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  Anthony

  7 months ago

  This Christmas shopping nonsense has been a recurring theme over on my blog. For the sake of a bargain, people camp out overnight and/or stand on line at 4am waiting for stores to open. They lack the ability to stand back and look at themselves for what they have become - retail whores who will sacrifice anything in pursuit of a bargain.
  I think it's time we took the Christ out of Christmas and did something on the legislative level to keep stores from opening before daybreak.
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  bill

  7 months ago

  I don't know that leaving Christ in or taking him out of Christmas will have any effect at all, but I've seen few clearer cases for de-commercialization of the holidays than this. However one feels about our economic structure, it's things like this that give capitalism a very bad name. Sadly, it seems like the inevitable outcome when you have a system predicated on greed.
  
  I'm just glad I've yet to be sucked into the marketing monstrosity that is Black Friday.
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  howard

  7 months ago

  Ditto on that last bit.
  
  As far as Christ in or out of Christmas, I think the situation is much more analogous to the money changers in the Temple. It wasn't the Temple, but the way certain people tried to use it to sate their own greed. Same thing with Christmas, I think.
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  howard

  7 months ago

  Yes, in fact yours is one of the blogs I read via rss (and due to the extra effort it takes to proceed to the actual site, I rarely comment).
  
  I have so many mixed feelings about Black Friday and the consumer culture in general. I stopped being a Black Friday practitioner about ten years ago. It wasn't with scenes like this in mind, but now I have yet another justification for avoiding all that is Black Friday.
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  qazse

  7 months ago

  “They kept shopping.”
  they were educated thus -
  martyr makers
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