Replies to '12/13 Holiday Horror Stories'

To Big Deal,

Why don't you just try to "enjoy" and be happy being around people that do believe in Christmas.  Why carry all the negative feelings around and having an heavy burden in your heart, when you can have peace in your heart being with family and friends.  BE HAPPY!!!!

Merry Christmas to you.  May God Bless you.

Respect for people that don't care about love, warmth, peace, and family? Hmmm OK. I respect everyone until they give me reason not too.

I detest it when people make blanket statements; it shows a distinct lack of reasoning.

 'Noybody really celeabrates the holiday for the right reasons anymore...'

How do you know what everyone is doing and or thinking? Are you an authority on "right reasons?" I have never been caught up in commercialism in my entire life, so that blows away your theory. Time to rethink. Find the joy in everything. Life it too short to miss a single opportunity for happiness; that's the BIG DEAL!!!!!!

Talk about GENERALIZATIONS; shame on you! Apparently you don't know all the people who DO celebrate the holiday for its true meaning. Come over to our FL home and sit with us and our Advent wreath. Come to us w/ mass every Sunday. Help us feed the poor and give to our adopted migrant families. Yep, you're welcome to see how Christmas is celebrated in THIS household (and many others...you apparently don't know the people WE hang with:).

If you don't want to celebrate the birth of Christ (or use the holiday to give back to others), that's your CHOICE. Nobody has to "respect" it.; but you should be left alone to do as you please, just as you should leave alone those who LOVE the holiday (don't spoil their fun w/ your negative attitude:).

Everyone has choices to make. I bet if you respect theirs, they'll respect yours. Or are you just the ba-hum-bug type??? I surely hope not, since December can be such a beautiful month. God bless.

You're preaching to the choir.  I dont understand the taboo either.  Xmas is about gifts and meeting w/ the family along w/ the stress involved.  I think families should get together whether its a holiday or not.  As for the giftmas "holiday", not too many celebrate the reason for the season.  It would be nice if others would be more accepting of others who arent into it instead of calling us names and making false assumptions.  I didnt have a pivital moment to where I hated Giftmas but grew slowly to not care for it.

I continue to watch this Dr Phil episode and I swear someone's inhabiting his body.  His opinions are very different than what I'm used to.  His insight is not as deep as usual and he's missing so much of what the "scrooges" are trying to communicate.