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December 20th, 2010
The Good Christmas, part 1
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Jeremiah 10:2-4
Wednesday is a bastardization of Odin's day, just like Thursday is Thor's day, but with a centuries-old lisp.
I s#!t thee not.
The ones people get right at the tree farms were indeed fresh cut on site!! Yes, there is post-holiday mulching where I live.
Couldn't he have bought an artificial tree then he doesn't have to buy it ever again? It's also good for the environment as well. 😉
Actually, it's been found that live trees are better for the environment than artificial ones. It generates a lot of greenhouse gases to make an artificial tree.
Footnote to the religious: God says in the Old Testament He detests the practice of cutting down trees and decking them with "silver and gold". So, the practice came from way back before Judaism.
I don't think Christmas is even a religious holiday since Jesus was born in April. The day change was just a way for Christians to convert the pagans to Christians originally, I believe. For me, it's just more or less a commercial holiday.
For those who want to know more about the Pagan origins of Christmas, see http://www.essortment.com/all/christmaspagan_rece…. It even talks about the origins of Christmas caroling.
But, it takes longer for a tree to grow back, and the deforestation would destroy the diversity of a forest. In the end, it's still more beneficial to use a fake tree because I don't like the idea of cutting down millions of trees for the holidays and throw it away after a week. It seems wasteful to me. On the other hand, you can reuse artificial trees over and over again.
My old plastic xmas tree was like an old friend, coming back from the shed, to visit for solstice every year. I was so sad to find out that my wife gave it away to one of her nieces a few years ago. Of course, I'm happy for her niece, but my wife was angling to get back into the fresh cut tree game again. Now, I think the xmas pencil is going to be my new friend!
Christmas trees are grown on farms; they're replenished on a regular basis, and while they grow they clean the air. (If they weren't used, they wouldn't be planted.) And when they're done, they're mulched–completely biodegradable.
Most of the trees they cut are not farm grown, unfortunately. 🙁
Actually, every single tree I've ever seen was farm-grown. Many of them on the East Coast come from farms in North Carolina. Maybe it's different in your part of the country, but in the Northeast/Eastern Seaboard, Christmas trees come from Christmas tree farms. I've friends and family in cities, suburbs, and rural areas, and they all get their trees from tree farms.
Real Christmas trees can be mulched. When an old artificial tree needs to be tossed, it never degrades, and creating it used a lot of toxic material, and created a lot of waste which is simply thrown into landfills, never to degrade.