Introduction
I always thought that “Bah Humbug” was what Scrooge would
say whenever he saw people getting ready to celebrate Christmas. I thought it
was always an expression of a very materialistic, selfish, and greedy and old
man that in the end got his heart warmed by the Christmas spirit. But perhaps
it is something else.
Maybe people are all Scrooges but on the opposite side of expressing it. Perhaps people have the same values as Scrooge but express them in the opposite way.
Maybe people are all Scrooges but on the opposite side of expressing it. Perhaps people have the same values as Scrooge but express them in the opposite way.
Social and Commercial Values
I was driving to work on day and on a fence using Christmas
decorations tinsels and baubles etc. was written in large writing on a fence “BAH
HAMBUG”. Then I had a thought out of the blue that maybe “BAH HUMBUG” is an
expression of dislike against the commercialism of Christmas.
Maybe “BAH HUMBUG” on a certain level is right. What does
buying gifts, rushing around like mad, cooking like crazy, eating and drinking
like crazy, Christmas turkey and ham, big family 'get-togethers', huge retail
profits, piles of wrapping paper and all those sort of things have to do with
the birth of Christ?
I don’t know what all these things have to do with the life of Jesus and the Intimate Christ of everyone of us.
Scrooge was a banker of some sort and maybe it has to do with telling people the focus is not in spending money and in external commercial things but within oneself. Because, really if we only focus on the commercial and social side of Christmas we are just like Scrooge but on the opposite side. We have the exact same values as him but we manifest them in the opposite way to him. We spend money when he doesn't and we give when he doesn't, we are with family when he is alone, but the common thing is that we don't see the inner spiritual side where he doesn't either and both of us need to be warmed up by the real spirit of Christmas and we may even receive internal help to do that, and like Scrooge it implied changes to become more considerate and loving, which are qualities of the Christic principle.
Scrooge was a banker of some sort and maybe it has to do with telling people the focus is not in spending money and in external commercial things but within oneself. Because, really if we only focus on the commercial and social side of Christmas we are just like Scrooge but on the opposite side. We have the exact same values as him but we manifest them in the opposite way to him. We spend money when he doesn't and we give when he doesn't, we are with family when he is alone, but the common thing is that we don't see the inner spiritual side where he doesn't either and both of us need to be warmed up by the real spirit of Christmas and we may even receive internal help to do that, and like Scrooge it implied changes to become more considerate and loving, which are qualities of the Christic principle.
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