V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.
Justice: Good evening, V.
V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...
Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.
V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."
V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.
Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!
V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!
V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.
Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...
V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!
V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.
V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.
Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?
V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.
*KABOOM!*
-"V for Vendetta"
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Date: 2009-12-23 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 10:11 am (UTC)xkcd never fails!
Date: 2009-12-23 11:00 am (UTC)It's fun being in Israel in December if you grew up Jewish in a country where everyone is Christian. In fact, it's fun being in Israel in September, when everyone in the bank and the post office casually wishes you happy new year, in the spring when everyone knows it's Passover--it's just fun to suddenly be in the majority when you've always had to explain, explain, explain.
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Date: 2009-12-23 11:53 am (UTC)Besides, Christmas is a good pagan festival anyway. :)
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 12:22 pm (UTC)I have no doubt about that, possibly any ecclesiastical point that remains in xmas remains in the devout and the rest is a Capitalist scheme to get your money?
Okay, that came out a wee bit harsher than intended :P
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:23 pm (UTC)Though I am looking forward to living somewhere else for a while and seeing how different it is and being all foreign :)
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:24 pm (UTC)*looks at the date*
The day before even. Though the Pagan symbolism works well, I'll grant you :)
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:35 pm (UTC)In that time honoured way that early christians did about so many things.
I mean, there's hardly a single early church in the UK that isn't plonked down on top of an earlier pagan ritual center.
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:35 pm (UTC)some just use it as an excuse to overindulge.
i like the getting together of loved ones and sharing a meal aspect. The gifts I could do without. I've got enough stuff.
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:38 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, I'm with you there. We have that twice a year... or practically every Friday night, depending on your definition of "getting together and sharing a meal"
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:59 pm (UTC)By the 25th, we know that the celebration/sacrifice which occurred on the Solstice worked and now the God/s are happy.
A permanent winter has been averted - yet again.
Lets celebrate!
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Date: 2009-12-23 03:12 pm (UTC)(What, no one else said it?)
I'm a Jewish atheist anti-capitalist and this holiday appeals to me not in the least.
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Date: 2009-12-23 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 09:24 pm (UTC)Our hollidays are better.
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Date: 2009-12-23 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-24 02:59 am (UTC)I do hate it being shoved down my throat. I wish we'd either go secular or celebrate EVERYTHING. Seems only fair.
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Date: 2009-12-24 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-24 05:07 am (UTC)Culturally speaking it's based on people noticing it's gets lighter after a few days in late December!
:P
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Date: 2009-12-24 05:08 am (UTC)Seriously, I'm shocked, absolutely flabbergasted!
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Date: 2009-12-24 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-24 08:37 am (UTC)Damn it!
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Date: 2009-12-24 08:50 am (UTC)Re: xkcd never fails!
Date: 2009-12-24 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-25 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-25 10:56 am (UTC)I can't tell if you're serious or not :P
But either way that is an awesome idea and would totally be willing to be on a reality show in order to see Australia :D
I dunno what you'd be able to do here, because Hannukah doesn't actually coincide with Xmas every year - but there'd be a huge Friday night supper for you, for sure!
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Date: 2009-12-25 12:02 pm (UTC)Haha yes, sacrifices, sacrifices ;).
Hey, just being somewhere else and avoiding Xmas sounds good enough to me! Is Hannukah celebrated in relation to the moon or something natural, like Easter then (hello Pagan traditions :P)?
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Date: 2009-12-25 03:11 pm (UTC)Hannukah is definitely the Winter holiday, in which we light candles over the eight darkest days of the year and eat oil rich food with a very high calorie count. It's not a religious holiday as such as it's not one of the High Holidays mentioned in the Torah, but it is seasonal like the rest of them and it commemorates two things: 1) the Maccabee Rebellion against the Hellenic empire that wanted to desecrate the temple by putting statues of deities in it (Judaism forbids representation of god - you cannot contain the divine and all that) and against the Hellenising Jews who were seen as betraying their heritage for the Hellenists (I like viewing the holiday as an opposition of Imperialism :P). And 2) and the miracle of oil. The temple had a Menorah - sacred candelabrum that was used in ceremonies before the Temple was destroyed by the Romans - which had only enough oil for one night, but low and behold a miracle happened and while scouts were out to get more oil that one portion was enough for eight nights during the darkest time of the year.
It's really not the most important holiday on the Jewish calender, but it's another one of those Winter festivals and you get to have food and be with family.
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