holiday commercialism

[lobolance]

Queercents is an interesting finances-orientated blog. This entry made me think a bit:

http://www.queercents.com/2007/11/27/why-you-should-embrace-the-commercialism-of-the-holidays/#more-2241

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[nightqueen13.livejournal.com]

A little belated (I'm, in fact, terribly behind with my LJ, of late!), but I found that entry quite wise, and, yes, some food for thoughts...

I used to feel pretty much the same about Xmas, in my "in-between" period, when I had already rejected christianity, but I hadn't come home spiritually to paganism . As a matter of fact, I used to celebrate life and the winter season, i.e. Nature, when Xmas was around, the very same way Easter was to me a "resurrection of life" from winter, and so on. Which, come to think of it, made of me a "Pagan without Gods", since most of it (if not all) was already present within me, in the form of a generical sense of sacredness of Life and Nature, and of the need to celebrate and to value pleasure in life...

I also appreciate his calling attention to the fact that the niceness of Xmas is its benevolent, non-sacrificial spirit, and the overall wisdom and soundness of his approach to consumerism in general.

Good stuff!