Did you see the faux outrage in the Netherlands this week? There's a traditional parade where Santa comes into town but unlike everywhere else rather than having elves as helpers the dutch Santa has an army of little black slaves...



White guys blacking up celebrated by the cheering crowds. Nazir, you're black and kinda Dutch lol... What's your take on 'black Pete'?

Lol, I loved them! We used to dance around school every time they come to visit. The children are usually scared because if you're a bad boy/girl Santa will take you to Spain on his boat, in a sack. I love it . Now certain politics are claiming that it's racist for them to be black and we're all like:"What gifts! It has been always like that." Well, weird stuff. But what I think of the celebration? Awesome childhood.

Get your shoes ready the night before 5 Dec. and remember to put some grass in it for Santa's horse, lol. It's a usual thing here.

Santa's horse?

Neigh! In other countries it's Reindeer... or in New Zealand: Motorised cheapo parade float dragged behind a smelly diesel wagon that is belching out smoke, and choking everyone.  

Same. I'm mostly begging for December! I'm looking forward for Christmas and I really want the day to come already !

I don't want to look forward to Christmas, because that's one month away. I feel like that's too long of a time to look forward to something. I feel like if you look forward for such a long time, you miss the events happening in your closer future. So I'm not looking forward to it yet, but it will be fun when it comes!

I bloody hate christmas

Haha why?

What a Grinch!  

Mark Mauvais wrote:

I bloody hate christmas

Jake G. wrote:

What a Grinch!

Honestly said I sensed the hate within the way you said it Mark that's why I laughed and asked why :p

i understand mark. for me christmas is absolutely perverted. santa claus, christmas tree, celebration of consumption . everybody loves each other for a few days and the rest of the year selfishness and greed is ruling in the people's minds.
every day, every hour, the CHRIST IN US should be celebrated and not once a year the birth of some kind of savior.

Christmas is not Christian btw, it's Pagan

I never did explain why I dislike Christmas so much.

Its not because of the consumerism or the capitalism (which I do detest) but rather that the day is just so goddamn boring. I mean you are woken up at 7am by a younger sibling, then you open an array of disappointing presents. Then you have to wait from 8am to like 2-3pm in the afternoon for the most disappointing dinner and then thats it. Theres nothing good on TV, you can't go out because theres nowhere open, its just boring boring boring.

LOL. I like the whole month(December) because it's like friday of the months. New year is something you can enjoy . Go out with some friend, get drunk. I would mostly stay here at home chatting with my ex on facebook but after that go out and get some drink as well.

By now I'm just to say jealous of my musician friend who is 10x better guitar player and singer then I am. I want a song to really kill him. And then I found this one. Which sounds awesome for fingerstyle! I just need the tabs.

nowforever13 wrote:

christmas isnt even christian -_- its pegan where you give gifts
i mean you celebrate the conception of christ but giving everybody else presents on jesus day >.> ?

Yep, you are indeed right. The church plastered Jesus over the front of an annual Pagan celebration.

it all starts with the Romans.

You see the polytheistic religions believed in many gods. Hinduism is a polythiestic religion, as was the norse and the ancient greek in fact there are many examples, even the bible discusses them. Some gods were local to certain areas and when you were in that area you worshiped that god. So when the Romans invaded places they would take on their gods and incorporate them into the roman faith, Hercules as we know him is the romanised version of the original Heracles.

So the Romans also invaded Israel and the the whole Jesus thing happened and Christianity was born. The Romans, after initially persecuting Christians, adopted Jesus and the one God theory and established the ROMAN Catholic church. Think about it.. who defeated the Roman Empire? Nobody, because its still there. The 'Emporors' are now the 'Popes' and the many gods became saints and the rest is history.

Very educational Mark!

It's snowing here! The sweet sound of quietness, and insulation.

Oh yeah, Mark, I got used to the new website format, and I love it!

i personally believe that some of the other gods are just interpretations of god and his prophets like odin is god and thor=jesus tyr=joseph so on etc anyway i recently read a blog that archeologists and some historians now think that the whole jesus thing was a hoax to lead the masses, for one there is no logical way of that working out because 300 years later rome converted to christianity im thinking how the hell does it make sense to outlaw a religion and then immediatly convert it with constantine
anyway i like christmas but only for jesus i dont care about gifts its just something trying to shadow christianity hell over here they atheist occultist are trying to get christ taken out of christmas and christmas isnt even a christian holiday .-.

I never EVER experienced snow. If I did. I would go with my short sleeve shirt on because it's a once in a life-time experience

Nazir, I like snow! I also like ice! I should walk on the lake when it freezes! What lake you might ask? Lake Erie, of course. I usually like to be somewhat cold, but I'm a bit sick right now, so I want to stay warm. The temperature of my house is 65 F, or 18.33 C. Anyway, you should go to somewhere in Europe.

The idea of having Christmas during summer is an odd concept to because its in the winter in Europe. I wonder how different your Christmas imagery is from ours, I mean like on our cards we have pictures of snowmen and penguins, the Santa claus character, robins, christmas trees,

What kind of pictures go with summer Christmas? beaches? Lol

lol. well we dont have christmas cards anyway. !spoiler for kids! dont read unless you want me to spoil your childhood! i have been santa for the last two years. the best part is that you can say anything ANYTHING and no one can tell you a thing.

Watch this, skip to about 6.20 for the most important part.

lol Mark, my family and I went to London 5 years back during christmas. Its hard to even get lunch, theres no train and the restaurant are mainly closed. So we're stuck in the hotel with cup noodles xD I love the boxing days though haha

Yeah everywhere grinds to a halt on Christmas day, its impossible to get anything.

Is it Malaysia you're from? Whats christmas like there?

I'm interested these days in the All Saints Eve or Halloween. I heard many stories and only one came to my true basic sense. But it's an amazingly interesting to search about .