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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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[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?

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[shrugs] Dunno. But she was a virgin and a really good person, so it was a reward from God. Or so he said, I'm not so sure.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

I'll bet Mary had something else to say about it.

And how do you know there wasn't a *poof*? There could have been a *poof*.

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

How do you know I wasn't there? [smirk]

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

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

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

Earth has these religions that are monotheistic--means they only believe in one god. His name is God, or Allah.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Unless you're Catholic, in which case he's three-in-one, Father, Son (whose birthday this is) and Holy Spirit. Who should be a girl, but who would want that job?

[can_be_more]

Do the others have holidays for their birthdays?

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Zomg, they're all cylons! *flail*

Weird.

[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.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Just lip-sync, no one will know you're not.

But avoid the supermarkets, you'll get stuck with "Holly Jolly Christmas" or "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (most. depressing. emo. song. ever) in your head.

[can_be_more]

I will buy earplugs.

But to do that, I must go to the supermarket.

Damn.

[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?