I don’t mind a bit of paganism. Even though it is bound to the church calendar there was narry a priest or minister in sight. My personal highlight: the stupid mayor (who I detested for the last seven yearss and who will be finally gone in May) was nowhere to be seen. The only one of the candidates present was the communist one who got 11% in the last election in this conservative town. Because although not born here, he acts and feels like a local,
Sounds like a few dress-ups should have attended to ensure of “gods” presence 😂
Seven years of useless and stupid is a long time. That is interesting that there is a communist party.
Irrational fears from the early part to mid 20th century saw the communist party outlawed here. Although some of the communist leaders in other countries were despots
With German reunification we “inherited” the ruling party of the then defunct GDR. They quickly merged with the western communist party, soon had to desolve, then there was a new left party and then a split and I don’t remember but we now have “Die Linke” and a weird party very concentrated on one person (a woman who looks like a governess leftover from the 50ies and that party can’t decide whether they are left, or right, and really like Putin). There are still very small communist splinter groups as well.
Hoffmann von Fallersleben (the guy who brought the world “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, which meant: be a German before you feel yourself a Prussian, or a Bavarian, or …) wrote the following words which are sung when the flame go up: Winter, ade! Winter bye-bye. Passing does hurt. But your passing makes my heart sing out. … Gladly I will forget about you. You can stay away. … If you don’t go home soon, the cuckoo will laugh about you. — Which begs the question where winter’s home is. Presumably, that’s where the snowman goes as well, flying on the hot flames.
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That’s quite pagan even for Frosty 😂
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I don’t mind a bit of paganism. Even though it is bound to the church calendar there was narry a priest or minister in sight. My personal highlight: the stupid mayor (who I detested for the last seven yearss and who will be finally gone in May) was nowhere to be seen. The only one of the candidates present was the communist one who got 11% in the last election in this conservative town. Because although not born here, he acts and feels like a local,
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Sounds like a few dress-ups should have attended to ensure of “gods” presence 😂
Seven years of useless and stupid is a long time. That is interesting that there is a communist party.
Irrational fears from the early part to mid 20th century saw the communist party outlawed here. Although some of the communist leaders in other countries were despots
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With German reunification we “inherited” the ruling party of the then defunct GDR. They quickly merged with the western communist party, soon had to desolve, then there was a new left party and then a split and I don’t remember but we now have “Die Linke” and a weird party very concentrated on one person (a woman who looks like a governess leftover from the 50ies and that party can’t decide whether they are left, or right, and really like Putin). There are still very small communist splinter groups as well.
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Thanks for the information Elke. A confused country with the merge
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Poor hot and bothered snowman! That’s cruel!
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Hoffmann von Fallersleben (the guy who brought the world “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, which meant: be a German before you feel yourself a Prussian, or a Bavarian, or …) wrote the following words which are sung when the flame go up: Winter, ade! Winter bye-bye. Passing does hurt. But your passing makes my heart sing out. … Gladly I will forget about you. You can stay away. … If you don’t go home soon, the cuckoo will laugh about you. — Which begs the question where winter’s home is. Presumably, that’s where the snowman goes as well, flying on the hot flames.
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Complicated then. Enjoy celebrating.
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Thanks. We did. It is done. And now it’s blue skies and warm(ish) sun. And then April will come …
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Quite. Enjoy it while you can.
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This is quite a Cold-hearted act
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Yet it warms the cockles of my heart.
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