Corporate trap,

The concept of the holiday is forgotten Its more like gift Day. No more merry X-mas more like Happy gift day. What kind of holiday is this the gint corporations announcing their earning while you are having dinner.

Jesus Said " Be Seme Yeminegdu Yemetalu" Look no further ...
Christmas is not any diffrent from the other Corporate trap(holiday)
Thanks giving (Turkey Day)$$$
Valentine's (Chcolates Day)
Haloween ( Candy Day)
Mothers day ( Flower ...

Tada

same way.

Enkutatash = "adey Abeba" day.
genna= beg ena tej day.
timket= addis kemis day.
fasika = doro na enkulal day.

Have you been in Piassa, Merkato area around holidays in Addis?? And probably some other village Markets in the countryside? It gets crazy and bigg Market.

I feel you though on the level of people forgetting Christmass being the Jesus "b day", ruther than just exchanging gifts, doing christmass tree, and Santa Santa Santa.....


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i know right.

But you know christimas is a gift day because the world is given a gift...that is Jesus So just as God gave us a gift we give ppl a gift heheeh... ok ok i know u right am wrong but i make sense


NEwayz.....
How would you feel if you lets say made a gift for somebody like literally... and the gift you made..for example like...frames/mirror or somethin special for someone you really cared about. It took you umm like a month or two to finish it.. and u finally did finish it. U wrapped it up and when the time came gave to the person. Ok now the question how would you feel after giving that gift the person just takes and just throws it or tells you just to put it over there and don't seem to care? how would you really really feel??


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I agree with you Atagban. Although nobody knows for sure the exact day Jesus was born, once we have assigned this day, we should stay on the concept. People have missed the concept of the holiday. There is nothing wrong with celebrating Jesus' birthday by feasting. However, Christmas in the US has totally missed its target. I don't even hear Jesus' name at all unless I turned on the TBN channel. It has become all about families coming together and buying eachother gifts. Last time, on the ABC channel, they were showing Jessica Simpson's Family Christmas, and Jesus was nowhere to be mentioned except on one song Brian McKnight and Jessica sung. Then her husband, Nick, says something like..."let's not forget what Christmast is all about...." and am thinking, "oh, he is about to say something about Jesus.." but he goes, "its about families coming together....blah blah". Geez.

Anyway, but I have some questions on your post.



I think the Turkey, traditionally, is to accompany this specific holiday and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. In fact, I think Thanks giving is far more better than Christmas in terms of holding onto its concept. They do talk about how thankfull they must be.



Don't you think the chocolates pretty much have to do with the holiday?



I think Candys have a lot to do with Halloween. Treat or trick....



Ofcourse, giving flowers are great ways of expressing your appreciation to your mother.

My point is that, what is happening to Christmas is unlike all those holidays you mentioned. I think the concept of Christmas is lost than any other holiday.

Thanx for triggering my thoughts.

Dear Hotredman,



It is a custom for feast to accompany a celebration. For instance, if there is a wedding, everybody doesn't just come around with dirty clothes, and then since the day is all about the couple getting married, people don't just sit around and read their life stories and things like that. Instead, they feast, they wear new closes, they sing and dance. But still, inside the bounderies of celebrating the wedding. At no point do they forget that it is someone's wedding.

I don't thing atagban's point is why do people feast? is it? if it is i have a problem with it. The problem is why people forget the reason for the feast. In case of Christmas, the bottom line, Jesus, has been forgotten and replaced with the feast. I think that is inappropriate, if not wrong.

As for Enqutatash, ofcourse 'adey abeba' is a big part of it. As for the rest of Ethiopian holidays you mentioned, I think the majority of Ethiopians are far from loosing a concept of the holiday immersed and drunken in feats, since the economy doesn't allow them to. I know there are people who spend their savings on spending the night at the bar, get in a fight and come home either 'tefenkitew' or puking....ewww. But the majority are far from that. People go to church on holidays. The Orthodox Christians start fasting in advance before the main holidays. Man, holidays are days people take showers in a very long time back home....is there any 'tsidk' bigger than that? lol

c ya around.

yeap.. i mean i have heard the story of thanks giving so many times i still do'nt remember lol but "lets give thanks and eat turkey"


naah not really. ain't it about couples? chocolate is one of the appreciation

if we really look deep in halloween no it ai'nt about the candy..well for kids ya ofcource and the masks.


but u mothers day ain't about the flowers its to show u care about ur mother...



uha..true.

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NYCbabychick,

I know its not about the flowers and the chocolates and the candy. But all those things are used to emphasize the point of the holiday. The flowers are used to show the "Appreciation" for ur mother. I know halloween isn't all about the candy, but the candy is a part of halloween, unlike Santa and a day that is supposed to be Jesus' birthday. Do you get me? I am trying to show how the case of Christmas is different from the holidays mentioned.

You should appreciate your mom weather or not you have flowers around
I do not think giving her flowers on mothers day could cut it.

you should treat your girl , man wife or husband as if everyday is "Valentine's day" I think we deserve that

I agree Empress; but I was not emplying feasting is bad. I am all for feasting, new clothing, beg doro and everything else. It's just hard to get all those done without a market and exchanging. So flowers, gifts, choclates, Santa, fire works, etc are valued here and are part of the feasts. I have no problem with that, but can't just blame it on the "corporation trap", because, these people are selling what people want to celebrate. So my intention above is to show that, what used to celebrate in the US is synonim with what is used in Ethiopia.


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Then you should get down to arguing why we have holidays at all. Don't you think?

hotredman,



I do agree with you on not blaming the corporate for the mess. However, looking at the people, I would like to say that they have missed the point of the holiday, specially on Christmas. They can make up another Holiday for Santa but somehow they chose to attach it to Jesus' birthday. It would have been fine if they still celebrate Jesus, but he has been replaced by the feast and tradition.