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Excess In Winter
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An aside from 'chaterbank' frivolaties...
A serious question,
Just what is it in the human psyche that feels the need to over indulge at this time of year?
We all know that the xmas festivities are the offshoot of earlier pagan festivities where people indulged in an excess of food, drinking etc.
My question is why?
We dont live in a culture where food is scarce or where alcohol is a 'once a year' luxury so why do we feel the need in the 21st century to over indulge at this time of year?
A serious question,
Just what is it in the human psyche that feels the need to over indulge at this time of year?
We all know that the xmas festivities are the offshoot of earlier pagan festivities where people indulged in an excess of food, drinking etc.
My question is why?
We dont live in a culture where food is scarce or where alcohol is a 'once a year' luxury so why do we feel the need in the 21st century to over indulge at this time of year?
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Why the excess in Winter? Well, I'll tell you; and not a lot of people know this. You see, we are all evolved from bears, and bears still today hibernate for most of the Winter. However, before doing so, they gorge, and gnaw, and gulp, and devour everything in site that they can possibly throw down their gullets. Now there is still a vestige of that "sleeping bear'" within us. Notice the old "bears" in the family gatherings who, after gorging themselves silly, pat their protruding stomachs and slowly drift off into sonambulance...And that is the true story of why we do it.
Moffat nails it as usual
"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact midpoint, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say "Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark." Back on Earth, we called this Christmas, or the Winter Solstice. On this world, the first settlers called it the Crystal Feast."
"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact midpoint, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say "Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark." Back on Earth, we called this Christmas, or the Winter Solstice. On this world, the first settlers called it the Crystal Feast."
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