Tag: Christmas
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Jesus’s Birthday
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was founded on April 6th, 1830. While it is not canonical, some Mormons including myself believe this happened on Jesus’s Birthday. The Christmas date just makes less and less sense to me as time goes on. Why were shepards in the field with their flocks in…
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The Day After Christmas 25
It’s been a quiet day. Lots of sleeping and a little beer. The house is covered with boxes and wrapping paper. I assembled a chair for Stephanie. There’s a lot of debris from that in an ugly little pile. But both garbage bins were already full last night and now that they’ve been picked up…
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Christmas Cynicism
If you’ve spent much time with me online you know that I have grave and growing concerns about Christianity. Today I watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. Near the end Scrooge wipes the snow off his own gravestone to reveal his name. He begs the ghost of Christmas future that it will not be so. But…
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Christmas Snow
We got our first real snow of the winter and just in time for Christmas. I don’t know if it’ll last five days but what we got has stuck so far. Of course that means I had to shovel. It wasn’t very thick but it seemed like someone rode over the unshovelled sidewalk on a…
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Desk Lamp
Stephanie and I took the boys to Target for Christmas. I got a desk lamp and have effectively lit my keyboard.
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Black Friday 24
The next commercial holiday in the USA is Christmas. The annual buying spree begins with Black Friday. People trample each other for sales on new stuff the day after claiming to be grateful for the stuff they already have. There’s a method to the marketing though. It is in the best interest of retail to…
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Traditions, What are those?
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? We had a lot of traditions as a family when I was growing up. For instance on Christmas Eve my father led a midnight mass. We would stay up late for the service. When it was done we went home and opened presents. To this…
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Binge Watching
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? I have watched numerous movies at least five times. When I was living on Dodge Street I bought a VCR and four tapes from the pawn shop on the corner. They were Batman, Beetlejuice, Beaches, and Bird on a Wire. They were my…
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Lost Tradition
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions. I have four sons. The first was born out of wedlock and was mostly raised by his mother. If her family has traditions I have not noticed them. My wife and I have three sons on the autism spectrum. Between the three of them there has…
Latter Day Sinner 