xmas is the most boring time of year. So please suggest interesting activities for me to try out that don’t involve watching any number of re-runs on the telly.
read bookz, hang out with friendz, go shopping, sleep, work, do homewrok etc. etc.
oh please. interesting i said. something new to try.
then go ice skating thatz fun at least 4 me
this is what the christians in pakistan feels during eid. It's so hard being a minority in a country like USA and feeling left out during the holiday season.
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this is what the christians in pakistan feels during eid. It's so hard being a minority in a country like USA and feeling left out during the holiday season.
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u don't have 2 feel left out. u can either join them n have fun or u can just sit at home being bored 2 death
May be read some good Islamic books. Other than that, spend time with fam & friends, play video games (Xbox), and sleep!
If none of the above work, just spend your vacation on GS. :p
maybe you can try having ur own christmas party or something?
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u don't have 2 feel left out. u can either join them n have fun or u can just sit at home being bored 2 death
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better being bored than to turn into a christian for a couple of weeks.
i thot u said u weren’t a pakka muslim?? 
explore your neighborhood - go take a walk (or a drive) and let the road lead you. Get lost in the woods, get lost on the road.
Or alternatively, if you’re able to, travel to some nearby scenic site and sip away at brandy whilst enjoying nature. :k:
No I certainly am not. However, I am not one of those “secular” muslim either. Y’know, the type that gets off on bad mouthing islam every chance they get and how “oppressive” our religion is. I prefer live and let live. However, I know some muslims who consider themselves “modern” and “compassionate” who celebrate christmas with the trees and the present and whatnot. Keep in mind, these are the same people that doesn’t celebrate eid. I keep fast and celebrate eid. But if you don’t, you won’t hear me complain. Again live and let live. The people that I absolutely HATE with every fiber in my body are these fukkin bollywood freaks in this forum who watches a hindu girl gyrating in the rain and then comes to the forum and bad mouths a girl if they don’t keep hijab or if a guy sleeps around. Hence my sig line. 
Maybe if you people looked beyond teh tree and presents and realised it's about a man...a prophet of yours who was born in poverty, lived a life of humility and grace and in teh end became on of the dearest one's of God.
Be thankful for your blessings, a home, a family...whther you make it more festive by adding a tree and lighting it up..or you chose to show affection to your dear ones through presents..the feeling in your heart can be the same...a feeling of thanks, praise and good will.
Not all of us see Christmas as a time to shop and drink wine and roam aroudn in new clothes and have a feast...for me...it's that feeling that if someone so holy and so great accepted his borth in a lowly manger then how thankful and unworthy I am of all my comforts and luxuries and yet I complain. At the midnight hour...when i;m at mass and the church bells ring..i knwo in my heart all I am and all I ever will be is all that The Almighty wills.
that was so beautiful.
Yeah that’s what was taught to me in catholic school as well. i can’t speak for everyone here, but for myself…i can’t really stand what christmas has become..the materialism, the drunkenness, all that bullsiht. if christians celebrate christmas becoz it’s the birth of their Christ, then by all means go ahead n thas kewl. but then u get atheists, hindus, sikhs, buddhists celebrating as well, which I personally find ridiculous. 
but…as atlanta said..live and let live.
kewl kewl :k: 
tho i think, theres more garbage thrown at the girlz who unashamedly talk about sex or post a sexy pic rather than you freely admitting you’ve had sex. im tellin ya its the whole double standards thing
You knwo Sara...the love and the knowledge of Jesus is for everyone..maybe..just maybe even through all of the materialism...the true meaning of Christmas might shine through..even if it is for just a split second..i think it would be worth it. :)
And so what if he wasn't actually born on the 25th of December...all we're doing is remebering...and ideally we shoudl remember everyday, at every moment of our lives...but hey...that's all we're doing.
In teh end it's teh thought that counts isn't it.
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You knwo Sara...the love and the knowledge of Jesus is for everyone..maybe..just maybe even through all of the materialism...the true meaning of Christmas might shine through..even if it is for just a split second..i think it would be worth it. :)
And so what if he wasn't actually born on the 25th of December...all we're doing is remebering...and ideally we shoudl remember everyday, at every moment of our lives...but hey...that's all we're doing.
In teh end it's teh thought that counts isn't it.
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I just don't see why if Jesus does not exist in a certain religion, why should they celebrate Christmas? I don't expect Hindus to fast and celebrate Eid with us, and I'm not about to light a Menorah either. There's lots of people who celebrate Christmas and don't even know the true meaning of it. To them, at least atheists, its just a holiday, with gifts and stuff, nthing more. there's no spiritual attachment to it.
I’ll start celebrating christmas when they stop making fun of Islam and allah. I can’t help but crack up whenever I watch americans ridicule our “allah.” 
Do they not know that we and them worship the same god. They just call him god and we call him allah.
Go clean your mind!
Americans didnt create Christmas.
Sarah - Jesus brought about a lot of good and taught and said great things...if someone in the midst of all teh lights and presents remebers his true and holy teachings and examples then isn;t that wonderful..He didn't come to teach any specific group of people..His teachings are for all