Seven Sinly Holidays
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I hear today is valentine's day. Which brings to mind some thoughts I was having back towards christmas time. Since so many of our holidays have lost their roots and become celebrations of commercialization, why not have seven holidays, one for each of the seven deadly sins. So far I've come up with three good fits for renaming existing holidays:
Christmas becomes greed, since we have to spend as much as possible buying things for people, thus making them greedy. Sure, the people doing the buying aren't being greedy, but how many times have you seen someone upset because they didn't get enough/what they wanted?
Thanksgiving becomes gluttony. How better to describe a holiday where every man, woman and child attempts to consume three times their own body weight?
Valentine's day is lust. True, lust and love are two very different things, but one can be confused with the other easily enough. And love seems like a hard thing to market, wheras lust is marketed all the time.
The other four I havn't come up with any existing holidays that match well with them, so I'm open to suggestions. But I've got a few ideas that sort of work, if a bit of a stretch:
Sloth can be the superbowl. While the athletes themselves are moderatly active, the rest of us sit and watch.
Pride might be the fourth of july. We're the greatest nation and all that silliness.
Envy, best I can come up with for Envy would be martin luther king day. Is rather backwards logic, but you could interpret racism to imply envy.
No good ideas for wrath. I suppose veterans day would work, barely.
So three out of seven. The idea needs some work, but not bad for an idea to taunt messed up holidays by making them even worse
Christmas becomes greed, since we have to spend as much as possible buying things for people, thus making them greedy. Sure, the people doing the buying aren't being greedy, but how many times have you seen someone upset because they didn't get enough/what they wanted?
Thanksgiving becomes gluttony. How better to describe a holiday where every man, woman and child attempts to consume three times their own body weight?
Valentine's day is lust. True, lust and love are two very different things, but one can be confused with the other easily enough. And love seems like a hard thing to market, wheras lust is marketed all the time.
The other four I havn't come up with any existing holidays that match well with them, so I'm open to suggestions. But I've got a few ideas that sort of work, if a bit of a stretch:
Sloth can be the superbowl. While the athletes themselves are moderatly active, the rest of us sit and watch.
Pride might be the fourth of july. We're the greatest nation and all that silliness.
Envy, best I can come up with for Envy would be martin luther king day. Is rather backwards logic, but you could interpret racism to imply envy.
No good ideas for wrath. I suppose veterans day would work, barely.
So three out of seven. The idea needs some work, but not bad for an idea to taunt messed up holidays by making them even worse
