#santa claus mythos

[dougielombax]

Make sure to leave something out for Cthonaut A tonight.

At the very least.

He’s been very busy of late.

Especially at this time of year.

And don’t ask him any stupid questions if you’re there when he does eventually show up.

[katiestkid]

I need someone to fully explain the mythos of Santa from Violent Night. They gave such good little snippets/teases then never fully explained.

[wpmorse]

Happy Christmas

Santa’s here and there’s nothing to worry about! We hope that you and yours have a very happy Christmas.

[infamouslydorky]

Consider: a portrait of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis (friends in real life, also weird old men)

I mean, who am I to judge people for their interests? Love that Tolkien was such a language nerd that he built a world and mythos around the actual languages he made up and even makes localization meta references when "translating" the stories of Hobbits to our reality. I love that Lewis adds a lamppost and Santa claus to his story to spite his friend Tolkien. I love that they put each other in their stories. They're just two nerdy professor pals that got on each other's nerves living their lives

I just don't want to do a disservice to people who actually existed

[cherabby]

its a shame the Santa Claus mythos is so well established at this point because I think it would be really funny if we all just suddenly started insisting that Santa is gay to watch right-wingers have a meltdown over it

I mean we still could don't get me wrong but I think it would be significantly funnier if Mrs. Claus was simply never invented because then they would have zero defense for why Santa can't possibly be gay.

As it is it would just require a "sharks are smooth" level commitment to the bit.

[whatyourusherthinks]

Red One Review

I was kinda surprised we never got a trailer for this movie. I feel like I saw marketing for it everywhere except in the theater, although we had the poster for a very long time. All I knew was JK Simmons was playing Santa, awesome. It was starring the Rock and Chris Evans, cool. And the plot was something like a CIA guy teaming up with a criminal to save Santa from being kidnapped. That sounds like a lot of fun! But then... Then reviews came out. And they were bad. I didn't see anything specific, but it had a 34% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 36% on Metacritic! THAT'S HALF AS MUCH AS TERRIFIER 3 WHAT THE HELL.

What Is The Movie About?

Santa Claus get's kidnapped, so his head of security Cal must team up with criminal Jack to go find him.

What I Like.

This movie was super cool! First, you should all know I love main characters who are criminals so I really liked Jack. I loved his arc with is kid and the darkest hour where he admits that he been a bad father made me cry. Cal is a cool character too, I like that he's disillusioned with the Christmas Spirit yet still the one who hardcore "We have to save Christmas!". His character arc about regaining his belief in the good in people and goddamn it I love stories like that. The acting is, of course, really good, but it's a stacked cast so I expect nothing less. I might have already mentioned it before but I like that Chris Evans is playing against the Captain America type now. JK Simmons is such a effortlessly cool Santa, it was really interest take on the Saint. I like the way he moves when he's doing his job. Everything is fluid and done with purpose. The action in general a lot of fun and really creative! There's a chase scene with the Rock sliding down a bunch of tubes to chase giant Snow Cat and then he jumps on a snowmobile and causes an avalanche and then RIDES DOWN A MOUNTAIN IN FRONT OF THE AVALANCHE HE CREATED. A magical ice cream truck comes out of the ocean and then 3 giant snow golems come out of the back and attack Cal and Jack and they had to pull of their carrot noses to defeat them. The effects are really damn cool! It reminded me of the D&D movie from last year, with a ton of magical creatures with really cool designs. There was a couple cameos that I won't spoil but they looks SO FREAKING COOL. The plot is pretty good, there was a nice twist at the climax, and I like that the movies ends with showing the audience how this version of Santa does his run. I love movies that take the Santa Claus mythos seriously, and this Red One adds a lot of creativity to the mythology. I like the ray that Cal has that allows him to shift the reality of toys, basically being able to turn a Hot Wheels into a real car. All toy stores being connected allowing North Pole workers to travels around the world is interesting as well. They could've played a little bit more Christmas carols, but the ones they did use where pretty good.

What I Don't Like.

