Happy Diwali 2025

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The Moderating Team wishes all our Hindu members and guests a Happy Diwali.

 

May the light of Diwali bring lots of love, peace and prosperity.  Enjoy the festive joyfully with all the loved ones.

 

 

[leckmich]

thank you and to you too

 

 

(your dog is very cute)

[yogateacher]

Happy Deepavali! May we have dosai and prata everyday 🤗

[leckmich]

gosh no more holidays till christmas, at least for me anyway

[Steve5380]

Thank you.  The more I learn about Diwali the more I like it.  After taking religiousness out of it,  I seems fully positive.

 

 

[alex925]

15 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

Thank you.  The more I learn about Diwali the more I like it.  After taking religiousness out of it,  I seems fully positive.

 

 

 Could you please clarify: 

(1) Why you feel a need to separate religion from what is essential a religious holiday, and thereafter to make a pronouncement about how you feel about it (e.g., "...the more I like it" and "...seems fully positive"); and 

(2) Why would involving the hindu religion make the holiday any less positive?

 

I am really unclear about your comment(s) you have made above, and it can come across as being quite offensive to those who subscribe to the hindu religion and celebrate deepavali / diwali. 

Edited October 27, 2025 by alex925

[Steve5380]

4 hours ago, alex925 said:

 Could you please clarify: 

(1) Why you feel a need to separate religion from what is essential a religious holiday, and thereafter to make a pronouncement about how you feel about it (e.g., "...the more I like it" and "...seems fully positive"); and 

(2) Why would involving the hindu religion make the holiday any less positive?

 

I am really unclear about your comment(s) you have made above, and it can come across as being quite offensive to those who subscribe to the hindu religion and celebrate deepavali / diwali. 

 

Diwali is a holiday that surely is not only celebrated by the religious.  The same as Christmas is not only celebrated by the Christian believers.

 

We ALL have the common right to believe or to not believe.  If I state that I am an agnostic and don't believe,  this should not offend you anymore than your belief offends me. Diwali is a "festival of lights" that calls for the promotion of PROSPERITY, a benefit for ALL HUMANITY regardless of beliefs. This I like, prosperity is something positive regardless of religion.  And no,  I don't believe in Hinduism, and you have the perfect right to not believe in Christianity.  Please be more OPEN MINDED.

[Why?]

15 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

 

Diwali is a holiday that surely is not only celebrated by the religious.  The same as Christmas is not only celebrated by the Christian believers.

 

 

The absence of religion during Diwali is as strange as your comment's lack of substance.  Oops!

 

 

[Steve5380]

7 hours ago, Why? said:

 

The absence of religion during Diwali is as strange as your comment's lack of substance.  Oops!

 

 

 

LOL!  Your comment about my lack of substance has even less substance.