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Re: Happy Diwali Everyone

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Post by ljf »

the_third_wave wrote: post #9

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877571 (500+ upvotes and 200ish comments, but from Xmas '19) - happy Xmas posts have been very popular in the past, I don't hang around here as much any more to note if other religious festivals are covered much.

Re: Happy Diwali Everyone

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Post by Nomentatus »

qart wrote: post #10
Nomentatus wrote: post #6

I'm not Indian et al or Hindu, but I loves my Diwali music, so I'll be hitting my favorite youtube videos of it and looking for more. That's not a full celebration, granted; but I'd be quite sad now if the only seasonal music I got to soak in every year was Xmas music, although I like that, too.

Can you share some examples of such music? I'm Indian and ex-Hindu. There isn't any music associated with this festival around my parts. I'm curious to know if people of other parts of India (or ethnic Indians in other parts of the world) have associated some kinds of music with Diwali. I suppose the language would help with figuring out which part of India it's from.

Darn the first couple saved URLs are for videos that have been removed. I did buy one Lakshmi song last year on itunes, my favorite Lakshmi mantra, and it's still available (with lovely CGI):

Sri Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra 108 Times | Powerful Mantra For Wealth & Luxuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugWlHwkOlfM

Note that I am not in a position to make any kind religious endorsement of this or any other videos! Consider the source!

I'll hit that a lot, but it looks like I'll mostly be tossing "Diwali" and "Lakshmi" into the Youtube search function, perhaps along with you.

PS - I swear that video was available at higher quality last year.

It would be interesting to know the history here, as you say, since there might be, to some degree, a response to Christmas involved amongst the diaspora? Such a response apparently underlies the current Jewish celebrations of Hanukkah.

Re: Happy Diwali Everyone

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Post by screye »

qart wrote: post #10
Nomentatus wrote: post #6

I'm not Indian et al or Hindu, but I loves my Diwali music, so I'll be hitting my favorite youtube videos of it and looking for more. That's not a full celebration, granted; but I'd be quite sad now if the only seasonal music I got to soak in every year was Xmas music, although I like that, too.

Can you share some examples of such music? I'm Indian and ex-Hindu. There isn't any music associated with this festival around my parts. I'm curious to know if people of other parts of India (or ethnic Indians in other parts of the world) have associated some kinds of music with Diwali. I suppose the language would help with figuring out which part of India it's from.

Hey genuine question : what does being ex-hindu mean to you ?

I'm an Indian Atheist myself, but I never found my move away from Hinduism to be difficult or grating. My parents & community just sort of accepted it and moved on. If I had to be pedantic, I could call myself a Nastik/Charvak Hindu and I would technically be an 'Atheist Hindu'. I did have a "I refuse to do a namaskar or enter temples" Dawkinian emo-phase, but at some point I realized I was fighting against a bogeyman that didn't exist.

My current opinion on the matter, is that Abrahmic conceptions of Atheism do not work in a religion that does not have blasphemy or any single source of truth. So, while a term such as ex-muslim/atheist usually messages a certain ostracization or scientism, being an ex-hindu doesn't immeditely mean anything to me.

To use a favorite HN comment of mine : "If it's hard to tell the difference, it'll be hard to sell the difference".....and I can't tell the difference between a Hindu and an ex-Hindu.

(feel free to ignore it. My comment does seem a little out of place in a festival celebration thread. But, I got curious)

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