The dialogue is pretty meh. The exposition is fine, and when the movie slows down for an emotional moment it's pretty good. But the quips and one liners suck. They aren't egregious or anything, but they are incredibly cliched and sometimes don't always make sense. I also wish the movie paid off everything they set up. There's a part where Cal goes into a toy store and grabs a bunch of toys as supplies, and only half of them get used! Which are some of the coolest scenes in the movie as well! I WANTED TO SEE HOW THE MONOPOLY SET WAS GONNA PLAY INTO THIS!

Final Summation.

What is everyone else's problem?! Red One is FUCKING AMAZING! It's a ton of fun, with very creative action, and cool visuals. I think this is a great holiday movie, and you should check it out when you feel in the spirit!

It is interesting isn't it? How straight action movies kinda seem to getting a bad rap this year? The last movie that made me feel this excited during the showing and hyped to watch the movie again was Killer's Game, which also got terrible reviews! Even The Fall Guy, as perfect of a movie as that was, it only got okay reviews. Is there some sort of stigma against action movies I wasn't aware of? I don't even know the angle this could take. Even if you SOMEHOW get bored of the action, all three of those movies that have really good characters and pretty good plots! But I guess if the main character was an annoying fucking blood rag and the plot is nothing but an excuse to show off cameos than it's a masterpiece. (Not mentioning any Deadpool & Wolverines I mean names I mean Deadpool & Wolverine is overrated.) I get the middle of the year has not been good, but that doesn't mean the action movie that comes out is bad. Besides if the problem is action being boring then why the fuck is Terrifier 3 so highly regarded?

Seriously. How the fuck does Terrifier 3 have twice the Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes score as this movie?

[frostcorpsclub]

I try to reconcile the canon of Santa’s Slay with like the common Santa lore at times, I don’t really have a concrete answer for anything like sometimes I think maybe Santa gave fake names because he was in a pissy mood other times I think Saint Nick was a real separate good man who was inspired by Santa’s gift giving (leaning towards this)

Today however I’m gonna touch on the reindeer

I don’t think Santa has reindeer at all, they’re around the North Pole yes but they’re not Santa’s magical helpers. In my opinion the reindeer mythos comes from Skaða (ancient Norse meaning to harm, Santa basically named his cow dog stab lol) having especially loud steps people assumed it must be multiple creatures.

Once Skaða is killed of course Santa needs a replacement. You may recall me mentioning that if I were to give Santa another pet that he would be a Norwegian Forrest Cat named Alvis.

I tend to pick and choose mythos because there’s no pantheon in this universe lmao unfortunately the christians are right so there’s no troll family the cat belongs to. He was a gift for Santa from…well the “universe,” Alvis showed up on the Claus’ doorstep one day as they scrambled to mechanize the sleigh for flight. The Vikings loved cats and it was understood a random cat in the arctic had to be special, so he was kept. And now, in his giant form, he pulls the sleigh.

They already have one cat. A sleek black tuxedo cat named Draugr. The idea came to me when my own cat passed late last month and I wanted to immortalize her in some way. Allegedly, the Vikings gave kittens as wedding gifts and the Clauses are no different. He chose the breed because its physicality reminded him of his bride to be. She’s really Santa’s cat though lol

[ramrodd]

COMMENTARY:

Euangelion is the pivitol motif in Christian literature. Pilate's euangelion to Tiberius is cited by Tertullian in Book V, Apology, from his archelogy in the Latin archives as it pertained to all things Jesus. Pilate was constrained by duty to report the events surrounding the execution of a kami kazi Messiah that was exactly who He represented Himself to be, as determined by Theopilus as reliable data in Hebrews. Hebrews is the bureouctatic mind of a republcan equistrian distilled from all the intelligence reported from eyewitness testimony working for the 10th Legion as spies.

One thing we learn from Tertullian regarding Pilate's euangelion to Tiberius is that the Roman soldiers dubbed the Jesus Followers “Christians” after Jesus took command of John the Baptist political organization and constiutency, which is where both the Gospel of Mark and Gospel of John begin: when Jesus pops up above the Roman military horizon,

At the command level of both the 10th Legion and Pilate's Headquarters in Caesarea, the Romnas had a pretty good handle on the political movement John the Baptist created with his project at the Jordan River during the coming and the going of Jewish pilgrims to the Fesitvals. 4 times a year, there was a Super Bowl event in Jerusalame and Be there or Be Square. Levi. Passover was the social event of the year and the mystery of Elijah at the Seder was at least as potent to Hebrew children as Santa Claus has become almost universally, celebrated, like Mardi Gras.

