what is thanksgiving?

Question

as in what are people celebrating when they have thanksgiving??

Answer 1

Thanksgiving originally became a holiday to celebrate the kidness of the Native Americans when we first entered north america. They provided us with techniques, food and knowledge. This day and age it is more about counting our blessings. Joining with family and friends to reflect upon our abundance and our joy to be together.



Also to have a nice big meal and grandma's own pumpkin pie.

Answer 2

In the early 1600's (1620 or so) these people called the Pilgrims came over from Europe on a boat (kinda like Columbus did) called the Mayflower to escape religious persecution in their homeland of Plymouth, England. They landed at a big rock on the shore of what is now Massachussetts and named it Plymouth Rock. They met a bunch of indians and had a big feast to give thanks that they had finally made it here without dying from smallpox or anything like that. Didn't they teach you this in school??? I learned it every year of elementary school I think. No wonder our school system sucks in this country. They don't even teach you about the Pilgrims!!!

Answer 3

Thanksgiving is an american version of european fall harvest festivals, which were corruptions of the Feast of Tabernacles in Scripture, Lev. 23. Therefore the paganized one should be dropped and the Scriptural one should be kept.

Answer 4

uhh, you mean takesgiving? Its the celebration of indians being so trustworthy to the europeans before they were stabbed in the back. Making it a easy score for those rotten land pirates. Those evil swine bastards. OH SH!T here comes karma.

Answer 5

Everything they have to be thankful for. It's a time a rememberence, a time to reflex the past year, to count your blessings

Answer 6

thanksgiving is easy-its giving thanks! Good Friday is a strange name for what it represents though.

Answer 7

It's that day Americans thank god for helping them kill the Indians.

Answer 8

well it is to give thanks but it is on the day when the indians and the People of hte mayflower had a big feast together and "gave thanks" to each other

Answer 9

smallpox, genocide and freedom from taxes.