Happy Solstice!

[Zombie]

I'm an atheist as well, but I still love Christmas and family and music and lights and presents and decorations. I don't have to believe in the "true meaning of Christmas" to enjoy it, and I still consider "O Holy Night" to be my favorite Christmas song (I'm complicated haha). Bring on all the secular holiday stuff!

But to each their own. If I had grown up without Christmas, I imagine I would feel differently. And considering how stressed and miserable this holiday makes so many people, it could use some toning down of expectations.

Another Christmas loving atheist here! I definitely prefer the more overtly religious Christmas songs to the classic secular ones. The original Latin version of Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel in particular gives me goosebumps.

 

[Gameface]

A bit late but all the same.

When I was a kid my parents made up a holiday, it was called "Kids Day" and it came after Mother's Day and Father's Day and I'm pretty sure it was on June 20th (right around Summer Solstice). I don't really know what motivated them to invent that holiday, but it was a nice little holiday with modest presents and a day when we got to do something that we liked after getting out of school for the summer.

 

[Rubashov]

Hippie pagan nonsense, right up there with magic crystals and women's rights...

 

[Gameface]

Hippie pagan nonsense, right up there with magic crystals and women's rights...

It marks an actual thing that happens to our planet. Completely non-supernatural. Or are you talking about "kid's Day" because yeah, that was some serious hippie ****.

 

[Rubashov]

It marks an actual thing that happens to our planet. Completely non-supernatural. Or are you talking about "kid's Day" because yeah, that was some serious hippie ****.

Bah fire eating nonsense, go roll in some body glitter and stop showering...

 

[Gameface]

Bah fire eating nonsense, go roll in some body glitter and stop showering...

Well I hope your enjoying your winter solstice.

 

[The Midnight]

Well I hope your enjoying your winter solstice.

Is that right now?

 

[Rubashov]

Is that right now?

Was yesterday

 

[The Midnight]

Was yesterday

Woohoo!! Does that mean it will get warmer now?

 

[Rubashov]

Woohoo!! Does that mean it will get warmer now?

Are you moon touched boy? Does it often get warmer in the middle of June? It will be ****ing cold until September as always.

 

[Gameface]

Woohoo!! Does that mean it will get warmer now?

Warmer? Maybe not. Days will start getting longer though. The longest "night" happened yesterday for you. So you can look forward to longer and longer days from here until around Dec. 21st, when the days will start to get shorter again.

Solstice is a beautiful holiday! It is a marker of hope and happiness. Each one, Winter and Summer, are times of joy for reasons that hove nothing to do with the arbitrary or mysterious.

 

[The Midnight]

Are you moon touched boy? Does it often get warmer in the middle of June? It will be ****ing cold until September as always.

Well warmer than yesterday, and the day before.