So, we know that from Pilate's first euangelion, What I didn't know before I stumbled across two historic facts that explain the instant antipathy to all things Christian Tiberius tries to suppress with warnings of sanctions against Christian persecution by the la dolce vita society of Rome.. The first fact is that Jesus's ministry straddles the execution of Sejanus in 31 CE, if you accept the astronomy that dictates that Jesus was crucified in 33 CE. The only 1st Century annacedent to Greenwish Mean Time is the Roman Standard Time of the 8 Day week when the Gospel of Mark begins. This is an Egyptian legacy: the strategic numerology of the Egyptian priests and intellectuals is base 8 numberology, given the base 60 numerology embedded in Euclid, I don't know how the 7 Kings kept time, but Egypt did all its scientific inquiry with 8 base numeriology, which is why they couldn't interpret Pharoah's dream and Joseph could because he was using the base 9 numerology of western civilization, which enables the Aristotelian metaphysics necessary to pun man on the moon.

So, anyway, Pilate's euangelion to Tiberius convey the tidings of Joy of the Talking Cross, which represents a covenant between the Jewish god and the stoic commuinty of the Italian Regiment of the Praetorian Guard and Roman Republic that represented the State side of the division of Church and State and the stoic Equity of Manlian Discipline. The centurion in Mark 15:39 knew what it meant for a Father to sacrifice his Son to make a point and set a standard. The nature of Honor is established by the Equity of the Father. This is the connection between Romans 13:1 – 7 and Hebrews 13:17. That's the authority of the centurion in Matthw 8:9. The centurion was justified by faith in Matthew 8:10 and the spiritual emelment of Jesus was able to track through the mythos to the centurion's servant and to lay hands on him with the Spirit of God. This is where Jesus got the idea for the Talking Ctoss.

And that's what you are missing with the critical historic method of deconstruction when it's intent is to prevent harmonization, Pilate's euanglion is to Tiberius was the harmonization of Mark 15:1 – 16:8 with the Gospel of Peter, In the Gospel of Peter, the Roman soldiers set 7 seals on the stone they rolled up to secure the body in a sealed tomb. Those 7 seals are reprised in Revelation. It's how Kabalah works.

Anyway, Pilate's euangelion is the first written record of Resurrection, but it is not the euangelion of Mark 1:1, which is the post Acts 10 euangelion and includes Peter's confession in Acts 10 :34 – 43. This confession becomes the outline of the narrative arc of the Gospel of Mark as composed by Cornelius, the centurion in Acts 10. Cornelius has the same military role as Tim Walz as Command Sergeant Major, Army of the United States. Cornelius, as a proxy for the centurion archetype, is where Clausewitz appears in history. Clausewitz is the method of Pauline Theology appled to warfare as an instrument of State and subordinate to We, the People, the Philospher King of the democratic socialism of the Honey Bee swarm. We, the People, are Athens and the fedearl government is Sparta as the administrative state.

All of that is available with critidal literary analysis of Hegel and dialectic synthesis,

[misdemeanors-are-stolen]

all excellent points <3

i want to also shoutout the OS theme song because it is so so sick, as a song with such a unique and recognizable sound to it that just sticks in ur brain but ur not mad about it cause it's GOOD

and then all the things they came up with to toss in to the mythos? they didn't just throw spaghetti at the wall, they made a business out of painting walls with spaghetti

not just aliens but magic is real, and ben's cousin can do it if she studies enough. however, werewolves are fake and actually aliens the whole time. crocodile mutants on earth exist and get to enter local wrestling tournaments; ben went in as four arms and nobody questioned him they just let him participate. (cont.)

