It's the best Christmas Special
shareSteven Spielberg should do a remake.
j/k
It works perfectly well without the scripture reading. I would go so far as to say that that amounts to gilding a lily, which I read somewhere...
It's a different story without the scripture reading. Charlie Brown spends the whole show being depressed about the commercialism of Christmas (including his younger sister and dog) and finally asking (rhetorically) in desperation if anyone could tell him what Christmas was all about. He didn't expect an answer, but Linus matter of factly reads the scripture which answers Charlie's question and frees him from his confusion.
Nice try.
shareLinus got to first base on an error. Bob and Larry hit the ball out of the park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o70DCe92b1s
Davey and Goliath "Christmas Lost And Found"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS5zNAQCIZs
Pretty much a rip-off of Charlie Brown, but Davey actually gets up off his ass instead of just running his mouth.
he didn't see the future. he was commenting on the present he was in. those who say that things were different back in the days either didn't live then or don't remember correctly. the same with Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Sally complains that it is Thanksgiving and all the stores have Christmas decorations.
shareYes, there have always been those who would seek to destroy Christmas and the holiday season with materialism. But their efforts have seemed to have intensified within the recent decades.
I was at Sam's Club in September and they were already unloading "Christmas" decorations and setting up an aisle for these... yes, I said September! That's not a typo. By October we were already hearing about the "Black Friday" rubbish; normally they would at least wait until Halloween ended before they started pushing that garbage. Then that's all you hear about during the entire month of November. Thanksgiving Day gets very little mention and for a while the stores were open for business on that day. The COVID pandemic seems to have put a stop to that.
Radio stations are now switching to the 24-hour "Christmas" formats in early November.
I put the word "Christmas" in quotations because what they are promoting here is greed, materialism and crass consumerism, not the holiday. From September through December it's a non-stop barrage of "buy, buy, buy" and "gimme, gimme, gimme."
Isn't it interesting how the supposed visitation day of a Spiritual Messenger that brought us the un-materialistic message of love and compassion, with which, we could've turned this planet to a paradise, is now just a place in the calendar to celebrate the completely OPPOSITE values?
I mean, someone hijacked the darkest time of the year that was supposed to be about celebration about humility, fasting, love, compassion, spiritual cultivation and faith, and turned it into a bribery-fest with gluttony and corporate greed!
Instead of celebrating The Christ called 'Jesus', we celebrate a demon called 'Satan'. Oh, sorry, 'Santa'. Yeah, it's an anagram just by coincidence..
There are so many things wrong with celebrating this gluttonous, greedy elf that has no other message but 'bribe each other, behave SUPERFICIALLY well for selfish reasons, practice gluttony', and calling this holiday Christ-Mass is blasphemy and atrocity.
They go even further than that, of course, and call it "X-mas" instead. As if 'mas' means something by itself, and as if 'X' somehow means 'Christ', because cross was used as a torture device and murder weapon to commit a horrible crime against humanity and the Creator of the universe.
When you think about the details of this 'celebration' and take a step back, you should be pretty horrified. Not only does this anagram of 'satan' practice slavery, gluttony and promote bad physical health and toilet-scrubbing liquid as a drink (because soulless corporations are to be worshipped), but he uses Názi colors of red, black and white (look at his outfit colors).
Red is the lowest color by frequency - the lowest vibration you can get from a color, white brings the most contrast, and black is a non-color, as it doesn't radiate any color, so well done, fat elf with an alcoholic's nose.
This holiday is about lying. You have to lie that some elf will do the physically impossible feat of visiting every children in the world on a damn flying animal-abused vehicle. Yes, animals are a big part of this feast.. I mean, festival. You murder them en massé to eat their buttockses, you torture the reindeer as your animal slaves, you name it.
You bring death in your living room as a centerpiece to be worshipped as well. You destroy nature to do this, so a dying tree ripped from nature is sucking your energy in your living room while you superficially "decorate" it, thus distorting and hiding its natural beauty by useless glitter and flashy, blinking lights.
How superficial and glitter-worshipping can you get?
You teach kids that physical presents are important, not your own spiritual cultivation. Gratitude for the Hand that Created you is not important, but lusting for material possessions that are packaged in a glittery paper is, and making lists of 'what you want' is encouraged by your lying parents. You condition every kid to be all starry-eyed about the 'presents', while learning to 'behave well' according to the 'society', not according to any spiritual message.
I could go on, but I hope I made my point.. this holiday couldn't be more blasphemous and wrong.
Glad as hell you weren't my parent when I was a little kid!
share"Schultz saw into the future."
I am glad you spell it with a 'T', as I can't accept the 'Schulz'-spelling, no matter how 'correct' it is in this reality. I remember it with a 'T' as surely as Dolly having braces.
Putting up a decorated tree and lights is not "commercialism", unless you count the fact that you have to buy them someplace. If you put up a Jesus nativity scene instead, you also have to buy that.
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