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December 25, 2019 12:01am by David Farrar

Merry Christmas

May all of you have a loving and relaxing Christmas.

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Rich Prick

And to you too. All the very best.
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December 25, 2019 1:37am
Antoine

Merry Christmas all

From a Kiwi who has been overseas from some years and is looking forward to coming home (to stay) in January
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December 25, 2019 1:43am
- TWEEDSE
  
  Welcome home, New Zealand is still a pretty amazing place.
  
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  December 25, 2019 8:46am
Michael

you too.
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December 25, 2019 2:13am
GazzaW

And a Merry Christmas to you and your family David. Also to all my fellow KBers including the Christmas Grinch who downticked RP’s seasonal salutations.
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December 25, 2019 4:55am
Lee C

Peace on Earth and mercy mild.
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December 25, 2019 6:16am
- MCos
  
  I’d be happy if the folks next door stopped yelling at their kids!!
  
  Merry Christmas
  Joyeux noël
  Frohe Weihnachten
  สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส
  
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  December 25, 2019 7:41am
alloytoo

Ditto.
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December 25, 2019 6:28am
andrew davies

Thank you David and the same to you and your (expanding) family.
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December 25, 2019 6:45am
krazykiwi

Merry Christmas everyone (including the serial downticker!)

DPF, I hope you have a lovely day with your newly expanded family.
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December 25, 2019 7:09am
alex Masterley

Merry Christmas All, enjoy your day wherever you may be.
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December 25, 2019 7:12am
MrTips

Merry Xmas to all who frequent this blog and make it so enjoyable. May you and yours have a fantastic day.
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December 25, 2019 7:12am
Tricati

All the best to KBer’s and have a safe and enjoyable Christmas
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December 25, 2019 7:31am
hullkiwi

Merry Christmas, Compliments of the Season to everyone and may there truly be Peace on Earth.
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December 25, 2019 7:32am
mikenmildagain

I was wondering when 25 December became associated with the reputed birth of Jesus. The date was, of course, the traditional time to celebrate the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The Roman festival of Saturnalia, and similar festivals from the eastern Mediterranean, were held at that time. In the late third century, the Emperor Aurelian added the cult of Sol Invictus to the Roman pantheon on 25 December.
The Christian adoption of the festival as a celebration of their founder’s birth seems to date to the early fourth century. The earliest Christian writers do not mention it. Some decades later, Saint Augustine explained why this was a fitting day to celebrate Christ’s nativity: “Hence it is that He was born on the day which is the shortest in our earthly reckoning and from which subsequent days begin to increase in length. He, therefore, who bent low and lifted us up chose the shortest day, yet the one whence light begins to increase.”
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December 25, 2019 7:40am
lofty

Merry Christmas to you and yours, I wish the best and thanks for your efforts.

Cheers
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December 25, 2019 7:46am
Simon

Merry Christmas to you as well and also to your followers and haters.

Good cheer for all mankind.
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December 25, 2019 7:53am
Gravelroad

Merry Christmas everyone.
Is there a robot downticker on here?
Who would downtick harmless seasonal greetings? (See what I did there? Didn’t mention Christmas again).
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December 25, 2019 7:58am
- Stephen Russell
  
  Maybe it is someone who thinks “Christmas” is a cultural sectarian colonisation imperialism thing and offensive to all non-Christians?
  I said “Merry Christmas” to an acquaintance yesterday, who replied “I don’t do Merry Christmas, I only do Happy Holidays”.
  So Merry Christmas to all who wish to have one, and Happy Holidays to those who prefer that.
  
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  December 25, 2019 12:44pm
Unity

A very Merry Christmas to you and your family, David.
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December 25, 2019 7:59am
lifesgood

Merry Christmas, David, and Happy Hannukah. Thank you for providing this amazing platform for people like me to get things off our chest. Have a wonderful day with your family and enjoy Samuel’s first Christmas
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December 25, 2019 8:23am
buzzler

A Very Merry Christmas to all mankind.
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December 25, 2019 8:26am
Bluegrass

If Christmas is going to continue to be celebrated despite relentless persecution, then add this to your playlist:
Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!
……

This hymn will be banned by 2021 – put 10 on it.
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December 25, 2019 8:40am
David Garrett

And a Merry Christmas to you too David…It will be more and more enjoyable for you now you have not just one but two children to enjoy it with.
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December 25, 2019 8:46am
- An observer
  
  Now who would downtick a message like that?
  
