Your MOST-favorite & LEAST-favorite Holiday (multichoice POLL - pick two)
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You know, even if I was in a relationship, I wouldn't want to celebrate Valentine's Day. Too much pressure. You expect too much and too little is delivered or you expect too little and so give 'too little' and the extravagant gift you receive makes you feel like a heel. Yes, they say it is the thought that counts, but we all can agree this is rarely the case. You either feel like you over-gave and thus feel ripped off/bitter or you feel as though you under-gave and thus feel shamed/sad.
Or maybe that's just me.
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You're not the only one who feels this way. My Husband and I will give each other a kiss and say Happy Valentines Day, usually we buy each other a card, but it's not something we spend a lot of time thinking about. We usually take our kids somewhere for dinner. We've spent Valentines Day at McDonald's play land before. They're a part of our love so we celebrate them.
Or maybe that's just me.
[/QUOTE]You're not the only one who feels this way. My Husband and I will give each other a kiss and say Happy Valentines Day, usually we buy each other a card, but it's not something we spend a lot of time thinking about. We usually take our kids somewhere for dinner. We've spent Valentines Day at McDonald's play land before. They're a part of our love so we celebrate them.
As a single person, I kind of like Valentines day. I can show my appreciation for the people I care about of the opposite sex, without it being awkward at all.
Easter/Passover/Pascha is my FAVORITE!!!
Its magical. Genuinely Deeply Magical.
Christmas is my least favorite. People suddenly become Holiday Cheer Nazis. People play games about wanting to know what I got them for Christmas, but not wanting me to tell them. There is all of the TERRIBLE children's musicals, with everybody in the audience wielding a recording device of some kind, not realizing that all those obnoxious lights are actually pretty blinding as a kid. Caroling, Shopping, Pictures and Decorating (Death by Icy Ladder, all for some lights). Sending everyone cards. Re-gifted Ugly Sweaters. Awkward life expectation questions, "So, you gotta lady friend or anything?"
I will say that I like spending Christmas with old people. Especially bitter old men with no relatives who visit them. We can sit around and complain about the whole shebang with a sort of camaraderie about it.
We have a tradition amongst my friends of Making a Happy Birthday Jesus Cake with Candles on Christmas eve. Coupled with board games and cider. Its good.
Easter/Passover/Pascha is my FAVORITE!!!
Its magical. Genuinely Deeply Magical.
Christmas is my least favorite. People suddenly become Holiday Cheer Nazis. People play games about wanting to know what I got them for Christmas, but not wanting me to tell them. There is all of the TERRIBLE children's musicals, with everybody in the audience wielding a recording device of some kind, not realizing that all those obnoxious lights are actually pretty blinding as a kid. Caroling, Shopping, Pictures and Decorating (Death by Icy Ladder, all for some lights). Sending everyone cards. Re-gifted Ugly Sweaters. Awkward life expectation questions, "So, you gotta lady friend or anything?"
I will say that I like spending Christmas with old people. Especially bitter old men with no relatives who visit them. We can sit around and complain about the whole shebang with a sort of camaraderie about it.
We have a tradition amongst my friends of Making a Happy Birthday Jesus Cake with Candles on Christmas eve. Coupled with board games and cider. Its good.
Gasp! The absolute horror of it all!
I really enjoyed Halloween for years. There is just something about dressing up and being someone/something else. I'm a photographer so now I can do that without the holiday and I'm too old to Trick or Treat and I have a job and can buy candy whenever I feel like it, so yeah, not my favorite holiday anymore. But I don't hate it. I just choose not to partake in it. But, just because you do, doesn't make you some horrid person or satanic. It isn't the holiday, but what you do on said holiday. Even Christmas can be satanic, if your focus is there. Plus, add to this that Easter and Christmas are pagan holidays that the Church put our holidays into in order to placate the unbelievers that celebrated said things. Easter is actually a goddess name, or some form of it, so I call it Resurrection Sunday now. But I still celebrate it on the days my calendar says they exist.
So, yeah, all about the focus, and I'm sure you're not sacrificing animals and such on Halloween or glorifying satanic practices, right? So, love the holiday. That's your right.
I really enjoyed Halloween for years. There is just something about dressing up and being someone/something else.
I'm a photographer so now I can do that without the holiday and I'm too old to Trick or Treat and I have a job and can buy candy whenever I feel like it, so yeah, not my favorite holiday anymore. But I don't hate it. I just choose not to partake in it. But, just because you do, doesn't make you some horrid person or satanic. It isn't the holiday, but what you do on said holiday. Even Christmas can be satanic, if your focus is there. Plus, add to this that Easter and Christmas are pagan holidays that the Church put our holidays into in order to placate the unbelievers that celebrated said things. Easter is actually a goddess name, or some form of it, so I call it Resurrection Sunday now. But I still celebrate it on the days my calendar says they exist.So, yeah, all about the focus, and I'm sure you're not sacrificing animals and such on Halloween or glorifying satanic practices, right? So, love the holiday. That's your right.
