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Why I hate Xmas and refuse to celebrate it

Started by ., December 09, 2009, 01:40:50 AM

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Materialism. That's the bottom line of why I hate Xmas so much. It's only about who can buy who the most expensive THING or the most things for their families. It's not about family anymore, I don't think it has been in my life time. Xmas was supposed to be about togetherness, the one time of year when you get to see people you don't see all year around, or a time when your supposed to be merry or jolly or whatever the fuck other word you'd like to use for that. Xmas makes us bitter to no end, the people with so-called holiday cheer are lying to themselves and have probably already maxed out their credit cards for their family members on gifts that are probably never going to be used. I piss on their idea of what xmas is. Its become an excuse to be more materialistic. But hey! your buying SHIT for your family, and that's not selfish is it? I'm spending MONEY on my family and buying them stupid shit. So that redeems everything right?! The days when people used to make gifts are gone. Like making a plate of cookies for your neighbor, knitting a god awful sweater, making ornaments, etc. Those days are gone forever. Now if you end up making a plate of cookies for someone or take the time to do one of the above mentioned for someone they look at you like your a cheap ass. Like they expected you to give them a fucking laptop for xmas! Xmas has always made me bitter. Since I was a child, xmas had always been about money. Mom used to say, quite frequently i might add, "There won't be a christmas this year because we can't afford it!" or "Your not getting anything for xmas because we can't afford it!" but we could never afford it... I didn't want stuff. I wanted the family stability that most people take for granted. I wanted my parents to get along, I wanted the family dinner, I didn't care what we ate, as long as it was as a family.
So, now I refuse to like xmas, I refuse to give in to the materialism that is now xmas. Xmas puts me in one of the worst moods, bringing back all the shitty memories of past xmases that are burned into the back of my mind ever so clearly. I understand why people kill themselves around the holidays, and its not because of the forementioned. All I want is to have my closest friends and family around me. I want to be able to make them a great big dinner, so we can sit around the table talking about anything and everything. Xmas makes me want to punch people and cry at the same time.

Freeky

Well said.

And I plan to do all my gift giving through foodstuffs that I'll make myself. Pies, cookies, BBQ beef, all the usual stuff.

Payne

This year, as with every year, I will not be giving ANY presents or cards out. I will not say Merry Christmas or (Happy Holidays, or Seasons Greetings, or any of the other 'Acceptable' forms of expressing your joy). I will not be standing in lines in crowded stores clinging to the hope that I will get through the checkout before my bus takes off, in the humid air of hundreds of other clockwork wound 'humans' going through the exact same ridiculous motions as everyone else, as they've done for years in an ever increasing pressure to be MORE extravagant to spend MORE money on Jimmy and Julie and all the cousins and all the great-great-aunties.

I refuse to do this. I have no stake in Christianity. I don't believe that surviving another year REALLY needs a celebration, or that a celebration really hastens the coming of spring. I have no interest in appearing to be a "Good Person", and fitting in with 'people' I detest and sharing in their plastic, factory line produced 'Joy'.

I have no wish to spend the day with my family, any of them. I have no desire to watch the Queens speech, followed by some Disney tat on the TV (like a "Spot the Difference" puzzle).

On Christmas Day, I go for a walk, revelling in the dead empty streets, the only cars those driven by desperate suicidal men with the whole family in tow commuting to Grandmamas for the traditional gutbusting drech they call Christmas Dinner.

I'll come home, crack open a beer, heat up a CHEAP ASSED pizza in the oven, and watch a movie or two, and prolly end up online to chat with whatever childless misanthropists are doing EXACTLY what I'm doing.

The Johnny

Because i chose to flee a bloodsucking research team (and i couldnt migrate to another one, or do it on my own because of policy), have been asigned to:

make a 10-30 page research on the influences of Catholicism over the female gender role, from the Hispanic colonies to contemporary Mexico. And a stupid 50 minute open/in-depth interview, to latter transcribe and analyze it.

