tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907980016894811549.post8087377145099564554..comments2024-03-28T13:35:40.706+00:00Comments on HPANWO Voice: The Christmas Truce 100 Years OnBen Emlyn-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858990047274822000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907980016894811549.post-70289057647239805752014-12-27T12:11:23.086+00:002014-12-27T12:11:23.086+00:00Thanks, X. Merry Christmas to you and yours too :-...Thanks, X. Merry Christmas to you and yours too :-) I find the story of the 1914 truce so moving because it's a sign of humanity in a historical even that was more devoid of it than any other. The way the church took over the Winter Solstice is something I only came across long after I began celebrating Christmas. How strangeBen Emlyn-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858990047274822000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907980016894811549.post-27249976242640013562014-12-25T09:59:43.175+00:002014-12-25T09:59:43.175+00:00Very poignant post Ben.
This also, for me, does ...Very poignant post Ben. <br /><br />This also, for me, does actually sum up the whole culture of Christmas. <br /><br />As so the 'truce' would give way to the horror to come, so has the principals of organised religion after the death of Christ and the building of the Church Institute and the continued bloodshed thereafter, the desecration of pagan and traditional cultural values and beliefs in substitute for a climate where people had to convert to Christianity. <br /><br />The fact that it has been used in the advert actually is very 'fitting' to the whole culture of Christmas historically and theories as advertisement. <br /><br />Those theories become more important than the figure of what Christmas is supposed to mean be it Christ, Winter Solstice and the changing of the seasons, Gathering etc and in that tradition subverting a natural thing into a product just repeats itself sadly again.<br /><br />I actually enjoy Christmas but that is because I do not harbor any institutional-religio, coprporate notions of it, the seasons and times speak for themselves, they do not need advertising!. <br /><br />Merry Christmas Ben to you and family (and HPANWO Viewers) xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com