, and "Santa aspects" certainly take precedence. Its more of an...understanding/knowing why we're celebrating and believing it.
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Just to add to that. We're not going "Yay Jesus!" XD The presents, family, get togethers, and "Santa aspects" certainly take precedence. Its more of an...understanding/knowing why we're celebrating and believing it.
Haha, same with my family, we're Catholics but we don't necessarily do anything religious..the past few years we've made attempts to get to Church the day of Christmas, but it's not a big thing. The holiday is most definitely about family and dinner on Christmas Eve, followed by anxiousness, present opening, and lots of holiday spirit/cheer/shopping leading up to it and afterward. My favorite holiday, definitely.


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It certainly depends on what country you're in, but traditionally (and obviously), Christmas is a Christian celebration.
Not necessarily here, since we pretty much mixed it with some kind of old heathen tradition :/

Christmas decorations are crazy. It's not even December yet, and people are already putting up Rudolfs and mastodontively energy consuming lights corresponding a minor Las Vegas... and yet I live on the countryside ._.
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Haha, same with my family, we're Catholics but we don't necessarily do anything religious..the past few years we've made attempts to get to Church the day of Christmas, but it's not a big thing. The holiday is most definitely about family and dinner on Christmas Eve, followed by anxiousness, present opening, and lots of holiday spirit/cheer/shopping leading up to it and afterward. My favorite holiday, definitely.
Hmm...I can agree...it's not necessarily as much of a big thing here (religiously) in the US as much as the Philippines. But I do quite miss the Midnight Christmas Feast (so-called "Noche Buena" = Good Night XD) and opening the gifts around that time....Also I used to go to Catholic Church with my grandma...too.... =/ But anyways....Christmas here in the US with my Parents....Is nice but not as "intensive" as back in the Philippines. Well that's just me 'cuz there are a lot of different traditions in the Winter Season. =P

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We don't celebrate Christmas religiously at all. For my family it's just putting up decorations and having an excuse to buy loads of crap for ourselves XD;

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We don't celebrate Christmas religiously at all. For my family it's just putting up decorations and having an excuse to buy loads of crap for ourselves XD;
OMG, my family does that to:D, like someone here above from sweeden stated, Christmas is called Jul (Jól in Iceland), and it's mainly for fun in Northen Europe, not that much about Christ, but some of us keep the small religous things like Aðventa and stuff like that.
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We don't celebrate Christmas religiously at all. For my family it's just putting up decorations and having an excuse to buy loads of crap for ourselves XD;
^This.

Though we have a bunch of traditions. Like, we get a pair of PJs as a present on Christmas Eve, and we always have certain things for dinner on Christmas Eve, etc.

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^This.

Though we have a bunch of traditions. Like, we get a pair of PJs as a present on Christmas Eve, and we always have certain things for dinner on Christmas Eve, etc.
Yeaaaah, haha, we do that too, me and my brother. I like it.


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We always have a seafood dinner on Christmas Eve...Not really sure why, but it's pretty good. My Grandma's birthday is also on Christmas Eve, so we celebrate that as well =P
Seafood? XD Cool tradition. We have meatballs :3 And something called prince sausages. And something really horribly with sardines, called Janson's Temptation XD Never touch it if you come by it. And don't touch the stockfish either. I mean... fish dried on a cliff in an archipelago near Gothenburg or so... :|

Do you all have Christmas trees though? That, if anything, is a true tradition to me :)
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Seafood? XD Cool tradition. We have meatballs :3 And something called prince sausages. And something really horribly with sardines, called Janson's Temptation XD Never touch it if you come by it. And don't touch the stockfish either. I mean... fish dried on a cliff in an archipelago near Gothenburg or so... :|

Do you all have Christmas trees though? That, if anything, is a true tradition to me :)
I think it's some obscure Italian tradition...Both my grandparents are from Italy =P

We always get a real tree for Christmas...My sister insists on getting the biggest one that can fit in our house. Good thing we have tall ceilings ^___^

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I think it's some obscure Italian tradition...Both my grandparents are from Italy =P

We always get a real tree for Christmas...My sister insists on getting the biggest one that can fit in our house. Good thing we have tall ceilings ^___^
Yeah, same here. Tall ceilings ftw n___n

My siblings always want to dress up the tree way too much... I'm the one to stop them and put some things back down, before the tree gives up to the pressure and falls apart XD
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Yeah, same here. Tall ceilings ftw n___n

My siblings always want to dress up the tree way too much... I'm the one to stop them and put some things back down, before the tree gives up to the pressure and falls apart XD
Lol...My sister doesn't even let me decorate the tree, because I end up putting "The pretty ornaments in the wrong spots". Apparently it is imperative that each ornament is in the right spot for the overall image of the tree XD....I don't even care anymore. Less work for me ^____^