AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
First, it's the whining faux Jesus letter.
Then we get another stinking faker.
This stupid chain flew around the net probably as a response to the first faux Jesus whinge letter, and to other annoying religious rant virals going around. It was posted on blogs and forums, taking the opposite approach to most other Xian Xmas memes that scream how we should save our religion by passing them along.
This meme added to the problem in the following ways.
1. It was another Jesus impersonation.
2. It is an anti-chain, therefore, still a meme.
3. It incorporated another hoax, promoting the belief in "holiday trees" that meme was debunked years ago.
4. Despite it's pretence at protesting other paranoid religious rants, it is still a religious rant meme, and it still managed to nab the other Christians who only thought they had seen through some of the other paranoid misinformation Christmas memes, getting them to pass it along, which really does nothing but make the problem of Christians spreading memes even worse!
I will not pass it along. I will mangle it here instead!
🤥Meme: "Letter from Jesus"
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: WRONG! It's a meme written by someone who isn't Jesus, or at least, not Jesus Christ! Whoever you are, you really got me riled with this stunt, so look out!
🤥Meme: It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Since we don't know you or your name, and Christmas is not you-centric, nobody is upset at your name being taken out of the season except maybe for you being taken off Santa's nice list, perhaps. You're not Jesus Christ.
🤥Meme: How I personally feel about this celebration can probably be most easily understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own. I don't care what you call the day. If you want to celebrate My birth, just GET ALONG AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: So you're saying only people with children can truly appreciate your birthday, no matter when it is? That's just silly. Anyway, I celebrate my family's birthdays, my own birthday, remember friends on their birthdays, and celebrate Jesus Christ's birth at Christmas time, yes, I know it probably wasn't actually on Dec. 25, but that doesn't matter, it's the reason it's done that counts.
You forgot to instruct people not to pass on memes when you gushed on about how we should love one another. I find that a bit strange. And even if your birthday is on Christmas, that doesn't mean a thing to me, since I don't know you.
🤥Meme: Now, having said that let Me go on. If it bothers you that the town in which you live doesn't allow a scene depicting My birth, then just get rid of a couple of Santas and snowmen and put in a small Nativity scene on your own front lawn. If all My followers did that there wouldn't be any need for such a scene on the town square because there would be many of them all around town.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, for crying out loud, dry up, whoever you are. You assume way too much about where I live. If you really were Jesus Christ, you'd know all about the nativities seen in public, along with the snowmen etc. Oh, but you're in competition with Santa and you're pretending to be Jesus to get people to give you an ill-gotten hand up in the fatuous viral competition. You are not Jesus Christ. You have no excuse feeling so terribly threatened by Santa or the snowmen no matter who you are. There is room in Christmas for everyone, yes, including you, but don't tell anybody what to put on their front lawn or assume Santa is killing Jesus. St. Nicholas was a Christian...
🤥Meme: Stop worrying about the fact that people are calling the tree a holiday tree, instead of a Christmas tree.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, ruddy hex! You actually threw that "holiday trees" bilge in to this!
*Headdesk*
I'm going to straighten you out on something and give you the facts!
It is *not* a fact that people are calling Christmas trees "holiday trees"!
Fact: That "holiday tree" thing is a great huge honking stupid hoax! It has become one of the most notorious Christmas memes since it was first originated back in around 2009 or so. Get a grip already!
🤥Meme: It was I who made all trees. You can remember Me anytime you see any tree. Decorate a grape vine if you wish; I actually spoke of that one in a teaching, explaining who I am in relation to you and what each of our tasks were.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: No. No, you did not do all that stuff, Jesus did.
You are not Jesus.
You know, if you hadn't tried pretending to be Jesus in this thing, and it wasn't a meme, you'd get a lot further with this message. Because I actually agree with much of what you are trying to say. Your way of saying it with that pretense of being Jesus and that this is a meme really detracts from its value. Not only does it detract, it just plain STINKS! Then you really made this rubbishy with that "holiday trees" hoax which you called a "fact". Boo-hiss on you!
🤥Meme: If you have forgotten that one, look up John 15: 1 - 8.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: And you will find that passage here. Jesus is the vine, not you. Take the word of an online Bible over those of a meme…
🤥Meme: If you want to give Me a present in remembrance of My birth here is my wish list. Choose something from it:
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: I don't know you. You are not Jesus. You should've written this letter without trying to pretend to be Jesus, and without trying to make a meme of it.
🤥Meme: 1. Instead of writing protest letters objecting to the way My birthday is being celebrated, write letters of love and hope to soldiers away from home. They are terribly afraid and lonely this time of year. I know, they tell Me all the time.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Are you telling me you're one of the soldiers? You are not Jesus Christ. Since I don't know you, it isn't likely I'll do anything for your birthday at all.
🤥Meme: 2. Visit someone in a nursing home. You don't have to know them personally. They just need to know that someone cares about them.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: I already do that monthly. I don't need your odious meme telling me to do anything.
🤥Meme: 3. Instead of writing the President complaining about the wording on the cards his staff sent out this year, why don't you write and tell him that you'll be praying for him and his family this year. Then follow up... It will be nice hearing from you again.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: And if it isn't a president but a prime minister? I don't usually write letters to politicians unless I have a legitimate concern, and unlike the religiously-panicked and the easily led, I don't get goaded into writing protest letters and passing on memes. I know better.
