You def did

He hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season!

Now, please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason.

It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.

It could be, perhaps his shoes were too tight.

But I think that the most likely reason of all

May have been that his heart was two sizes too small

No, did you?

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> Society is a social construct.

So: Society emerges from society; it continually recreates itself in society's image?

Edit: Not sure why this was downvoted. It's an honest question.

The only holiday celebrated for 1/6th of the YEAR...

I don't think profound is the right word to describe "the Christmas feeling," maybe oppressive, zealous, or wasteful may be better choices.

If you think of it in a biological sense, it is a set of traditions that has been artificially selected for for the past couple thousand years, intertwined with various cultures and traditions to be this way, its sad that we are captivated by such a machination.

I’m with you, friend. Just lost my mom last month and this will be my first Christmas without her. Thanksgiving sucked. Getting used to the feeling.

Society is a social construct. That’s not even an argument.

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I was going to say there are lots of people that have bad experiences from around the holidays. Every year the holidays bring up bad memories of that previous trauma. It goes both ways.

used to love it, music included, but now i know we can never escape the same old christmas songs on loop for the rest of our lives. it fills me with dread the entire year.

i used to live it but now everything changed

I've renounced Christmas and am now just looking forward to the winter solstice because that's when the days get longer again and it's just more meaningful to me. It also feels more intimate because it's something I do for myself. Obviously Christmas still happens around me but I put myself in the role of a spectator outside of all the craziness.

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I find that as I age, each year brings on new elements of wistfulness and inherent sadness of a lost past that can’t be recreated.

Same for me. I used to love Christmas as a kid but now there just seems to be a lot of pressure to live up to those memories and it’s always a let down.

Anyone else really don't like Christmas? I actually feel worse around that season.

Christmas is a phenomenon? They mean social construct, right?

As someone who does not live in the west: Interesting

Not religious, but love Christmas. It’s definitely a real feeling. Makes me fel nostalgic, cozy and friendly. And the smell of hyacinth really triggers childhood memories, ah something about smells..

As an atheist who goes crazy for Christmas I must agree

It's possible for the human genome to have evolved on another planet. If humanity went extinct, we could send our genome into space in hopes of aliens finding it and cloning us so that we may live on as a species. In both cases the end result of the human genome propagating in the universe but with no significant ties to our earth are the same. Our genome being cloned by aliens seems better to me even though the end result is the same.

Hard Determinism. Every choice you have made, are making, will ever make was pre-determined the instant the universe came into existence. Your entire life is following a pre-set path. Every seeming choice made simply part of the following of that path. You have no free will, it is an illusion. You are not responsible for your actions because you never had any ability to change them. They were predetermined before you even came into existence to take them.

Heady stuff. Based on the logic of cause and effect. Cause has to precede effect. The universe is deterministic, all effects within it had previous cause. We are part of that universe.

Hard Free Will, usually called Libertarian Free Will. None of your choices are pre-determined. Either the universe is not deterministic and or our own choices are not governed by the same laws as the rest of the universe. There are in fact multiple paths you can follow. You are free to choose which path, you are responsible for the path taken.

The interstitial answers to the question of if I am an object or a person and how that is expressed?

I guess that means there are no real philosophers and certainly Ayn Rand wasn't a real philosopher.