1 Misconception About 9 Holidays

[@michaelodonnell824]

Re Christmas - it's worth noting that the Gospel of Luke mentions that Shepherds were out watching their flocks. Some scholars suggest that that would only occur during lambing season, which would suggest an Early Spring date....

[@maddiejoy6619]

I actually made a new year's resolution in 2010 and I've kept it ever since! I decided to conquer my fear of trying new things (as long as they're not unsafe or illegal). I started small by trying a new salad dressing, then moved to bigger and bigger things. It's actually greatly impacted my life and I'm so glad I decided to make that promise to myself.

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

I quit binge-eating for 2020. What really made it stick was 3 months later one day I went to the store and all my favorite foods were sold out obviously (along with TP) and it made me realize how far I've come to not panic from that!

[@mrdrprof8402]

OK, one throwaway remark and I have so many questions: how is march 25th the day God created the world? How was there days before God created the world and why not start the calendar there? Did they count backwards from the agreed upon year zero? If so by what methods? At what point was that measured cause the calendar has changed a lot? If it was that day why is that not a special day? This is all not me like dunking on Christianity I genuinely find this and the process interesting

[@ellenjampole1905]

That wallpaper is terrific! Great deconstruction of misconceptions.

[@caseymurray5500]

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Newfoundland, Canada in 1578. 42 years before the Mayflower even landed

[@StrayVagabond]

Eggs and rabbits are associated with the goddess ostara (previously spelled Eostre) and represents fertility.

[@pyrotheevilplatypus]

Modern myth - blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/04/ostara-and-the-hare/

[@michaelodonnell824]

FWIW - The Halloween myths get even more complicated (and in a sense clearer) if one explores the Walpurgisnacht legends and practices in Eastern Europe. Walpurgisnacht occurs on the night of April 30th / May 1st, in other words exactly six months separate from Halloween / Samhain. According to Germans, Scandinavians and others, Walpurgisnacht is when Witches fly and the dead can be summoned. Actually, Walpurgisnacht is known in Celtic tradition as Bealtaine and marks the start of the Summer Season (much as how Samhain marks the end of Summer). Celtic legend suggests that at the times of "change" (also including Inbolg and Lughnasa) the veil separating the Material and Spiritual worlds thins and thus making it easier (and better) for such ceremonies to take place. "Trick or Treating" is a purely US invention...

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I heard that there might be a link between trick-or-treating on Halloween and collecting pennies for Guy Fawkes Day.

[@michaelodonnell824]

@@ShawnRavenfire No. None. Ireland is the Traditional home of Halloween. Over fifty years ago, kids would dress up in costumes (masks, witches, etc). We would then go and knock at neighbours houses, and ask them to "Help the Halloween party/bonfire", collecting nuts, fruit and sweets. There was NEVER a threat connected to this collection, though I won't deny that there were some who committed minor acts, though this would be on houses where we wouldn't knock and ask... Ireland is overwhelmingly Catholic. Guy Fawkes was an English Catholic who attempted to overthrow the English Protestant establishment. Guy Fawkes day/night has traditionally been overtly anti-Catholic (elements of this still occur in England today). So, Guy Fawkes night was and is NEVER "celebrated" in any of the Traditional Celtic countries (Ireland, Scotland or Wales)...

[@ianlister7333]

going crazy here, but I want to flip the shirt, and the wallpaper.

[@peppermintmoon7354]

:makes grabby hands at dino wallpaper:

[@6thwilbury2331]

I can't imagine resolving to ditch a morning cup of coffee.

[@SECONDQUEST]

It's usually because they buy 7$ cups then only finish half.

[@thomasrogers8239]

I would literally resolve to drink more coffee.

[@pyrotheevilplatypus]

@@thomasrogers8239 Came here to say the same

[@Kameezy]

love the videos. volume was really quiet.

[@MildStallion1]

It wasn't just me! Had to crank the volume to hear it.

[@DougVanDorn]

Totally agreed that Samhain is NOT a demonic festival, but as a Wiccan, I can tell you that it IS a festival held at the time, in the olden days, when it has become clear how much food you will be able to store away to get through the winter, and so how many of your community would make it through the winter. Sometimes, it was time for the elderly to decide to sacrifice themselves for the good of the community, or that a family may need to be exiled, to strike out on their own so that they won't eat any of the cached food. So, it WAS seen as a time when the veils between the worlds of the living and the dead became thinner, because some of the now-living were contemplating the approaching transition to the next realm. It's not a joyful time, but it's not a sad time either. More a contemplative holiday, especially now, when most of us aren't worried about whether there was enough grain harvested throughout the fall to feed everyone until spring...

