O Holy Shit, it’s a Christmas Pageant December 16, 2018 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 619 |
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Re: O Holy Shit, it’s a Christmas Pageant December 17, 2018 | Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 105 |
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bell_flower
Very un-Jesus-like by the way.
Re: O Holy Shit, it’s a Christmas Pageant December 17, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 7,826 |
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This is one thing (out of many) I'm glad I don't have to bother with: going to your kids' stupid bullshit pageants (because you have to) and pretending like you give a crap. Of course you have all the other parents there prancing around the room with their cameras zooming in on their brats because they think screaming a song as loud as possible constitutes talent and they want to shove the video in their coworkers' faces the following day.
I remember hating every single fucking pageant/concert I was in as a kid, and up until about the fifth grade or so, you HAD TO take part in it. Sure, some kids had solos or duets who wanted to get up and sing/scream, but usually the entire class had to sing at least 2-3 songs. I hated it because it meant dressing up and being in front of people, which, as an introvert, is fucking torture. I still can't handle being the center of attention and I'm in my thirties.
There's no way these parents actually enjoy this shit, even when it's their own kids. But they go out of obligation and also so they can have something to post on Fakebook that will earn them some udder rubs.
Re: O Holy Shit, it’s a Christmas Pageant December 18, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 3,003 |
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addiea raine
Because at this time of year, it's allllllll about "famible" and the brats that go with it. I avoid church like the plague, not because I'm an atheist and that's fine to be one, but because I find it to be a twisted version of religion. I have had people tell me that I was going to Hell just because I didn't go to their church and that their church was the only "true" church. Nevermind what my beliefs were, they were wrong because I wasn't in their church. I find that to be even more so this time of year and pointing out how much they've taken from the pagans is enough to be told I'm going to Hell.
Re: O Holy Shit, it’s a Christmas Pageant December 19, 2018 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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For some reason, my better half and I still go to church. We both have doubts, but we go to try to figure things out, FWIW.
But today, it really wasn’t about God or Jesus. It’s about all the Church kyds and the yearly Christmas program! As if the little buggers aren’t already full of themselves. Everybody had a least one line to speak, more or less read from the overhead projectors. A few teachers stood in the back to “direct” the whole mess. The “angels”of kindergarten and first grade shouted two Christmas songs (they sure as hell weren’t singing), and the parunts and grandparunts just ate it up. You’d think they were watching a Broadway musical. An actual Baybee played Jesus—a few months old I guess—and of course squawked and squealed through most of it. I hate to say I bailed part way through it, but I did. My husband was an usher today, so of course we couldn’t leave early.
So many people have to bring extra kyds to see their siblings on stage, or else to attention whore in general. My God, WHY do we have to do this every year? It’s a big to-do about famblees, not so much about the Christmas story. And who even knows whether that’s real...
Re: O Holy Shit, it’s a Christmas Pageant December 19, 2018 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 880 |
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addiea raine
Because at this time of year, it's allllllll about "famible" and the brats that go with it. I avoid church like the plague, not because I'm an atheist and that's fine to be one, but because I find it to be a twisted version of religion. I have had people tell me that I was going to Hell just because I didn't go to their church and that their church was the only "true" church. Nevermind what my beliefs were, they were wrong because I wasn't in their church. I find that to be even more so this time of year and pointing out how much they've taken from the pagans is enough to be told I'm going to Hell.
Patton Oswalt
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