Got to love Christmas

[Nathan LaChine]

Brothers,

You know you got to love Christmas. People seem to really care about one another. They start seeing the homeless and abused children. They finally hear the please of a child wanting a warm meal and a place to sleep. They finally think of the children selling themself for food. But hey I am a good guy on Christmas I give 20 bucks to the homeless shelter. Ahh don't worrie these children are only in need during the holiday season. God how I hate the holidays. Do people really think they make any differnce by giving or helping one day a year?

Should we be pissed at the people that only give once a year. Or the people who only care about others during the holiday season? Ahhh how true it is our society sucks. We are lucky if people care about one another once a year. Do people only give once a year because they cannot face the truth about this world?

lots of love, Nathan

 

[Joey G.]

Nathan, I agree with you totally. People treat each other like dirt all year. Then they go out and spend money they don;t have on things other people have no use for. And that is supposed to annul all the abuse.
They do it to ease their consciences. I have always hated all holidays. I do not celebrate them. I believe in being nice to everyone, every day.

 

[theo]

nathan,
we have lost sight of what the holidays were meant to represent in our society. unfortunately, they have all become far too commercialized. i don't believe in any great conspiracy of the media or the advertising people, i do believe in the laziness of many people though. the holidays, in their original context were times of celebration and recognition of either the passing seasons and what was accomplished, or it was a series of sacred re-enactments of key religious concepts designed to keep alive the mystery of the individual faith communities. the holidays in our times are the only tangible link many people have to the greater mystery of what links all of us and is for this reason the only time of the year that a lot of folks break out of their emotional and spiritual apathy to give. the holdays have become great commercial events, but there still exists some small measure of the original meaning in those starving hearts. for my small part, i try to keep alive the true meanings of the holidays all year long and tell the stories when the subject comes up.

 

[The Dean]

Hey Nathan, glad you had some time to drop by.

The reasons you feel down and angry about all of this is because you are a man who has a caring heart.

We live in a time when people do not have much of a spiritualoity, as Theo was indicating. So, if we are not in touch with the spiritual side of ourselves (not the Religious side) we get confused at best.

Lots os people try to do their best all year long. Some people make bigger sacrifices at holiday times because they are grateful for what little they might have.

None of us needs money to be a loving caring person. We just need to respect others, be concerned about how we treat others, and sometimes, we have to remind others how they should treat us. Money can sometimes get in the way of that.

There are lots of good people around. Don't let the grumpy ones blur your vision.

Peace be with you Nathan!

Bob

 

[MrDon]

What really gets me is when I see the homeless soup kitchens understaffed and underfunded all year until Thanksgiving or Christmas. Ok, it is good that at least the donations do come in both in time and money, but it is very shallow of people as well.

For me, I normally don't donate to these things, but I have other things that I donate to on a routine basis. I've got a child through Children International that I have supported since 94 and is so dear to my heart. Now with massage, I donate my time each week to do chair massages to parents of the kids at the Children's hospital.

I do realize that I can't help everyone, but I have tried to pick a couple of things and that is where I focus my time and money (what little I have). I think that is the more important part is to find something, and help out however you can. If more people in the world did this, we would be so much better off.

Don

 

[Lloydy]

To give all year round is good, but just once a year is better than none at all.

So many charities are starved of funds that we have to be a bit hard and brazen about how we get funds, so if appealing to someones "Christmas spirit" raises a buck, then I'll put my hand out and take it.

Dave

 

[Leosha]

It is not same thing, and I do not mean to be disrespect of anyone by saying this. But it is similar to me of people who take going to church as 'salvation' of themself for that week. Like, it does not matter how bad you are for six days, if you steal or beat your wife or children or murder people, if you go to church that one day, you are sin-free, that make you good person. So, I suppose is same, of people who 'redeem' themself at Christmas. I suppose it is something that at least they do it then. Some people do not even do that.

leosha