I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving. I know I did. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about the holiday. Being Pagan, my thanksgiving is more around the time of Mabon, which falls on the autumn equinox. I celebrate traditional thanksgiving for my parents and as an excuse to see my family, not as a celebration of the pilgrims first dinner with the Native Americans. I feel like I would then be celebrating decades of death and destruction of the Native American culture.
Black Friday is another day that really has low moral standing in my books, and the same goes for the people who go out at 4 o’clock in the morning to get good deals and what not. Again, I celebrate Christmas, not for the christian aspect of it (even though that has mostly disappeared as well), but for my family. My family is not pagan, and so they do not celebrate my holidays. They are not really christian either, so they mostly celebrate these holidays because that is what society tells them to do.
Black Friday is just another day when people get to show off their greed. Christmas is so commercialized, that store owners decided to make their own little holiday out of people coming and buying their products. People search for the best deals, and they will do anything to get them: pushing, shoving, killing. When I did a Google search trying to find news from this mornings black Friday, I still just came up with how many great deals there were. Although I do remember watching my local news yesterday after the Parade, and a teenager was talking about her experience with black Friday last year. She said something how her hood was pulled as people tried to push past her, another teenager spoke about how she was even knocked down. And last year, a Walmart employee was even trampled to death. You can read that article here:
Happy holidays…
Posted by Daniel
Posted by Daniel
Posted by Daniel 