Where is Hitler's soul now? What a Rabbi Says.

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

There is another evil doer Haman we remember to forget his name on Purim.

Jaysus IL, that's so about one of the most Jewish, even rabbinical sentences I've ever read. We remember to forget his name*. Bloody brilliant.





*but we remember his name anyway, but shush on that day ya muppets.

hgfj wrote: »

I'd sell my imaginary soul.

I offered, but the devil was all ah... no, yer grand and suggested the Hari Krishnas may be interested. I'm so old I remember them bouncing about in airports and train stations.

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

You also have to get drunk!

Oh I know. Apparently it's a religious instruction for that holiday. Id say there's some theological debate around the instruction. But not much.

There's a similar thing in Spain and Italy on some saint's day or other(or maybe it's Easter?), where a few of the community have to get wasted and parade through the streets displaying same. How that, or Purim didn't get picked up here as a festival I'll never understand.

Then again we always tended towards the more grey religious stuff. I reckon its the weather. Christian festivals in the Latin countries = Wahay!!! let's party and get off our heads. Christian festivals in the more northerly climes = drizzle soaked procession, or Calvinist self reflection, indoors, sober.

kowloon wrote: »

Maybe he's making up for being a vegetarian before.

He wasn't a vegetarian. Nor a teetotaller. Though funny enough was into animal rights and was the first government to ban vivisection and other animal testing. Which when one considers what transpired is seriously twisted and unbelievable. He was also anti tobacco and again was the first government to bring in anti smoking legislation.

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

And Germans

and Austrians(who were true converts) and many others throughout Europe and beyond. Was considered groundbreaking and largely a force for good in the US too.

That's the truly scary thing about "evil". There's the obvious one of the banality of evil, but there's also the massive contradictions and confusion within it. Someone like Stalin was More Evil™ in many ways and killed just as many if not more by some counts and very clear about it too. A lot less contradiction and confusion.

For me anyway I think Hitler and the nazis were and remain such a focus is because they weren't always so clear and they came from a country and culture of such, well.. culture and art and science and philosophy and engineering and... etc. "Evil" is somehow easier to stomach when it's coming from somewhere else, from peoples and cultures that let's face it at a primal level many feel not quite "us". It's much harder to stomach when it's one of "ours" next door. It shines a harsh light on us and reminds us that we're not so different. That's one reason at least why Hitler is the embodiment of evil to the European mind. If we hear Pol Pot liked cats and they liked him, we barely even register it, to hear that Hitler liked dogs and they liked him...