Taking Sides:Diwalli vs Channukah

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which festival of lights represents ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 4 November 2002 01:46 (twenty-two years ago) link

In my area it's all about diwali. And I'm generally on the side of the Hindus when it comes to religion. Obviously it's all bollocks, same as the rest of them, but they have brighter colours and monkey gods and fight scenes and gods with elephant heads ("Stop trying to feed my god peanuts!").

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 4 November 2002 12:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

Diwali for me as well. Fireworks and getting stuffed - that's a prpoper festival.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 4 November 2002 12:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does Diwali have chocolate gelt and latkes and jelly donuts?

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 4 November 2002 16:57 (twenty-two years ago) link

Screw both of them. Christingles are where it's at!

Had the strangest conversation at a party on Saturday, with Emma H and I going on and on about Christingle oranges and having our siblings setting our hair on fire with them, and R*ch*l, who is super-Christian (but Catholic) not knowing of what we spoke at all.

― kate, Monday, 4 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-two years ago) link

What's Christingle?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 November 2002 23:42 (twenty-two years ago) link

Christingle oranges = quickest way to make 8-16 otherwise tasty sweets look so unappetising that not even ten year old girls will eat them, all in the name of making Christianity appeal to kids. Ridiculous and very pagan-sounding imagery, proceeds to children's charities, accidental burning of hymnsheets, leftover oranges for weeks, jumpers for goalposts.

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ashtead.parish/xmas96/x96prim.htm
http://www.the-childrens-society.org.uk/christingle/
http://www.angelfire.com/in/stleonard/christingle.html

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 4 November 2002 23:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

Chanukkah has jelly donuts?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 01:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yup, 'cause they're cooked in oil.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 05:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

I always ate my Christingle orange... am I weird? The candies wouldn't make it the first circumferance of the church, but the orange would be consumed in the car home.

Loved it specifically for the pagan overtones, though obviously I didn't know this at the time...

― kate, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 10:28 (twenty-two years ago) link

Channukah has enough good food to make oneself fat and sick for weeks.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 18:48 (twenty-two years ago) link

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