Your Belief In Jesus (God) Is Like A Child's Belief In Santa Claus. After All, Both Beliefs Are A Product (Result) Of The Same Neurological Wiring (That Part Of The Brain That Leads A Child To Believe in Santa Claus Is The Same Part Of The Brain That Leads An Adult To Believe In Jesus). All You Religious People Are Just Children Believing In Santa Claus! HO HO HO!
Till what age did you believe in Santa Claus? Did you figure out he wasn’t real by yourself or were you told by others?
I Never Understood Where Santa Claus Came Into Play With Christmas. I Know He Delivered Gifts And What Not, But I Don't Recall Him Being A Biblical Figure (I Don't Remember Reading About Him In The Bible) And Having A Relationship With Jesus. And I Always Thought The Purpose Of Christmas Was To Celebrate The Birth Of Jesus (Jesus Was A Biblical Figure). Wouldn't It Have Made More Sense If The 3 Wise Men Delivered Christmas Gifts Rather Than Santa Claus? (How Did Santa Get Into The Mix? Jesus Was Born In The Desert And Santa Was From The South Pole.) Maybe The Following Two History Channel Videos Will Shed Some Light On This Discrepancy/Mystery.
http://www.history.com/topics/christmas/santa-claus
http://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-Christmas
What Are The Unconscious, Underlying Social And Psychological Motives Behind Gift Giving And Inviting Guests To Banquets And Other Forms Of Holiday Altruism (e.g. Christmas Feasts And Festivities)? To Create Or Strengthen The Bonds Between You And Strangers Or You And Kin So As To Ensure That The Same Will Be Reciprocated To You In The Future. This In Turn Buffers You From Any Stresses You May Experience During Times Of Deprivation (Those Times When You're Without Money, Home, Company, Clothes, Food, Etc.).
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-true-meaning-of-christmas-excess/article16058098/
Economists have long been baffled by it: Spending weeks of pay on a holiday-feast blowout is not something that fits into the traditional rational-actor models of economic thought. Moralists denounce it as the wealthy West’s commercialization of a formerly austere and religious moment; back when the Christians occupied the ancient Dec. 25 holiday (and got the naming rights), we didn’t do this sort of thing, did we? Our merchandise-focused society has obviously vulgarized the sacred.
Actually, holiday inflation is not unique to the wealthy, the postreligious, the capitalistic or the Western world. Ruinous overspending on feasts and festivals is one of the great global phenomena, one that unites almost everyone these days.
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Sociologists and economists have struggled for years to explain holiday inflation. One theory holds that it’s all about conspicuous consumption: As economists Omar Moav and Zvika Neeman wrote in a paper titled Bling Bling, Human Capital, And Poverty, “festivals, consumption of tobacco and alcohol, clothing, and display of jewellery, are more transparent than other types of consumption, and hence may provide a signal for wealth … to impress others.”
Perhaps, for some. But there’s clearly more to it than simply showing off. (Or the flip side of showing off – avoiding the loss of face and pride that come from failing to get blingy.) This is a rather pessimistic view of humanity, one that assumes that all our actions must be intended to produce immediate reward. But these celebrations aren’t simply survival: They’re what we live for.
Other economists offer a more reasonable explanation, one that seems closer to our own experiences: that lavish spending on holidays is a form of “risk sharing.” By showing largesse toward your neighbours and family, you are building relationships of mutual trust and respect (some economists call it “network maintenance”), so that when the chips are down, they might remember those wonderful evenings and spare you a moment’s assistance.
As World Bank economist Vijayendra Rao put it in his analysis of expensive celebrations in rural India, “publicly observable celebrations have two functions: they provide a space for maintaining social reputations and webs of obligation, and they serve as arenas for status-enhancing competitions.”
