Celebrate

how can i celebrate christmas in sims 2?. i have the installed the expansion pack, i can celebrate wedding, birthday, new year, but still i cant celebrate christmas?. i put christmas tree, decors, but still i cant celebrate it?. Please help me.. What are the exact ways and things i need to put in the house just to experience celebrating sims 2??.. Help help.. Thanks a lot for the future help. Godbless

You’ll need one of the holiday stuff packs. There were two of them.

I would think that the best day to celebrate it woud be on Christmas day

because jesus was born at 12am christmas day. thats why we celebrate eve so that we can be awake for his birthday at 12am.

Why do atheists and people who are not religious celebrate Jesus’s birthday? Why do they put up decorations and buy presents? I think Christmas is now officially just commercial. For the most part. Most people that celebrate it don’t give a (expletive) about Jesus’s birthday, but just want presents and to sell stuff. Why do atheists and non-religious people still celebrate the birth of Christ?

BECAUSE IT IS NOT JESUS’ BIRTHDAY!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!
Christmas is just a cover up of the old Pagan Holiday.

Christmas has nothing too do with christ!
So, what is wrong with Christmas?
1. To say that Jesus was born on December 25th is a lie! The true date is sometime in September according to the Scriptures.
2. Trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly forbidden as pagan and heathen! To say that these are Christian or that they can be made Christian is a lie!
3. The Lord never spoke of commemorating his birth but rather commanded us to remember the sacrifice of His suffering and death, which purchased our salvation.
That’s too support the first line. :]

The truth is complicated, and it depends upon what tradition you’re referring to as "Christmas." "Christmas" as "Christ’s Mass," the celebration of Christ’s birthday, originated when the Roman Catholic Church decided to concecrate pagan traditions. The Church wanted to convert the pagans of Europe to Christianity, and as a way of doing so, they established a Christian religious meaning to the important and popular celebration of the winter solstice. They chose the birth of Christ because it echoed pagan attributes of the holiday, which celebrated, amongst other things, the rebirth of the Sun. ["rebirth of Sun"/"birth of Son," get it?]. The truth is that, before then, Christians didn’t really celebrate Christ’s birth; it was his death and resurrection that were supremely important, and his borth was a minor point without a fixed celebration.

It’s certain that Jesus ”wasn’t” born on December 25. In fact, the details in the Bible clearly point to his being born in the spring. Placing the holiday of December 25 was a direct attempt to co-opt solstice traditions.

Christmas as a ”modern” celebration, including most of the things we associate with it (Santa Claus, gift-giving, carols, egg nog, etc.), were a Victorian invention. A number of writers and politicians, including Clement C. Moore ("The Night Before Christmas"), popularized Christmas as a family tradition, in part to supplant undesirable older traditions that had become part of Christmas (including "misrule" traditions we now associate with Halloween!). For a detailed and fascinating account of the Victorian Christmas invention, read Stephen Nissenbaum’s excellent "The Battle For Christmas."

As for individual Christmas traditions … well, those are probably best answered as seperate FAQ answers.

* The following is what I have discovered in many old books in the State Library in Melbourne Australia.

Dec 25th was initially celebrated as ‘Conquering the Sun Day’, in which the Romans at the time, who worshipped the sun, thought the Sun God was pleased with them as the days started to get longer. They would have celebrations and exchange gifts. Those that believed in Jesus feared for their lives, and wanted to mark a day for his birth, and so did on the same day, under the guise of the Roman beliefs. So the birth of Jesus was celebrated around 460AD for the first time, and as the Church grew, it eventually took the day over for themselves.

Interesting.

* There is a wide spread theory that Christmas started in Rome as a response to the Pagan holiday that was celebrated around the Winter Solstice by Emperor Aurelian in AD 274, was called The Birth of the Invincible Sun.

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm

what is the meaning of christmas and why do we celebrate christmas?

Its good to celebrate XMAS

Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. Christmas festivities often combine the commemoration of Jesus’ birth with various secular customs, many of which have been influenced by earlier winter festivals. The date as a birthdate for Jesus is traditional, and is not considered to be his actual date of birth.

In most places around the world, Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25. Christmas Eve is the preceding day, December 24. In the United Kingdom and many countries of the Commonwealth, Boxing Day is the following day, December 26. In Catholic countries, Saint Stephen’s Day or the Feast of St. Stephen is December 26. The Armenian Apostolic Church observes Christmas on January 6. Eastern Orthodox Churches that still use the Julian Calendar celebrate Christmas on the Julian version of 25 December, which is January 7 on the more widely used Gregorian calendar, because the two calendars are now 13 days apart. (Armenians who use the Julian Calendar celebrate Christmas on the Julian version of Jan. 6, which is Jan. 19 on the Gregorian calendar.)

The word "Christmas" is a contraction of two words "Christ’s mass" and is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038. In early Greek versions of the New Testament, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ (Χριστός). Since the mid-16th century Χ, or the similar Roman letter X, was used as an abbreviation for Christ. Thus, Xmas is an abbreviation for Christmas.

After the conversion of Anglo-Saxons in England from their indigenous Anglo-Saxon polytheism (a form of Germanic paganism) in the very early 7th century, Christmas was called geol, which was the name of the native Germanic pre-Christian solstice festival that fell on that date. From geol, the current English word Yule is derived. Many customs associated with modern Christmas were derived from Germanic paganism.

The prominence of Christmas Day increased gradually after Charlemagne was crowned on Christmas Day in 800. Around the 12th century, the remnants of the former Saturnalian traditions of the Romans were transferred to the Twelve Days of Christmas (26 December – 6 January). Christmas during the Middle Ages was a public festival, incorporating ivy, holly, and other evergreens, as well as gift-giving.

