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That was a year ago. My new opinion is that I don't like Christmas lights. They're a huge waste of energy, especially since everyone stays inside glued to their phones anyway. Bah humbug.
That was a year ago. My new opinion is that I don't like Christmas lights. They're a huge waste of energy, especially since everyone stays inside glued to their phones anyway. Bah humbug.
@pjones: I "liked" your comment because I basically don't strongly disagree with any of it (except that last part about S.A.D. -- highly speculative!) ...but still I say BAH HUMBUG. Glad "the Holidays" are finally over.
Scholars seem to agree Jesus was probably born in July. The whole Santa Claus/decorated conifer trees thing is adapted from pre-Christian Germanic lore. If we need a cozy twinkly wintertime solstice holiday I think we could make up a better one that doesn't waste so many resources and isn't so easy for commercialization to pervert/ruin. The best part of Christmas is how charitable people become, so what if there was a winter holiday that was purely about that?
Besides that, what I'd like to see is a holiday where people try to use as little gas/electricity as they can for some period of time. And minimize light pollution too -- that way during the holiday people could go outside at night and look up and see the Milky Way.
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