I don't really "celebrate" Thanksgiving

[captain_slinky]

Every year I enrage more than a few folks by just kind of skipping over Thanksgiving. Way I see it, "The Holidays" start on Halloween night with a lavish Masquerade Launch Party. We then have The Rehearsal Dinner in November where we get to practice getting together with the family and celebrate the official opening of The Shopping Season. Then we have the Two-Day Main Event - Christmas Eve and Christmas - followed a week later by The New Year's Eve Wrap Party. Good job everyone! See y'all next year, which is tomorrow :)

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[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

It's a shame that you skip over Thanksgiving. In my view, Thanksgiving is the BEST holiday. You are not required to buy any expensive gifts. Just enjoy some good food, possibly some conversation; and if you fall asleep at someone's house? It's OK. On Thanksgiving, napping is a national event.

I don't really care about Halloween, Christmas, or New Years. Thanksgiving is where it is at.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I can enjoy a good meal any day of the week WITHOUT having to glorify the forceful theft of land and mass genocide ...

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

The original Thanksgiving was about surviving in a strange land, amongst strange people. AFTER surviving a long, horrible sea journey to escape religious persecution. It wasn't about what came afterwards.

All the holidays have some bad things associated with them.

Halloween/Samhain: This is the time of year when the walls separating the dead from the living are the thinnest. You are supposed to dress up as something other than yourself so that you confuse the demons. The demons that want to either 1) steal your soul, 2) kill you, or 3) both.

Christmas/Yule/New Years: Christmas was a holiday that was stolen from the pagans for starters. And 80's revival aside, DON'T get me started on the Druids and the others that celebrated Yule. Look up the history of the people unearthed from the peat bogs and how they ended up there. Drunk driving has been around as long as there have been animals to ride, and alcohol to drink. New Years has just been a convenient excuse to combine the two.

Easter/Passover is the creepiest of them all. Passover celebrates the host of invisible angels 'passing over' the homes of the first born children that have been marked with blood. The invisible angels who go on to kill the children living in homes not marked with blood.

As the newest holiday, Thanksgiving is the safest one to celebrate. It has the lowest bodycount.

[plumxxjam.livejournal.com]

I don't celebrate Thanksgiving either, but for a slightly different reasons.

[aurora77]

Nobody around me really emphasized the background of the holiday. I think I see it similar to you. For me, it's not the day to count blessings and think about the founding of the nation assisted by the natives that it later killed and forced from their lands. It's still the same as when I was a kid. It was about time off from work/school. It was the day the AWESOME PARADE, which I always watch with hot cocoa, even to this day. The parade had holiday music and ended with Santa, thus ushering in the Christmas season! It was about pumpkin pie and turkey and stuffing. It was about watching the football game with my dad, grandpa, and uncles. It was about being in my grandma's kitchen, watching her and my mom cook. It was about kicking off the Christmas season, since the Christmas commercials and music were starting and everybody was talking about holiday plans. It marked the day before we were allowed to start putting up decorations. It was that weekend that I'd write my letter to Santa Claus. It really marked the beginning of my family's Holiday Season. Now, I let Halloween be the partial beginning of my Holiday Season (holiday music is allowed and holiday planning and buying starts), but Thanksgiving is still an important milestone for me with traditions of its own. :)