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user-inactivated  ·  3792 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI: Chapter 7

Yo, Ramadan is bomb.

I get to clear out my 60 hour+ RPG backlog.

My dad spends the month with us.

My mom goes through her hall of fame dishes throughout the month.

And because it's a summer Ramadan, we stay up all night and watch world cup matches and movies and hibernate and shit. It's like Christmas but for a whole month.





ghostoffuffle  ·  3791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Damn, that does sound awesome. More I hear about other peoples' high holidays, more I feel shafted by the ones I grew up with.

Here's a reading we'd sing every Yom Kippur (which involved a conspicuous lack of video games and substantially more sitting in temple all day trying not to throw up):

    On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur is sealed - how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by upheaval, who by plague, who by strangling, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquility and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted. But Repentance, Prayer, and Charity avert the severe Decree!"

Only it was sung in Hebrew:

    בְּראֹשׁ הַשָּׁנָה יִכָּתֵבוּן וּבְיוֹם צוֹם כִּפּוּר יֵחָתֵמוּן כַּמָּה יַעַבְרוּן וְכַמָּה יִבָּרֵאוּן מִי יִחְיֶה וּמִי יָמוּת. מִי בְקִצּוֹ וּמִי לא בְקִצּוֹ מִי בַמַּיִם. וּמִי בָאֵשׁ מִי בַחֶרֶב. וּמִי בַחַיָּה מִי בָרָעָב. וּמִי בַצָּמָא מִי בָרַעַשׁ. וּמִי בַמַּגֵּפָה מִי בַחֲנִיקָה וּמִי בַסְּקִילָה מִי יָנוּחַ וּמִי יָנוּעַ מִי יִשָּׁקֵט וּמִי יִטָּרֵף מִי יִשָּׁלֵו. וּמִי יִתְיַסָּר מִי יֵעָנִי. וּמִי יֵעָשֵׁר מִי יִשָּׁפֵל. וּמִי יָרוּם וּתְשׁוּבָה וּתְפִלָּה וּצְדָקָה מַעֲבִירִין אֶת רעַ הַגְּזֵרָה

And in some kind of harmonic minor. Which, for all intents and purposes, made it sound and feel like something out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

I think I like your depiction of Ramadan way better.

nowaypablo  ·  3791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    And in some kind of harmonic minor.

(actually) laughed out loud at that.

May I suggest not celebrating shit? At any point in time find the friend with the coolest holiday at the moment, and party it up with them! Been working great for me.

ghostoffuffle  ·  3791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed. Conversely: celebrate EVERYTHING, and then make your holidays the days when there's nothing going on in any culture/religion. I can't see any hiccups in this plan.

nowaypablo  ·  3791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Commence religion: The Church of Omnipotent Ambiguity