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[deleted] t1_j6wyhes wrote

Puts us right in line with… the equinox. Lol. Pennsylvania is so fucking dumb and this uniquely PA holiday proves just how much.

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artificialavocado t1_j6xi703 wrote

Bro we all know a rodent doesn’t have psychic powers or can affect the weather. It’s just a fun, silly, tradition. It isn’t even just a PA thing the entire country knows about Groundhog Day.

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[deleted] t1_j6xkkdj wrote

Holidays aren’t supposed to be useless.

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artificialavocado t1_j6xm74x wrote

Name a holiday that isn’t pointless? They are all made up. It’s not like it is an actual holiday either. Again, fun, silly, tradition.

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[deleted] t1_j6xme63 wrote

That’s my point. Almost all of the US holidays are valid af and mined for profit. No substance or real reason to have them.

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artificialavocado t1_j6xmkmw wrote

I look at this this way, just because I’m a wet blanket I try not to shit on others for having fun.

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[deleted] t1_j6xqngb wrote

I look at it this way, the dumbing down of America has been happening for a long fucking time and one of the ways that has happened is by stripping meaning from the meaningful and replacing it with vapid consumer bullshit. The fall of society is precisely because of holidays like this and the mechanisms which support them.

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artificialavocado t1_j6xr9i8 wrote

You picked a strange hill to die on. If it was Christmas maybe you would have a point but with this being PA half the people in that crowd are likely hung over. The other half is still drunk.

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[deleted] t1_j6xt8ee wrote

This isn’t a hill to die on, it’s a symptom of a larger ill.

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Allin360 t1_j6x1mqw wrote

“Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.”

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[deleted] t1_j6x5nbq wrote

So yeah, stupid. Lol

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Jessenstein t1_j6x672u wrote

Yeah and people need to stop putting up christmas trees too cause SANTA ISN'T REAL!!!!!! People are so dumb to believe these things! /s

STOP HAVING FUN!!!!

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emeraldoz1900 t1_j6y1sqh wrote

are you ok? I didn't realize everything in life had to be so serious, I guess fun isn't allowed anymore. you've never done a dumb or silly thing in life? that sounds boring tbh

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[deleted] t1_j6ybeks wrote

Nothing wrong with doing dumb things, but unifying around them is another story.

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emeraldoz1900 t1_j6yc36u wrote

but how is a group of people coming together for a holiday that everyone knows doesn't make an impact on anything (other than bringing people together, as communities and society should do) hurt anything? Like why is that a big deal? It's not negatively impacting literally anything. It's just a fun/goofy thing to do to bring people together and lighten the mood lol

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[deleted] t1_j6yhx6b wrote

Or you know we could come together to address the hurt our vapidness and obsession with entertainment causes. But nah, that wouldn’t be fun.

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emeraldoz1900 t1_j6yjcb0 wrote

you're avoiding the question, what is a few hours once a year hurting? what do you suggest we do for fun aside from entertainment? We all need escapes from the world, and this is one of them. stop trying to be so philosophical and just enjoy life lol

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[deleted] t1_j6yjnqz wrote

Ah, yes. The uselessness of an examined life. I bet you enjoy network TV.

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emeraldoz1900 t1_j6yk0m7 wrote

again, avoiding the question, what is Groundhog Day hurting? Please answer, because you're avoiding the question, which I wouldn't consider very useful to the examination of this thread. And I don't watch network TV but thanks for assuming!

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[deleted] t1_j6ynnjp wrote

If you don’t understand by now, nothing I say will help.

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emeraldoz1900 t1_j6yo8rd wrote

What is Groundhog Day hurting? It's a simple question. If you can't answer that, I don't know what your point to this entire post even was, which is clear by the enormous amount of downvotes you've received lol. Nobody knows what you're talking about

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[deleted] t1_j6yocf9 wrote

Well, yeah. You’re a bunch of morons.

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[deleted] t1_j6z0mna wrote

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[deleted] t1_j6z37bn wrote

I don’t think you know what irony is.

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[deleted] t1_j6z3bvb wrote

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[deleted] t1_j6z3epp wrote

Based on the opinion of morons.

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[deleted] t1_j6z3jpw wrote

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[deleted] t1_j6z3p9t wrote

Not triggered in the least. Just pointing out how utterly stupid this country and its people are.

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Grashopha t1_j6y50eg wrote

“uniquely PA holiday”

Canada has entered the chat

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