benhimself: Resistance is Futile.

Ben (

benhimself) wrote,
@ 2004-11-29 23:45:00

Resistance is Futile.
It's scary how quickly things become Christmas the second Thanksgiving dies down. There are already elaborate decorations up on my street, and the stores and restaurants are playing carols as we speak.

It's interesting what a huge chunk of time Christmas conceptually takes up every year. Before it, you have all the anticipation and advertising specials and such, and afterwards, the people too lazy to take all the stuff down for several weeks.

The only logical conclusion to all this is that in the future, there will be only Christmas. New Year's Eve and Thanksgiving can only stand against it for so long, and afterwards, it'll be up to Halloween and Valentine's Day, and those two just aren't prepared!

That might make an amusing series of polls, actually.

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ravenblack
2004-11-29 09:48 pm UTC (link)

That makes for a lovely mental image. Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve finally collapsing under the relentless assault of Christmas, its dark shadow rolling swiftly across the year, breaking briefly against the brave last stand of Halloween and Valentine's Day, natural enemies teamed up for once against this common foe, to no avail. The relentless treads of Christmas's gigantic death machines crush all resistance in minutes, and roll on to effortlessly consume my birthday moments later, and eventually sweep over the last line of defence, the summer holidays.

If only Halloween and Valentine's Day had been willing to join the fight earlier, joining forces with Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, perhaps it would have turned out better. But these things are always obvious in hindsight. They thought they could stay out of it. They thought Thanksgiving was the superpower. Tell that to the summer reindeer.

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	last_real_angel 2004-11-29 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	christmas...the moment thanksgiving dies down? at toys r hell, we had xmas music playing right after hallow's eve (Reply to this)(Thread)

	benhimself 2004-11-29 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	The ghosts of Christmas Future have extended their reach further than I imagined. The end is nigh, and an apocayplse of eternal tinsel imminent! But seriously, yikes. I'm sorry you have to work through that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	last_real_angel 2004-12-02 07:37 am UTC (link)
	it's ok...i'm dreaming of the internship i'll hopefully get that will pay twice as much as that zoo....c'mon summer... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kevandotorg 2004-11-30 03:00 am UTC (link)
	Or some sort of... abstract-player-character roleplaying game... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	xorphus 2004-11-30 05:48 am UTC (link)
	HAH! (Reply to this)(Parent)

Hooray!

benhimself
2004-11-30 11:05 am UTC (link)

Generosity shook himself with laughter, cruel and deep. "You? You think to oppose me?"

Trickery glared. "I didn't want to believe what Gratitude and Rebirth were telling us. But now it's too late, and you have splayed their entrails and organs across Yggdrasil."

Generosity's eyes twinkled with hate. "Do your worst."

Trickery waved his hand, and horrible monsters rose up from the shadows, racing towards Generosity with teeth and claws bared. Generosity countered with a wave of his hands, and the monsters started singing songs of love and giving, before fading away.

Generosity raised an shaggy white eyebrow. "Illusions? You seek to undo me with illusions?"

Trickery smiled. "No, just to distract you."

Generosity tried to raise his hand to his nose, but it was too late. The arrow, forged in the fires of Uncreation by the Excrucians themselves, flew from Love's bow and into Generosity's heart. He screamed in agony, and fell down to the ground.

"I.... shall... return..." Generosity gasped out, his blood invisible on his already blood-stained suit.

This time, it was Trickery who laughed. "I think not. You killed Rebirth, remember?"

"Oh."

And he died.

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	watermelontail 2004-11-30 08:11 am UTC (link)
	St Patrick's day and MLK day quietly gather the resistance from exile, biding their time (Reply to this)(Thread)

	benhimself 2004-11-30 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, St Patrick's day. There's a holiday I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	peace on earth (Anonymous) 2004-11-30 11:29 am UTC (link)
	I hear Kwanza has a pretty mean bitch slap... (Reply to this)

albinofrog88
2004-11-30 01:07 pm UTC (link)

That WOULD prolly happen, except then the Jews, Muslims, Hindus, pagens, etc, would unite to create a Christmas genocide, in which anyone spotted hanging Christmas decorations would be ruthlessly murdered while their house burns into the fiery black ash of St.Valentine's Day.
We need the greeting card created holidays to pretend we're all just one nation united in love, while really we all fucking hate each other.
Make-believe is the American way of living.

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benhimself
2004-11-30 01:43 pm UTC (link)

Christmas is, quite arguably, no longer a religious holiday. The main focus is Santa, not Jesus. So the revolution wouldn't necessarily have to be organized on religious basis. Indeed, I saw it as more of an aesthetic thing, being against tinsel and blinking lights and animatronic Santas waving their plastic hands and emitting distorted low-fi carols year round more than anything.

And Christmas also isn't merely an American phenomenon, too. remember. The entire post was inspired by someone I know in Australia saying it actually WAS worse due to their not really celebrating thanksgiving, and thus the "holiday season" starting early November.

Also, just out of curiosity, since you've been commenting a lot in recent posts, how did you find my livejournal?

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albinofrog88
2004-11-30 02:35 pm UTC (link)

I'd be the 1st to tell you Christmas isn't religious.
I'm agnostic (or an athiest in denial), and frankly organized religion makes me sick.
Not that religion in general makes me sick, or I see any sense in unorganized religion. But it's all so hypocritical and un-tolerant (is that even a word?). When my cousin asked me to be her baby's godmother, her asking me was purlely sentimental and symbolic. It had nothing to do with religion. She's Catholic, and even when I was Christian, I was episcopaleon (I'm prolly splling that wrong) which is arguably the most liberal of all the Christian sects. They were the first to appoint a female bishop, and just recently they appointed a gay bishop.
Yet I still had to go to "training" from my old priest who gave me a long lecture on how I was to help raise the child as a "good Christian who follows Jesus' example" What does that EVEN mean? That he should become a carpenter, call himself the King of Jews, and get himself killed? And yeah, I know that isn't what she meant. But if he grows up and becomes Jewish or Muslim or anything else (athiest!) I'll love him just as much, and sure as hell won't try and stop him.

I don't know why I ranted on something so off topic for so long. But what I was going to originally say was that while Christmas itself is no longer religious, if you weren't born in a Christian or atheistic family, you still aren't going to celebrate it. I've known people of other religions who have been pissed off by all the Christmas spirit, and I have to agree. There's too many "Merry Christmases" and not enough "Happy Holidays" and just because Chritmas isn't religious anymore, if it did become the one and only holiday I still think there'd be a lot of reigious riots.

And now I've gone and ranted on something that was meant (at least I hope) sarcastically in the 1st place. You really should't go and encourage me by replying, I'll go on forever, and lots of times it gets to places that are sooo off topic, and so irrevelant, even I can't trace how I got there.

Truth be told, I went to that website where u put your name or a random noun, or really anything at all, and up pops a funny slogan. And your name was linked, and I cliked on it, and here I came. And here I now am.

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