Comments on: Time to sharpen your wits … https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/26/time-to-sharpen-your-wits/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:33:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Baldur https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/26/time-to-sharpen-your-wits/#comment-550206 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:33:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/26/time-to-sharpen-your-wits/#comment-550206 I would like to pick up the point of my obviously scandinavian cultural cousin Lassi. Why shoot ourselfs in the foot by being mr Scrooge? Why not do as the Christians did in their time; roll over this christian theme imposed on seasonal feast that was important to so many cultures long before it was stolen from us by the church and renamed “Christmas”. The Christians managed to make it their own, instead of banning Jul, which would have been much harder. Now let us get rid of all the this boring nativety stuff and make a real old-fashion feast of the season, as it was originally. Celebrate Jul by carrying lights into your otherwise bleak days to remind you that spring is on it’s way with warmth and sun, well up here in the north anyway. Eat drink and be merry, Happy Jul!!

]]> By: Lassi hippeläinen https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/26/time-to-sharpen-your-wits/#comment-550205 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:03:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/26/time-to-sharpen-your-wits/#comment-550205 What is this War on Solstice I hear so much about?

I can understand combining Asian Mithraism, Roman Saturnalia, and Germanic Yule (or playing with lights, giving presents, and feasting at the table, respectively), because that produces a good party in the darkness of the winter.

But the nativity scenes are an attack on the traditions. Even if you go by the Bible, Jesus wasn’t born in December.

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