  Merry Christmas David – enjoy the company of your family, especially the latest arrival. 🙂
  
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  December 25, 2019 9:10am
freethinker

And a Happy Christmas to Jacinda, even Jacinda deserves a nice time as a break from her annus horriblis past and that to come.
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December 25, 2019 9:04am
KiWombat

I see the trolls have been through early thismorning, such a shame that they seem unable to find anything to embrace, not even the joy of christmas !

A Merry Christmas to all (even the trolls)
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December 25, 2019 9:12am
- Lee C
  
  Agreed Wombat,
  
  I mean, I think I’m a bit ‘ssd’ for coming on KB on Christmas Morning – but to come on here, on Christmas Morning, just to down-tick people?
  
  That’s a whole new level of tragic, IMO.
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:32am
  - David Garrett
    
    Lee C: Well said Sir/Madam…It’s actually quite difficult to imagine the sadness inside the brain of a misanthrope who gets his/her jollies out of downticking peoples’ clearly heartfelt messages of goodwill to each other…but here’s another opportunity for that sad human being…Fill your boots…Merry Christmas to you..and do try and get some help in the New Year…
    
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    December 25, 2019 1:04pm
Rodney Randall

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V399tenKALA

Merry Chrimbus.
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December 25, 2019 9:20am
Yadayada

Merry Christmas, Kiwibloggers!

I hope you have a fantastic day.

Merry Christmas, Dpf. I know Christmas came early for you this year and I imagine you’ll be on point today so enjoy your family time.
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December 25, 2019 9:43am
Tall Man

Thanks you David.

Enjoy your first Christmas with your new baby.

We also have a new grandson so we are well blessed this Christmas.

Cheers.
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December 25, 2019 10:01am
Albert_Ross

And you and yours David. With two littluns I suspect you’ll be getting a lot more happiness than peace at Farrar Towers
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December 25, 2019 10:16am
toby1845

Merry Christmas to you and yours, David, and to other KBers as well.
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December 25, 2019 10:23am
The Proper Ghandi

Merry Christmas to all on KB! Protagonists, Antagonists and Moderators alike. Have a great day doing whatever it is that you do, Dionysian or Apollonian in spirit – drink heavily if you feel the urge, or quietly and soberly reflect on the nature of happenstance if that is your preference. Take it easy Ladies and Gentlemen.

“The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” (TS Eliot)

There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard:
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial,
The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight),
And the childish – which is not that of the child
For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel
Spreading its wings at the summit of the tree
Is not only a decoration, but an angel.

The child wonders at the Christmas Tree:
Let him continue in the spirit of wonder
At the Feast as an event not accepted as a pretext;
So that the glittering rapture, the amazement
Of the first-remembered Christmas Tree,
So that the surprises, delight in new possessions
(Each one with its peculiar and exciting smell),
The expectation of the goose or turkey
And the expected awe on its appearance,

So that the reverence and the gaiety
May not be forgotten in later experience,
In the bored habituation, the fatigue, the tedium,
The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure,
Or in the piety of the convert
Which may be tainted with a self-conceit
Displeasing to God and disrespectful to children
(And here I remember also with gratitude
St.Lucy, her carol, and her crown of fire):

So that before the end, the eightieth Christmas
(By “eightieth” meaning whichever is last)
The accumulated memories of annual emotion
May be concentrated into a great joy
Which shall be also a great fear, as on the occasion
When fear came upon every soul:
Because the beginning shall remind us of the end
And the first coming of the second coming.

[Merry Christmas from the Mods!]
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December 25, 2019 12:17pm
Pharmachick

Merry Christmas to you and yours DPF.

And to all kiwibloggers – wishing you a happy and prosperous Christmas and New Year, from the cold white North where it is still Xmas eve (no snow this year).
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December 25, 2019 2:37pm
Tony Stuart

Merry Christmas all. My wife, son and I spent five hours today helping out at City Mission Wanganui’s annual Christmas Lunch, where 450 people got a great meal, gifts for the children, but most of all, company.

The BBQ is about to go on to cook dinner, once everyone rises from their afternoon nap. May the miracle of Christmas touch you all today, and may 2020 be a wonderful and prosperous year for you, in every way.
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December 25, 2019 6:02pm
Enkidu

Merry Christmas, DPF, you organ of the right-wing capitalist conspiracy. I’m sure I could think of a better and more humorous description, but it’s late on Christmas Day and I’ve imbibed a certain amount of alcohol! Seriously, best to you and all of your clan, and best wishes for the New Year.
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