Four Holidays of the Apocalypse - Let's Deal With It

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and Valentine’s Day are hell for some people. They’re all about gathering, family, or love or gifts. How many people genuinely enjoy them? They are stressful; think of the family arguments, the stress of choosing the right present and the challenges to a person’s budget. Think bereavement, toxic families, lonely hearts, grieving exes… Here are a few suggestions and references.

FIND NEW WAYS TO SPEND THE “HOLIDAY”

Give yourself permission to ignore the holiday, take a year off from holidays, pretend you’re from a culture that doesn’t celebrate those American holidays… Find new ways to spend the days. On Thanksgiving, go somewhere outdoors that’s usually too crowded. You’ll have the place to yourself. On Christmas, go to a Chinese restaurant. On New Year’s go to bed at 10 and get up at 6. On Valentine’s Day, go to the zoo. Get a joke book out of the library or go online and read a joke-of-the-day. Get inventive.

REFERENCES

Here are a few references I found that made the idea of the four holidays of the apocalypse even funnier.

THE FOUR HORSEMENT OF THE APOCALYPSE

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John the Evangelist at 6:1-8. The chapter tells of a “‘book’, or ‘scroll‘, in God‘s right hand that is sealed with seven seals“. The Lamb of God, or Lion of Judah, (Jesus Christ) opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons forth four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Although some interpretations differ, in most accounts, the four riders are seen as symbolizing Conquest,[1] War,[2] Famine,[3] and Death, respectively. The Christian apocalyptic vision is that the four horsemen are to set a divine
apocalypse upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment.[1][4]

Retrieved from the internet December 23, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse

THE FOUR HORSES

The Four Horses of the Apocalypse are some of the mythical
creatures unleashed in the Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare DLC
pack. They are War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.