Another year over, A new one just begun…
Christmas means little to me on the cosmological front, and I’ll note I don’t have the hard-on for Christians that I see in a lot of other atheists. Christmas does carry a significant weight for me that, I guess, I, as a product of Western society, can share with my friends and acquaintance regardless of religious beliefs. It is, besides its Christian meaning, the holiday we associate with the renewal of the annual cycle of life; as such it is a pause that begs us to consider our course so far, and where we go from here. And, the setup asks us to examine who in our lives are truly vital. We try to share some of this annual moment with them. We also, at least some of us, tend to become a little more willing to believe the street people’s stories.
Ah, well! That’s all fine and good. But that same sentiment that causes us to consider this season in a retrospective light engenders bouts of angst the likes of which we see in threads such as Eutychus55’s I Feel So Bad Right Now, purplebear’s As a Cold Wind blows through my heart… and wyldelf’s Why must we hurt each other?; all threads to which I could not muster a response because, save the platitudes, I just didn’t know what to say.
I can’t make life right for you folks on the threads of despair, but know that we’ve all read them and care for you. Love, y’all!