Happy Holidays From Anxiety Zone! - (Plus New Theme)

[GreyGoose]

Greetings!

Christmas has come to Anxiety Zone!. We hope you enjoy the new theme. May you and yours have a very Merry Christmas as well as a joyous and prosperous New Year. Thanks to all of you for making our community what it is today and for the help and support each of you provides to others every day.

Whatever Holiday you celebrate this year (Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc) we hope you have a happy and joy-filled one. Thanks for being a part of the Anxiety Zone community and take care

- Regards, GreyGoose

[NightMare77]

Love the new theme!  Happy holidays, everyone!

[tinam7]

Thank you for the happy wishes and the site. When it was down a short while yesterday I realized how much it has come to mean to me. Am very grateful for it.

Well wishes to all.

[tinam7]

It's too late to change the previous post but meant to say Happy Holidays to everyone. Also like the designs.

[Itzomi]

I loooove the Christmas theme!!!  And I so appreciate the use of "Merry Christmas."  I'm just so friggin' annoyed at the generic "Happy Holidays" term or "Season's Greetings" (when it's used to purposely avoid the word "Christmas").   I live in a very multicultural area and I love to experience other people's joy, such as Diwali, and feel so warm and fuzzy if someone at work wishes me a Happy Diwali knowing I am obviously not Indian.  Why stifle the joy of others? 

Anyhoo, off my soapbox now.   

[jane134]

Happy Christmas, everyone! Wishing everybody a happy and healthy new year! 

[GenSec]

This reminds me of my recent meaning of Christmas thread... how Christians pinched the season from the pagans and rebranded it as being about Christ (even though he wasn't even born in the winter season); and now in more recent times its being steadily secularised in order to remain a relevant feature on our calendars. To stay alive. Basically, Christmas evolves - and changes its fundamental meaning - throughout the ages to keep up with a changing society. To remain relevant to as many people as possible in today's society - where Christianity is no longer dominant in most people's lives like it once was (whether we wanted it to be or no). It made the transition from various pagan belief systems into a monotheistic-faith inspired worldview... now it is (successfully) making yet another transition to survive an ever-more secular epoch.
Yet, it should be pointed out that some Christian faiths denied Christmas' legitimacy as a Christian event because of its true pagan origins and the simple truth that December was not the month of Christ's birth - ie. Quakers, Presbyterians, etc. I've seen Fox News recently try and portray athiests as having a "war on Christ-mass" and "keep the Christ in Christ-Mass" when in reality many Christian denominations (very plausibly and coherently) deny this connection too. In my (officially Christian) country, Christmas was not recognised as a holidy until well into the 1950's. It was an ordinary working day just like any other. Our national church seen it as a pagan invention: not genuinely Christian at all. We only marked New Year and to this day New Year, not Christmas, is our main festivity.

Nowadays, it embodies different things to different people. Thats a right everyone has. I think its a great thing. It may even indeed warrant a new name - it was once called Yuletide (among various other pre-Christian names), then 'Christmas' to symbolise its newly created meaning; now it may indeed yet again warrant being renamed in the future. As they say... adapt or die.

I'll stick to a nice innocent secular 'Season's Greetings' and Happy New Year message to everyone, lol!

Best,
Gen.