[Dottie]

I think a lot of things have been increasingly commercialized over the years, which is in many cases very dangerous. However, holidays is one of the least important items imo.

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Originally Posted by ik911 However, a number of questions rise: - do you intend to spend more than last year or the same? (or less than last year... yeah, right, keep fooling yourself.) - how much do you spend on Christmas? - do you agree with the pope? and the question that I find most interesting concerning the article: - should Christmas, the feast of light, be a sober celebration or a good once-per-year excuse for feasting and big spending?

I will spend as last year, which is zero. If I want to give a gift to someone I don't wait for christmas.

I have no reason to have opinions on how people should celebrate christmas. If someone wants to buy expensive things for their friends and family then fine, if someone wants to drink themselves into a stupor or spend the christmas meditating over the horrors of the world, then that's fine as well.

I dislike the attempt to try to force people to behave in a certain way, when the behaviour in question is not functional, regardless of whether it is the pope or big business who's behind it.

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Cute avatar change Ik.