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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." - Henry Ward Beecher
Happy Thanksgiving!
Halloween started as a pagan celebration and became the secular spooky-fun holiday we now know, with almost no connection to how it started...and where there are connections, 99% of people don't know of it.
Christmas also started as a pagan celebration incorporated by the Christian Church as sectarian holiday, which has since become a secular celebration for most (though some practice both).
So it is true of nearly every holiday we have...Valentine's Day? Easter?
I mention this because many people have a problem with the original purpose of Thanksgiving, which like everything else, is lost in myth and probably reflects little if anything of reality.
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Popular culture wants us to believe the picture above was how it played out, that this is the origin of the holiday. And because of that, as a culture we have become apoplectic over the defense of tradition and the beginnings of this great country, or the assault on a holiday that essentially celebrates the start of the American Indian's suffering.
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| Normal Rockwell's idea of Thanksgiving (Image found on the Internet) |
When in fact, like Halloween, or Christmas, whatever the origins, it now means something entirely different from the celebration of the first pilgrims. Which in itself is just a bogus fiction since it is actually another appropriated holiday from pagan traditions: The Harvest Festival. As the picture above shows, it is has become a celebration of family and friends instead.
Personally, I don't go for the whole pilgrim/Indian motif, not since grade school. Around my home, it's about the harvest, about friends, about family, about being thankful for the things we have in our life.
I suggest you do the same and enjoy the day free of history.
-Brent
"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." - William Blake
