Getting Woo for Christmas

[xman]

... I don't celebrate the shortest day of the year either, ...

As an astronomy lover I love to celebrate the winter solstice. It's the most meaningful day of the season. My 21 month old son and I went to a story telling performance, then a parade to a yule log and ran into his mother and five other members of our family.
............................................................... A SUPER day!

 

[Giliell]

... I don't celebrate the shortest day of the year either, ...

As an astronomy lover I love to celebrate the winter solstice. It's the most meaningful day of the season. My 21 month old son and I went to a story telling performance, then a parade to a yule log and ran into his mother and five other members of our family.
............................................................... A SUPER day!

Ain't it funny?
In winter we celebrate that days are getting longer, but funny enough, in summer we don't mention that the solstice means that days are getting shorter, we just celebrate the longest day.

 

[5810Singer]

Ain't it funny?
In winter we celebrate that days are getting longer, but funny enough, in summer we don't mention that the solstice means that days are getting shorter, we just celebrate the longest day.

Actually I always feel a slight pang over the summer solstice because I know the days are beginning to shorten.

 

[obsidianavenger]

not really something to celebrate unless you're a vampire...

 

[jrparri]

I never quite understood that. I suppose I'm not usually called negative; I am called negative whenever I say something like "I don't think that will work" (because positive = thinking everything, anything, will work, otherwise you're a negative cynical person with a chip on your shoulder...)...

Yes I've heard the "limited" thing too -- that old odd formula of Curiosity + Intellectual Honesty = Cynicism.

My problem may be that I can be too intrusive. perhaps.. I went to a "meeting" for "demonstrating" magnetic insoles -- an MLM called Nikken sells them. It was a long time ago, and I didn't know then what I know now about the woo of healing magnets, or "applied kinesiology". All I knew was that I was genuinely curious as to whether it would work.

They pushed down on someone's arms, with them trying to resist. Then they have them step on magnetic insoles and push down again .. "shazam!" they are stronger. Oohing and ahhing ensued, and I was among the chorus. But damn it all, I am a curious sort.

So I suggested afterwards to a few people to bring a non-magnetic insole to the next meeting, not telling anyone, and see what happens. To say these people were hostile to the idea is putting it mildly. They called me negative, "energy blocker", skeptic (as an insult, apparently), and a tool of Big Pharma. And they weren't Nikken representatives, either, they were just random people like me who had agreed to attend the demonstration.

It was disheartening, honestly. I was the only one curious enough to ask questions, and motivated enough to seek out the answers -- and for that I was labeled close-minded and incurious. Astonishing.