“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“They are Man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Irresistibly contagious.
Yes.
I like to think laughter and good humor also release endorphins and dopamine.
Beneficial and vital,
even if just briefly.
Sunshine, on a cloudy day.
“If there ever was a savior in the history of Christmas it was Charles Dickens. His classic story is repeated and parodied every year to remind everyone how to keep Christmas well. He doesn’t mention Christ even once, and for good reason. Christ would ruin Christmas.
To Dickens, Christmas is “wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness!” (Dickens, p.71)
Dickens invented the gospel of Christmas which is fun and wonder. Now that is something a lot of people can gather around. On the other hand, Christ came to save guilty sinners. There are not many people lined up to listen to what Christ did for our sins.
Putting Christ into Christmas would ruin the Christmas Carol. In the fiction story, Ebenezer Scrooge was the bad guy, but in the true Bible, Ebenezer is a type of Christ (1 Sam 7:12).
When Dickens described the “good ol’ world”, Christ, the Judge, would be the one saying “humbug” (John 3:19).”
Quote from Justin Johnson. Continue reading here…
(Sorry admin, don’t mean to seem like I’m just picking on you here. Seems like the whole world has these things backasswards.)
Thanks Jim…I needed that.
With this I leave the following link:
I have no love for Dickens as he was a devout communist determined to destroy the merchant class of individuals. His main disdain for the merchant class was their ability to make money while those whom could not suffered. His wish was to force those that produce to aid those that do not. This Bob Cratchett, if his services were worth more, would be courted by others in the same line of business as a trained and valued accounting clerk, which he surely was since he was employed by a financial sector lender. Yet no other lenders deemed his skills to be worth more than Scrooge valued his production.
Cratchett has the option to improve on his lot in life by learning a trade that would earn him more revenue to support his ill planned family. Note, Cratchett knowing he could not support himself and his spouse in a manner of relative ease decided to have numerous children! Of course, one of them was born with a severe disability. Life sucks and then you die. Tiny Tim, the supposedly heart wrenching urchin was born into a family where the sole provider foolishly knocked up his wife when he couldn’t support any children. What the H happened to prudent abstinence? Mister DICKens would have us believe that sexual pleasure out weighs prudence. Most here can remember the moniker, “Don’t do the Crime if you can’t do the Time!”, yet if you have sex then everyone should feel sorry for your poor ass decision to bring a child into a world where the DAF (dumb ass fucker) can’t provide for them.
No, I side with Scrooge. If not for him Cratchett would not have a job at all as no other lending institution was willing to take him on at a higher rate of pay. As a matter of fact, Cratchett should be thanking Scrooge that he is employed at all!
On another note, in today’s world Cratchett would be up on charges of child neglect and abuse for having to many white children. After all, Cratchett is a white male and having to many children while white is a formal charge he can be levied with. Please note, the white male in the story doesn’t desert his family like so many black baby daddies do. So the white male is available to make an example of. Additionally, all the white children would be removed from the home to brainwash them to hate themselves and to glorify the non white population. However, not many non whites existed at the time frame of the story in merry old England.
In summation, to whit, I hate the story by DICKens, “The Christmas Carol”, which at no time mentions that Christmas is a celebration of the birth of the Christ. This story’s basis is the demonization of the merchant class so the FSA can get their FS.