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man am I sick of the statement on news covers and in conversation that “there is some thing disrespectful about putting up Christmas decorations before remembrance day.” Really? Is it either you are excited for the holidays or you take a moment to remember the fallen, you cannot do both. It’s that black and white. The city puts up some wreaths and everyone looses there minds. Yet the military cuts and cuts services for veterans and no one says anything. It’s a wreath. Soldiers don’t care if there is a wreath in a store window, just if you show your support to there families at Xmas time while they are off fighting in a land where none celebrates anything. —Get real,
This article appears in Nov 6-12, 2014.
Animatronic snowmen and Burl Ives muzak are not stopping anybody from wearing a Poppy, thanking a man or woman in uniform, or giving up half your day off to stand respectfully at your local Cenotaph. Trying to equate your disgust with the commercialization of Christmas with disrespect for veterans is, at best disingenuous, and at worst equally disrespectful of those same Veterans. If the day is important to you (as it is, for me) the tactlessness of Municipalities and cheesiness of business marketing will not affecct it in the slightest.
Regardless of one’s views as to whether or not Canada should participate in the various global conflicts, I think it is important to support the people that serve or have served on our behalf. Despite our natural tendency to bitch about petty things, we all have incredible freedom to do whatever we want with our lives. We owe a lot of that freedom to the folks who put their lives on the line. This really hit home to me when one of my brothers was stationed at a camp in Afghanistan that came under attack. To be honest, I’m not sure if I would have had the courage to be in a place like that so I’m thankful for those that do and don’t mind saying so.
LOOSE MINDS
“The city puts up some wreaths and everyone looses their minds.” Get real
Well, it’s better to have loose minds than minds that are up tight.
(AVATAR #71: MYSTERY COIN)
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Could we not call them remembrance wreaths first then holiday wreaths after?
Win win on multiple levels if you ask me.
I want to see a Rapping Farie/Last Post mashup video.
Perhaps folks are just using the Remembrance Day marker to voice their disgust at having to tolerate Christmas crap commercialism being shoved down their throats for three freaking months.
I am happy to see that the OB had the audacity to use the word Christmas in the post. The political correctness Stasi has been doing their best to suppress and erase any public reference to the word in recent years. And while I am fully supportive of welcoming and including other religious and cultural groups, Christmas has become both a religious and secular holiday so I find it deceitful, not to mention “at best disingenuous and at worst disrespectful”, to pretend that the holiday season around Dec 25 is anything but Christmas.
we live in Disneyland. water comes out of a tap. kids get to go to school. there are no mortar holes in my house.
Christmas decorations could be up in February – I can ignore them. retailers gotta be retailers. no amount of tinsel prevents me from being at my legion tomorrow morning.
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: Full of beans (11/10, 10:54AM)
“… I find it deceitful, not to mention ‘at best disingenuous and at worst disrespectful’, to pretend that the holiday season around Dec 25 is anything but Christmas.”
While there is no necessary contradition between being simultaneously disingenuous and disrespectful it might be pointed out that the two attributes do not cover the same cognitive territory. That is the reason there is no necessary contradiction. They are, so to speak, “conceptual trains in the night.”
Disdaining the use of the dictionary as is my wont, being “disingenuous” suggests concealing one’s true motivations which may, or may not, amount to full-blown deceit. For example, I had a professor at Dal who accused me of being “disingenuous” – a nasty piece of work, I must say – but in addition to not intending to deceive I had no idea THAT I was being disingenuous at all. So we see a cognitive uncoupling there between deceit and being disingenuous.
In the same way, the cognitive coupling between being disingenuous and distrespectful is tenuous at best. In other words, one can be disingenuous but not necessarily disrespectful. One’s motives for being disingenuous might possibly be low self-esteem or some other allied condition. In the present context, the merchants’ Christmas decorations need not signal disrespect for Christmas but rather signal the desire for money, a wholly understandable position for the merchant for whom money is meaning.
: Bad dog Molly (11:38AM)
” no amount of tinsel prevents me from being at my legion tomorrow”
Yes, I’m sure the amount of tinsel covering you as you lay there on the floor is not a primary concern. Do you have difficulty getting up? Frankly, I find this both disingenuous and disrespectful.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
i use the tinsel for my twirly pasties
Unfortunately in this political climate, everything is Black and White OB. Left and right, “lieberal” and “roboCON”. Dig baby dig or save the endangered sow bug.
Radical extremism exists in many facets of our society, some more or less benign than others. Either “yer fer us or yer against us” OB 😉
we had a dog that ate some tinsel, she needed some help with the end result
First, let us consider the sex of the complainant. Enough said.
Secondly, the focus of our vitriol should be on Amherst High where “no one was available” to organize the school’s Remembrance Day service.
There’s not a lot of Remembrance Day themed music out there (thank the Gods in Valhalla that there’s no Barking Dogs or Jingle Cats) but here are couple of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Js07j8nqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKU3b7rnvlQ
So, I’ll see you at the Cenotaph, whichever one you go to.
good services at my legion. well attended, all generations. good to see.
Largest crowd I’ve ever seen at Sullivan’s Pond, and I don’t think solely because of the nice weather.