The second role, the status-enhancing one, is an attempt to place a well-shod foot in the door of higher success – and it usually fails. But the first role, Mr. Rao observes, is “central to maintaining the networks essential for social relationships and coping with poverty.”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-drugs-and-boredom/200912/christmas-and-consumption
“If you’re a middle-class black, it seems like in order to be perceived by whites and other blacks as relatively well off, you have to show you have money,” Roussanov says. “You have to spend more on things that are observable.”
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/conspicuous-consumption-and-race-who-spends-more-on-what/
Does kin selection manifest itself within the gift giving ritual? Tripat Gill and I published a paper in Psychology & Marketing
wherein we explored how individuals allocate their gift giving budgets
to various prospective recipients (e.g., mates, family members, and
friends). We theorized and found that genetic relatedness between
givers and recipients was positively correlated to the expected gift
expenditures. That said, individuals stated that they would spend the
most money on their mates (i.e., more so than on their closest
relatives), and that they would spend more on their closest friend as
compared to a more distant kin (e.g., second cousins). These findings
suggest that the gift giving ritual serves multiple Darwinian objectives
including reproduction (gifts to one's mate), kin selection (gifts to
one's kin), and reciprocity (gifts to close friends). Furthermore, in
this particular context, the Darwinian pursuits were hierarchically
ordered in terms of their importance. Not surprisingly, given that
humans are a sexually reproducing species with high bi-parental
investment, gifts to mates took the crown.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/200812/charles-darwin-santa-claus-and-the-gift-giving-ritual
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/200812/charles-darwin-santa-claus-and-the-gift-giving-ritual
EVERYDAY IS CHRISTMAS AND EVERY NIGHT IS NEW YEARS EVE!
POOR
The researchers, led by Stanford University sociologist Robb Willer, surmised that wealthy people embedded in a milieu where rich and poor live in starkly different circumstances may feel more entitled to their moneyed status, or more threatened by the prospective loss of privilege that would come if resources more evenly distributed. They may feel that the system whereby wealth is apportioned is fairer because they so rarely come into contact with the poor.
The researchers, led by Stanford University sociologist Robb Willer, surmised that wealthy people embedded in a milieu where rich and poor live in starkly different circumstances may feel more entitled to their moneyed status, or more threatened by the prospective loss of privilege that would come if resources more evenly distributed. They may feel that the system whereby wealth is apportioned is fairer because they so rarely come into contact with the poor.
POOR
Go To Page 321 (337 On The Page Counter When You Scroll) And Read The Section Titled Why Scrooge Was Single: The Evolution of Charity To Understand The Sexually Selected Reason Why We're Altruistic.
When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats
Teens used to terrorize smaller children on Halloween. (Image courtesy of The New York Public Library) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-halloween-was-all-tricks-no-treats-180966996/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/halloween-owes-its-tricks-and-treats-celtic-new-years-eve-180960944/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/the-evolving-father/201410/the-childhood-dramas-halloween?amp
https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/the-evolving-father/201410/the-childhood-dramas-halloween?amp
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-brooks/sexual-signalling-powers-_b_1845337.htmlEww, He Poe, Girl!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/men-spend-when-women-scarce_n_1204764.html
Girl, He Poe!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/science/19tier.html?_r=0
He The Poe, Girl!
More Like NIGGER FRIDAY Because The Majority Of People Fighting Over Merchandise After Giving Thanks To The Lord The Night Befoe Are NIGGERS!
THE ORIGINS OF THANKSGIVING
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-saints-and-pilgrims-review-20151121-column.html
www.twitter.com/primalpoly/status/934085889571123200
NIGGER FRIDAY!
Know What I've Noticed? A Lot Of NIGGERs Shop At The Del Amo Mall, But Not Many Of These NIGGER Shoppers Live Near The Del Amo Mall! So, From Where Do They Come?
www.twitter.com/primalpoly/status/934085889571123200
NIGGER FRIDAY!
Know What I've Noticed? A Lot Of NIGGERs Shop At The Del Amo Mall, But Not Many Of These NIGGER Shoppers Live Near The Del Amo Mall! So, From Where Do They Come?
