Every year, I keep the traditions of Christmas, as a pagan, who knows it is Saturnalia, and Yule—because that’s what happens when the winter traditions are purportedly stolen by alleged Christians.
When my daughter was little, I meant to give her the manger story, while she learned the carol, which celebrates the birth of a child, and the love of animals, in the Friendly Beasts.
So, I asked her, do you know what Christmas is about, and she gave me such a better answer, at our beautiful farm, in the mountains, as she said,
GIVING!!!
That’s what I do, in the bitter cold, as warm fires, bright candles, and singing merriment—not to mention shared drink, food, and feasting—can only begin to serve as the symbols of our love.
Welcome to the crackling of my fire.
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Thank you, Timo, for sharing how your Christmas celebration is so deeply meaningful! I love the story about your daughter’s answer! And that Steeleye Span song is so very powerful!
I will be in touch after a brief trip to visit friends in my old stomping ground!
Your friend,
Shari.
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Dearest Shari–
I hope to hear you sing it!
And so people can know what I mean, not to mention who you are, here for the world is Shari’s song, with her husband, “Rocket Me.”
Yay!!!
Timo
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Haha, thatâs hilarious! Not my style at all, so it would be laughable hearing me butcher the song!
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Please, allow me to disagree
I grew up listening to this lie and there was always the thought something was wrong, and here it is…
Christians followed Julian calendar, which means Christmas is in January 7th
And it has always been until the second half of the 16th century when the Gregorian calendar was instituted in the western world
Instituted by the iniquous man according to the prophecy of Daniel
Gregorian calendar was only accepted throughout the west as a whole in the 18th century because Protestants refused it and took longer to accept.
It seems like part of a game luciferians play, once nations who claimed to have protestant leadership ended up accepting it and the people had to swallow the scam and the British government was the last one to accept (or to prerend they refused)
Anyway Hyppolitus of Rome calculated the birth of Christ in the 3rd century and since then it has been accepted as December 25th of the Julian calendar
Some pagan traditions of winter solstice only came to happen after Hyppolitus died, so anyway there was no stealth
More and more I believe in Jesus and how He bravely fought against the Babylonian Luciferian scum system that seeks to enslave us everyday, and how the trick played by Rome with its “churches” of the West and East deceived people because unfortunately…. people are lazy to fight, to refuse and to resist.
Protestant churches end up being influenced by Rome unfortunately, too
Since Council Vatican 2, Christian churches have become loose and with lame slow pop music
But some of them are reminiscent and still better than nothing
“Christianity” sucks but Jesus’s message is interesting
By the way, Rome still keeps Augustus’s census of the year Jesus was born, it is there.
One thing we know: there is something uncommon about him
Otherwise the world capital of 0rgy wouldn’t rush to accomplish the built of an empire in “his name” in a few centuries, media and Babilonian church today wouldn’t insist in depicting him as a long haired italian unicorn and the apostasy we’re going throughn which is far from atheism or communism, but it is relativism about everything, wouldn’t be so widespread like predicted
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Actually, the Russians were the last to hold out on the Gregorian Calendar, so some of them still celebrate Christmas under the Julian Calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Russia
I wrote an article about their calendar shift under the Soviets, which is at least partly unacknowledged by the Russian Orthodox Church.
There are communities in the Appalachian Mountains, in America, where people still refuse to accept the calendar shift.
https://wvpublic.org/story/radio/january-6-old-christmas-celebrated-across-west-virginia-appalachia/
Here’s a fiddle tune that goes with “Old Christmas.”
Otherwise, however, I understand that most scholars believe the historical Jesus was born in the Spring, partly because there were “shepherds abiding in the fields,” which is not a winter activity.
https://www.jewsforjesus.org.au/articles/when-jesus-was-really-born
December 25 is the feast day of Mithras, who got conflated with Jesus, while the Romans messed up the calculation of the Winter Solstice by four days.
Mithras is only one of the mystery cults conflated with Christianity, which, as you say, has nothing to do with the historical Jesus.
Otherwise, I would agree with you that the historical Jesus was a revolutionary leader who took on the banks, the temple, and the government, so he was tortured, gang-raped, and murdered with tens of thousands of his followers by Roman scum, who included the Jewish Roman, Saul of Tarsus, who rebranded himself as St. Paul, “because of the voices,” as he took over the movement and changed its message by writing most of the New Testament.
https://www.heavenonwheels.org/p/a-study-of-acts-paul-describes-his
This was only part of the Jewish-Roman Wars, which killed one million people, while Paul told his followers to love their enemies, that he was proud to be a Roman citizen, and to believe in jibberish (“Faith”), while Peter, who is disparaged in the later-written Gospels, after he was given authority to teach by Jesus (whom Paul never actually met), says that Faith doesn’t matter because it’s not about what you believe but what you do (“Works”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish–Roman_wars
Jesus was simply like a Judas Macabeus who got caught, so it’s easy to see why the Books of Maccabees at the end of the Old Testament are apocryphal–i.e. they don’t show up in many people’s bibles because “the church” doesn’t want people to think about this stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabees
The religion of Christianity, if you ask me, is all about destroying the real political movement that was led by Jesus, while even the Christians would say that their big holiday is Easter not the repackaged Yule, Saturnalia, and Rites of Mithras that they stole from other peoples and relabeled as Christmas.
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Thank you I’m going to read the first article (I had already read but I forgot, it’s good to read again and a 3rd time)
By the way, there was destruction of Nabathean civilization in the Arabian Peninsula by a series of earthquakes
Before it took place the noble families left and went to the Roman empire to marry noble Romans
Then a prophet arises reciting the destruction of that civilization as some wrath of God…
Curiously this prophet is jn a tomb in Medina but no one can open up the tomb and do scientific and genetic tests and no one can even see inside by any means but the people from this religion believe the body of that prophet is intact until the last day
More curious is the fact that another thing links this “prophet” that may have never existed to Rome: his people invaded, destroyed and colonized the groups of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa we were not submitted to Rome, and more because they didn’t want to submit their faith than because of politics or finances
It is really curious how this prophet’s religion spread exactly to places where being Christian meant bein autonomous, while with all their might and power they never invaded Rome… only advanced to Southern Spain to found there a k4bb4l1st1c culture called And4luz
I pray for what you wrote: GIVING
Latins can be stingy especially for being covetous
Yesterday I told a homeless I couldn’t buy oil for him at the supermarket (he asked me at the entrance), but I had money left even after buying pistacchio cake together with the shop I did…
It is still hurting me
Avarice is indeed sick and in case we won’t be missing anything why not help people who want food and clothes? They’re not asking for kay nine
I’m feeling miserable for having gone straight to my appetites with the kids and ignoring the homeless man. It could have been me in his place
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Don’t let the enemy make you feel bad: Christmas is not about feeling guilty, and I give only to the extent it is appropriate and because it makes me feel good to do so.
You need to put your children first, and there’s nothing wrong with putting yourself first.
“But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.” (Mark 7:27).
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us.” (Matthew 25-1-9)
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” (Matthew 7:6)
“There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.” (Matthew 26:11)
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Your argument is very sound
Indeed historical Jesus has been hacked right in the New Testament (!!!)
Even John Evangelist affirms this point like you say. He says many ‘antichrists’ have come from them but don’t remain in them because they don’t know the Father and the Son
But about his birth, in Bethelehem the average maximum temperature in January (Julian December) is between 12-15C (56-59F?)
It is not a snowy winter every yera like many people may think
So it’s not something uncommon to see cattle outside
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I like your point about the temperature of Bethlehem in January.
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