Psychologist Says Christmas Music Is Bad For Your Mental Health...

[sid]

Another crackpot with an opinion. Here it is:

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/11/09/christmas-music-is-bad-for-your-mental-health-british-psychologist-says.html

[clintonhater]

"“Christmas music is likely to irritate people if it’s played too loudly and too early,” Blair told Sky News."

Don't mind saying, I'm damn sure one of the above. I mean the pop, junk, music commonly played in stores & TV ads--everything from White Christmas to Jingle Bells, I hate them all--not the ancient carols like Come All Ye Faithful.

All or most of the religious element of Christmas has in this country been replaced by marketing--for most Americans, it's a festival of conspicuous consumption. That's the sad truth, like it or not; however, I still support public Christmas displays (where they're still allowed!), because they antagonize the ragheads.

[leftyo]

played for 2 months straight, its annoying as heck.

[Tommy]

Did he survey Mannheim Steam Roller ?

Tommy

[AZshooter]

Christmas Music Says Psychologist is Bad for Your Health

I don't like Christmas Music played anytime before Thanksgiving. If it bothers you, too, then just learn how to work the OFF button on your radio & stay away from shopping malls.

[clintonhater]

I don't like Christmas Music played anytime before Thanksgiving. If it bothers you, too, then just learn how to work the OFF button on your radio & stay away from shopping malls.

ONLY four weeks of it then? Why, how could anyone object?

I haven't been inside any mall, Walmart, or any other store larger than my local hardware, grocery, & drug stores in many years, 10 at least. But about once a week, I can't avoid going to the grocery & drug stores, and there, the mindless & meaningless sound can't be avoided.

[Major Tom]

And there is a channel on cable TV that is playing Christmas movies, started in July! Mindless cheesy movies at that!

[bruce]

Christmas music? I like it! Limited to only particular times ... or places? Nope! Nada! Nyet! Absolutely refuse to accede to Christmas music being relegated to a thematic ghetto where the gate keepers are those who are hostile to anything and everything that speaks even imperfectly of Christ. No different than the taliban/isis/whoever/whatever that has by bullet and bomb silenced centuries of faithful Christian living in broad swaths of the middle east. Today there are whole regions where Christians have either been killed or made refugees on the run from hostile islamic domination.

It is no different with anyone and everyone who today in the USA would seek to restrict any celebration of Christian faith ... Christmas or other seasons of celebration ... to those certain times and places and manners of their own particular choosing ... whether or not that does violence to Christian faith and those who would choose to live it. If this comes off as a bit aggressive, so be it. I am one of those turn the other cheek type people. That's what Jesus taught. A man back hands you ... don't turn away. Make him make his next blow like a man hitting a man ... not some little back hand slap. And as to that oft quoted passage from the gospel of Luke about swords ... guess folks will have to determine how to apply that for themselves. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

[clintonhater]

If this comes off as a bit aggressive, so be it.

Less aggressive than wildly irrational. The way Christmas is observed in popular American culture has almost nothing to do with the Christian faith, unlike for example, the observance of Easter, where there is no way to separate the historical events from the holiday. For 50 yrs or more, serious Christian leaders have been saying that the commercialization of Christmas (of which Christmas music played relentlessly in stores is a prime example) trivializes the religious meaning of the event.

The country which celebrates Christmas with probably the greatest enthusiasm in the world is...JAPAN! In which Christians amount to 1% of the pop. But that's obviously no obstacle to "appreciation" of Christmas, because for the Japanese, as it is for most Americans, Christmas is all about getting & spending, not a sacred event.

[Allen]

Like Johnny Fever said on WKRP in Cincinnati "Christmas, the season of good cheer and bad music".

[bruce]

Re: "Less aggressive than wildly irrational." etc. Will not deny the problems of commercialization to the ideal of Christmas as a Christian celebration. Lament that it has by secular society so degraded. Nevertheless, do not and will not agree to or go along with efforts to ghettoize expression of Christian faith and the celebration of Christian holidays simply because a hostile secular and pagan culture finds genuine celebration of that faith and its tenets to be inconvenient. Those who follow Christ have no warrant in Scripture to be tolerant of any culture but to address that society and its culture as those who follow Christ. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

[dryheat]

Every year I tell myself, next year I'm going to some south pacific island for the whole month.

[Clark Howard]

I am offended when I hear the Beatles "So This is Christmas" played as Christmas music. Regards, Clark