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How do you deal with Christmas?

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Re: How do you deal with Christmas?

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I went to watch my son sing his preschool Christmas songs. I do love the music and cameraderie in church. Sometimes the perfume is a bit much, though.

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Here, apart from the obvious religious holidays, every meeting or event starts wuth a prayer and the pretend washing of the face, and the chanting of amin, and so on. The Muslim elders are very kind, and tell me to pray in my own way. They would be shocked to know I don't pray, so I just copy them. Its a small price to pay
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When people pray, I always like to look up; it's so much nicer. And I can't get caught because everyone else has head down, eyes closed. Since the reason everybody looks down is that Jesus reportedly said to pray that way, I can imagine him telling his followers to look up to the sky instead. It makes as much sense.

I wish I could go to church on occasion, since my wife belongs. But the last time I went, I left actually feeling worse. I couldn't say anything, sing anything, and this made me feel as though I were protesting or something and being disrespectful of the other people there. It has never made much sense to me, either, to go to church only on Christmas and Easter, as some otherwise non-relig people do. Those are the high holy days when the doubters should stay away, it seems to me.
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Bowing the head is an act of submission. With regards to praying the person praying is expressing their submission to the deity.
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:D How to deal with Christmas. That is a difficult one to answer, but here it goes. It only comes around once a year and you get to be with family unless you really cannot stand them then that is another story. But really this only comes one time a year to celebrate with family and friends. I don't know what your family does for the holiday, but you love them right? :)
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reminds me of that old Stephen Fry story where the mormon is telling him that "when we die we are reunited with all our departed family members and get to be with them forever and ever...." to which Fry responds "yes, but what happens if we were good?"

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i'm just off for a chrissy lunch with family, let's see how it goes, it's usually fine to awesome.
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