Thanksgiving: The Reason for the Season [INFOGRAPHIC]

Thanksgiving order of events 1) cooking, 2) food, 3) football, 4) family. NO SHOPPING.

OMG don't you ever eat a salad

I'm surprised that many men go out for black Friday shopping..... Remember when America actually had genders?

What did that say?

Being thankful that I can provide for my family and still give my time & resources to those in need.

For me it's about giving thanks for what I currently have and wishing that my good fortune continues.

Ur a lesbian? o.o

I find your sentience, questionable.

In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving as a federal holiday in the U.S. to praise our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

The event that some Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, and was attended by 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.

Since then we stole America from those Native Americans that shared their bounty with us, and Thanksgiving has ever since been more for greed of stuff and self , than family.

Americans were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

Today we are thankful for what thanksgiving can give us, financially, not family.

I just want my family to know that is not the case with myself, I still remember the true meaning of what Thanksgiving means, and it means remembering what this life is all for, and that's not "Stuff", it's people........................ Family!

You mean the 90 native americans who showed up uninvited? The settlers decided to let them partake in the feasting. All the native americans brought were a few deer.

I guess you don't know your history, or have been told history by a bigot!
The native Americans that came to the celebration brought "Fish, Salmon and Halibut to be exact. There was more Salmon consumed at the first thanksgiving then there was turkey, that's a fact my friend.
One would think Salmon would be the traditional thanksgiving dinner, and not turkey, but since our first settlers were such lousy fishermen, and they had shot guns, they could kill wild birds better than fish so turkey was the choice.
Most Native Americans still eat Salmon on thanksgiving, and they really don't celebrate thanksgiving the way other Americans do, because thanksgiving was the beginning of the end for the Native Americans who were here first. It was the beginning of the killing of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans by settlers who wanted the land for themselves and thought of Native Americans as half animal so they wouldn't know the difference of the genocide of a race of peaceful people.
The Native Americans did more to help the new settlers to America than most would ever imagine, then they were stabbed in the back by our puritan logic that they were just heathens and did not matter in the big picture!
You should be god damned grateful to the Native Americans for being a trusting and simple people to the settlers who tricked them out of their roots............... otherwise you might not be here if they were the real savages you were told about!

Back then they weren't called shotguns, they were called a "Blunderbuss" and they were a muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large caliber barrel, which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore, and used with shot and other projectiles loaded in the barrel.
The blunderbuss was an early form of shotgun or muzzleloader, and they made them in pistol form too!

No one can be held accountable, that's how the system works. That's why things are covered up for 75 years in the name of national security, so by the time we find out things we did back when, no one is accountable.
In another 75 years we will find out how Americans were manipulated into going to war with the middle east in a covert operation with our government and industry to achieve global commerce to make money!
But right now everyone thinks nothing corrupt was done. and by the time we find out................. no one will care because no one involved will still be alive, Lol.
That's how it works my friend!

I stand corrected. Thank you.

I think the Blunderbuss back then was more dangerous then today's assault rifles, as they would fill the Blunderbuss with rocks and other debris from the ground. And I have read stories of people only getting nicked with a flesh wound just breaking the skin and getting infected and dying days later from the debris that scratched the skin, like old rusty iron bits that were used as part of the shot.
Myself, I would rather go quickly then to suffer in pain and agony over several days.
Those weapons were crude, but effective devices that sometimes would blow up in the hands of the shooter.

Yeah, you still remember what it means, as you bash Americans for something that happened centuries ago, but YOU know exactly what happened, right?

Indeed, and that's why I bash.

Cool :)

I Know Right?

Getting warmed up for Christmas

There's not many of us left, mother, myself, daughter and shirtail cousin Gwen. We're down to just a turkey breast and a ham steak with trimmings and there are still leftovers. The men folk have all passed away. We are greatfull that we don't have to wear a vail every goddamn day.

Maika'i!

Be thankful for what you have and to be with family at home.

We really should change the day to a Friday though.... Black Friday doesn't matter anymore since stores are starting on Thanksgiving day Anyway.

I won't shop on Thanksgiving, because if I am shopping that means someone else has to work instead of being home with family.

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Interesting~

We are celebrating injuns

The "reason" for what "season"?

If you insist.

Actually, we've just passed Samhain, the Pagan halfway point between the southward equinox & the solstice australis. http://www.archaeoastronomy.c...
The 'cross-quarter' days are noted for being stressfull times

Rawrsome :-)

Where's hunting in that list of favorite things to do over Thanksgiving? Not on Thanksgiving day itself, but I love getting in that last minute hike through the woods before the season ends.