the fountain of youth is real and this one guy's been living off it to keep it secret for years except he also uses it as a dunk tank. mount rushmore is actually a secret base for the branch of the government that knows about aliens. there is a substance in some galaxy that, when exposed to earth creatures, turns them into horrible monsters that lack all sense of self (this part scared me so bad as a kid i never watched through it all so i have no clue what happened to fix it). the government alien branch is named the 'plumbers' and they flush prisoners and bad aliens into an alternate dimension where everything is red, the entire space is breathable, and feral versions of one of the aliens ben can become lives there. there is also an independent organization against aliens and they all dress as knights and have knight-themed gear and do dealings with minor conspiracy theorists who report they have a frog alien in a jar in their house. some guy has a giant thumbnail growing out of his skull, he is friends with a woman whose hair is prehensile and a guy who can breathe acid that melts cars, and they make their living off circus shows with a guy who can drain people's good spirits; none of these people are directly implied to be aliens or anything, they're just like that. you see a future where slacker-off goofball ben becomes a high-strung world superhero akin to superman who gives himself no time to take breaks or relax or see his family. santa claus is real, as are his elves, and they live in a random magical christmas village in the middle of the desert until ben turns all the elves back into people and three of them are konohamaru and his friends from naruto. part of ben's family tree is an entirely different type of alien than his grandfather got it on with, and they are made of living mud. one of ben's aliens is somehow capable of transforming an entire living human into computer code inside of a video game, inside which all the characters are alive and have their own thoughts and insights, and inside which ben and gwen have sick new designs. every time ben transforms he goes through some sort of body horror within the span of half a second or less that nobody except the viewer ever sees, except that one time he thought he was turning into a werewolf. some random little league baseball manager out there made a whole team of realistic androids to play against real kids, and they have the arm strength to throw baseballs that can go through steel, and nobody bats an eye at this, nor does this advanced technology show up in day-to-day life. ben goes on a road trip across america in the weirdest zigzaggy order ever and somehow manages to encounter multiple of his villains cast multiple times, without either of them really trying to catch up to the other. by the way the omnitrix can accidentally explode the whole entire universe if it stays in self-destruct mode long enough, and easily the whole galaxy or mere planet earth, and ben accidentally turned it on at 10 years old and thought his cousin died to plant aliens. his great-aunt's retirement complex got slowly picked off and replaced with shapeshifting aliens who hiss and recoil from water in 100º+ weather and nobody caught it until ben got there. ben still daydreams about being a superhero called 'ultra ben' that is his own self with a visor and supersuit, after finding the omnitrix and getting to be a real superhero. in one episode cthulhu darth vader (vilgax) contacts ben in a dream, and we have no clue how or why this happened. some random weatherman invented an AI robot to predict the weather that became capable of mutating and gaining powers to control water and weather. the very last episode in the series proper is a what-if that doesn't really happen by the end of the episode.

The wildest thing about Ben 10 is that it took until 2005 for someone to have the idea "what if a kid could turn into a bunch of aliens" like this isn't obviously the coolest and most marketable premise for anything ever. Each design is a new toy. A new powerset. Come on.

But to prove that it wasn't a fluke, they continued to have the best ideas for every aspect of it. How does he transform? A cool watch you can also sell as a toy. That watch's name? Omnitrix. Say it. It's so satisfying. How many aliens? Ten. Nice round number. The kid's name? Ben. The show's name? Ben Ten. His full name is Benjamin Tennyson, a normal, plausible name, but he also turns into 10 aliens.

Bigger brands dream about this synergy. Better writers would kill for this coherence. So holistic. So intuitive. The identity alone!!! The retro alien sound motif? Chilling. The green? Any other color would be wrong. The kirby krackle pattern? It seems so obvious in retrospect. The roadtrip format? Genius. Lesser writers would've done the spider-man high school thing. His arch nemesis being Cthulhu darth vader? Inspired, iconic, intimidating!

The execution has its highs and lows, but the idea??? Game changing. So self-evident that it seems inevitable. If Ben 10 didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

[wpmorse]

Perfect

Bert’s been taken away, Kevin doesn’t have a clue of what to do next,  and Santa’s here! Everything is going to be perfect!

