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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Josh probably isn't that much of a fan of his birthday, tbh. It's the rest of us.

Well.

Those of us who decided or accepted that we'd celebrate Josh's birthday for him around the time of Roman Saturnalia or the pagan mid-winter* festival, even though that's very much unlikely to be the right date**, because there were already celebrations going on at that time. The whole "let's decorate a tree" thing is pagan.

There are some offshoots of Josh's fan club who don't think much of his birthday either, and instead have the big celebration around his death-date instead. Not like "at last he's gone and kicked the bucket", more like "yay he went to heaven and paved the way for the rest of us, or so we tell ourselves because that'd be awesome.". That's totally not also based around celebrations that existed before Josh, no siree.

Anyway, my point is that his opinion isn't really known, and he probably wouldn't decorate a tree. He'd be more likely to shout at it for not having figs.

* where "winter" is defined as the seasons autumn and winter together, the same way that "day" can mean daytime and nighttime together)

** compare how the British monarch often has two "birthdays": An actual one and an official one in June where people can celebrate in nice weather. (Liz's real birthday was in April and Chuck's is in November. Both rainy months.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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