Unpopular opinion - I don't get the christmas hype

[Hello1]

I don't celebrate christmas, like at all. And I don't even get it what it means if someone wishes me Merry Christmas. It is very strange to me. I don't even get what might be enjoyable about it, it only seems like a bunch of to-do tasks. Do more people like this exist?

When someone says Mery Christmas to me, and I reply that I don't celebrate that, they often get offended or sometimes sorry for me. 

I used to though when I was a child. I guess I was brainwashed but since then I don't get it, and what surprises me the most is lack of such people.

Edited 8 hours ago by Hello1

[Salvijus]

Do you say happy new year? 

[Joseph Maynor]

It's a Love thing.  A chance to connect.  But it's also cultural.  Every culture has such a mechanism.  

[Hello1]

@Salvijus actually not, when I think about it

[Salvijus]

45 minutes ago, Hello1 said:

@Salvijus actually not, when I think about it

Do you celebrate anything at all? If you say no, then I will also begin feeling sorry for you, lol. 

Besides Joseph put it really well, it gives people an opportunity to come together and bond. It's beautiful. There's great power in doing something collectively rather than individually. If the whole world was to come together and hold hands at least for 1min, that one minute would be the single most profound and transformational thing that has happened in human history. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Salvijus

[Hello1]

@Salvijus what I wrote doesn't apply for new year wishes, it was only about Christmas. Wondering if there are more people like that. So I won't go into whether I celebrate anything else to keep it not confusing

[Salvijus]

40 minutes ago, Hello1 said:

@Salvijus what I wrote doesn't apply for new year wishes, it was only about Christmas. Wondering if there are more people like that. So I won't go into whether I celebrate anything else to keep it not confusing

Well I'm glad then there's at least something that you celebrate in life. Good for you. 

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Wondering if there are more people like that.

Yes, the Grinch. 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Salvijus

[Daniel Balan]

@Hello1 I am also like that! I never celebrate Christmas, or Easter or anything related to Christianity. I abhor Christianity. I don't care about what other people do or about their rituals. I like to celebrate my birthday as a way to thank the earth for allowing me to have lived another year.

I also celebrate my girlfriend's birthday as a sign of respect and care for her, I bring her flowers and gifts and a big birthday cake.

I also celebrate Halloween for 2 reasons, one is that this pisses all my Christian neighbours, I am the only atheist in my village, and I love to hear their lamentations and hate towards me for being different, and the second reason is because I like to say a thank you to the earth for allowing me to grow food in my garden, it is like a Thanksgiving for me the Halloween holiday, and because I love pumpkins. 

 

But Christmas or Easter I don't celebrate because these holidays are just motives to extract as much money from me as possible. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Daniel Balan

[Hello1]

@Daniel Balan  nice, thanks for reply, interesting. It's a bit different than me, I don't have a specific reason, I'm just indifferent