It's No Secret, The Christians Guide to God's Law of Attraction

Yup, we get together with family to air our greivences, cook like there is a food glut, eat like we are starving, and watch millionaires shorten their lifespans on the field of battle.

But...I don't live in a fantasy world of nostalgia around sectarian or religious holydays.
 
I'm not amarican so I'm asking, it's being portraid(what's with this word, how is it suppose to be spelt?) through movies and tv as a holiday of family and friends.

Is that tradition any different from any other tradition? I don't celebrate Christmas because of Jesus, and I don't celebrate it because of capitalism. I hang out with my sister and my mother and then I go to my girls family.

I'm unsure what your objections to Thanksgiving is, I have a few ideas but I don't want to go on a rant when you aren't going to be impressed my insightfullness (come on, that's a word!)
 
"Portrayed". My objection is that from the beginning is was (and is) one big lie! It is portrayed as something celebrating the Pokanoket's help to the Pilgrims (the first being big hearted Indigenous Americans, the second Puritans fleeing Religious Tyranny).

Download the “Thanksgiving” episode of season four of “Northern Exposure” (we actually did that in New Mexico).
 
Inciteful is a word...that often represents me...

I got no problem with getting together with family...I don't need a holiday, guilt, false expectations, or mythology to do it though...
 
I live a life without need for society to tell me to get together with family and friends...nor a day to worry about gifting...

I buy things when I want them, for who I want them... I play card games with friends one night a week, board games another night, go out dancing once or twice a week, juggle, poi, party with other groups and see my kids, my immediate family and extended family on a regular basis.

Traditions and trying to juggle who is going to see who around holidays...I'd actually prefer to be alone or with a few miles away from the rest so we don't have to find the way to split time between families...
 
Here in China, Thanksgiving is unheard of, and Christmas is not much more than listening to Christmas carols in Starbucks. My local Starbucks doesn't even have a Christmas tree. No Rudolph TV specials, no Christmas commercials on TV, and certainly no Christmas TV commercials before Halloween, as is now the case in the US! I quite prefer things this way. I am free to make these holidays into what I want (or not want, as the case may be).
 
Pig-headed, honest, perhaps. Did you at least go to the websites I posted? I doubt it because the documentation is there to show I am not crazy. Besides, my Mother had me tested as a boy and the doctors said no.
 
No I didn't, you and wil are talking about something else then what I'm talking about, just like the guilt thread. But I'm a bit tired of arguing, I think I'll attempt to retreat from here a while. We'll see how it goes, see you on the other side either way.

PS. Perhaps she should have taken you to the specialist!
 
Nick the Pilot said:
Here in China, Thanksgiving is unheard of, and Christmas is not much more than listening to Christmas carols in Starbucks. My local Starbucks doesn't even have a Christmas tree. No Rudolph TV specials, no Christmas commercials on TV, and certainly no Christmas TV commercials before Halloween, as is now the case in the US! I quite prefer things this way. I am free to make these holidays into what I want (or not want, as the case may be).
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That is what I am talking about....not beng dictated to by the collective as to how to act, what to do when, dance to your own drummer.

I am in my fifties, and I've yet to be at a holiday gathering where the cooks don't say after a compliment on the food something akin to... "It appears a bit dry this year, I didn't get it quite right, not like ............." or "Yeah but the bens are a little salty"

What happenned to gratitude so quickly....what happenned to giving thanx for the compliment and moving on??

It is a day of missed expectations and family greivances for so many... I've been in numerous family gatherings on various holidays (not just my family) Christmas, Diwali, Ramadan, Thanksgiving, July 4th, Chanakah, Passover... I prefer to go where we pick our friends and travelors...

It ain't all bad...I am on the beach right now, with my kids, sister, neices, mom...just watched the sunrise over the ocean, rented a beach house for the week....I am enjoying the moments...the family...dispite some overpowering need of following tradition and overcooking...and now a fridge full of leftovers to be put in coolers and hauled home.

For me...a week in the woods away from the hustle and bustle would have sufficed.
 
Ah, the simple joys of spending time with relatives that we miss throughout the year...

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A Cup Of Tea said:
No I didn't, you and wil are talking about something else then what I'm talking about, just like the guilt thread. But I'm a bit tired of arguing, I think I'll attempt to retreat from here a while. We'll see how it goes, see you on the other side either way.

PS. Perhaps she should have taken you to the specialist!
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Were you not talking about our "Holiday" called Thanksgiving?

It was a joke... do you get "Big Bang Theory" a real popular TV show here.
 
"....what happenned to giving thanx for the compliment and moving on??"

--> It is one thing to be rude. But some people are unexplainably embarrassed by compliments, and other people are unexplainably embarrassed by suddenly being the center of attention. I think these causes are more common than being rude. For people who are too shy or too uncomfortable being in the center of attention, we need to show more compassion and understanding.
 
radarmark said:
It was a joke... do you get "Big Bang Theory" a real popular TV show here.
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Yes but this
Leonard: Sheldon, you’re talking like a crazy person.

Mrs Cooper: Actually, I had him tested as a child. Doctor says he’s fine.

Sheldon: Told you.

Mrs Cooper: Although, I do regret not following up with that specialist in Houston.
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