Just Saying..Merry Christmas

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Not to offend anyones sensabilities ...! But did not see a thread Wishing Anyone a Merry Christmas .
And thought this might be the safest place to put it.
So that is why this thread is created , especially for those whom may or maynot have Friends or family
to be wishing or Sharing a{{{ Merry Christmas}}} Wish . .......

Merry Christmas to you Jakki.

I hope you've had a lovely and relaxing day.

Thanks Jakki.

Something about this year's Christmas holiday is deeply disappointing.

I do believe in Jesus Christ whose birth (most likely in a different season since the shepherds were out in the fields) the holiday commemorates & do believe in the reality of the salvation offered by and in the eventual eternal life with Him.

Even so, the holiday at this time in this world in this year is empty and disappointing.

I do realize that part of the foundation of that comes from having worked 20 years in retail and gotten burned out on the material trappings and mythological-scale Hallmark movie expectations which our society has drowned the season under.

And some of the disappointment comes from life and health.

There is a sense that I "should" be happy to have a home, have food, have heat, have books and hobbies, have the two orange tabby rescue fellows. (who happen to now be 14 and 13 years old and have each lived with me for all but a month or so of their lives)

But there is a big emptiness originating from a something else that I can't pin down and stamp a label on.

And that really bothers me.

The world has gone crazy, if you felt the safest place to wish users 'Merry Christmas' is here in 'The Haven' because you feared offending somebodies sensibilities.

Merry Christmas Jakki.

And to be frank, f**k anyone who is offended.

Christmas turned out all tight, amazingly. My family members and I didn't have any power outages and none of us are sick with covid or influenza. But I know it's too good to last and the New Year will just bring more even pain and suffering like it always does.

This was our first Christmas without my dad, who will be next a year from now?

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, Jakki and all who celebrate it.

If you are concerned about possibly offending people of non-Christian religions, I would have just said "To those here who celebrate it, Merry Christmas!"

That way, it would be clear that you don't expect everyone in the world to be celebrating Christmas. You're just wishing a Merry Christmas to those who do celebrate it.

There's nothing offensive about celebrating Christmas. The only thing that could be possibly offensive here would be acting like you assume everyone in the world celebrates Christmas, which is obviously not the case. That's the reason why a lot of stores in major metropolitan areas, where there are a lot of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Neo-Pagans, etc., prefer to say "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas."

Merry Christmas

Happy Kwaanza

Happy New Year

Happy Orthodox Christmas

Happy Holidays to all!

Merry (secular) Xmas!

THANK YOU
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