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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT Rant About Christians.
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:43:17 -0700
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:15:16 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:28:58 -0700, Paul S Person
><psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 09:13:41 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
>><michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 22/08/2024 11.03, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>
>>>> IOW, it can be argued that it is not the /Christian's/ Christmas =
that
>>>> is commercialized. Which is why it is more commonly called "the
>>>> Holiday Season", and starts (at latest) the day after Thanksgiving =
and
>>>> extends to (at earliest) New Year's Day. That is to say, I don't =
think
>>>> it's been extended to the day after Halloween or Epiphany. Yet.
>>>
>>>The Christmas season runs to Epiphany.
>>><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas.
>>
>>The religious one (and its cultural attachments) does, to be sure.
>>That is why each year I listen to one movement of JS Bach's Christmas
>>Oratorio on as close to the proper day as possible, and then take down
>>my decorations (which went up on Christmas eve).
>
>In our family we usually got our tree up about a week before (though
>last year only on Christmas Eve) but the twelveth day is when we were
>taught the tree was SUPPOSED to come down. Our couch is right next to
>the tree's normal location so we didn't but decorations on one side of
>the tree to prevent the cat knocking the ornaments down...since kitty
>normally sits on that arm of the chair the rest of the year.

I don't remember the timing when I was growing up, but a week or so
before sounds right (if only to give time to put the tinsel on one
piece at a time, placed carefully -- /that/ I remember). After New
Year's seems likely for disposing of the tree although it could have
stretched to Epiphany.
--=20
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"