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Published: 2010-12-15 18:13:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 4597; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 29
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as much as I'd like to say that Christmas is for everyone, it is not...I guess it's useless to celebrate Christmas if you don't know what the real meaning of Christmas, which is Jesus' birth
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[link] page 1 Introduction
[link] page 2 Always Better
[link] page 3 Suspicion
[link] page 4 Not That Strange
[link] page 5 How to Make Sense
[link] page 6 A friend's concern
[link] page 7 Meeting your love
[link] page 8 Kris Kringle
[link] page 9 A New Job
[link] page 10 Ponyo and Sousuke
[link] page 11 My Valentine
[link] page 12 Request
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[link] page 14 Little Sister
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[link] page 16 Last One
[link] page 17 Annoying Passenger
[link] page 18 Lunch Box
[link] page 19 Good Driver
[link] page 20 Cats and Dogs
[link] page 21 Food for Fowl
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[link] page 23 The Thinker
[link] page 24 Footsteps
[link] page 26 I will wait
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[link] page 28 From the Rib
[link] page 29 The 12 Years Old Girl
[link] page 30 Unwell Feeling
[link] page 31 Iron Man
[link] page 32 Mango Girl
[link] City Night View
[link] Why LORD?
[link] A Prayer
[link] Breath
[link] Silence
[link] This Pain
[link] Totoro Family
[link] Assignment
[link] Drawing A Pose
[link] No Undo
[link] Neighbourly Noise
[link] I'm Fat Again
[link] Why Do You Draw?
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[link] page 9 Tall Tower
[link] page10 Good Job
[link] page 11 COnfusion
[link] page 12 Age Gap
[link] page 13 The Call of Abram
[link] page 14 Abram in Egypt
[link] page 15 Pharaoh in Law
[link] page 16 The Creator
[link] page 17 Creation
[link] page 18 Which Day
[link] page 19 The 6th Day
[link] page 20 Tree of Knowledge
[link] page 21 Thing
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[link] Companion
[link] The Woman
[link] Not Ashamed
[link] The SnaKe
[link] The Snake Menace
[link] Touch and Die
[link] Eating the Fruit
[link] Fall of Mankind
[link] Regret
[link] Hiding
[link] Confession
[link] Serpent's Fault
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I'm an athiest but i celebrate it as i love all our family getting together ^^
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Actually every European is christian. Either by tradition or religion. Think about it 
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I dont want to be rude, but I would like to disagree with you. just because people call themselfs christians doesnt mean they are. they might say that they love God, but their hearts are far from Him. True christians are passionate about God. Jesus is not a part of their lives, but He is their life. Everything a christian does he does for Jesus Christ and His glory. A christian dedicates every breath, every drop of sweat, every thought to God. God HAS to be taken VERY seriously, so does the title "christian". even though the number of true christians is growing quickly, I dont think we can use the term "every european is a christian", because thats not true yet.
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There is nothing rude in disagreeing. Ofcourse i didn't mean a "true Christian" when i said Christian in that context. All I wanted to emphasise was the fact that alot of European values and similar have blossomed from it's christian history and no man is unaffected by their surroundings, so most people in europe have SOME christian values (more then any other values)...even though those are dying away in this day and age, more and more and being replaced with New Age... And yes, I know what a true Christian is
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Amen brother! Finally someone said it
Don't you find it ironic that during our greatest celebrations (Christmas and Easter) there is always a commercial thing happening like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Santa Clause it derived from Saint Nicolas, who is actually celebrated on the 06.12 (like in Germany today) while the Easter bunny is a tradition that celebrates Spring...nothing to do with either of our celebrations. I can just imagine you drawing something like "Oh it's Easter soon! I love bunnies!!!" hahaha All the sense that makes...
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the real meaning of the holiday... capitalism
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lol
my family dosnt celebrate it XD
but apparently its been said that Xmas is for something else coz jesus was not born then... = /
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ahhhhhh
sekarang banyak anak" disogokin ama santa dan hadiah, mereka jadi ga tau apa arti natal, sama halnya kayak lebaran apa puasa, cuma nunggu fitrah dlll
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hahah logis, kalo anak2 si ga pa pa lah yah, soalnya toh ga ngerti,
tapi buat orang2 yang udah dewasa, kadang ga ngerti sama sekali apa arti ajaran agamanya
yang asli
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hahah can't help it tho
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Hahahahaha!!! XD
True that though, its really empty without knowing the real meaning.
And a really long and boring winter....
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well...without that real meaning, then it would only be another end of the year,
time to get depressed because you havent produce much this year,
time to pat yourself in the back because you might have done well, but it's never enough...
but yeah, I guess I'd like to thank God for making it at the end of the year (well, the date is made by man, but God has allowed it to, so...) it gives me comfort to know that he loves us on our faith, not deeds, by our love to Him, not by how successful we're financially, nor how famous we are.
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well i'm not christian... but a muslim... yet i celebrate hari raya (duh), chinese new year (coz my step dad is chinese) and christmas (coz it's my mum's birthday)
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hahah look at the bright side, at least you'll get the angpao
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EXACTLY! I get more money on Chinese New Year than Hari Raya!
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This is cute! ^^
I agree it makes little sense to celebrate Christmas if one doesn't really know or believe in the true meaning behind it. But I think it's good too that Christmas has become so well-known. It can be a bridge to tell people about Jesus. ^^
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It is kinda sad the way the world has changed Christmas so much. it is celebrating Christ's birth. It's HIS birthday! How would we feel if everyone took you out of your birthday? Everyone else celebrating while you just sit and watch from the sidelines. Jesus has to deal with that every year and it's getting worse and worse as the years go by.