[fliegenpilz-kaufen]

Fliegenpilz 20g: Ein faszinierendes Naturexemplar

Der Fliegenpilz (Amanita muscaria) ist einer der bekanntesten und optisch auffälligsten Pilze in der Natur. Dieser Pilz ist für seinen leuchtend roten, mit weißen Punkten verzierten Hut bekannt und übt seit Jahrhunderten Faszination und Interesse aus. Der Fliegenpilz 20g wird traditionell mit Folklore, schamanistischen Ritualen und sogar Feiertagsbildern in Verbindung gebracht und ist auch für seine psychoaktiven Eigenschaften bekannt. In diesem Artikel untersuchen wir die Eigenschaften, die traditionelle Verwendung und das zeitgenössische Interesse am Fliegenpilz, insbesondere in Form von 20-g-Portionen.

Eigenschaften und Identifizierung Der Fliegenpilz ist aufgrund seines unverwechselbaren Aussehens leicht zu erkennen. Der Hut ist normalerweise rot, von leuchtendem Scharlachrot bis Orangerot, und mit weißen Warzen übersät. Diese Warzen sind Überbleibsel eines allgemeinen Schleiers, der einst den unreifen Pilz bedeckte. Wenn der Pilz reift, kann der Hut flacher werden und die rote Farbe kann leicht verblassen. Der Stiel ist weiß oder gelblich mit einer bauchigen Basis und oft ist um den Stiel ein Ring oder Annulus zu finden.

Der Fliegenpilz ist in den gemäßigten und borealen Regionen der nördlichen Hemisphäre heimisch und kommt sowohl in Nadel- als auch in Laubwäldern vor. Er bildet symbiotische Beziehungen mit Bäumen, insbesondere Birken, Kiefern und Fichten, wodurch er in diesen Umgebungen gedeihen kann.

Traditionelle und kulturelle Bedeutung Historisch wurde der Fliegenpilz in verschiedenen Kulturen wegen seiner psychoaktiven Eigenschaften verwendet. Im sibirischen Schamanismus beispielsweise wurde er konsumiert, um veränderte Bewusstseinszustände herbeizuführen, von denen man glaubte, dass sie die Kommunikation mit der Geisterwelt erleichtern. Die halluzinogene Wirkung des Pilzes ist hauptsächlich auf das Vorhandensein von Verbindungen wie Muscimol und Ibotensäure zurückzuführen.

Neben seiner spirituellen Verwendung ist der Fliegenpilz auch in der europäischen Folklore aufgetaucht. Das Bild des Pilzes ist tief in der Populärkultur verwurzelt und wird oft mit Magie, Feen und sogar der Weihnachtsfigur Santa Claus in Verbindung gebracht. Einige Theorien legen nahe, dass das rot-weiße Farbschema des Weihnachtsmannkostüms vom Aussehen des Fliegenpilzes inspiriert sein könnte, was seinen Mythos noch verstärkt.

Heutiges Interesse und Verwendung Auch heute regt der Fliegenpilz weiterhin die Fantasie an und wird zunehmend von Menschen gesucht, die sich für Ethnobotanik, Mykologie und Naturheilkunde interessieren. Obwohl er bei unsachgemäßer Zubereitung als giftig gilt und mögliche Auswirkungen von Übelkeit bis zu Halluzinationen haben kann, gibt es Methoden, seine Toxizität zu verringern und ihn sicherer für den Verzehr zu machen.

Fliegenpilz wird oft in getrockneter Form verkauft, wobei 20-g-Portionen ein gängiges Angebot sind. Diese Menge ist normalerweise für diejenigen gedacht, die mit Mikrodosierung experimentieren oder in traditionellen Praktiken verwenden möchten. Der Trocknungsprozess trägt dazu bei, die Toxizität des Pilzes zu verringern, indem Ibotensäure in Muscimol umgewandelt wird, das weniger schädlich ist.

Es ist wichtig zu beachten, dass Fliegenpilz 200g mit Vorsicht zu genießen ist. Seine psychoaktiven Effekte können je nach Faktoren wie Dosierung, individueller Empfindlichkeit und Zubereitungsmethode erheblich variieren. Wer sich für seine Wirkungen interessieren möchte, sollte nach zuverlässigen Informationsquellen suchen und in Erwägung ziehen, Experten auf diesem Gebiet zu konsultieren.

