Valentines Day

Odio La Cabra · Post by **Odio La Cabra** » 1/13/2005, 9:12 pm

...anybody else think that it's just a way to sell more chocolate?

clumsychild_ · Post by **clumsychild_** » 1/13/2005, 9:12 pm

Definitely.

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 1/13/2005, 9:14 pm

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 1/13/2005, 11:05 pm

I do like chocolate though...

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 1/13/2005, 11:22 pm

White Chocolate is the nectar or angels... :drool:

clumsyquebecoise · Post by **clumsyquebecoise** » 1/13/2005, 11:28 pm

Chocolates and flowers and cards.

And to make us single folk feel bad about ourselves. *scowl*

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 1/13/2005, 11:35 pm

I don't have a problem with more people buying my chocolate

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 1/14/2005, 1:25 am

Buying YOUR chocolage, or buying YOU chocolate? :lol:

Yeah, I generally feel crappy about being single <i>all</i> the time though, not just on February 14. so it's not that bad.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 1/14/2005, 1:44 am

To answer the first post in this thread:

Well duhhh.

The only point of any holiday anymore is to sell crap to consumers.

areusad831 · Post by **areusad831** » 1/14/2005, 10:10 am

what about presidents day?, arbor day, labor day, memorial day

you are so wrong!

mosaik · Post by **mosaik** » 1/14/2005, 10:48 am

man i saw this coming.

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 1/14/2005, 1:48 pm

who didn't?

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/14/2005, 1:54 pm

actually the origin behind st valentine is lost..

As for the commericalism of this holiday.. I find it sad to have one day a year to tell someone you love them or care.

you should say that all year round.. not just one day..

As for me this valentine's day i will be spending it with 4 talented men.. I am seeing Interpol in concert. :love:

origin of valentine's day

Valentines Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II - Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular military campaigns. Claudius the Cruel, as he was known at the time, was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome.

This was when a Christian priest named Valentine came to defend love in the empire. Valentine began to secretly marry couples despite the emperors orders. When Emperor Claudius was informed of these ceremonies Valentine was sent to prison where he remained until his death on February 14 in the year 270.

It wasn't until a few hundred years later when Valentine's Day began to develop as we know it. At the time Christianity was beginning to take control of Europe.

As part of this effort the Church sought to do away with pagan holidays. Valentine's Day came to replace a mid-February fertility festival called Lupercalia. In honor of his sacrifice for love Valentine was made a saint and Lupercalia renamed in his honor.

Until today the tradition of honoring Valentine continues. The themes of love and fertility taken from the ancient meanings of the holiday have endured and evolved with our contemporary adaptations of its meanings.

areusad831 · Post by **areusad831** » 1/14/2005, 2:04 pm

word its all about chocolate and naked flying babies

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 1/14/2005, 2:45 pm

Vertigo wrote:As for the commericalism of this holiday.. I find it sad to have one day a year to tell someone you love them or care.
you should say that all year round.. not just one day..

Well, a lot of Valentine's Celebrations include not just telling people you love you love them, but doing something extra special and out of the ordinary. Now, I think it's sort of demanding to expect that all year round.

I think the holiday is good, just way overly commercialized.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/14/2005, 3:25 pm

AnnieDreams wrote:
Vertigo wrote:As for the commericalism of this holiday.. I find it sad to have one day a year to tell someone you love them or care.
you should say that all year round.. not just one day..

Well, a lot of Valentine's Celebrations include not just telling people you love you love them, but doing something extra special and out of the ordinary. Now, I think it's sort of demanding to expect that all year round.

I think the holiday is good, just way overly commercialized.

that was my point. Why should you wait for one day to do something extra special..you can do it all year round. i don;t mean do it allyear, but you have all year to do something like that. YOu shouldn't do somethign cause it is a day that everyone is doing it. You should because you want to an dnot cause you have to..that is what iwas trying to say..

Post by **saman** » 1/14/2005, 3:49 pm

do you realize how exhausting that would get? doing something special for someone every day.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 1/14/2005, 4:06 pm

I think she meant you could choose any day out of the year to do it rather than waiting for Valentine's Day.

areusad831 wrote:what about presidents day?, arbor day, labor day, memorial day

you are so wrong!

Shush, you! Let me be bitter!

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/14/2005, 4:17 pm

nikki4982 wrote:I think she meant you could choose any day out of the year to do it rather than waiting for Valentine's Day.

areusad831 wrote:what about presidents day?, arbor day, labor day, memorial day

you are so wrong!

Shush, you! Let me be bitter!

Thanks Nikki. Finally someone who gets what I was talking about..

Why are you bitter.? Presidents day is special this year cause it is also my B-day.. LOL. I get to have the day off .. usually I am working it..

Mechanical Thought · Post by **Mechanical Thought** » 1/14/2005, 4:22 pm

Cass wrote:Yeah, I generally feel crappy about being single <i>all</i> the time though, not just on February 14. so it's not that bad.

Pretty much what I was thinking.

So, I figure I can drown my sorrows with said chocolate.