Hey, It's me everyone!
Once again I have left a short delay (Seven months) in posting a new Flanagan's Corner so as to increase the suspense and create excitement from the masses pondering the next stimulating and thought provoking musing!! Well, maybe not.
Anywho, (Yes anywho, not anyhow) I'm back yet once again. If you've read Flanagan's Corner before you know it's my own little slightly irreverent, whimsical and eccentric look at history. This current post will contain the same high level of wit, intelligence and humor that you all have grown to crave, humbly speaking of course, but will also in this particular case be a bit more high falutin, (Is that how ya spell falutin? Well, it must be as that is the way I spelteded it.) So here goes.
According to an old story, a traveler walked into a country store in the hills of Kentucky one wintry day in 1809 and asked, "Anything new happen around here lately?"The proprietor almost laughed."Around here, stranger? Nothing happens around here, least wise anything important. A baby was born in the Lincoln cabin last night; that's all."
That would be ABRAHAM LINCOLN! I'm not so sure the story is a true one and surmise probably not, but funny how so many simple events seem so insignificant, but end up having monumental results not foreseen. There is Napoleon's delay in starting the battle at Waterloo which may have been one of the most if not biggest reason for his loss that day. Since this topic deals with the French we will not waste anymore discourse on this distasteful discussion. (If you are French or of French descent, don't be angry. I will diss the Germans on my next post. AND I am of German ancestry.) Well, why not start with the dissing the Germans now. There is Adolf Hitler's delay in the manufacture of the ME 262 jet fighter as purely an air superiority fighter which could have changed the air war over Germany in his favor. He preferred instead a jet that would be mainly a dive bomber.
So you see what I mean when some seemingly small events or decisions seem relatively unimportant at the time. As this time of the year is the Christmas season and even though we celebrate in the USA many "Holidays" during this time, Christmas is the main reason for the massive celebrations here and around the world. The "Reason for the season" has been lost for most I fear and replaced with a modern day travesty of materialism, "It's about family and friends," gluttony, drinking, starting with the endless parade of "CHRISTMAS-LESS songs two months in advance of DEC 24/25. Sure, sure, even I like some of the secular songs like Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire or Let It Not Snow, Let It Not Snow, Let It Not Snow. Who doesn't!! But by the 1756th time they get a bit AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Enough. (Who among you has actually roasted or tasted roasted chestnuts?? C'mon,! But I digest.
Now I come to my main point. (FINALLY DUDE) Although the early church and Christianity did not celebrate or much acknowledge "Christmas" per-Se until the early 300 AD. years and December 25th is NOT the actual birthday of Jesus, but was chosen by Christians either as a replacement of pagan holidays held at the same time or as one tradition has it, Dec. 25 being nine months after Mary was told by the angel Gabriel of her ensuing miracle pregnancy. That is not the point no matter when He was born. It is as the title of this post (Getting long I see. How does that always happen???) says, the SIGNIFICANCE of the the event. The birth celebrated, in the end, is the reason for Christmas.
Imagine the scene that started this posting, with some of the particulars of time and place changed.
According to an old story, a traveler walked into a small Inn on the outskirts of a small Judean village
Once again I have left a short delay (Seven months) in posting a new Flanagan's Corner so as to increase the suspense and create excitement from the masses pondering the next stimulating and thought provoking musing!! Well, maybe not.
Anywho, (Yes anywho, not anyhow) I'm back yet once again. If you've read Flanagan's Corner before you know it's my own little slightly irreverent, whimsical and eccentric look at history. This current post will contain the same high level of wit, intelligence and humor that you all have grown to crave, humbly speaking of course, but will also in this particular case be a bit more high falutin, (Is that how ya spell falutin? Well, it must be as that is the way I spelteded it.) So here goes.
According to an old story, a traveler walked into a country store in the hills of Kentucky one wintry day in 1809 and asked, "Anything new happen around here lately?"The proprietor almost laughed."Around here, stranger? Nothing happens around here, least wise anything important. A baby was born in the Lincoln cabin last night; that's all."
That would be ABRAHAM LINCOLN! I'm not so sure the story is a true one and surmise probably not, but funny how so many simple events seem so insignificant, but end up having monumental results not foreseen. There is Napoleon's delay in starting the battle at Waterloo which may have been one of the most if not biggest reason for his loss that day. Since this topic deals with the French we will not waste anymore discourse on this distasteful discussion. (If you are French or of French descent, don't be angry. I will diss the Germans on my next post. AND I am of German ancestry.) Well, why not start with the dissing the Germans now. There is Adolf Hitler's delay in the manufacture of the ME 262 jet fighter as purely an air superiority fighter which could have changed the air war over Germany in his favor. He preferred instead a jet that would be mainly a dive bomber.
So you see what I mean when some seemingly small events or decisions seem relatively unimportant at the time. As this time of the year is the Christmas season and even though we celebrate in the USA many "Holidays" during this time, Christmas is the main reason for the massive celebrations here and around the world. The "Reason for the season" has been lost for most I fear and replaced with a modern day travesty of materialism, "It's about family and friends," gluttony, drinking, starting with the endless parade of "CHRISTMAS-LESS songs two months in advance of DEC 24/25. Sure, sure, even I like some of the secular songs like Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire or Let It Not Snow, Let It Not Snow, Let It Not Snow. Who doesn't!! But by the 1756th time they get a bit AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Enough. (Who among you has actually roasted or tasted roasted chestnuts?? C'mon,! But I digest.
Now I come to my main point. (FINALLY DUDE) Although the early church and Christianity did not celebrate or much acknowledge "Christmas" per-Se until the early 300 AD. years and December 25th is NOT the actual birthday of Jesus, but was chosen by Christians either as a replacement of pagan holidays held at the same time or as one tradition has it, Dec. 25 being nine months after Mary was told by the angel Gabriel of her ensuing miracle pregnancy. That is not the point no matter when He was born. It is as the title of this post (Getting long I see. How does that always happen???) says, the SIGNIFICANCE of the the event. The birth celebrated, in the end, is the reason for Christmas.
Imagine the scene that started this posting, with some of the particulars of time and place changed.
According to an old story, a traveler walked into a small Inn on the outskirts of a small Judean village
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