/lit/ - Literature

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A few contemplations today, I appreciate any replies also, as sometimes I feel like these threads are speaking to the void. The first thing I was pondering earlier was about big cultural events in western culture. Irrespective of religion, it feels like there are a few big ones for the seasons.
>Autumn/Fall => Halloween
>Winter => Christmas (and Thanksgiving, if you are a burger)
>Spring => Easter
>Summer => ? (Midsummer if you are Swedish)
It feels like summer doesn't have the same level of ambience/influence event for the general western population. As, I mentions Midsummer is only big in a portion of the collective western culture. I think it's nice to have one big thing for each season, and it would be comfy if each one was Christmas tier of ambience.
My second path of contemplation is about more religion specific matters. I saw a video where some jewish rabbis were essentially getting excited about their prophecies of the west collapsing and the fantasy of all western(later they state Christian) people being destroyed. They seem to conflate being white/european or american as being Christian and being "Rome". I found this very strange because it seems that in their own words, "Christianity built western society." They see countries that were predominantly Christian as some kind of cohesive crusader entity destined to be wiped out. Something about that seems very islam-like. It honestly doesn't make any sense to me as many jews got to high positions within western society, so a western collapse would be a detriment to themselves also. I get that it can all be classed under religion says so and prophecy this, but how is it so vastly different to what the Christians follow? Considering that they stem from the same book - the Old Testament. How is it that Christians don't have the same view directed at the jews or muslims? Jesus himself appeared as a jew who followed their cultural traditions and preached peace, where is the hatred of Christ coming from? God must truly be beyond comprehension because everyone is fucking insane. I would rather sit on a beach looking at the ocean, or in a forest observing nature than listen to any human tell me what god is real or not, a higher power can find me if they wish to - and it seems more appropriate to discover the supernatural when you are contemplating in nature, as opposed to listening to another human that has no clue busy your mind with their words.