This recipe I give to thee,
Dear brother in the heat.
Take two of sour (lime let it be)
To one and a half of sweet,
Of Old Jamaica pour three strong,
And add four parts of weak.
Then mix and drink. I do no wrong —
I know whereof I speak.

What a dreadfully delighting way to make punch :D
Dear me, they missed the ice.

Where is the Christmas mood? Non shall thou find here. It seems absurd to me to find people spending days and weeks preparing for a single day's joy.

The death of Christ is important, for without His death, we cannot be saved.
But the birth of Christ is equally important, for without His birth, He cannot die, and thus, we cannot be saved.

Yes, I'm a Christian, but not a Catholic. There's a difference you see.

mmhm, I'm trying my best to follow the life of Bree, A.K.A lonelygirl15 A.K.A Jessica Rose. I heard she (Bree) died but her legacy (however devoid of truth it is) is carrying on. THE RESISTANCE MUAAHAHAHAAHAHA
FALL TO THE ORDER!
I love how WhatTheBuck talked about LG15. hee, that guy's so hilarious. You know he wears proper up and not down?
Addiction : I write sins, not tragedies - Panic! At the Disco (Panic at the Disco)
I try my best not to go foul mamee.

Ah..our substitute Christmas tree is looking mighty....fine..sort of.
I better stop looking at it, makes me feel silly.

Life today:
I only got 2 presents. One from Joseph and Esther, the other from s-i-l Elizabeth ( how sweet, NOT)
I'm guessing it's a bomb or something.
Mum didn't give me a present, dad didn't either.
): ( see? I'm frowning)

okay nevermind, not like I mind, right? ( i so DO T.T)

The meaning of Christmas ( my opinion):
Christmas is... not Jesus's birthday.(CITE 1)( gasps and cries from the readers O_O)
that's a very famous misconception, really. Everyone thinks Christmas is Christ's birthday and that when He flew off into the clouds, he went to North Pole instead and became the famed "Santa Clause."
Sorry, Santa Claus.

You know I read one really interesting article :
ROVANIEMI, FINLAND -

Stanley Twinkleflake is an exile. Three years ago, the diminutive snow elf and three of his closest companions were banished from the North Pole by an enraged Santa Claus, who accused them of trying to unionize his workshop.

“Now we can’t even go north of the Arctic circle,” sighs Twinkleflake, who has relocated to this northern Finnish town just shy of the 66th parallel. “You can’t even get decent cloudberries here.”

At issue is Claus’ treatment of his large elvish work force, which annually produces some 700 million toys with a market value in excess of $14 billion. Critics claim that the elves work long hours for low pay under hazardous conditions. Particularly at issue is Claus' adamant refusal to give the elves any sort of health insurance and his stubborn insistence on keeping his manufacturing operations at the North Pole, where governmental oversight is nonexistent.

“It was bad enough trying to make wooden rocking horses and sleds during the depths of an arctic winter,” says Twinkleflake, “but nowadays all the kids want is electronics. You try working with all those chemicals in perpetual darkness.”

During the winter (approximately Sept. 21 to March 21), the sun never rises at the North Pole, and temperatures as low as minus 59 degrees Fahrenheit have been recorded.

“That’s cold, even for a snow elf,” says Holly Stockingstuffer, an independent filmmaker who recently released a fiercely anti-Claus documentary entitled The Workshop: The High Cost of Free Toys. “The conditions up there are subhuman. I mean, leaving aside the bitter cold and the months of darkness for a moment, there is the wildlife problem. There are literally hundreds of ill-tempered polar bears roaming freely about the property. And those flying reindeer don’t smell too sweet either.”

Polar bears are the world’s largest land predator and can weigh more than 1,500 pounds.

Claus’ spokes-elf, Celeste “Bubbles” Nognipper, is dismissive of the complaints. “Elves are immortal. They don’t need health insurance. This is just the griping of a few bad snowflakes.” As for the supposedly subhuman conditions, Nognipper points out that elves “aren’t human.”

“See how far immortality will get you after you’ve been mauled, chewed up and regurgitated by a thousand-pound bear,” retorts Twinkleflake. “Immortality doesn’t mean we can’t suffer wounds or feel pain. We need proper doctors and cheap pain-killers.”

Claus himself denied repeated requests for an interview, but issued the following statement: “Ho! Ho! Ho!”

“I think that perfectly sums up our policy toward this--and every other--issue,” Nognipper says.

Wages are another concern. Claus pays the elves solely in candy canes, the local currency. While a good worker can make as many as 50 candy canes per day (plus room and board), the cane has little value outside of polar regions.

Stockingstuffer says the lack of legitimate alternative employment for the snow elves exacerbates the problem.

“In general, humans won’t hire magical creatures. There are exceptions--Wonka has his Oompa-Loompas, and Google has its wizards--but those are pretty much closed shops. If you are a snow elf, the workshop is the only game in town.”

Additionally, Stockingstuffer charges that Claus’ low expenses and infinite wealth allow him to produce toys well below cost, which he dumps on the world market once a year. Surprisingly, traditional toy makers such as Hasbro (nyse: HAS - news - people ), Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people ) and Topps (nasdaq: TOPP - news - people ), have mostly kept mum about the “Santa situation.”

In fact, Warner Flackmouth, president of the Worldwide Association of Toys and Trinkets, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group, insists that relations with Claus are cordial. “Look, this has been going on for hundreds of years. The industry has a long-standing relationship with Mr. Claus. As long as he confines his philanthropic activities to one day out of the year, we are happy to look the other way. But if he were to expand his operations--say start giving away toys on midsummer’s night eve or something--we would have a problem on our hands."

Okay enough about Santa, no he is NOT Christ. He's some fictional character made by coca cola ( notice why he's red?)

I hate coca cola. ( you all know that, right?)

Okay soo... Christmas is more of a "remembrance" than a birth date. Christians from all over the world REMEMBER of the day Christ was born,and not celebrate this birthday--
CITATIONS
(1) For many centuries, Christian writers accepted that Christmas was the actual date on which Jesus was born. However, in the early eighteenth century, some scholars began proposing alternative explanations. Isaac Newton argued that the date of Christmas was selected to correspond with the winter solstice, which in ancient times was marked on December 25. In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst Jablonski argued Christmas was placed on December 25 to correspond with the Roman solar holiday Dies Natalis Solis Invicti and was therefore a "paganization" that debased the true church.In 1889, Louis Duchesne suggested that the date of Christmas was calculated as nine months after the Annunciation on March 25, the traditional date of the conception of Jesus.
-wikipedia

Something tells me I should end here so...

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