[branded-perceptions]

To keep a cool head with so much bla bla bla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-UA2ii3ZDc

https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.egerland/posts/2683668471812981

double meanings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il72uEjs4o0

gossip

https://x.com/fitnesshippie1/status/578243857000898561

our collective by Abrahamic religions' via irony mocked hypocritical attention stream mythos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man

📚propaganda edward bernays

and an exaggerated manic agitation similar to the compulsory irrational

https://youtu.be/Yy6raKJXbU4

self-doubt / public self-reflection / upon causal problem-solving focused discussion lacking

C-19 vaccination genocidal group hype peer pressure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2tY5BPdj6o

https://www.campaignlive.com/article/one-decision-us-campaign-targets-vaccine-hesitancy-spoken-word/1722138

in relation to objective reality

one of the most important variables for the long-term profitability of any "company" is what a "company" (what do you "do"?)

in their relation with objective causal reality of all our daily lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0JzTk6RY0

behind all our Santa Claus fantasies (🎶LOSING MY RELIGION - R.E.M.)

in the aspects that are important to most people (the "society")

(🎶Oh, Life, it's bigger, It's bigger than you, and you are not me)

in which direction the innovation flow flows:

Sooner and later,

all money flows / value exchange / demand / no matter what new forms of currency or social forms prevail in the future

gravitate

(🎶WHAT IF ALL THESE FANTASIES COME FLAILING AROUND?)

to what is most useful in the propagated consciousness of the average population in real everyday life for our real BIOLOGICAL and not necessarily metaverse-anchored life in causal reality (🎶THE LENGHTS THAT I WILL GO TO)

and not any advertised vain err reputation managed appearance packaging strategies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/

direct our focus (🎶THE DISTANCE IN YOUR EYES) or Gaga Gaga hype stories or fantasy values ​​of NFT personality cult pyramid schemes, no matter how many identity faces, celebrities or hot breasts you print on them: the fact is that the consumer values ​​the health of the breasts of the average population that he can touch every day in the real world more than any photoshopped advertising posters.

The legitimate fears of the population behind our attention fantasies (🎶TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH YOU)

and the authentic discussion aimed at causal problem solutions (🎶AND I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN DO IT)

are far more important than the "fake" status "heaven"🤥😷😇 fantasies of constantly grinning advertisements that help us through the causal consequences of their ashamed attention shadows (🎶THAT'S ME IN THE CORNER)

to achieve the dreamed status reputation "Paradise" (🎶THAT'S ME IN THE SPOTLIGHT) / afterlife https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xiF-1VT0Zas / immortally good reputation of self-perceptions ever faster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJ1kKWZtDI

why do we motivate each other in brand communication to spend so much money (and thus social incentives for innovation motivation) on the beautiful appearance of metaphorical coffins and gravestones and polished status reputation and trallala and so little on preventive medicine or high-quality, delicious healthy food whose quality continues to decline because we focus more and more on its symbolic fantasies?

Why do we pay more attention to the appearance of products and their relationship to our status reputation than their actual relationship to our vitality?

Are we a death cult that with "positive" hypes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O21uD4_zAG8

("stay safe", "we are in this💉 💉 💉 together": 🎶THAT WAS JUST A DREAM, TRY, CRY, TRY, WHY, THAT WAS JUST A DREAM)

with the motivational euphoria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLInKa1XF6Q

our market "LEADERSHIP" stories and argumentative propaganda and thought motivations https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ID3p9pAnFu8

(🎶EVERY WHISPER, OF EVERY WAKING HOUR, I'M CHOOSING MY CONFESSIONS)

with bombastic causal consequences https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-03odgoZLVE

such as due via vain err appearance story packaging of causal creation of quality of products definining markets' misdirected attention focus grown obesity and worldwide growing chronic diseases due to detached

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bccq9xzy-94

vain err propaganda anchored in the mainly poor causal quality of food products

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB_wJxfLM4I

and not the via fantasy stories overvalued number of calories

plunges itself into causal ruin, in all possible topics as it is in the irony https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goon

(🎶I THOUGHT THAT I HEARD YOU LAUGHING)

of many aspects of the advertising industry becomes clear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPDDqKBdRGc

when you compare their motivation with the motivations of the average population that can be communicated via music

🎶I THOUGHT THAT I HEARD YOU SING

via such pondering bringing the question of the craziness of many like the next best vain err "positive" severe-mental-illness-embodying

