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I spend more money on Halloween than I do on Christmas. And every year I realize it more and more ... I'm spending money on Halloween to share it all with a bunch of strangers and their children rather than on my own family and friends.

I already give lots to my family throughout the year, I don't need a special holiday to justify those relationships. I used to spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars on decorations, suppers, gifts and doing things for family in or around Christmas and none of it ever made a damned difference. I still love my family but it wasn't because of Christmas ... it was because they are my family. I don't do any of that any more and you know? I still have the same level of appreciation for my family and they do the same for me ... without all the BS of Christmas fanfare.

But on Halloween, I'm giving more to random strangers I don't even know or will probably never meet again during the year ... and all just for the sake of being nice to them.

So now I find that Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas. It's made me realize just how wholesome Halloween is compared to the commercialized hellhole that Christmas has become.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 38 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Screw Christmas.

Instead, on that date, celebrate someone real and much more worthy of consideration

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[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically, a bit of a religious whacko

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm willing to let that slide for almost anyone born pre-enlightment. As long as they didn't get super murdery over it.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

He was by all accounts an insufferable asshole, petty, vindictive, and completely aware how fucking stupid most people are esp compared to him. And also a Biblical conspiracy theorist who was much more interested in the exact dimensions of the Old Temple than in developing Calculus.

Also he arguably created the miraculous technological world in which we live better lives than he could have dreamed. Our debt to him can never be fully paid. His name will rightly outlive us.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

And don't even get us started on Pythagoras!

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You kind of understand where he was coming from.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Gives a whole new gravity to this time of year

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That joke deserves an equal and opposite reaction.