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Haha, that's what happens on Facebook and any site where there are birthday notifications XD.
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The exact reason I keep my friends to a minimum... less spam... o.o especially on birthdays...
Honestly I got sick of birthdays years ago... |
I have always shared mine, haha. I just add whoever, if I know it is a person I recognize and I don't hate... that is, I don't seek them out, but if they add me I will accept it...
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I see... my friend lists have never really gotten past 10 on any site XD so it's hard to comprehend the "500 friends" things.
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For a short time, I would add people so that I would actually have other people playing the games I play, but then I gave up on that and removed all of those people. But most of my friends now are either related to me or went to high school with me. I wasn't extremely social, but I talked with just about anyone...
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I'm the same way now... either related or friends mostly... and I never lasted a week on one game before getting bored.
I only started getting more social when I started talking to people on the bus (public) |
I have come to poke the threeead~ *pokes*
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Well, hello then XD.
Yeah, I am on so many games, it doesn't mean I have to play one for weeks, I just go between them all XD. But most of the ones I like are like, long - running where you earn stuff and gain levels and whatnot, like avatar sites... |
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I was having a quiet night,and then all of a sudden "OMG HAPPY BDAY ABBI!!!" everywhere. It scared me. xD |
lol... the birthday part that scares me is when going out to eat... I think he words "don't tell them" on repeat till we leave XD
thankfully this year I didn't go out to dinner :lol: |
I really love birthdays! I have two step brothers in-law who constantly change their b-day on the facebook so that they have people wishing them happy-b-day like 7 times per year. They do it cause they think that a birthday is a stupid reason to celebrate ie: "wow I didn't die for a whole 'nother year...whoop"
But I think of birthdays as more of celebration of the anniversary of the day you were born. It's a day when your friends and family can get together and celebrate that you were born, and exist, they are saying "hey if you didn't exist we'd have nothing to celebrate today. But we are celebrating today because you do exist and we think that's freaking awesome and worth celebrating!" It's way better than celebrating other things like when a fat guy spends the night committing home invasions with reindeer, or the day that saints died hundreds of years ago. Celebrating or keeping remembrance of a day when someone died is creepy. :P |
Well, no one is celebrating the day that "a fat guy comes and invades homes"; they are celebrating the birth of a child who became a king and started a new religion... on a day which better commemorates the pagan god/s of sunlight and enlightenment and the fact that the sun returns after the end of the winter... But at any rate, it's not my thing. Haha. But I don't really... have a passionate like or dislike of any particular holidays or celebrations... Well, none of the big ones, anyway.
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hello all :)
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Without trying to be offensive to those who believe in the religion, Thulhu, i think youre right when you talk about celebrating people who have died, which is why i find it amusing that christians/catholics worship the cross, which is a symbol of death and torture from ages past and upon which their saviour died. Surely worshipping the manger he was born in would be more sensible since its a source of nourishment and sustinance, it gives life (sort of) as opposed to being a device for taking life.
That said, the only 'event' that i celebrate really is New Years Eve. It symbolises one year lived, happiness and regrets both, but another year ahead to improve or change. Another year where life can be redeemed. Another year where you can meet people, experience things and learn about yourself. To me, it is like the culmination of a birthday/xmas/other religious and festive holidays all rolled into one! It doesnt celebrate some religious event though. It doesnt celebrate some person or honour some national event. It is simply a celebration for the passing of the year with all that it entailed, and the looking forward to the next and all that it entails. |
Of course, our calendar counting system is based on Christian monks' systems, but it's really rather difficult to escape that...
Honestly I don't find it so strange to celebrate the day on which someone died, as long as it isn't to... depressing. People like to celebrate the lives of their departed loved ones, and that makes sense to me. As for Christians, the celebration of the cruficix is based on the idea that he was resurrected three days later... This si what they celebrate. Still, it's rather odd to me. No more strange than any of the other religions that some Christians remark upon with such disgust... |
Interesting conversation that I have nothing to contribute to.
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You don't have an opinion on holidays? XD.
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If you want to celebrate the life of someone past why not celebrate the anniversary of the day that they came into the world and started being so great? Celebrating the anniversary of the day they died seems wrong unless you're happy they died.
And just for the record, when I celebrate Christmas I don't celebrate Christ-mas, or the religious Christmas. I celebrate the totally commercial and non religious holiday some times differentiated as x-mas that is totally only about Santa and reindeer and presents and eggnog ect. and I actually enjoy it very much, I've already started making presents for next x-mas. That said, I think that setting a day aside to let a friend or family member know that the day they came into existence is a day worth celebrating, is the best reason to have a celebration. And therefore better than other reasons to celebrate like x-mas. |
As long as people are aware of exactly what they're celebrating, it doesn't much matter to me how they choose to do so.
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Most aussies will celebrate just about anything. Two flies walking down a wall, bets on which one gets to the bottom first and then celebration drinking afterwards! We're just cool like that!
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Totally, high fives Assassin.
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Haha, interesting. I'm not a particularly celebratory person... I enjoy things, I just don't celebrate a bunch XD.
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*high fives Ling*
Aussies hardly need a reason to start drinking actually... "Hey mate, Ive lost a shoe on the way home from the pub some how?" "I'll drink to that!" "... yeah me too, in my one shoe!" "I've fallen in a hole and broken my leg... but i didnt spill my beer! Thats worth a toast!" "My dog died..." "I'll be round in 20mins mate, we'll have a couple of drinks for him to send him off." "Cheers mate." "Mums in the hospital, looks pretty bad..." "Come round tonight after youve been to see her, we'll have a couple of drinks and a barbie and take your mind off it for a while." ... Theres not an occasion i can think of where at least ONE person wouldnt say "I'll drink to that!" "I'm giving up the booze!" "I'll drink to that! Hahahaha!" "... ya bastard! :P" |
Haha, nice. I've only just started to drink on occasion... and I've never had "mates" to party or celebrate or drink with - just my family.
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lol... I wonder if inso celebrates like that XD (he's an aussie if I remember right)
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