Who lived through it long enough to have realized that their original ideas needed a LOT of modifying! As Winston Churchill was quoted as saying, “anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.”
Some traditions are nice, but every time I read about people who are dreading the holidays because it means going to visit relatives they can’t stand, it makes me want to shake them! You don’t have to visit them, just stay home and start your own tradition! Save the gas money and buy a great meal to have for yourselves. If your relatives bellyache, let them become more pleasant to be around!
I’m lucky that the majority of my family, including my in-laws, are terrific people. It’s why we left SF and came to the Inland Empire. Who’d have thought we’d be across the street from hubby’s cousins? We even lived with them the first six months we were here whilst we bought and renovated a house. It was so easy to live with them. They come over when they need help. Also for meals. One day, we’ll break out the Pandemic board game and Cards Against Humanity.
When the Tony Blair government was opposing fox hunting here in the UK, someone said on TV that fox hunting is traditional. My Dad then said to me that if we kept things because they are traditional we would still have cock-fighting and public executions!
The Tony Blair government did succeed in drastically reducing fox hunting. Drag hunting in which the hounds follow man-made trails is still permitted. Unfortunately, some foxes are sometimes killed.
I like to do a “thought experiment” as Einstein called them. I imagine I am a boy, girl or Zargette scout from the planet Zarg who wants to get my merit badge in privative cultures. So my Scout Zergeant takes me to this out of the way place in the galactic boondocks to a piece of debris circling a middle-aged, yellow dwarf star.
If we can allow our imaginations to step outside of ourselves and even outside of our society and see ourselves as others might see us, then we can come to realize that much that we take for granted or even sacred is arbitrary.
Yep, darn those dead people coming up with traditions like…….
Eating meals together as a family instead of in front of the boob tube or an electronic device.
Family service days, such as helping at a shelter, serving meals to the homeless or delivering meals to those who are sick and alone on days such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, when organizations like meals on wheels don’t operate.
Turning off the electronics for one night a week and have a family game night, reading night etc.
Take annual family photos, be they professional or just home made. Heaven knows people will remember forever their family members and friends as time goes by.
Cook a meal together as a family, such as a Saturday or Sunday breakfast. As the kids grow older and more competent it can become a main meal for the day.
Yep, curse those dead people, because they are all the self centered, self absorbed, people unlike the living people of today.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
we just smile and shake our heads at all the time, effort, and money folks devote to tradition here in the countryside. it seems like priests visit our neighbor every other day to say prayers for some dead relative or another…
Obvious she isn’t a Church goers. Most of their traditions and customs more powerful than word of God. Jesus Christ said so in Mark 7:13 and Matthew 15:6
Farside99 8 months ago
Who lived through it long enough to have realized that their original ideas needed a LOT of modifying! As Winston Churchill was quoted as saying, “anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.”
Macushlalondra 8 months ago
Some traditions are nice, but every time I read about people who are dreading the holidays because it means going to visit relatives they can’t stand, it makes me want to shake them! You don’t have to visit them, just stay home and start your own tradition! Save the gas money and buy a great meal to have for yourselves. If your relatives bellyache, let them become more pleasant to be around!
FreyjaRN Premium Member 8 months ago
Nicely put! You’re not wrong.
I’m lucky that the majority of my family, including my in-laws, are terrific people. It’s why we left SF and came to the Inland Empire. Who’d have thought we’d be across the street from hubby’s cousins? We even lived with them the first six months we were here whilst we bought and renovated a house. It was so easy to live with them. They come over when they need help. Also for meals. One day, we’ll break out the Pandemic board game and Cards Against Humanity.
Cornelius Noodleman 8 months ago
Get the power washer and clean that wall!
blunebottle 8 months ago
♫ Tradition, tradition! ♫
Calvinist1966 8 months ago
When the Tony Blair government was opposing fox hunting here in the UK, someone said on TV that fox hunting is traditional. My Dad then said to me that if we kept things because they are traditional we would still have cock-fighting and public executions!
The Tony Blair government did succeed in drastically reducing fox hunting. Drag hunting in which the hounds follow man-made trails is still permitted. Unfortunately, some foxes are sometimes killed.
nosirrom 8 months ago
Some traditions are nice but some should be abandoned. The first “Tradition” that comes to mind, for abandonment is female genital mutilation.
dflak 8 months ago
I like to do a “thought experiment” as Einstein called them. I imagine I am a boy, girl or Zargette scout from the planet Zarg who wants to get my merit badge in privative cultures. So my Scout Zergeant takes me to this out of the way place in the galactic boondocks to a piece of debris circling a middle-aged, yellow dwarf star.
If we can allow our imaginations to step outside of ourselves and even outside of our society and see ourselves as others might see us, then we can come to realize that much that we take for granted or even sacred is arbitrary.
ThreeDogDad Premium Member 8 months ago
I feel like I’ve read this comic here before. I don’t know if it’s deja vu or tradition.
ladykat 8 months ago
A lot of traditions need changing, but some are wonderful and need to be kept.
assrdood 8 months ago
Well said Aunty, well said!
rockyridge1977 8 months ago
The glue that helps hold things together!!!!!
dbrucepm 8 months ago
like some people’s tradition of turning everything into something political.
Daltongang Premium Member 8 months ago
Yep, darn those dead people coming up with traditions like…….
Eating meals together as a family instead of in front of the boob tube or an electronic device.
Family service days, such as helping at a shelter, serving meals to the homeless or delivering meals to those who are sick and alone on days such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, when organizations like meals on wheels don’t operate.
Turning off the electronics for one night a week and have a family game night, reading night etc.
Take annual family photos, be they professional or just home made. Heaven knows people will remember forever their family members and friends as time goes by.
Cook a meal together as a family, such as a Saturday or Sunday breakfast. As the kids grow older and more competent it can become a main meal for the day.
Yep, curse those dead people, because they are all the self centered, self absorbed, people unlike the living people of today.
andersjg Premium Member 8 months ago
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana
cuzinron47 8 months ago
Traditions, you can take ’em or leave ’em. Follow the ones you want to follow.
gopher gofer 8 months ago
we just smile and shake our heads at all the time, effort, and money folks devote to tradition here in the countryside. it seems like priests visit our neighbor every other day to say prayers for some dead relative or another…
1953Baby 8 months ago
YES! YES! YES! I’m framing this one, along with: “DON’T LOOK BACK! You’re not going there.”
CorkLock 8 months ago
Obvious she isn’t a Church goers. Most of their traditions and customs more powerful than word of God. Jesus Christ said so in Mark 7:13 and Matthew 15:6