[@Late4dinner1]

Wasn't it originally a harvest holiday?

[@tophers3756]

Actually it's not not likely that Mary and Joseph stayed with relatives Bethlehem. It's most likely they were never in Bethlehem and that Jesus was born in Nazareth. The claim that there was a census requiring been to uproot families and travel to their ancestral towns is a bit ludicrous and would've been incredibly chaotic for the entire region. The birth narrative doesn't appear in the earliest gospel, Mark. Although it does appear in Matthew, the gospel writer (who like the others is anonymous) is writing to a specific audience with a particular point to make. His overarching theme is that Jesus fulfills Jewish prophecy of the Messiah. To that end he cherry- picks (and sometimes uses imcorrect translations of) verses from the Hebrew Bible and presents a narrative that he says supports his claim. Especially, the nativity account weaves together similarities from the story of Moses. Bethlehem is significant because the author takes pains to show Jesus is of the House of David (as the Jewish messiah was expected to be) and was expected to emerge from Bethlehem.

[@Resmungo]

There is another perhaps better reason that December 25th might be a plausible date.

[@jillchristensen5093]

Easter is not the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion. That’s Good Friday. Easter is the anniversary of Jesus’ resurrection.

[@StrayVagabond]

Easter is a celebration of the goddess ostara and the arrival of spring

[@uselessmale]

@@StrayVagabondEaster is based on Passover when Jesus was crucified and resurrected. Just because two things are at the same time of year doesn’t make them the same thing

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

@@StrayVagabond (writing before the relevant point in the video, so may be repeating stuff.) I learned that the goddess was the Saxon Leaster (lay-aster). Anyway, her animal avatar was a hare and eggs represented the fertility of springtime. The various customs connected to Easter - obviously outside of those directly connected to the church - are all Pagan. Much like Xmas which is based on a mix of midwinter celebrations and Saturnalia. The church found they couldn't stop new converts from celebrating their old customs so did the practical thing and mixed them up.

[@BradThePitts]

If Jesus was crucified on a Friday, and he rose again "three days later", wouldn't that be Monday?

[@davemansfield8653]

​@@BradThePittsGood question. Days were not usually considered as strict 24-hour chunks. A portion of a day was considered a day in many calculations. They had clocks and could measure hours, but common usage of time was different from our current practices of specific precision measurement

[@KiloDeltaOneSierra]

Yom kipur is my favorite. Atonement

[@JamesLewis98]

Christians celebrate Easter as the anniversary of Jesus' RESURRECTION!

[@franbalcal]

erm..... Easter is not the a CELEBRATION of Jesus' crucifixion! its a Celebration of his resurrection ! wtf ......

[@JasonHalversonjaydog]

your shirt matches the wallpaper

[@JoRiver11]

Trying attribute eggs to Easter in the christian tradition sounds suspiciously like rubbish. I don't think that it's in any contemporary writings, those are probably legends that are tacked on afterwards, a method often used to ease the new official religion onto the locals or interpretations by the locals as they reconciled their belief systems.

[@snavehcar]

Honestly, the eggs story felt like a contemporary addition. Like one of the chain emails or Facebook meme like the legend of the candy cane or the meaning of the 12 days of Christmas. They are largely BS with no widespread belief among mainstream Christianity but are cute enough to be passed around. A little offended that it was treated as a canon belief.

[@anthonyperno1348]

There is an egg connection to the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Peasants were ordered to give up eggs for the 40 days of "Lent." This guaranteed that the supply of chickens would be replenished, i.e. spring chickens. I wonder if the tradition of hiding eggs has something to do with children waking up Easter morning knowing they will be treated to eggs, thus the tease of hiding them. But that part about hiding eggs is pure conjecture on my part. There is no evidence to support it. There is evidence of the 40-day prohibition and one can see that an egg would have been quite the delicious addition to their bland diet.

[@snavehcar]

The egg connection to Easter as a treat after Lent from the Medieval era isn’t what is being discussed. It’s the coloring of eggs in connection to the biblical Resurrection that is in the video which is very much a modern day invention.

