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Republished 8/19/2024
This article is absolutely awful, complete trash. But I will not permanently delete anything on here
Where I live (PA), It’s common to eat Pork and Sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. New Year’s is odd. One may say it is pagan, that it comes from Romans or Germanic tribes or whatever. However valid these claims are, the actual persistence of the holiday (which is not a holy-day) has nothing to do with it. Instead, it’s as simple as any society that has a calendar celebrates the New Year. Even the Chinese do it. It cannot be avoided. Just as Christmas sticks around despite the complaints from Puritanical folks, so does New Year’s. Some seem to think that all Holidays should be religious in nature, however, this proves to be impossible. When 2023 goes to 2024, something must happen. The holiday will survive, whether you like it or not, because of that. It is impossible for one to ignore the orbit’s completion
January is named after the Roman God Janus. If you aren’t a retard you’ve read the caption and know his whole deal. I learned about this from a Jonathan Pageau video. I guess if you say you will open new doors this year, you are bowing down to Janus (not actually).
Pork and Sauerkraut. I have no clue why we eat it on New Year’s Day. We got it from the Pennsylvania-Dutch. For those unaware, Pennsylvania-Dutch actually means Pennsylvania Germans. Someone heard “Deustch” and thought they meant Dutch. Where I’m at, PA Dutch=Amish, but it can also mean Lutheran, Reformed, or even Bavarian? (I know Oktoberfest is a Bavarian thing, but is it Bavarians celebrating it here?)
There’s a symbolism in Pork, that is likely unintentional. Pork is something we can eat now. The movement from the old covenant to the new covenant allowed Pork, a food we eat as we celebrate the movement from the old year to the new year. If I’m not mistaken, New Year’s Day is also the Circumcision of Christ, which would be a symbol of the old covenant moving to the new.
Sauerkraut takes a few weeks to prepare. It’s just salt and cabbage+time. And when you eat it, it may taste odd to you if you aren’t used to it, or if you just don’t like it. The New Year takes a whole year to prepare, and it is often bittersweet. (also sauerkraut is really good for you, but i’m suspicious of the really cheap supermarket stuff)
I don’t have much to say here, just wanted to write something, and made it about New Year’s. Not proofreading this.
By the way, this page is going to be more than theology. I’ve kind of gotten tired of examining different viewpoints in my head, it’d be worse to do it on paper. I need to read more of the bible first anyhow. I’ll keep the name, I still feel like it fits. It gets across the mood of this page being my confused grasps towards the past, towards it’s tradition, rigor, discipline, and headcoverings (both metaphorical/allegorical headcoverings and literal ones).