It's almost here. You know what I'm talking about. The date we've been waiting for since we were old enough to calculate time and age. 

I'm kind of pissed that people can't even agree on which is going to be the actual Millennium. I believe it will begin with the striking of 12:00 am after this December 31st. Let me give you my reasons why. None of the scientific, religious, other world crap and explanations. 

A year is a measurement of time, yes? When the clock goes from 11:59 to 12:00, when do you believe the new hour has begun? Because an hour consists of 60 smaller time increments called minutes. When those 60 minutes have passed, the clock will read 12:00 and there will begin the new hour. Not 12:01. 

When you are born, do you not exist until you actually turn 1 year old? Does that year you live not count? Sure it does. Why would this Millennium be any different? 

I suppose I should be relieved that not so many people are panicked about it. They don't believe that the year 2000 will mean doom and gloom and despair. I still find plenty of food at the grocery store. So if it's going to be a last minute rush, kids, you're going to be a little put out.

I'm more concerned for the fanatics and zealots (religious or otherwise) who believe that it means the end of the world and plan on taking themselves and half the neighborhood out with them.

I'm concerned with what it will mean when the world doesn't come to a halt. Will people be so shaken in their faith and so upset at not having met up with Christ that they will destroy us anyway out of a jilted depression? God screwed me out of death so I'm going anyway?

Yule time hasn't been so hot this year. My fault, my shortcoming. The New Year won't be as impressive as I'd dreamed years ago.

I'm looking forward to when the biggest stress of the new Millennium will be "do we sign the check 2k or 2000?" and so on.

Microsoft is a Monopoly, Amazon patented the "cookie" technology, The government is trying to forego the laws of separation of church and state to keep kids in line. We have two or three schools locally that resemble prisons. I hear this is the projected future of schools.

I get a bit seared under the collar about the holidays. What with christians constantly trying to re cram down my throat this illusion of what they believe the season is about.

Let me tell you something. It's not about Jesus. It never was. Jesus was born in APRIL. He died in APRIL. Nowhere near December. You can hide behind your stubborn close minded upbringing and cling to the teachings of liars, or people who are just as jaded as you are, but you look up the real history from the sectarians. Not some goddamned book written by men, translated by men, and constantly revised, and adjusted by "men."

In actual history, in the BOOKS, christians have mingled and dabbled in paganism, theiving most of the pagan traditions. Why? Let me be cynical...because they couldn't make any goddamned traditions of their own. Honestly, it was because they thought they could better convert the pagans by confusing them, drawing them in with their own faiths, making it seem like they were just worshipping the christian god and son. That coupled with all the violence and torture did the trick.

But all of these traditions, gift giving, a live tree decorated, Karl Thorr was the pagan santa claus, it all came from pagans and the christians took it and mixed it all up to take us away from our fathers and The Way.

Same thing with Easter. It's the celebration of life, and new beginnings. Sure, it works for the story of christ's death and resurrection, but pagans were celebrating it long before christ was even thought of. Much less born.

It's frustrating. I'm tired of the damned commercials trying to make me believe that what I'm doing is based on the birth of some glorified pacifist who wasn't even born this month.

I'll get back to you though...Happy Holidays?