Flowersfade Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 it's based on the Hebrew calendar, which is one of the more incomprehensible of the world's calendars. There seems to be several. I certainly don't pretend to understand it. but what's funny about this thread is that Hannukah doesn't even start for nearly two weeks, on the 20th of December, in 2011. LAST YEAR, it started on December 9. sometimes you get these restaurants hilariously making the same mistake. Once I saw a Thai place in the Philippines that ran a special 'Loi Kratong night', a November-December south east Asian Thai-Khmer festival. The organisers just looked up when the day was on the internet the previous year and ran it for that weekend, even though it was three weeks early. They even said they had a Thai chef doing the cooking. He must have been laughing his head of at the dozy gits. If you read my OP you will see I clearly state Sooo Soon the holy time of Channukah will be upon us around the 20th of the month, How will you be celebrating this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Thank you Chorba, CHannukah is an 8 day long festival we celebrate the rededication of the temple.We have 8 days of prayers gift giving and rememberence. I thought it was a big helicopter, used for transporting troops from A to B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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quisquose Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Pagans celebrated the winter solstice which we now call Christmas. Paganism is a form of religion, a non-abrahamic one. Why highlight Pagans? Almost every cultural branch of humanity has celebrated it, as evidenced here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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quisquose Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Because I talked about Christmas which comes from the pagan celebration of the winter solstice. I didn't talk about the winter solstice celebrations in general. But sccsux did, and you picked him up on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuy Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 but what's funny about this thread is that Hannukah doesn't even start for nearly two weeks, on the 20th of December, in 2011. LAST YEAR, it started on December 9. Read the first line of the OP again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Phanerothyme Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Edit. As Christopher Hitchens puts it in this article, a victory for "fundamentalist thuggery to secularism and philosophy". I enjoyed that, he doesn't mince his words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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