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To: DallasBiff
...or festive lanterns for Diwali.

What the hell is a 'Diwali"?

5 posted on 12/24/2024 9:40:45 AM PST by fhayek
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Diwali is a very fun holiday in India - a ‘festival of lights’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali


17 posted on 12/24/2024 9:47:13 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: fhayek

It’s an Indian holiday about the triumph of light over darkness. Good over evil. It’s generally like a week after Halloween. I only know this because we reached “critical mass” where I work.


23 posted on 12/24/2024 10:02:36 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: fhayek

Watch “The Office” Diwali party episode. It’s a classic.


26 posted on 12/24/2024 10:05:25 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: fhayek

Not 100% sure, but I think it’s where their pagan god with 9 arms comes out and does the Kama Sutra… then they all eat curry.


38 posted on 12/24/2024 10:32:22 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: fhayek

It’s an Indian festival celebrating light’s triumph over darkness. Food, dancing, spending time with family and friends, all good things.


43 posted on 12/24/2024 10:45:54 AM PST by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: fhayek

Not sure, but I think I read that Tulsi celebrates it.


46 posted on 12/24/2024 10:50:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: fhayek

Asian Indians.


57 posted on 12/24/2024 11:42:28 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: fhayek

I believe it used to be called Mt. McKinley.

Oops. Sorry, that’s “Denali.”


59 posted on 12/24/2024 12:02:12 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus
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To: fhayek

“What the hell is a ‘Diwali”?”

I was wondering too. Maybe we can find the author - “Sho Dewan” - and ask!

But I looked it up. Wiki: “is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions such as Jainism and Sikhism. It symbolises the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma, light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. Diwali is celebrated...around mid-September and mid-November.”

IOW, no one really gives a rat’s rear end about it.


62 posted on 12/24/2024 12:18:37 PM PST by Mr Rogers
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