antithalian: opposed to holidays and/or religion

Bah, humbug! If Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, July 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and their ilk fill you with dread, anger, or annoyance, then what you're feeling makes you truly antithalian.

Plenty of people, like my wife, would recoil at the very notion of antithalian-ism, because they're always looking for a reason to celebrate every day. Marking each day as special is very important to them.

Others look at holidays--Christmas in particular--and see a crass, greed-celebrating, capitalistic scam, and little more. The Grinch comes to mind, as this was the crux of his argument against Christmas. Then there's old Ebenezer Scrooge, who despised Christmas for the opposite reason: he saw it as a ridiculous waste of time and money, a point-of-view born of his own personal greed.

Of course, both of these characters had a change of heart in the end, but those are stories for another time.

For all the non-antithalians out there--who are not, in fact, called "thalians," as you might expect--Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! That's a wrap on The Promethean Logophile for 2024! Hope you've enjoyed this strange, diverse collection of word pictures. Now I'm off to enjoy some time off before diving back in with my black paper and special markers to bring you lots more obscure, lost, or little-known words in image form in 2025!

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