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I'm going to give my laptop a short break. Don't want it to overheat, after all. See you later, all. Gonna work on my paper, so I probably won't be back on in the near future.

Toodles, Erv.

Merci, Sanzo. Here goes:

I was having a PM conversation with a friend, who asked why I don't celebrate most holidays, and I had to really think before I answered, because I'd never tried to express it before.
I personally don't recognize Easter, Christmas, Lent, Passover, Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Chanukka, Kwaanza, Ramadan, et cetera because I'm not religious (and it seems to me like nothing will guarantee a trip to hell quite like taking part in a commercialized holiday if the foundings beliefs for said celebration are not your own.)
I don't recognize Saint Valentine's or Saint Patrick's Day because there are a depressing number of saints who don't get holidays, and because most people who claim to be Irish are actually NOT, and since I may be partially, that bugs me. I also would like to point out that being Scottish, English, or Welsh is not the same thing. Just in case.
And the other holidays are for people that are supposedly special, but most of those people are men who never did anything other than kill people or b***h about the state of affairs until other people were either too scared to put up a fight, or too sick of them to let things go on. And I can do things that those men could not, but I don't get a day dedicated to chastising people who ******** off in retail stores and bother the clerks, so I don't see why they have holidays and I don't. And those skills that I mentioned are not exclusive to birthing and rearing children. I can do other stuff, too.
In short, I'm really too bitter to celebrate most holidays because they're usually hollow celebrations that don't actually mean anything because they've been removed so far from their original context that they can't possibly retain their meaning.

Discuss:
-Holidays you celebrate; why
-Holidays you don't; why
-Traditions that you practice; why
-Traditions you find strange; why
-Your own personal holiday (birthday)
-A holiday you invented
-A holiday you don't get

phew very good topic, should get some very interesting responses 3nodding

@Tsuji well I can't control what you think, so you can think it all you want 3nodding

*huggles Steph* thou are welcome!

:hugglesaurus rex:
I'll post it before I go to bed...

This movie needs sex...

.... Okay then, Tsuji.

Hay Lantie.