Yes I’m late with my “insightful” thoughts. But I really wanted to get the first chapter of the back to basics guide posted on the blog.

My thoughts this week go to the “money-making scam” that is called Christmas… oh boy I’m going to get hatemail for this.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate Christmas, I participate and buy gifts for the family, yet I recognize what it is.

Christmas is actually the feast of white. It is a “pagan” tradition of my ancestors, the Kelts and later the “Germanen”. The birth of Christmas was in the Beginning of December not at the end. Now the Church and all its power couldn’t shun out this tradition so they merged the two together, which eventually worked, and we all forgot about the original feast. (look at easter and halloween too and the real meaning of those, and not the choclate, and treats you get now fe.)

I love the feasts, since it’s an excuse to spend time with the family and eat well. Yet As the 16th (ish) century went to the 18th-19th century the holidays went commercial. This has been happening for ages and still does.


(fe. Halloween a traditional English holliday was forgotten untill a few years ago, now all the kids go trick or treating in Belgium. When I was their age that didn’t exist, we didn’t know what it was.. and thats not even 10years ago! since I’m *only* 21, the same for valentines day)

Which makes it worse is that we also celebrate “Sinterklaas” wrongly translated Santa Claus, since Sinterklaas is actually Sint Maarten (helped the poor in Spain) And on the 6th of December the kids get a big gift from “him” (the parents), then everybody buys presents again and we open them up at Xmas eve, and the 1st the children read their New Years Letter and get some money from the grandparents….


You see how the industry commercialized almost every holiday?
It is a fact that a lot of people forgot. It is something that I’m aware of but pay no heed to, since Family is priceless.

My point here is that if you want to get rich or make a buck, find a holiday that is celebrated and yet not commercialized, then commercialize it and watch the money come after a few years.

Which makes this even more peculiar though is that almost everybody celebrates Christmas in the Western World. the self-proclaimed Atheist still celebrates Xmas… the people who grew up in a “Christian” environment (take the term very loosely) and changed believes when they could, still celebrate Christmas.
Because most of us, forgotten the true meaning of it, and I’m sorry to say but as corrupting as the Church can be, I’m happy for it.
Christmas is all about family, no matter what religion, what standard or what color of skin. It is the one day a year where I forgive people from being Sheeps, being M&S.

And you should too,
Go home to your family and enjoy, battle the lowlifes and the cruel – for it is- world again on Monday, but for now…
Happy Christmas!