What are the best Christmas light displays to see in Northern Virginia these days? We used to always go to Bull Run until they eliminated anything to do with Jesus or Santa Clause. Heard Vienna Winter Walk of Lights is good. Any other noteworthy displays to see that aren't a rip off?

"We used to always go to Bull Run until they eliminated anything to do with Jesus or Santa Clause."

Why do people keep interjecting Christ into Christmas? Let's keep Jesus out of Christmas discussions and displays, OK?

CHRISTmas, you fucking idiot. I bet your a rug

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"Holiday" isn't a real holiday: it's fake news.

If you are going to put up a Happy Holiday sign with Christmas tree?

Look if it's a Christmas tree put a Merry Christmas sign or your FAKE.

If you too weak to put up a Merry Christmas sign: don't put up a tree.

That goes for Wash DC too.

u can celebrate Christmas as long as you hide it as if your in china denying your celebrating chrismas?

what a crock!

happy unscented wax day !

whut?

happy fire awareness day!

happy guns and alcohol don't mix day!

i don't like the angle on the tree - that's clearly a gender role there

u can celebrate Christmas as long as you hide it as if your in china denying your celebrating chrismas?

what a crock! what a dumb idea!

this is the Viking tradition: the yulelog, but many other things - a winter festival celebrating "have stores" and being ALIVE when mid-winter passes on it's way OUT of winter

the did NOT celebrate winter as a pagan religion. they had the town gathering festival because it was a good time to do such a thing, and all cities back then did have days they had festivals of (harvest / yield / being alive) celebration.

the Christmas tree is obviously not the nordic winter festival tradition

it's ms clauss - maybe i can get her phone number!

(note: wikipedia now says yule is a german pagan tradition out of germany! ha! not.)

the real chrismas tree was invented by a lazy scandinavian boy who was told to bring in a log with trimmings, and to save making two cuts, brought in a whole small tree. his mother made him go back out into the snow shortly after.

lu9kx Wrote:
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> the real chrismas tree was invented by a lazy
> scandinavian boy who was told to bring in a log
> with trimmings, and to save making two cuts,
> brought in a whole small tree. his mother made
> him go back out into the snow shortly after.

3 years later, still in memory, a short girl at the winter festival was hopping up and down. when asked why she said "i can't see the log over people in front of me! i want to see it before it's on fire!", thus the great idea: the log isn't good for children, time to raise it up

the height of the festival tree, much higher than code height for a fire, set on fire a nearby trash heap on fire, which the men who hauled it weekly exclaimed was a great relief

this is also when burning trash in a barrel became a tradition !

at a pub somewhere in franc:

man 1: "what do you do?"

man 2: "i war ship trees during the mid winter"

man 1: "that's kind of strange don't you think, worshiping trees?"

man 2: "no it's a good way to stay warm"

6xpyx

The idea of decorating with cuttings from evergreens or even with an entire tree goes back to pagan times. It was based on the idea that the evergreen which didn't shed its leaves in winter represented the perpetuation of life. In Reformation Germany the Protestants built on this by decorating and illuminating the tree.

The religious forerunners of today's conservative evangelicals tried to abolish Christmas celebrations because they smacked of the Two P's, Popery and Paganism. Now they want to have society celebrate it to the exclusion of all other winter holidays.

Change of course Wrote:
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> The religious forerunners of today's conservative
> evangelicals tried to abolish Christmas
> celebrations because they smacked of the Two P's,
> Popery and Paganism. Now they want to have
> society celebrate it to the exclusion of all other
> winter holidays.

"THE RELIGIOUS FORERUNNERS of today's . . . Now THEY want to have society celebrate it . . . ."

So these (so-called) religious forerunners are still alive? Damn, they must be REALLY old!

A little of both Wrote:
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> The idea of decorating with cuttings from
> evergreens or even with an entire tree goes back
> to pagan times. It was based on the idea that the
> evergreen which didn't shed its leaves in winter
> represented the perpetuation of life. In
> Reformation Germany the Protestants built on this
> by decorating and illuminating the tree.

...

yea also if you have a log for the fire with a little greens on it, it smells cools.

did you think of THAT ?

your next OBVIOUS step in vanity and luxury logs is to decorate it then burn it

bon fire for all in town tonigh, mid winter

BYOL

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