Merry Christmas From The Archivis.

Alo Party Peoples.

It's the time of year that is both longed for and dreaded in equal measure. Holiday Season.

Longed for because goodwill to all, family time, gifts, snow, bonuses at work, Jesus, and various other reasons. Dreaded because of expensive gift shopping, horrible traffic, freezing temperatures,and driving long distances for akward interactions with relatives you barley know. It is also semi-dreaded by students, because it is rather hard to celebrate while studying for and taking semester finals.

My family is very deeply and faithfully Christain, I am skeptical as to why an omnipotent and benevolent god would allow cancer to exist. Sure, Christmas started as a pagan holiday celebrating a good harvest, but Christianity absorbed it to celebrate the birth of Jesus. 

Today while the religious side of Christmas certainly hasn't gone away, and probably won't for a while, it tends to be overshadowed by a secular celebration of capitalist excess with the same name. Then again, said secular holiday also overshadows everything else in December.

Both of these celebrations happen on December 24/25, and both are valid as holidays, at least in my opinion. Perhaps the secular one can be a celebration of families and good will towards all mankind.

Either way it results in much traffic.

Hats off to all, have a nice holiday, and a Happy New Year.

I leave you with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhDHtKpfP0o

Greg.B