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[ezra_of_lothal]

[ Ezra has debated asking this question on and off for days, but the thought hasn't left him, so here goes.]


Hey, is anyone here celebrating Hanukkah? If so, would you mind a really unorthodox guest (pun sort of intended?)

Five second educational spiel for everyone who might not know: This in an Earth origin holiday, in Jewish tradition, that stems from a pretty well documented historical event. The rededication of the Temple that was the center of worship for the Jewish people.

There's lighting of candles involved, but it's really not like Christmas at all. It's its own thing.

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[ezra_of_lothal]

Yeah, none of that.

It's very tied to a specific people, religion, and history.

But any Jewish feast holiday the theme is pretty much: They didn't manage to kill us all. We're still here and alive. Let's eat.

[onerthes]

Oh yes. I've heard of the Jewish people, though I don't know much about their culture. But it does sound very resilient by nature.

It's certainly a good reason for candles and feasts.

[ezra_of_lothal]

There wouldn't be a people distinct enough to called Jewish, without the resilience and the willingness to celebrate, I don't think.

[onerthes]

Some people are defined by their capacities to endure almost anything that is thrown at them. I suppose this is a natural thing the longer that one does it. I take it then, are you among them?

[ezra_of_lothal]

I suppose I am. Maybe. I know I'm not unbreakable.

And I think I'd rather be defined by the doing more then enduring.

[onerthes]

I was never one for enduring myself. I preferred to change the world I was in, and enduring was for when I had no choice. But, I respect endurance when I see it.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Oh, well, when you put that way

Sometimes changing the world is the only way to endure. Or everything will keep burning down around you.

My parents saw change coming that would hurt people and they fought back. With words, but that was enough for people in power to take them away.

That left me alone and too young to know how to do anything but try to survive.

I had to grow into the kind of person who could continue what they started.

[onerthes]

Sometimes, we are forced to grow up too soon. I'm sorry. That said, you hit on something. Sometimes being proactive is the way you endure because you make the situation endurable in the first place. It's not far from how I tried to explain things in my world.

Some learned, others did not.