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Post by ebonywnd on Nov 24, 2003 23:58:00 GMT -5
Does anyone actually celebrate Thanksgiving with the giving of thanks? I mean, I can understand thanking one's family for things, but I am assuming no one says "I am thankful for this." I just wanted to open up discussion appropriate to the season, no matter how trivial.  Also...feel free to respond after the holiday has passed. After all, half of you won't even see this until after the break...  -Laura " talk, talk!" McIntosh |
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Post by Seany-D on Nov 25, 2003 10:24:53 GMT -5
On Thanksgiving, I am usually thankful for:
-- a place to go and chow on good food ... that's NOT my family's house
-- a bottle of Schmitt-Sohne (I'm murdering the spelling .... just like Jason) Michelsburg Piesporter Alslace. The ultimate turkey wine.
-- Packers vs. Lions football ... at 11:30 in the morning!! An entire day of football, feeding, and drinking. Can't beat that!
-- cranberry sauce. I loves me some cranberry sauce.
Who do I give thanks to, i.e., a god? Mother Earth? the freckle-faced kid down the street? Nope ... a guy can be thankful that he's alive to see another day without attributing that to some dude wandering around in the sky.
Sean "pass the stuffing" Davis
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Post by ebonywnd on Nov 25, 2003 11:29:19 GMT -5
But doesn't being thankful imply you are thanking someone?
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Post by Seany-D on Nov 25, 2003 11:36:41 GMT -5
I don't think so. I think it's more "grateful" than "thankful", but the holiday is called Thanksgiving, not Gratefulness, or something like that. I am alive, despite another year of getting my ass kicked by The Man(tm) ... my limbs all work, I haven't lost my marbles (yet), and frankly, given this world, I still think that counts for something. I am grateful that I am still able to see a sunrise, or fail miserably at running experiments. I am just glad to *be*. It's not directed *at* anyone/thing per se, it just "is".
Sean "still crazy after all these years" Davis
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Post by Frogsy on Nov 25, 2003 11:38:13 GMT -5
No; to me, being thankful means recognizing that the situation you're in is good (or at least parts of it are good). It's kind of like saying, "I'm happy for this" or "I'm happy for that." For example, I am glad that I have Roger and my family; I am glad that I have an apartment to live in; I am glad that my health is good (I think??). To me, you can be grateful for something without necessarily having to be grateful to somebody or something. You can just be happy. This is not to say that Thanksgiving is necessarily a time I reflect on this. I'm grateful every day; Thanksgiving is just an excuse not to pay attention to what I'm eating |
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Post by Seany-D on Nov 25, 2003 11:47:23 GMT -5
right on, sweet sista! |
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Post by Rama on Nov 25, 2003 15:41:33 GMT -5
My parents are going to Hong-Kong for Thanksgiving. I get to be thankful for a whole bunch of Kraft EasyMac!
Meh. Actually I've become rather disillusioned with holidays in general ever since embracing the ways of hedonism and anti-faith. Now I'm more of the opinion that you can turn any day into a holiday if you try hard enough. If I ever had reason and means to gorge myself on turkey and mashed potatoes and alcohol then I wouldn't see why I should do that any weekend of the year.
It is fun to get presents though, like on Christmas and your birthday. Although...the quality of presents begins to sharply decline after the age of seventeen. I want some goddamn legos in my stocking.
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Post by profdunebastard on Nov 25, 2003 16:31:04 GMT -5
That's why it is cool to have a little Brother. I subtly tell him what toys are cool and what to ask for (ie-what toys I want to play with) then I spend Christmas Morning playing with all his legos and nerf guns and stuff. It's sweet.
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Post by Valvilis on Nov 25, 2003 19:24:03 GMT -5
I'm thankful that I don't have to do the cooking for once, though there is usually a marked decline in the quality of the meal. Making a turkey just seems tedious. Holidays are dumb, live each day as though it were your last.
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Post by FishBait on Nov 28, 2003 23:00:32 GMT -5
My family recently started the tradition of making everyone say something they're thankful well actually I should say my dad recently started the tradition and it was probably just as a conversation starter but I think my family is the only one where the first thing we could come up with to be thankful for is gravity and existence (I can't remember which was said first) and then continued to have a long discussion on whether gravity was dependent on existence or existence was dependent on gravity. Which brings me to probably the one thing I am most thankful for having intelligent parents.
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Also...feel free to respond after the holiday has passed. After all, half of you won't even see this until after the break... 
