Something about St. Nicholas - a real guy. There's a relevant history behind it (and might even be one for the Easter Bunny and Pink Thursday too), but it escapes me now. ~_~Yea but what does Santa Claus have to do with Christmas?
Something about St. Nicholas - a real guy. There's a relevant history behind it (and might even be one for the Easter Bunny and Pink Thursday too), but it escapes me now. ~_~Yea but what does Santa Claus have to do with Christmas?
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
And I thought holidays are just some sort of excuse to spoil ourselves.
Yea but what did he have to do with the birth of Christ?Originally posted by: XanBcoo
Something about St. Nicholas - a real guy. There's a relevant history behind it (and might even be one for the Easter Bunny and Pink Thursday too), but it escapes me now. ~_~Yea but what does Santa Claus have to do with Christmas?
The birth of who?
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
That guy who claimed to be the son of someone named God.
where are the pumpkins?
No one makes pumpkins exept woofcat so this thread was deemed a failure from the start.
he might be into Halloween too much
Probably. Either that or he got too much time on his hands, if it was me i would use that time to sleep.
Easter and christmas were initially the dates of big pagan celebration days, that is why they have alot of wierd customs that don't have anything to do with christianity. This is because when the emperor Constantine made the roman empire christian he incorporated alot of pagan stuff. My guess is that the bunnies have something to do with fertility and such. Santa Clause was created by the Coca Cola company as a mascot, but I think it was based on some russian guy who gave presents to poor children.
I'm going with el_boss' explanation. I've heard a lot of that before - like the Coca Cola thing. Apparently that's why Santa wears red...
Edit: found some interesting info:
The chocolate egg thing comes from the idea of German Protestants going against the Catholic practice of fasting during Lent.In ancient times the rabbit was a symbol of fertility, equated with springtime and renewal of life, and the hare was also associated with the moon, whose cycles determine the precise date of Easter each year. Over time these traditions presumably merged with the annual celebration of Easter itself, and now the Bunny is associated with Easter in much the same way that Santa Claus is the secular symbol of Christmas.
Anyways, back to Halloween and Pumpkins! Wait...it's over...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
While we're on the topic of stupid halloween sotries.....like 3 years back, my friend and i decided to go trick or treating. Now you have to undertand, we were like 18 at the time, and it was just spur of the moment. He just called me up, asked my what i was doing, and suggested we go get some free candy. Being the lazy fucks we are (and also it was like 5pm), we just went to the mall, to a fabric store, and got a piece of black cloth for like 2 dollars. we cut it diagonally and wore it like a mask. that was our entire costume.
we got several comments like 'aren't you guys a little old for this' and 'what are you two supposed to be'. We kept telling people we were either bandits or terrorists, and that you wre never too old for halloween, at which point there would be several seconds of akward silence. After that, people would just give us the candy so we would go away. We also debated threatining little kids to give us thier candy, but decided we didn't want any angry parents, or neighbours yelling at us.
all in all, it was a good nite, and i ended up with more candy then my little sister.
lol terra thats fucking awesome, i live in the states but no one comes here i live like 2 miles out of townOriginally posted by: Terracosmo
Once when a kid went trick or treating to my house, I opened the door and yelled "FUCKING TRICK!" and closed it. No kids have come here on halloween since.
I'm official.
My gourd (not a pumpkin) won the school pumpkin decorating contest. You can see why...
lols a gourd...somewhat looks like a pumpkin
lol BOC, that's awesome. I guess woofcat isn't the only member talented at decorating vegetables.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
there actually is relevant history to st. nick-- i think he was a guy back in the day who went out of his way to help poor children living in the streets who didn't have parents by providing basic needs for them. after he died and got eventually canonized, that whole christmas tradition of selfless giving emerged partly to imitate that goodness. which, centuries later, evolved into a mindless movement of mass-consumerism that is christmas today =POriginally posted by: XanBcoo
Something about St. Nicholas - a real guy. There's a relevant history behind it (and might even be one for the Easter Bunny and Pink Thursday too), but it escapes me now. ~_~Yea but what does Santa Claus have to do with Christmas?
That's all well and good, and thanks a lot for the info, but PSJ is right. It has nothing to do with Jesus' birth. That was my point earlier on about the Easter Bunny. I guess a lot of secular traditions and practices are just integrated with Catholic historical events for some reason, but still don't completely relate to them.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
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