Oh yes, and i have some 400 pages of stuff to study leftover.

Just in time to take 2 tests on the 4th of January.

Yeah happy Xmas, fuckers.
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I haven't celebrated Christmas in many years. I guess almost 20. I do get a tree for Yule and decorate it and have a big dinner, though, and I get things for the kids... family things.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Remington

This year I'm giving hand-made art, just to my immediate family + GF. Wireframe sculptures, like the ones I posted a while ago:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20892.0
I did make an exception for my GF though, and bought her a really nice necklace.

I'm spending Christmas over at my cousins', which will be okay, cause they're just generally awesome.
Is it plugged in?

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

If you're too broke to buy good presents for your kids, you really have to explain in advance about it, and do the whole "tiny tim" thing where you say things like "but we're going to have fun because we love each other and are so lucky to have a family and a warm place to live" and shit.

Easier when your kids are very young or much older.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Captain Utopia

I'm determined to enjoy Christmas this year. For the last few years I've let all the bullshit win, dissecting and polishing the hypocrisies and fallacies until they shone brighter than baubles. This process inevitably left me morose. I think I missed a greater significance though, something I wasn't expecting to find when I started the analysis. Despite the ability of chimps to shit over anything and everything, there is something to be said in that part of what fuels the seasons inanity is a desire for all the HallmarkTM and other corporate-sponsered visions of happiness, goodwill and charity to be real.

If those corporate overlords have taught us anything, it is that desire is a formidable fuel. I'm attempting to harness mine, wish me luck.

Freeky

Good luck, FP.

And I think I'll try to do the same.

Suu

My last couple Christmases have been terrible. The prospect of seeing my family for the first time in a while is helping this year. I'm losing a fair amount of cash by copping out for 2 weeks during the busiest restaurant time of the year, but hopefully it'll be worth it.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

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I'm down on capitalism and materialism because people make you out to be a bad person if you don't make enough regardless of whether or not you are actually a good person. People get too hung up on things and its their ultimate downfall. Things don't make a person. Unfortunately, no one understands this. I hate xmas and continue to be down on materialism. This is a time of togetherness, family etc.

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Remington

When I have kids (hopefully not for a while), I'm planning on having two holidays: "Christmas" And "Commercialism Day"(for lack of a better name). Do all the normal things on Christmas, just without the toys. Hand-made or hand-drawn stuff, family togetherness, Christmas dinner, etc.

The day(s) after, we go shopping and get all the Xboxs, Tickle Me Elmos, and Transformers that they wanted.

What do you spags think? Overly idealistic, or feasible?
Is it plugged in?

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Quote from: Sir Remington III on December 09, 2009, 08:00:57 AM
When I have kids (hopefully not for a while), I'm planning on having two holidays: "Christmas" And "Commercialism Day"(for lack of a better name). Do all the normal things on Christmas, just without the toys. Hand-made or hand-drawn stuff, family togetherness, Christmas dinner, etc.

The day(s) after, we go shopping and get all the Xboxs, Tickle Me Elmos, and Transformers that they wanted.

What do you spags think? Overly idealistic, or feasible?

I like the idea. I wish you luck with that.

Remington

Quote from: NiveKRayne on December 09, 2009, 08:27:53 AM
Quote from: Sir Remington III on December 09, 2009, 08:00:57 AM
When I have kids (hopefully not for a while), I'm planning on having two holidays: "Christmas" And "Commercialism Day"(for lack of a better name). Do all the normal things on Christmas, just without the toys. Hand-made or hand-drawn stuff, family togetherness, Christmas dinner, etc.

The day(s) after, we go shopping and get all the Xboxs, Tickle Me Elmos, and Transformers that they wanted.

What do you spags think? Overly idealistic, or feasible?

I like the idea. I wish you luck with that.
I haven't given up on Christmas just yet. Yes, it's horribly commercialized, but I'm going to see if I can't isolate the two concepts.
Is it plugged in?