There Is Snow Way It’s Blue
It looking like it’s that time of year again, the cold weather is upon is, the icy mornings are here and whether preparation for it all did come earlier than planned in November, December is here now so it’s time to add the snowflakes back! They follow your mouse, stick to the bottom of your screen and “melt” away on some browsers – what more could you want?
However, due to a theme change white snowflakes wouldn’t really work this year, I did try them out for the title bar only, but they didn’t look as good… so I opted for blue snow flakes, as you do. I suppose it could have been worse – could have been yellow!
Anyway, enjoy the snow flakes and start the Christmas shopping – it’ll be here before you know it!
An Early Christmas
Does anyone else notice that Christmas seems to be appearing on our screens a little too early this year?
Now perhaps this is me being a little “bah-humbug” about the whole thing, but I think the whole build-up to Christmas this year is starting a little too early. Our town usually turns on it’s Christmas lights one month before Christmas, so towards the end of November. However, this year I have already heard stories of towns Christmas lights being turned on, we’re just over halfway into the month! For me this seems far too early to start Christmas.
It’s not just the Christmas lights too, it’s the adverts you see on TV. There’s already Christmas themed adverts being aired, what toys to get this years, kids writing emailing Christmas lists to Santa etc. I mean, fair enough kids become excited about it all, but we are still November. Why not start the excitement with an advent calendar at the start of December? In fact, one of the things I was quite surprised to notice was the changing of stores opening hours! Yes, I know they open later towards Christmas so Santa doesn’t run out of time to buy presents for everyone, but I never remember them changing this early.
Although, then there’s the other side to it. The logical side, well what I believe to be the logical side to it – money. There have been so many cut-back and people need to save and save more, so I suppose it does make sense to “start Christmas early”, allow people to buy early instead of rush-buying what they cannot afford at a later day, but still, they could save all year and still buy at the usual times. Still, it’s just something that annoys me. I feel it’s too early for Christmas.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think starting Christmas early is a good idea or not?
Religion
Please note, this is a continuation of the blog post “Easter”
On Monday (two days ago) I spoke briefly about Easter and the meaning behind it alongside asking you to vote in a poll. Now giving two days for a low traffic site, you don’t expect strong outcomes, so three-voters still amazed me. I can admit, working with three-voters can make the results slightly biased, but biased or not they match my personal views and opinions – and I didn’t vote.
What're your views on Religion?
- Religion is dying out (67%, 2 Votes)
- Kid's are not taught enough about Religion (33%, 1 Votes)
- Religion is still a strong belief (0%, 0 Votes)
- Other (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 3
Loading ...It’s apparent to me that we believe Religion is “dying out”, but the question is… Why? My mother has always said to me for the past few years that “Christmas is not what it was”, yet, I’ve always agreed. I guess we see religious events as “days off” or, family moments, I’m sure a vast majority of us visit family over the Christmas period. That still leaves the question, “how did it turn into a ‘family day’?”. I cannot answer that question, but I can certainly say what I think about it.
Going back a little bit, you always see arguments that the World was either “Created by God” or “Created by the Big Bang”, it’s one or the other, you’re either scientist or someone religious. Now I think this is why religion is “dying out”. You see, with all this evolving technology, HDTV’s, 3DTV’s, Faster Broadband, Video on Demand (VoD), not to mention everything getting smaller! It’s all based on science, in fact in the Daily Mail it’s dubbed as “Science and Technology” (or Science&Tech). Which brings me back to my main point, you’re either a scientist, or religious. Of course with us growing up around all of this technology, seeing how it’s evolved, we become more lenient to believing the science side of things. Why? Because science has been proved, whereas I don’t recall the religious theory being proved.
Now, I’m nowhere near saying I’m against religion, if that is someone(s) way of living, then I’m happy for them to live like that, it’s there own choice, I’m not saying I am against religious people either, I am just saying that there is a more science side to the World that what there is to a religious side, at least, it’s the science side to things we see.
Viewing religion again, as proven above by my “defensive sentence”, I think we also find Religion a “touchy subject”, a subject most people don’t want to get into. Why? Perhaps because they don’t know much about and don’t want to say the wrong things. I know I don’t much about religions at all! Should I find myself entered into a conversation about one I wouldn’t know what to say, or what not to say – you could be offending some people!
So to summarise, yes, I agree religion is dying out, but only because we’re living in a science filled world and we perhaps find religion a dodgy subject we don’t wish to enter. What’re your views? Do you believe in a God? Do you think today’s world is too science filled? Do you think religion is a dodgy subject?
Easter
It wasn’t until after I posted yesterday and checked my social network feeds that it was Easter Sunday, what a thing to forget eh? I guess it’s like forgetting Christmas, except that’s the same date every year, whereas Easter is the same day(s). I thought, seeing as today is Easter Monday I would write a little bit about Easter, which will then lead into a two-parter to be concluded on Wednesday.
Yesterday (Sunday) I saw a quite a few people complain about how Easter was shit, rubbish, or a “rubbish excuse for a holiday”. I thought to myself, is it really “just an excuse” or has it lost it’s meaning over the years? Do we see Easter now as a time for buying people chocolate eggs, or the death resurrection of Jesus? Is all the technology we have in our life now, smartphones, tablets, laptops, pushing us away from Religious events (such as Christmas and Easter) towards a more scientific approach to life, or are our “youngsters” not being taught enough about Religion? I know Religion was cancelled as an option at my school because not enough people chose it in their final years.
So let me know your opinions on the subject to be concluded on Wednesday.
What're your views on Religion?
- Religion is dying out (67%, 2 Votes)
- Kid's are not taught enough about Religion (33%, 1 Votes)
- Religion is still a strong belief (0%, 0 Votes)
- Other (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 3
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