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Christmas is a really wacky holiday.

You put on a Christmas CD and hear someone singing about a god who took on human form to redeem mankind from eternal flames by subjugating himself to brutal torture and death.

The next track, sung with equal devotion and enthusiasm, is about a dancing snowman in a magic hat.

It all mixes in the symbolism in there somewhere......

Apologeticsislying wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:31 am It all mixes in the symbolism in there somewhere......

No doubt you have written a 30-page scholarly exegesis of the Frosty myth, Kerry!

It also gets interesting when fictional settings have "Christmas specials," such as Star Wars or He-Man. The implications of the holiday existing in those universes are fun to consider.

Hagoth wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:56 amThe next track, sung with equal devotion and enthusiasm, is about a dancing snowman in a magic hat.

Yeah, it is a bit wacky, no? With my MORmON heritage, the snowman myth would work much better with a magic rock! (Or was Joseph's hat magic, and the rock was just a prop?)

But... No matter how you do Christmas, if you're not going into debt to get that one perfect gift to prove to your loved ones that you love them... Well, then you're not doing it right.

Reading this prompted me to put on a Pentatonix Christmas album.

Santa is a god that is more powerful than a dancing snowman or a man who makes designs out of ice. And there are a lot of movies doing their best to prove Santa exists.

Ghost wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:04 am It also gets interesting when fictional settings have "Christmas specials," such as Star Wars or He-Man. The implications of the holiday existing in those universes are fun to consider.

What? No, no, no. In the Star Wars universe they celebrate Life Day, which is totally different.

Don't know about the He-Man universe.

Reuben wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:59 am What? No, no, no. In the Star Wars universe they celebrate Life Day, which is totally different.

Good to know. I have never actually seen the Star Wars Holiday Special. In the case of He-Man, though, it was definitely Christmas.

Ghost wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:47 pm

Reuben wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:59 am What? No, no, no. In the Star Wars universe they celebrate Life Day, which is totally different.

Good to know. I have never actually seen the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Oh, please do.

Don't watch it alone, though.

In the case of He-Man, though, it was definitely Christmas.

That looks wonderfully stupid. I love it.

Well, in Eternia they say... that Skeletor's small heart grew three sizes that day...