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oh dear. Am i really physco? *starts smashing keyboard against table* nah, don't think so

For those wondering about the origin of e chrismas carol (i noe, i nvr knew, either):

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith - a memory aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged, or shortened by a head - or hanged, drawn and quartered, a rather peculiar and ghastly punishment I'm not aware was ever practiced anywhere else. Hanging, drawing and quartering involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then the party was taken down from the gallows, and disembowelled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, where the executioners stomped all over them, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts - one to each limb and the remaining torso.

The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn't refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..."

The other symbols mean the following:

2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments

8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed

galadriel is the only elf in middle-earth to have seen the light of the two trees, telperion and laurelin, in Valinor. which explains why she's a little freaky.

arwen evenstar soronume tar-calion

ninqueloth nimloth dunuviel

aragorn laiquendi iant iaur

miriel imlach adanedhel

roughly translated:

[[arwenie babie

wat a lovely ladie

aragorn go ding dong

when he hear u sing song]]

"How can? Wait people will think that Christmas is about Christ, instead of Santa Claus and snow and cute-cute reindeer." fm an earlier entry. the lim peh thing.hee hee. christmas is way too commercialised. says in e news there are some really devout christains who are anti-santa. mebbe b cos 'santa' is an anagram of 'satan'. hmm. nah. dun read too much into these things. PaRaNOiD

bought tix to watch LOTR on Sunday, at 6.20 pm... goodness! Burnt a humoungous hole in my pocket $42.50. and guess wat?!! 'christmas' dinner on Sunday 6.30pm. sickening, sickening, sickening. mum says cannot watch, muz go 4 dinner. damnit! $42.50 wasted, and i can't watch e damn show. boo hoo! wat makes it so sickening is tt i waited one whole bl**dy damn long year juz to watch it. i bought e tix 6 days in advance (ok, lah, e show is sell-out, but not THAT sell-out...idiot me!), wheareas for most movies i won't even bother to buy until 6 min b4 e show starts.