We only do Easter out of family tradition. I don't think any of us are really Christians anymore, and I never even tried to sell the Easter Bunny to my son as a real entity.
The secular drift of holidays is an interesting riddle for proselytizers. It's the kind of cultural dominance you can't buy and a visible watering-down of their relevance at once. I can almost see why the "Christ-in-Christmas" types are always halfway through a panic attack. Almost.
I don't recognize any of these books, but I voted anyway because of democracy.
I haven't celebrated Easter since becoming an adult, I do like the candy, tho. I also don't have any attachments to the 4th of July. If I get invited to a thing that day, great. If I don't, I don't. Either way the fireworks go on too long and I hate that.
"After all the Ivy League headspins, I’ve only retained moral flexibility." was my favorite sentence in this post. Since 1972 me and husband have been vegetarians (who eat dairy and eggs, but nothing else), but I have excused myself from becoming vegan with things like health issues, and has bought leather shoes - albeit infrequently-with no excuse at all except inconvenience and a feeble..."but leather lasts forever but synthetic alternatives not good for the environment???" Oh, and I also make peace with feeding my pets food with meat based ingredients because I morally don't want to impose my values on others. Needless to day, Thanksgiving is not a big holiday for us (main form of celebration was to promise our daughter we wouldn't work...how pathetic was that) but we got tired of making everyone else feel guilty (or having to eat the odd vegetable based casseroles hosts felt they had make, as if we wouldn't be perfectly happy to eat nothing but pumpkin pie). Anyway, thanks for post which prompted these thoughts.
Thank you! Those joke wins make the newsletter treadmill much lighter.
And yeah, keeping yourself and/or dependent animals in one piece comes first. Congrats on fifty years of reduced dissonance living, I'm dipping my toes in the water, we'll see how it goes.
I can relate to family requests to stop typing. Though I have a mechanical keyboard, so they might just want fewer tap-dancing sounds.
I'd gladly skip Halloween. But I chose to spawn. So ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My husband and I don't do Valentine's Day either. It's an affront to year-round romantics and those of us who have worked in the floral industry and know what a paycheck burning racket it is. Save your money. Massage a foot. 🥂
Don’t leave the vegans out! Folks will need Impossible People or Beyond People or something so that they can use it to try and trick us into showing up at the events that we are trying to avoid by being vegans.
We only do Easter out of family tradition. I don't think any of us are really Christians anymore, and I never even tried to sell the Easter Bunny to my son as a real entity.
The secular drift of holidays is an interesting riddle for proselytizers. It's the kind of cultural dominance you can't buy and a visible watering-down of their relevance at once. I can almost see why the "Christ-in-Christmas" types are always halfway through a panic attack. Almost.
I don't recognize any of these books, but I voted anyway because of democracy.
I haven't celebrated Easter since becoming an adult, I do like the candy, tho. I also don't have any attachments to the 4th of July. If I get invited to a thing that day, great. If I don't, I don't. Either way the fireworks go on too long and I hate that.
Fireworks definitely feel like an action movie with two hours of setup. I'm here to watch stuntmen flip a Corvette. Flip the car.
"After all the Ivy League headspins, I’ve only retained moral flexibility." was my favorite sentence in this post. Since 1972 me and husband have been vegetarians (who eat dairy and eggs, but nothing else), but I have excused myself from becoming vegan with things like health issues, and has bought leather shoes - albeit infrequently-with no excuse at all except inconvenience and a feeble..."but leather lasts forever but synthetic alternatives not good for the environment???" Oh, and I also make peace with feeding my pets food with meat based ingredients because I morally don't want to impose my values on others. Needless to day, Thanksgiving is not a big holiday for us (main form of celebration was to promise our daughter we wouldn't work...how pathetic was that) but we got tired of making everyone else feel guilty (or having to eat the odd vegetable based casseroles hosts felt they had make, as if we wouldn't be perfectly happy to eat nothing but pumpkin pie). Anyway, thanks for post which prompted these thoughts.
Thank you! Those joke wins make the newsletter treadmill much lighter.
And yeah, keeping yourself and/or dependent animals in one piece comes first. Congrats on fifty years of reduced dissonance living, I'm dipping my toes in the water, we'll see how it goes.
I can relate to family requests to stop typing. Though I have a mechanical keyboard, so they might just want fewer tap-dancing sounds.
I'd gladly skip Halloween. But I chose to spawn. So ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My husband and I don't do Valentine's Day either. It's an affront to year-round romantics and those of us who have worked in the floral industry and know what a paycheck burning racket it is. Save your money. Massage a foot. 🥂
The flower hustle deserves a full-length crime drama parody. Those margins are borderline supernatural. Or perhaps supernatural.
Don’t leave the vegans out! Folks will need Impossible People or Beyond People or something so that they can use it to try and trick us into showing up at the events that we are trying to avoid by being vegans.
Oh man, I forgot the entire diet industry axis. "Which body parts are keto? Focus on these limbs to get that beach body."