tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post8153922410337184734..comments2023-07-11T10:20:40.454+01:00Comments on Tessera: Who Killed Christmas?TKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02054609141955914429noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post-88431177655824589782010-12-18T10:26:41.952+00:002010-12-18T10:26:41.952+00:00Excellent reading, strong words and succinctly put...Excellent reading, strong words and succinctly put. I sense there is a heart of gold behind those words and that you really, deep-down like the 'christmassy' feelings of nostalgia at this time, like no other. That may be sacharrine but we all respond to it at some level, otherwise we would not be human. That is the problem here, that most people conflate those pleasant remembered childhood experiences with religion and they are not the same thing. Where strong feelings are involved, it is easy to manipulate people into believing they are experiencing some deep religious thing. Every year, we suspend belief and indulge our folk fantasies, usually tongue-in-cheek and carry out a strange ritual of allowing small children to believe in a mythscape of mixed-up nonsense.<br /><br />Happy christmas to you all, and I mean that without having to believe in fairy stories!D:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post-52281104821685018682010-12-16T04:30:10.005+00:002010-12-16T04:30:10.005+00:00We are enraged and ashamed that some dude is tryin...We are enraged and ashamed that some dude is trying to besmirch the "Pickle" name. To make up for his ignorant tomfoolery, we wrote a poem about this nonsensical and transparent money-grab and all other paranoid Christmas affronts: http://pickleope.blogspot.com/2010/12/twas-war-upon-christmas.htmlPickleopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13772003052474877906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post-26185083222644695502010-12-15T14:39:44.890+00:002010-12-15T14:39:44.890+00:00Does all this mean that we're winning?Does all this mean that we're winning?The Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157821003454766570noreply@blogger.com