what to do with old corn stalks?

[Billy]

You have a real gift.

[Billy]

Is this some kind of "shaggy dog" story?

[Brooklyn1]

Only the othodox would have the sukkoh at all.... no one but the othodox celebrate this holiday, others barely note it exists.

[Higgs Boson]

As a card-carrying agnostic, I still maintain that (per Fiddler on the Roof), "Tradition" is really, really, really important. (When it's a good tradition!! Scanning the various belief systems (aka: religions) in the world, there are some pretty hairy traditions still being adhered to. I don't think the original perps still throw their first- born children into the fiery furnace, but...)

There's something off-putting about being homogenized into a bland, consumer-driven body w/o tradition. We (US) are a nation of immigrants. Most enriched the body social and political I DEPLORE parents not teaching their children the original language along with English, in a mis-directed effort to be 1000% American. A second, third, fourth language is a TREASURE!

So yay for the Swedes, celebrating Santa Lucia. Yay for the Muslims celebrating Iftar (breaking fast after Ramadan). Yay for the Jews building a sukkah to commemorate wandering in the desert. Yay for the Christians remembering the Samaritan (NOT "good Samaritan; that is a tautology (I think that's what it is?) who help the sick dude by the side of the road. Etc.

HB

[Higgs Boson]

Where you do get that notion?

HB

[despen]

Have to disagree on this one. Our multiple languages are a curse. There are all kinds of things that set us apart. This one is especially obnoxious.

There is nothing good about impeded communication.

[Brooklyn1]

Visit NYC. It's really only the ultra orthodox that celebrate, and not even all build the sukkoh, perhaps a third. It's like what percentage of Christians decorate their house with Christmas lights anymore... not really all that many, nowadays most don't do a tree or even send cards... was a time I sent and received over a hundred cards, last year I sent and received a half dozen and maybe as many ecards. As the years pass I see fewer and fewer houses lit up at Christmas time. Then again I see fewer and fewer American flags displayed. I still have a real tree indoors and I decorate a live tree outdoors. And I display an American flag on all American Holidays. I won't be bothering with buying Halloween candy this year, for the past two years I didn't get even one trick or treater. I'm glad I'm old, I don't want to see where things are going, I already know... the world is less peaceful now than it has ever been... everyone has a big pointy stick up their ass.

[Brooklyn1]

I didn't write that... you frigged up the attributions

[despen]

You're right, but I left Higgs in there in the place where the author would be, just trimmed out any of the parts you might have added.

Sorry.

[Billy]

What I asked for was the story of how corn became part of a Jewish festival.

Besides communication, languages are ways of seeing the world. To lose a language is to lose a vision of the world.

[me]

Todd said

Try shoving them up your ass....

[Gunner]

it is proper to

Before this goes to DEFCON 4, either of you two Jewish? If so, do you really practice whats preached?