[@anthonyperno1348]

@snavehcar yes I know, just adding a little history, not saying anyone is wrong or right .

[@Beigemage]

Wait, so the Senegal people make food for Muslims who are fasting? How passive aggressive!

[@JamesLewis98]

Many Muslims actually feast and gorge themselves during the nights of Ramadan. It's definitely not a "fasting" holiday.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

I'm not the most "in-the-know" person, for sone reason, I thought Juneteenth had to do with some sort of uprising that was won by African-Americans in Tulsa, OK.

[@tisjester]

Oh NO.. it was not an uprising won by African-Americans. It was the opposite of that.. That was a Tulsa massacre 1921 lasted 2 days that took place between May 31 and June 1. One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. FYI it was African-Americans that were killed.

[@cbgreiwe]

No, it’s the celebration of enslaved people in Gavelston, TX finding out they had been freed on June 19, 1865. It had been a regional holiday, but spread across the country. Unfortunately, the Tulsa, OK incident was not a victory for Black Americans. A successful Black neighborhood in Tulsa was attacked and burned down in 1921.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

@@cbgreiwe oh, ok. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I don't remember learning about it in school (I was in high school in the 80s).....but then again, I did go to a religious school, so they may have ommited some events.

[@cbgreiwe]

@@kandipiatkowski858980s kid here too. I went to a private school through 4th grade and public school after that. Neither school taught us about Juneteenth or the Tulsa Massacre.

[@brangrah1717]

It's because liberals conflated the two to make some convoluted point about Trump's alleged racism.

[@debrahouston6245]

Gen.7:11 Flood started 17th day of 2nd month Jewish month Heshvan = Oct.15-Nov.14. . So Oct.15+17 days is Oct.31/Nov 1 Halloween/All Saints. It's the anniversary of when God destroyed a wicked world, except for 8 humans & animals in 2s or 7s aboard the Ark. That's why we don't celebrate it. (Also, later Ex.12:2, the 1st month was changed to Nisan Mar.15-April 14 because of Passover, which coincides with Jesus' sacrificial death)

[@graphosxp]

💯❤

[@neko6]

How would Hannuka appear in the bible when it commemorates events that happened a thousand years after the bible ends 😂

[@joanhoffman3702]

Time machine? 😂

[@johnjohnson8575]

You didn't menstruating women, they're the largest demographic that doesn't have to fast during Ramadan.

[@rickseiden1]

I believe that both Easter and Christmas can be celebrated by everyone. Both holidays have two distinct parts to them. They both have a very important meaning to Christians, and both also have very secular parts to them. Christians can enjoy both parts, of course, celebrating both the Easter Bunny and the Resurrection of Christ. But non-Christians of all kinds can celebrate the Easter Bunny and baskets filled with "paper grass" and candy filled plastic eggs. Christians can celebrate both the birth of Christ and Santa Clause, and non-Christians can celebrate Santa Clause, putting up a tree and giving gifts to each other. I don't at all mean to take away from the importance of either holiday to Christians, or to imply they shouldn't continue to celebrate them as they do today. I only mean to say that Christmas and Easter have parts of them that can be celebrated by everyone. A Jewish person putting up a tree in their living room and exchanging gifts on the morning of December 25th in no way diminishes or takes away from Holiness of Midnight Mass.

[@EddieVanAidan]

Some people think God created the world on March 25th? Surely the guy would pick January 1st 😅

[@Menolly1233]

Juneteenth isn't a holiday. Ive been black all my life. Never cared about it, nor do I think its worth celebrating.

[@btetschner]

One very predictable element of this channel: obscure facts. If there was a collection of 10 practical and interesting facts to present, Mental Floss would remove at least two of them and add obscure and interesting facts.

[@joaniebrown2987]

Christ was born in April.

[@dirtrider88]

11:51 "hebrew bible". you just got a dislike

[@aimeepotts2137]

Those "persons" who are pregnant or nursing babies and therefore nit fasting during Ramadan are WOMEN.

[@LakeLyfe315]

Lets be real, all holidays are a cash grab by someone and are fake but the fakest of all is Juneteenth!

[@SECONDQUEST]

Let's be real, that's the biggest ragebait I've seen in weeks!

[@sMiLeS1325]

Get outta here.

[@StrayVagabond]

Cool racism bro

[@yuriydee]

Dont care as long as I get day off work