"Strategizing."
This turns a noun and turns it into a verb.
Not that i'm a grammar nerd--too many things to point to--but please leave a noun a noun instead of obfuscating English to sound educated and well-spoken but instead bastarding a fine language.
Happy almost Halloween. When do Christmas lights come into play?
Showing posts with label Christmas Traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Traditions. Show all posts
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Friday, December 4, 2015
My Nieces and Me
Helen on the left--grad assistant at UT, Austin--and Mary on right, senior at THE University of Florida. Suffice it too say consider them my pride and joy and a reason to keep on living.
They and the sister who still talks to me showed kindness by visiting me at Island Hell where I exist in a state of purgtory, not quite confined but unable to propel myself up the inclined driveway to escape to nearby bar.
Dang, feel some spiritous liquids in my near future but shhhh, don't tell anyone. If God made liquor to swurvive family holidays, maybe He does show some empathy (Sorry for patriarchal phrasing).
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Origins of Christmas Traditions
Plus a torch song. Gosh, I love old black and white movies. The song 'Spring Will Come a Little Late this Year" comes from the movie Christmas Holiday, sung by Deanna Durbin.
[C. In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.
D. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.
E. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.]
http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2012/12/21/the-xmas-factor/
[C. In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.
D. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.
E. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.]
http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2012/12/21/the-xmas-factor/
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