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MOST: 4th of July - Fireworks (to watch beautifully with your loved ones) 'or' (release your inner adrenaline-junkie pyro with friendly fire wars amidst friends)
Least: V-Day (The day you are expected to be romantic and relational with your significant other 'which you should have been doing all year long anyway...not just on this day...but also the day to make single people [that aren't necessarily happy in their singleness] crushingly aware of their lack of that love and relationship in life...)
HONORARY MENTIONS: Christmas - The best and worst holiday combined into one. Reasons: Highest recorded holiday for suicides, drinking, drugs-use/sex, and many other vices...on the flip side...time of year people are most generous, getting/giving gifts, being reunited with family and friends, etc...
(Christian elements of Christmas excluded in this fashion due to varying and argumentative facets of origin, practice, and the like...but for those who are educated and still choose to try and be God-honoring during Christmas, that can also be one of the good things)
Least: V-Day (The day you are expected to be romantic and relational with your significant other 'which you should have been doing all year long anyway...not just on this day...but also the day to make single people [that aren't necessarily happy in their singleness] crushingly aware of their lack of that love and relationship in life...)
HONORARY MENTIONS: Christmas - The best and worst holiday combined into one. Reasons: Highest recorded holiday for suicides, drinking, drugs-use/sex, and many other vices...on the flip side...time of year people are most generous, getting/giving gifts, being reunited with family and friends, etc...
(Christian elements of Christmas excluded in this fashion due to varying and argumentative facets of origin, practice, and the like...but for those who are educated and still choose to try and be God-honoring during Christmas, that can also be one of the good things)
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I have a love-hate relationship with Valentine's Day.
Love:
1. It's a few days before my birthday, so candy goes half off when Valentine's is over, so I usually get candy for my birthday.
2. There's flowers everywhere.
3. People give me their unwanted chocolate. I'll eat anything that's sweet.
Hate:
1. Restaurants are normally crowded.
2. Single people that mope around rather than feeling free.
3. I end up gaining a couple pounds, or just feeling really sick.
Love:
1. It's a few days before my birthday, so candy goes half off when Valentine's is over, so I usually get candy for my birthday.
2. There's flowers everywhere.
3. People give me their unwanted chocolate. I'll eat anything that's sweet.
Hate:
1. Restaurants are normally crowded.
2. Single people that mope around rather than feeling free.
3. I end up gaining a couple pounds, or just feeling really sick.
My love of holidays is directly related to traditions (aside from the meaning behind them, which I assume is implied already). I love Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years because because my family meets, candlelight services, parties with friends. New Years, which is actually my anniversary date with my ex-husband, isn't even spoiled now because friends gather together to play games and fellowship, and that joy and love overflow and cover any sad memories.
Valentines Day just sort of comes and goes without much thought. Easter is spiritually the most significant holiday for me, though there aren't a lot of spiritual traditions tied to it (I should change that, really).
Black Friday is not a holiday in itself, but I would have to choose that as the "most hated". Lock your doors and don't go outside, people! It's not safe...
Valentines Day just sort of comes and goes without much thought. Easter is spiritually the most significant holiday for me, though there aren't a lot of spiritual traditions tied to it (I should change that, really).
Black Friday is not a holiday in itself, but I would have to choose that as the "most hated". Lock your doors and don't go outside, people! It's not safe...
Valentines Day just sort of comes and goes without much thought. Easter is spiritually the most significant holiday for me, though there aren't a lot of spiritual traditions tied to it (I should change that, really).
Black Friday is not a holiday in itself, but I would have to choose that as the "most hated". Lock your doors and don't go outside, people! It's not safe...[/QUOTE]
I am trying hard to teach my kids that Easter is very significant, yes Christ being born was very important. Christ dying for our sins is so crucial to our lives. I wish the focus would be on that. It also has taken a backseat like Thanksgiving. Not for Christians (I hope) but here in the USA.
Black Friday is not a holiday in itself, but I would have to choose that as the "most hated". Lock your doors and don't go outside, people! It's not safe...[/QUOTE]
I am trying hard to teach my kids that Easter is very significant, yes Christ being born was very important. Christ dying for our sins is so crucial to our lives. I wish the focus would be on that. It also has taken a backseat like Thanksgiving. Not for Christians (I hope) but here in the USA.
The dying, and even more significant - the Raising again.
"Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus my Savior; he tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!"
My kids are older now, but we used to do treasure hunts that lead the kids through Holy Week. There's a great wreath at Oriental trading Co that I do often with church kids for Easter, which takes you through Holy Week (along with some additional explanations of each step). If you did this at home, you could add a new event each day to show what Jesus went through in His last days on earth.
"Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus my Savior; he tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!"
