No, traditionally it was a way to get people to stop celebrating Saturnalia.

The Romans even celebrated it by decorating trees and exchanging gifts. :P The only change was throwing Jesus in there.

I'm not sure that's correct. It's true however that 25th December was the birthday of Sol invictus, the Sun god, and that probably did play a role for setting Christmas on that date.

Know what I will cover him and say I did as well.. well 10 years ago.. and lets just say it was not fun for my roommates XD stunk that place up hehe

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I DO HEAT UP MY FROZEN PIZZAS!

I'm a moron and a slacker, not a bum! :P

Can confirm. tinyE is not a bum. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, and a bum, but he is not a porn star!

I wonder what's the Communist stance on Valentine's day...probably against it.

Pooped, ate some food, went to gym, played Stardew vallley, ate again, showered, bought wife a tree, waiting in hopeful anticipation for a mean bj or some sex. if the sex/bj does not happen (we have kids, we are eternally wiped out) I will squeeze one off and hit the sack.

I've been making sweet sweet love to necromorphs with my spinning saw blade. Now that's some quality time!

P.S. Fuck Valentine's Day and all that commercial bullshit. ;)

Went to bank to ask manager about overseas transaction and few other stuffs.
Cleaned my laptop thoroughly.
Watched Doctor Strange.
Played Hotline Miami.

How about playing a DLC/specialty scenario in a game where you end up giving chocolates to your virtual love interest...

Or playing Love+ on DS?

Went to a store and looked at some awesome lego sets I can't afford. Can't wait until I have enough money to build my own lego city

Valentine's is evil, it's the only holiday that actively discriminates against a certain group of people (singles).

Just buy a copy of Minecraft. Better for your wallet and better for the environment. :P

Potentially better for your health, too -- those LEGO pieces have all sorts of sharp and pointy edges. And you ( or your pets, kids, grandparents etc. ) could even accidentally swallow them.

Spending the day with Princess Maker II.

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At this time there were holidays all over the northern hemisphere celebration mid-winter, in Europe mostly celebrating the birth of some sun god or spirit. In Rome the most prominent by far was Mithras (inspired by the persian god Mitra) who really had a lot of similarity with Christ.

The strong Mithraism is probably the main reason Pope Julius I declared Dec 25th also as Christ's birthday. This however became only official for all important (then) Christian sects in 787 when they managed to agree with the decrees of the 2nd Council of Nicaea (which by the way also decreed the altar and crucifix as holy things and the worship of Mary as officially canon - among other stuff).
The decrees made by this council weren't openly questioned until the 16th century when John Calvin came along.

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Valentine's day goes back to the Roman festival of Lupercalia (which was on Feb 15th). The origins of that one are lost in time, but it probably derives from a mix of Etruscan traditions, Greek celebrations surrounding Pan and the founding myths of Rome (Wolf-feast, from Romulus and Remus feeding off a she-wolf's milk).
Like with many holidays it was made an official Christian holiday (in this case in 496) because people just wouldn't stop celebrating it.
For that reason they invented the christian martyr Valentinus who supposed was executed on Feb 14th 273 (although that wasn't on the "official list of martyrs" in 354).
The connection to "a lover's day" was made in the 14th century by Chaucer and the people surrounding him. Or maybe re-made, because a lot of Chaucer's work references old Pagan myths and traditions and the Lupercalia and related holidays probably (like many Pagan holidays) were a lot about "getting it on".

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