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I agree. Nowadays, I feel like Christmas is getting lost in the "give more by spending more" routine. It's like GIFTmas instead of CHRISTmas.
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its so funny how little christmas has to do with JesusΒ΄ birth lol
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Christmas for me is a time to get together with family and friends. With most people getting unpunished time off work and most businesses being shut, the day becomes a free time for such grand socializing. While I do not celebrate the birth of the Christ child, I do celebrate Christmas.
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yeah I think I agree with you, it was such a nice time of the year
especially in Australia, compared to Indonesia, we don't get holiday for Christmas except on the day.
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I don't celebrate christmas, I celebrate the holidays the christians stole it from:
Yule and Saturnalia
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Yes, yes Christians stole everything from pagans... run along now π: 0 β©: 3
sorry didnt read all your replies to the other person before replying first.
but it goes both ways. So many tell pagans they cant enjoy christmas because they arent christian. If we all just say screw it celebrate what you want and all give and be happy during the season there would be less arguments over it.
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you do know that even according tot he bible jesus was born during tax season tax season is summer in roman times because it was when the fields were not ready to harvest. So farmers could leave their fields. The reason Christmas is when it is, is because early christians were HIGHLY adaptable in order to convert others to their religion. They saw the winter festival of rebirth and adapted their time of celebration to match it in order to get converts.
There is nothing wrong with celebrating the birth of christ in winter. It is of course the thought that counts.
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Go read up on roman history and how christmas was created so the pagan converts would have a reason to party at that time.
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I know that, it's just a bit annoying that every time i talk about Christmas there is always that one guy that's "Christmas is a pagan holiday dontcha know?" in a "you don't know shit" way, after sometime it get's annoying you know.
Besides almost every bigger holiday is a conversion of a foreign celebration so when people converted to Christianity they didn't have to forget there traditions.
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Exactly. What annoys me is that people complain that those who aren't christian can't celebrate a holiday because they don't belong to a religion, when the holiday itself was taken from somewhere else, and even has little to do with the religious connotations connected to it.
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Actually it changed it purpose when it was converted so Christmas is Christian cause it symbolically celebrates the birth of Jesus it's no longer the pagan holiday it was converted from, besides there were no Santa Claus back then.
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And when santa came along and changed the meaning of the holiday to be about giving and family tidings rather than about christ. If the christians stole yule, secular society stole christmas.
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but if that's called stealing then the whole world is guilty for celebrating new year on 1 jan since it's according to Gregorian's calendar?
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The Gregorian calender is an internationally accepted civil calender, used for administrative purposes. The religious connotation is not relevant in that context.
The New Year celebration, as I understand, is almost like an equinox party. It's celebrating the beginning of a new year of prosperity and love. Like a birthday party for the whole world.
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only those that use the gregorian calenddar celebrate it on jan 1.
there is no proble with celebrating christ's birthday in winter. but there are MANY religions and just normal celebrations in winter. It is because winter is so depressing a time and most cultures had a gift giving day during that time to liven it up and to bring joy in such a time of silence and cold.
But it is also the time of celebrating the birth of the new season. the birth of other gods in other religions. The celebration of miracles. there are so MANY happy gift giving peace and love celebrations during this time.
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Are they using a name other than that used on the gregorian calendar?
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its almost the same as me.. the different is, the last panel is about tide.. my house got soaked last week, and its almost 30cm high
and Mom freak out about it, and we not allowed to put any tree
but well, Christmas is not only about 
Merry Christmas everyone
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behh serius ;_; banjir parah lagi ya di jakarta??
aku kira udah ga banjir lagi...sigh...
haish...indo-indo, kena bencana terus ni di mana2,
jangan sampai kiamat dulu
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ahahaha, sayangnya banjirnya di Pontianak
untung cuma sekali kemaren..
yahh kiamat juga gpp si... *udahpuashidup
ahahaha
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yeah..correct. the world is celebrating a Christless Christmas.
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well, as long as the christian can at least celebrate a Christ in Christmas, it would still be great
kind of like a light in the darkness.
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It's sad that when Jesus' Birthday comes up... all people think about are gifts and partying.
They think that celebrating Christmas is opening the ten (or more) presents you got and hoping they were what you wanted. :T
The US is especially materialistic in this season... but you can't really blame them, it's just the way it has been for a while. :c
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i'm sorry for that
oh well, at least for us Christian, we could remember the real meaning, and yea maybe can tell people about it, for me myself Christmas has always been a reminder time for me, to know what has God done, and to review my state in faith
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Somehow Christmas here has been changed to a time of buying buying buying and buying.
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Nah. The Japanese celebrate Christmas, even though most of them aren't Christian.
Of course, most of them DO know the real meaning behind it, but for them, it's a romantic holiday to be together and admire the beauty of the lights and the snow on the streets and trees. It's just a holiday that has so much beauty, they can't pass it up. They even have Santa costumes all around. XD
So many of them just call it the "Japanese Christmas."
Funny thing is... after Christmas, for New Year's Eve, they celebrate the end of the year at Buddhist temples, and then, one New Year's, they all migrate to Shintoo shrines.
They aren't just multi-cultured. They are multi-religious. Even the ones that ARE Christian.
But that's because it's more of a social tradition than it is a religion.
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