(anyone who is smiling while severely in irrational actually avoidable ways causally harming themselves and others while never really publicly discussing or trying to warn or problem-solve that what they knowingly continue to hype others' motivations to has obviously "lost it": the mental argumentative touch with objective reality https://www.facebook.com/share/p/XGLrhYSfvJnSJE13/ )

packaging of next best health-destructive causally exploitative supermarket foods

one-sided reputation-managed from actual causal reality of the audience detached hype fantasy "Führung" (🎶CONSIDER THIS, THE HINT OF THE CENTURY)

of market motivations "to the point": don't worry, the legality of the Hitler comparison, which is used for educational purposes in a somewhat exaggerated but nevertheless appropriate way, was tested last year with two independent test examples up to the Supreme Court, and the argumentary exemplary decision seems to have been clear: if it corresponds to the reality of social-psychological dynamics, you can "get to the point" for educational purposes, including advertisements, like the square, practical little moustache.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/oM26RxQ8fJY93PmB/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oZAPk_Xpow

https://www.shootonline.com/video/independent-media-director-tucker-gates-vaynermedia-go-fourth%C2%A0-budweiser-covid-vaccinations

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Ph4Yvw17WGk6QPah/

[cythraul]

Is there an explanation for why Santa Claus exists as a literal being, though? "Someone from Earth brought the tradition of Christmas over" doesn't seem enough.

(I honestly really enjoy the use of Santa Claus as a straight-faced mythological figure, used in a setting where "Christmas" is not the defining factor of the overall mythos.)

Level 1: Characters in a fantastical setting with no clear analogue of any real-world culture or religion celebrate Christmas; the implications of this are never examined

Level 2: Characters in a fantastical setting celebrate a secular, non-denominational mid-winter holiday which just coincidentally involves many of the same rituals and observances as Christmas

Level 3: Characters in a fantastical setting celebrate a mid-winter holiday commemorating an invented folk-hero whose mythos furnishes elaborate alternative explanations for various Christmas observances

Level 4: Characters in a fantastical setting celebrate Christmas because in spite of the setting's history otherwise bearing no resemblance to that of Earth, for some reason Catholicism still exists

Level 5: Whatever C S Lewis was on

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Santa Claus is always depicted wearing a big fur coat.

What animal do you suppose it’s made out of?

In monarchical heraldry, similar frocks and hems are made of ermine

That’s stoat fur.

Weasel!

Look at this adorable little guy!

Is Santa’s coat made out of weasel fur?  There aren’t a lot of big furry white animals up in the Arctic, and I can’t imagine it’s made of Polar Bear fur.  Besides Mrs. Claus, there are no other humans in the Santa Claus Mythos, so it’s not like he can just go down to the village tannery for new boot leather or barter with some Scandinavian fur trappers over their fresh hides.  Where did his coat come from?  Did the elves make it?  Are the elves adept at bleaching and dying furs?  Most old red dyes were derived from insects or plant roots that are not endemic to the Arctic.  Does the north pole have a fur farm, do they catch them wild, or do they import?

Why has my brain chosen to focus on this?  I feel like the villain in a Christmas movie, picking apart the logic of Santa Claus.

[saltiestgempearl]

#okay this is interesting. not christian and never believed in Santa. However! you know that one old stop-motion Santa movie? #the one where it's a biography of his life and he's up against a guy who outlawed toys? where Santa's wife is a schoolteacher? #yeah so I thought that was like. the Official mythos about Santa that all the christian kids believed in. so i would nearly study that movie#uh. turns out I was wrong #i still don't completely understand it. but it seems like there's a bunch of different Santa origin stories

Santa is actually a fascinating cultural phenomenon. Saint Nicholas's story comes from Turkey in the fourth century, but the modern mythos around Santa (think north pole, elves making toys, riding around in a reindeer-driven sleigh to deliver said toys, etc.) largely has its origins in in Victorian England, and was heavily influenced by the industrial revolution.

If you're interested in the history of Santa, this is a pretty good source The Definitive History of Santa Claus seems like it's got a pretty good overview. Obviously, this source is a little more heavy on Coca Cola's connection with Santa Claus toward the end, but still good info.