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meta holiday
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Tumblr post by transgenderer: The Macy’s windows this year are “Macy’s windows themed” like they depict people looking at the original Macy’s windows from 100 years ago, in a little diorama inside the windows. I thought this was stupid at first but I decided it’s apt. Christmas has been about “Christmas” since at least before the Charlie brown Christmas special like 50 years ago. It’s an entirely meta holiday. You’re not celebrating anything but the idea of celebrating something. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Not religious myself.
Always found it interesting that it's commonly agreed on that Jesus (as a human) existed in history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
Some guys got trashed one night and ended up nailing another guy to a cross.
When they woke up in the morning and realised how fucked they were they came up with a story only the most insidiously vile hangover could produce on the fly. And now we have Christians...