American Heathen®

Once upon a time there was a country that said it needed “breathing room”…

Yeah, you heard about this one… started taking over other countries, calling itself an empire, forcing people to adhere to their standards, their currency, their beliefs…

Or maybe it was that country that was run by that little diminutive reject seeking to restore lost glories to compensate for his short stature?

Or maybe it was that country that needed to “go west”, so it chased the people who were already there into places that used to suck until they figured out how to build casinos?

Or maybe it was that country run by yet another little diminutive reject who wasn’t even native born and yet was spinning nationalistic propaganda mixed with self-righteousness and fantasies of genetic superiority to compensate for his own physical and mental inferiority issues?

Or maybe it was that country that called itself a “Union” and pompously believed that they were on the track to being socially superior on an evolutionary level to compensate for the fact that they were a bunch of backwater also-rans that refused to change?

Well the point is anytime someone says they need “breathing room” it usually is a false-flag excuse to just claim things that aren’t theirs in the first place.

It’s called The Rule of “MINE”, as in “This is MINE now!”

We see this with eminent domain.  A developer sees your nice little neighborhood and says “You know what? I could take this land and put in an office complex and make a fortune.  This land is MINE now!”  And then he goes to his friends in the government and they use eminent domain to make it his.

But we really see it when it comes to the HOLIDAY season.

Yes, that’s right, I said HOLIDAY season… not Christmas.  Because Christmas itself was stolen from so many beliefs and traditions.  And the more that it steals, the more explanations that are needed to justify it all.

And this is where the Rule of “MINE” comes in, because self-righteous Christians have been using their beliefs as the justification to assimilate anything and everything it touches, especially when it comes to the HOLIDAY season.

You see, once upon a time there was this celebration called YULE.  It was a joyful PAGAN celebration.  And some self-righteous people came in and they saw this festive occasion and they said “That’s neat!  Do you mind if we incorporate some of that into OUR celebrations?”  So they did.  And then they said “This all MINE now!  You can’t celebrate it unless you are doing it MY way under MY rules!  This is MINE!  Everything in it is MINE!”

And they took a look at the decorated trees and the wreaths and the mistletoe and the gift-giving and they said “MINE!  MINE!  MINE!”

And they hear the story of some old man (the Norse god Odin) riding in a sleigh in the middle of winter and they said “MINE!”

And someone named Dickens came up with a story condemning the influences of the Industrial Revolution using ancient traditions and influences like ghosts, and they said “MINE!”

And they manufactured some stories about a magically talking snowman and a mutant reindeer and said “MINE!”

And they took a whole bunch of song, including a generic one about sleighs, and they lumped them in with church hymns, paid singers to make them all seem hip and cool, and then said “MINE!”

And when they realized that they could make a profit on the merchandising of it all, they said “MINE!” to it all, as well as the WHOLE MONTH!  And then they spread it to include other days as well.  They took a look at the change in the year and they said “MINE!” and they linked it with a feast to celebrate immigration (for business reasons, of course) and they said “MINE!” and then they started to bleed it into another pagan celebration of witches and ghosts and they also said “MINE!”

They need that extra time, of course, because they need “breathing room.”

And woe be to any celebration that happens alongside it or during that time, especially for any other faith, because that too becomes part of “MINE! MINE! MINE!”  Not only that, but you can’t really CELEBRATE those things in mixed company because they’re now a part of the whole season of “MINE!”

And IF by some chance you draw the line to it all, to stop the ever-increasing assimilation, then you are told that you have to FORFEIT any participation in the season at all.  Because it’s THEIR season!  ALL OF IT.  You cannot HAVE a “secular” celebration, you know why?  Because it’s THEIRS!  ALL THEIRS!  If you won’t allow Jesus and the Magi and seasonal discounts to be interjected and incorporated into every nook and cranny of society, then you’re not ALLOWED to sing about snowing or sleigh rides or magical snowmen, or take part in gift-giving or celebrations, or to wear the seasonal colors, or to take part in ANY of the activities… because it’s ALL THEIRS!

If it seems self-centered and childish, then finally you get the point… because THAT IS the attitude that I’ve seen from people who get all offended if you say the word “HOLIDAY” instead of “Christmas”.  They get offended.  They get upset.  HOW DARE YOU infer that this is something that doesn’t reflect THEIR beliefs!  HOW DARE YOU suggest that there is more than ONE celebration going on right now!  “This is MINE”, they declare, “ALL MINE!”

Well the truth is that the HOLIDAY season is an amalgamation of many beliefs and traditions.  The truth is that the TRULY DEVOUT actually OUTLAWED Christmas in the 17th Century for being PAGAN.  The truth is that the Romans didn’t run their census during the festival of Saturnalia.  They were done in the spring.  The truth is that ancient Jewish traditions didn’t celebrate birthdays, because that was considered a PAGAN celebration.  And in truth, the whole self-centered attitude about the season is not really about GIVING (as they claim), but rather of GETTING, as in they GET all this time (formerly just a month but now it’s over two months) where everything and everyone around them reaffirms THEIR illusions and ideas of how this time should be seen.

And that really sums it all up, doesn’t it?  It’s all about sustaining illusions and ideas, no matter if it’s about the old man in the red outfit, the decorated Yule trees, getting the “Gotta Have” gift for the little ones, or something as simple as a passing greeting.  They have crafted a world of THEIR own creation, and your role, as THEY have decreed it, is to sustain it and to make it real.  If you’re not enabling THEIR fantasy, then they don’t want you involved in “THEIR” world, because it really isn’t too much of a stretch for them to simply declare to all of reality “This is all MINE!”

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