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[can_be_more]

Explain this holiday to me now, please. You know the one. The one with snow and trees and overweight men in bad suits with worse facial hair. I'm new! I don't know these things!

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

It's called Crispmass. It involves this pregnant lady named Mary, who's obviously more important than her husband Joe, who didn't even father the baby, apparently. Not that that makes Mary a whore or anything. Supposedly the father was...

Immaculate. Funny name, yeah. And there's a drummer and sheep involved.

That's what I know.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Immaculate means clean, which means there was no sex to make the baby.

Seriously.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Oh, so, it's one of those In Vitro thingies? Like, Artificial Insegimination?

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

No, this happened before that was invented. Just, poof, baby. No sex.

Well, okay, poof, nine months, then baby.

I don't know if there was sex after that or not.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

A baby was made by "poof"?

I swear, this is weirder than the Naked Puritan People.

[can_be_more]

Naked Puritan People?

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

The ones at the first Thanksgivaling.

Not to be confused with the Naked Crichton People, who skip around tables.

*nod*

[can_be_more]

...

He skipped? Naked?

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

A divine messenger from God came down and said to Mary that she was going to have a baby, and that it was the son of God, Ms Cally. No poof.

[can_be_more]

...

That can't really happen, right?

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Erm... which god? *scratches her head, confused-like*

[can_be_more]

...

*boggles*

Humans are weird.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*thinks about it*

Yeah.

Why no sex would be so much cleaner, I'm not clear on. Something about Original Sin.

Wait. Maybe that was Mary?

[can_be_more]

My head hurts. You people have too many holidays. Or too much time on your hands, maybe.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Or too many slaves to the Marketing Franchise and the Merchandising Sector. IT's all about the present-buying, really.

Get used to the songs, they'll keep going until you want to commit homicide.

[can_be_more]

Now people keep bringing up songs. They'e replaced the sheep. I'm not singing.

[romanywitch]

I'm having a teacher moment. Which, since I'm a teacher, works.

The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary being conceived without sin. So that she could give birth to Jesus, who was quite possibly poofed into existence. Because the only way that Jesus could be born without sin was for him to be born to a mother without sin.

Let's not get on the whole Original Sin concept. Okay? Christian theology? Not really my cup of tea here.

Hey, I'm a technopagan. I'm not a part of this whole Christmas bandwagon. Except for the sales. Do you know what kind of computer equipment you can pick up cheap the day after Thanksgiving?

[can_be_more]

All right, I knew about the sheep. Everyone mentions the sheep. Do you eat them like the chipmunks?

Wait, did you say Mary was impregnated by a drummer?

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

I don't know! This whole Crispmass thing is totally dumb!

[can_be_more]

I agree!

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

PResents! Candy canes! lights! No school!

Christmas rocks.

Except for the music. That mostly blows.

[can_be_more]

No school?

I like this holiday now.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

And, lights! People compete to see who can get the biggest electric bill, by putting up zillions and zillions of sparkly lights, enough to light up a runway, possibly so Santa Claus can land on their roofs. Possibly just because we're all about the shiiiinny!

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

WTF.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

My reaction exactly.