Fuck Christmas - celebrate Winter Solstice! The longest night of the year is a real event, the return of the Sun is a really important event. No Sun - no warmth!  No sunshine - no plants! No plants no food! No food - no humans. No humans - no fucking consumerist xmas …

Make sure to read the Wikipedia entry and learn that almost all cultures and many religions celebrate this day. The religions always give it their ‘own’ holy meaning - but they are all based on one of the oldest scientific discoveries of ancient humans: that the sun follows a pattern and exact timing. That seasons come and go and that they can be calculated. The earliest farming communities learned that rhythm pretty fast, because it is of the utmost importance to know WHEN to plant your seeds, so they come out at the right time.

So this very Saturday - December the 22th of 2007 @ 18:06 UTC / GMT marks the solstice—the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

Happy Winter Solstice my friends and readers!