Modern traditions have come to include the display of Nativity scenes, Holly and Christmas trees, the exchange of gifts and cards, and the arrival of Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. Popular Christmas themes include the promotion of goodwill and peace.

My little brother is doing a project about how people celebrate christmas in other countries and he chose Egypt and we can’t find anything about that. So I want to be a good sister and help him. so if you people who read this Help?!?!?!

Well we start of by saying Christamx day is on the 7th of january, in Egypt. as most Egyptian christians here are Orthodox,,know as Coptic Orthodox,..they pretty much do what other people do around the world,,Xmas tree, Santa,,aka Baba Nowel, church on christmas day, feast, family, peace happinese,.. and yeah,,we got no snow here.

I’m American, so I’ve sometimes wondered what it must be like to have Christmas during the summer instead of the winter. In the US and many other countries in the Northern Hemisphere, the ideal Christmas is a "White Christmas", as the song goes. Do people in the Southern Hemisphere often celebrate Christmas by swimming or engaging in some other outdoor activity? Do people in Australia or New Zealand ever sing "White Christmas"?

I am now living in Italy, but was born and raised in Australia, so I can tell you from my experience there is a big difference, apart from the obvious that it doesn’t snow. Xmas is much more commericalised in Aust, than in Europe, although as you’re American cosumerism must be even more evident. There is defintely a more Christmassy feel here than in a hot climate. More emphasis is on food, and you can definitely handle eating all the excess food when you’re wearing heavy coats, and layers of clothing. In Australia we would usually still have the usual turkey with all the trimmings, but we defintely don’t eat as much as in hot weather your body doesn’t want it! Remember that when you are wearing layers of clothes it doesn’t matter if you put on a bit of weight, you can hide it, but when you have to put on your bikini and head to the beach its another matter. Italians don’t just have Christmas and St. Stephen’s Day (Boxing day in Australia) they also have the Feast of the Epiphany on the 6th of Jan (another public holiday) which is also an important day, so Xmas goes from the 25th dec until 6 Jan, so it is just as the song goes, the 12 days of Xmas. In Australia Xmas sales start on the 26th Dec, so really its Xmas for just that 1 day and then its all about post- Xmas sales and getting ready for New years eve. I feel there its all about consumerism. People stress way too much about the hundreds of presents they have to buy for everyone, and get themselves into debt. It can be simpler and more meaningful than that if they wanted it to be.

I’m American, so I’ve sometimes wondered what it must be like to have Christmas during the summer instead of the winter. In the US and many other countries in the Northern Hemisphere, the ideal Christmas is a "White Christmas", as the song goes. Do people in the Southern Hemisphere often celebrate Christmas by swimming or engaging in some other outdoor activity? Do people in Australia or New Zealand ever sing "White Christmas"?

I am now living in Italy, but was born and raised in Australia, so I can tell you from my experience there is a big difference, apart from the obvious that it doesn’t snow. Xmas is much more commericalised in Aust, than in Europe, although as you’re American cosumerism must be even more evident. There is defintely a more Christmassy feel here than in a hot climate. More emphasis is on food, and you can definitely handle eating all the excess food when you’re wearing heavy coats, and layers of clothing. In Australia we would usually still have the usual turkey with all the trimmings, but we defintely don’t eat as much as in hot weather your body doesn’t want it! Remember that when you are wearing layers of clothes it doesn’t matter if you put on a bit of weight, you can hide it, but when you have to put on your bikini and head to the beach its another matter. Italians don’t just have Christmas and St. Stephen’s Day (Boxing day in Australia) they also have the Feast of the Epiphany on the 6th of Jan (another public holiday) which is also an important day, so Xmas goes from the 25th dec until 6 Jan, so it is just as the song goes, the 12 days of Xmas. In Australia Xmas sales start on the 26th Dec, so really its Xmas for just that 1 day and then its all about post- Xmas sales and getting ready for New years eve. I feel there its all about consumerism. People stress way too much about the hundreds of presents they have to buy for everyone, and get themselves into debt. It can be simpler and more meaningful than that if they wanted it to be.

It seems to me that Americans have lost sight of the true meaning of Christmas and that is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the savior of all mankind. I do not understand how people can celebrate this day, if they do not believe in Christ. This is not a bashing for non-Christians and I am not trying to argue over the existence of Jesus. I just want to understand how and why people celebrate this holiday.

i’m a christian and i definitely believe in God and Jesus. and yeah, many people do lose sight of the true meaning of Christmas. every year on Christmas eve, we go to my grandma’s house so we can go to my other grandma’s house on Christmas day. at her house, we sing happy birthday to Jesus and at my other grandma’s house, we give thanks to God and Jesus. but we always do that.

I celebrate Kwanzaa and not Christmas even if you can do both but what other holidays are out there.Please share.
Honestly, if you’re going to talk smack about the holiday,I’m going to report you.
Ashley M. I like your answer but the way my family celebrates it, we take the days to honor the great African Americans in history as well as in our family.I belive that Kwanzaa is about celebrating how far African-Americans came from slavery.I mean who’d ever thoght we have a really high possibilty of having our first black president.

And like I said, you shouldn’t be going up in this category if you’re going to talk smack about my favorite holiday.

Thanks for writting everyone.

Festivus for the rest of us!!!

Both Kwanzaa and Festivus were created created in 1966 and made popular in the late 90’s — One is good spirited and should be taken in the spirit of humor. The other is created by a felon that tortured women. hmmm … I think I have chosen better then you…

I celabrate christmas on the eve of the 24th, though not sure why some Europeans countries celebrate on this day.

Because at midnight it is actually the 25th.