My kids are older now, but we used to do treasure hunts that lead the kids through Holy Week. There's a great wreath at Oriental trading Co that I do often with church kids for Easter, which takes you through Holy Week (along with some additional explanations of each step). If you did this at home, you could add a new event each day to show what Jesus went through in His last days on earth.
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[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial]I am battling with the Holidays!
mainly because of mark7
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7 The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,[SUP]2 [/SUP]and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.[SUP]3 [/SUP](For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they [SUP][a][/SUP]carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders; [SUP]4 [/SUP]and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they[SUP][b][/SUP]cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the [SUP][c][/SUP]washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.) [SUP]5 [/SUP]The Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread withimpure hands?” [SUP]6 [/SUP]And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”
I really feel god has spoken to me avoid modern holidays. Mainly because they are useless, and I see how they separate me from him.
Are you following a tradition that is truly biblical?
Christmas has always been a holiday celebrated carelessly. For millennia, pagans, Christians, and even Jews have been swept away in the season’s festivities, and very few people ever pause to consider the celebration’s intrinsic meaning, history, or origins.
Many of the most popular Christmas customs – including Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Claus – are modern incarnations of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced on earth
Jesus could look into the future and know that there would be billions of people who wanted to celebrate His birthday, He never told us when it was. If He wanted us to celebrate His birthday, He surely would have told us when it was.
The truth is that the Messiah was not born on December 25th. December 25th is the birthday of numerous pagan idols. Why would we want to put the holy Son of God in with them? He is holy, which means "set apart." He is not like them at all! And He doesn't want to be associated with them or the customs of those who worship them.
Before I was saved and accepted christ, I hated Halloween, and My favorite was Christmas.
Now I am Just Trying to do what I believe God has spoken to me about and that is stay away!
mainly because of mark7
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7 The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,[SUP]2 [/SUP]and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.[SUP]3 [/SUP](For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they [SUP][a][/SUP]carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders; [SUP]4 [/SUP]and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they[SUP][b][/SUP]cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the [SUP][c][/SUP]washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.) [SUP]5 [/SUP]The Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread withimpure hands?” [SUP]6 [/SUP]And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”
I really feel god has spoken to me avoid modern holidays. Mainly because they are useless, and I see how they separate me from him.
Are you following a tradition that is truly biblical?
Christmas has always been a holiday celebrated carelessly. For millennia, pagans, Christians, and even Jews have been swept away in the season’s festivities, and very few people ever pause to consider the celebration’s intrinsic meaning, history, or origins.
Many of the most popular Christmas customs – including Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Claus – are modern incarnations of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced on earth
Jesus could look into the future and know that there would be billions of people who wanted to celebrate His birthday, He never told us when it was. If He wanted us to celebrate His birthday, He surely would have told us when it was.
The truth is that the Messiah was not born on December 25th. December 25th is the birthday of numerous pagan idols. Why would we want to put the holy Son of God in with them? He is holy, which means "set apart." He is not like them at all! And He doesn't want to be associated with them or the customs of those who worship them.
Before I was saved and accepted christ, I hated Halloween, and My favorite was Christmas.
Now I am Just Trying to do what I believe God has spoken to me about and that is stay away!
Can't really argue with a personal conviction... many blessings to you as you follow the Holy Spirit for yourself and your family.
I do not see in scripture that traditions themselves are evil. God used celebrations, traditions and memorials among the Israelites many times in order to bring them closer to him, or help them remember his mighty works throughout their history. He created us with a need to hold such celebrations, and he provided many such traditions throughout the OT and NT. As long as we are using traditions, holidays and memorials in a correct way, I see nothing unbiblical.
(Not said flippantly... I've done a lot of studying for myself on whether or not Christians should celebrate certain holidays, including Christmas.)
I do not see in scripture that traditions themselves are evil. God used celebrations, traditions and memorials among the Israelites many times in order to bring them closer to him, or help them remember his mighty works throughout their history. He created us with a need to hold such celebrations, and he provided many such traditions throughout the OT and NT. As long as we are using traditions, holidays and memorials in a correct way, I see nothing unbiblical.
(Not said flippantly... I've done a lot of studying for myself on whether or not Christians should celebrate certain holidays, including Christmas.)
My favorite is Easter - I like to reflect on what Christ did on the cross and his Resurrection.
My other favorite is Christmas - even though Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25...I like giving gifts (and making them...scented candles anyone?) I take note of people's likes and dislikes throughout the year, and try to come up with something unique for those I care about.
It's also my least favorite - I don't like how the hustle and bustle of it can create pressure that can take one's mind off of why we celebrate it in the first place.
My other favorite is Christmas - even though Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25...I like giving gifts (and making them...scented candles anyone?) I take note of people's likes and dislikes throughout the year, and try to come up with something unique for those I care about.
It's also my least favorite - I don't like how the hustle and bustle of it can create pressure that can take one's mind off of why we celebrate it in the first place.
