…But Not Christmas Stories

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I really wish I could figure out this time puzzle. How does it work? If time really is speeding up, as many people perceive it, what or who controls it?

I imagine some fat controller turning a knob like on a stove – low, medium, high – and then our lives and the seasons seem to pass before our eyes in double time.

Once you figure it out, will you let me know, please? Actually, I’ve had a few glimpses into the time-space contraption. Here are those two stories here:

⌛️Forces, Time, & Déjà Vu

⌛️Revisiting Time, Forces, & Déjà Vu

Well, here we are, Christmas again…

…and I’ve been mulling over what to write to you. For me, it’s been a year of more introspection but also hustle. Maybe more hustle, actually.

I think about Christmas-time and what it means for people. Personally, I don’t care for the overly-hyped consumerism about it, but I like the family time, a cozy fireplace, and lights and decorations. Oh, and the food. Mmmm…

Did you know that there is a lot of Pagan symbolism in today’s Christmas tradition?

It makes me wonder: Is there anything real about Christmas underneath all of that, I mean in the spiritual/religious sense of Jesus, the son of God, being born? Or is this holiday really our modern form of Sun worship? (See David Icke’s book The Biggest Secret).

It may piss some people off to ask that question, but I do wonder. I’m not religious, nor am I a born-again Christian, although I was raised Anglican. As a teen and in my early 20s, I studied and dabbled in Wicca and I’d noticed the overlap of what I was reading about Wicca and Christianity. However, I then let much of that go as well; I took what knowledge was valuable and left the rest.

I do read the Bible, not religiously, though (ha – pun intended), and I’ve been told that the magic of it will be imprinted into you as you read it. That may be true, especially if it is a book of God, but if you approach it as if it is only parables and allegories (still very valuable, of course), as if the events in the stories never actually happened, will the magic still permeate? (I kinda think it will!)

Do you read the Bible?

I did a little bit as a child. My mother wanted me to but I found it hard to understand, and then there were Sunday School lessons, which eventually stopped for me. It was only in 2020 when I began to read it. How I came to read it is an interesting story, one I’m going to send to you sometime in the next couple of days.

For today, though, here are a few stories to get you through and lulls in your Christmas Day. The first is my own from 2020 entitled The Santa Lie, in which I share my experience of finding out that the whole world was in on a farce (kinda like the Covid scamdemic).

These others are in case you’re interested in learning more about some Christmas symbolism. I’m not trying to burst anyone’s bubble about what this day means to you – I’m just sharing some interesting perspectives. I respect your choice of how you spend this day, celebrating or otherwise.

A writer’s satirical perspective on how the Santa character is overlain onto God: Ho-Ho-Ho, I am God!

And here are a couple of Mr. E’s videos connecting the Bible with modern day culture, including Christmas:

🎅🏻 Happy Saturnalia

🎅🏻 Pagan Origins of the Christmas Tree

🎅🏻 Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday?

Have a great Christmas or hopefully at least some time off to kick back and relax with people you love.

Oh! And watch for my next blog post coming in the next little while on how I came to start reading the Bible.