[ClearCase_guy]

The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying…stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure.

Wallowing in Vanity Fair is a dangerous seduction. The whole meaning of Christmas is there is something more, and better, than the pleasures and pains of this earthly world.

[Shimmer128]

Excellent point.

To think that we are the end product of life, of this earth, is very depressing. I'm glad I believe in something Higher and Greater than myself.