Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, December 9, 2011

Fancy Tales Linked to Christmas

By Bright Bertrand


Loads of what's widely regarded as correct about Christmas or held like a custom are not able to or has not been verified, or, has changed via the a long time. Even Christmas Day alone, Dec. twenty five, has become questioned about whether or not which is the exact day on which Jesus was born. Skeptics have asked why shepherds can be out while in the chilly seeing their flocks by night for the duration of the winter. All those skeptics have place ahead the thought that Jesus may possibly definitely have been born within the spring as a substitute. It's hence minor surprise that there are various fancy tales and tales which can be advised about Christmas and also the Christmas year.

The most common fancy tale that everyone tells, significantly to little ones, is about Santa Claus, also identified as St. Nicholas. But even when it ended up accepted that Santa Claus existed, in which does he live and just how is he capable to obtain to all of the residences of good boys and women on Christmas Eve?

Within the Usa, Santa Claus is said to have two houses. There exists a property in Torrington, Connecticut, and that is employed for a distribution level for Santa and his several helpers, who are elves, to hand out gifts. And after that, a 2nd dwelling is said to become found in Wilmington, Ny, and that is exactly where Santa Claus and his delivery reindeer crew are located.

But Santa can be visited in Cyberspace at any time and what about the widely held belief that Santa Claus really lives in a village at the North Pole?

The individuals of Finland also claim that their state would be the official residence of Santa Claus. That is mainly because in Finland, you are able to essentially take a look at a village any time throughout the 12 months and see Santa's workshop and observe Santa and his elves really hard at function because they get ready for his or her extremely important Xmas present delivery work on Xmas Eve. The one day when Santa's workshop is closed to guests is of course, on Xmas Eve.

Probably a really wise visitor could check out Santa's workshop to the day just before Christmas Eve to determine if there are any clues to how Santa and his reindeers strategy to make their journey the next day. That's for the reason that since the tale goes, in Finland Santa Claus and his reindeers really don't reach their locations all around the planet by flying.

Finland welcomes visitors to Santa's workshop but there is nothing said about whether visitors actually have any chance of having a word with the man himself. While the chances of doing so are believed to be non-existent, among the questions that inquiring minds could ask Santa is whether Rudolph is the son of Donner (and to confirm the spelling - Donner or Donder) or whether Santa spotted him in a different reindeer village one foggy Christmas Eve when he had already started on his Christmas toy-delivery mission. If mere mortals got a chance to question Santa, then he also would likely have some questions for us humans. He may want to know whose idea was it to have Christmas trees and for the gifts to be placed under them.

The tradition of Christmas tree as it exists today comes from Germany by way of immigrants. But it isn't clear how the tradition really gained a foothold in Germany. One story is that Christians in Germany during the 16th century started to bring trees that were decorated into their homes. Some of those Christians would build pyramids for Christmas. The pyramids were made of wood and would be decorated with evergreens and candles if wood were in short supply.

It is however Martin Luther, a Protestant reformer, who is said to have been the first to add lighted candles as decoration to a tree based on his inspiration from the brilliant light of twinkling stars that shone through evergreen trees as he walked home one winter evening.

As being the legend goes, Martin Luther put a tree inside a primary room of his residence and positioned wires with modest, lighted candles all-around the branches from the tree. And that's how, as the tale goes, the Christmas tree as acknowledged at this time, was started.




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