🤥Meme: 4. Instead of giving your children a lot of gifts you can't afford and they don't need, spend time with them. Tell them the story of My birth, and why I came to live with you down here. Hold them in your arms and remind them that I love them.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: 1. You are not Jesus Christ.
2. I don't have kids. You can't love my kids since I don't have any kids for you to love.
3. You don't even know me.
4. Don't tell me who and how much to spend on for Christmas.
5. I don't celebrate your birth, I celebrate Jesus Christ's at Christmas.
6. Even if I had children, I couldn't tell them your story because you are not Jesus Christ and I don't know your story beyond you started a drivel meme.
🤥Meme: 5 Pick someone that has hurt you in the past and forgive him or her.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: I already did that, and don't need your meme telling me to. If there's anyone else I'm ready to forgive in the future, I'll do it in my own time in my own way, with no influence from you. You are not Jesus Christ.
🤥Meme: 6. Did you know that someone in your town will attempt to take their own life this season because they feel so alone and hopeless? Since you don't know who that person is, try giving everyone you meet a warm smile; it could make the difference.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: I already do that. I don't need a meme telling me to give a warm smile. Yes I know people are depressed enough to end their lives. I don't need memes reminding me of that either. BTW, it's a myth that most suicides happen at Christmas.
And you are not Jesus Christ.
🤥Meme: 7. Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there. Give them a warm smile and a kind word. Even if they aren't allowed to wish you a "Merry Christmas" that doesn't keep you from wishing them one. Then stop shopping there on Sunday. If the store didn't make so much money on that day they'd close and let their employees spend the day at home with their families
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Passive aggressive much?
I already wish people a Merry Christmas, I'm not one of the religiously-panicked out there who get in a fuss over what greeting people give out at Christmas, as long as they aren't trying to be politically correct. And I've been in stores and other public places very recently where the staff have wished me Merry Christmas so there, shut it. What's it to you anyway, since you are not Jesus Christ…?
🤥Meme: 8. If you really want to make a difference, support a missionary-- especially one who takes My love and Good News to those who have never heard My name.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: The reason they haven't heard your name is because you are not Jesus Christ, and nobody knows who you are.
🤥Meme: 9. Here's a good one. There are individuals and whole families in your town who not only will have no "Christmas" tree, but neither will they have any presents to give or receive. If you don't know them, buy some food and a few gifts and give them to the Salvation Army or some other charity which believes in Me and they will make the delivery for you.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: "believe in you"? You are not Jesus Christ. I've given to charities that believe in Jesus. But I can't give the shirt off my back.
I suggest you direct this guilt-tripping demand to the richest people on earth, rich enough to thoroughly investigate a charity to be sure it's on the up and up before they can give them a good chunk of change to help out many more Christmas-treeless families than I ever could.
🤥Meme: 10. Finally, if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to Me, then behave like a Christian. Don't do things in secret that you wouldn't do in My presence. Let people know by your actions that you are one of mine.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: YOU ARE NOT JESUS CHRIST! I am not "one of yours!" I don't need your patronizing meme making off-the-wall and erroneous assumptions about me, telling me how to act, and I have absolutely no loyalty to you! My loyalty is to Jesus Christ!
🤥Meme: Don't forget; I am God and can take care of Myself. Just love Me and do what I have told you to do. I'll take care of all the rest. Check out the list above and get to work; time is short. I'll help you, but the ball is now in your court. And do have a most blessed Christmas with all those whom you love and remember :
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: LISTEN UP!: YOU ARE NOT GOD!
Once again:
YOU
ARE
NOT
GOD!
Whatever I do, wherever I go, however much I spend or don't spend, is none of your concern. You could have done so much better if you had not blasphemed, and in meme format yet. You are not God. God is God.
You could have simply written from the perspective of a Christian - because what you said about not making such a fuss over little trifles, and how God can take care of himself is valid. But you went and tried to write as if you were Jesus, and that along with the fact this is yet another meme plus it incorporates other hoaxes into itself, those are ample reason to get me seriously put out with you.
🤥Meme: I LOVE YOU,
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: You don't even know me!
🤥Meme: JESUS
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: You're not the Jesus Christmas is about. You might be some other dude with the name Jesus, you could be Jesus Perez or Jesus Akbar for all I know, but likely your name isn't Jesus at all. Jesus Christ didn't write memes when he walked on earth in the flesh around 2000 years ago, so he didn't write this one, and does not work by memes today.
But scammers and hoaxers do, and misguided people, or people with good intentions but misguided ways of promoting them, do.
In other words, this was a terrible idea, and sacreligious into the bargain!
People are panicking and allowing misguided fears and lack of faith to push them around during the holidays, especially Christmas.
1. Santa is not Jesus's rival.
2. Jesus is not threatened by Santa or the saying "Happy holidays" as long as it is not being said out of political correctness.
3. You are only dampening the spirits of others by spreading fears of how you believe Jesus is getting driven out of Christmas.
4. No matter how much or little you see of Jesus references around you, no one can take Jesus away from you or vice versa at Christmas or at any other time.
5. God won't curl up and die regardless of how or even if you celebrate Christmas.
6. You can increase the Christmas spirit by not spreading this unnecessary panic, which is often the result of nothing more than meme hoaxes that play on fearful Christians.
7. You can spread more cheer by proactively ditching political correctness in your real life.
8. I won't tell you to smile at people more, and do more for charity, but wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you'll have plenty of reason to smile, laugh, love, and give without being urged to spread memes.
That's it, for now.
Sincerely
Ocean Elf
Over - and - out!
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