She doesn’t want a lot for Christmas.
Except poor people to stop complaining about the economic crisis preventing them from buying Sephora bullshit and protesting capitalism.
She’s right tho…
If she wants everyone heading the song, and she thinks that’s not a lot, there might be no boundary to her greed
M’ar’ia Careigh the Greedy, Patron goddess of Song and Pagan Gifting.
Derives her power from retail worship, and every year becomes stronger and stronger.
Soon her greed threatens to devour not just the Turkey, but All Hallows Eve
But if anyone of us showed up to her house wrapped I bet she’d say different
There is a German lullaby with the line “tomorrow morning, if God wants, you will wake up again” and quite a number of kids worried “what if He doesn’t?”
@lugal @EfreetSK child mortality rates were pretty fucking high in earlier times. Around the time the original poem was published 40-50% of children under 15 died.
Only vaccines and modern medicine put this down to 4.2% globally in 2022, with the most developed countries reaching 0.3%
That is to say… that poem had a point.
This seems to be a mistranslation, because in German, “wenn” can mean both “if” and “when”, but it’s actually closer to “when”. If you really mean “if”, you use “falls” instead of “wenn”.
So the intended meaning is in fact “tomorrow morning, when God wants it (ie. at the time God wants it), you will wake up again”
Isn’t that a thing in English, too?
Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep,
And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.Still pretty messed up.
That’s pretty metal, heh
That’s why Metallica put it in their song “Enter Sandman”, which Motörhead later covered (I’m only saying that because I like the Motorhead version better)
That was the reference I was making, yeah
I like the Funktallica version
Literally. Metallica used this in their Enter the Sandman song.
Used to say that as a kid. Catholicism is a fear thing. I don’t think much of it. I don’t think it’s particularly bad, just hey, if I choke on air tonight, bring me to the promised land! Unfortunately, this is it.
This is even darker! The one I quoted is arguably just a filler to get enough syllables for the line. Depending on your image of God, it’s just “of cause he does”. Your version elaborates on the idea much more
That’s honestly a terrifying idea to put in a kid’s brain before they go to sleep.
He said it was German
The concept of most religions is absolute obedience and absence of curiosity. This " terrifying idea" is an excellent tool to form the needed mindset.
With music composed by Brahms.
I grew up during the Cold War, close enough to NYC that if it was bombed, I’d be fried. So this sentiment definitely had real meaning as a kid.
This is how your brain works when you’ve got low self esteem
Yeah, I stopped caring for outside validation, funny enough. I just assume people want to undermine my mental health more, and that everything is rigged. So, I literally don’t care for any opinion except my own, and any progress except how much I follow my schedule.
It’s also a humorous take if you have healthy self-esteem.
Though you do make a good point.
You’re not wrong it’s absolutely still funny
Some people are a lot, I don’t want them.
At the end of the year your get character 13, Carey Return.
I mean, fair.
She thinks you are not many things. She just wants one thing.
It is a comment on complexity+quantity of what she wants, not significance.
Gosh!
She’s trying to be cute and sarcastic.
Don’t listen to her Santa! All I want for Christmas is tits! And world pace and for ruzzian to become a nation of underwater basket weevers thar follows international laws including staying in their country and not invading others. But don’t forget! Tits please!
Mariah thinks she could gobble me up in one go and still have room for Christmas Dinner 😀👍
