Many Jewish kids I heard from were permitted to watch the Grinch every year, yet somehow nobody (including my parents) is able to explain why this is so. Nearly everyone who wrote to me explained that the Boris Karloff version of the Grinch was "a classic."
What surfaces is a universal (and discomfiting) sense that the Grinch is a fundamentally Jewish show because the Grinch himself is a fundamentally Jewish character. I got one e-mail that concluded, "Who is more of a Grinch than a grumpy old Jew?" And a Jew with a heart problem no less?
But why do Jewish parents want to be pushing this peculiarly self-loathing vision of the bitter old Jewish man on their kids? Do we drag our kids to see The Merchant of Venice? If anything, the Grinch-as-old-Jew notion... is the ultimate fantasy for a Jewish kid with a case of Santa/tree/carols envy―Christmas, canceled."
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Anonymous2008-12-24 5:01
"Permitted"?, have your parents ever stopped you from watching a TV show because it portrayed any ethnic group you belong in a bad light?
>Do we drag our kids to see The Merchant of Venice?
No, but you wouldn't permit your kids to watch it if they wanted to?, not to mention how the Grinch is generally a happy kid's movie, unlike The Merchant of Venice.
Furthermore, a kid watching it wouldn't even see that weird simulation.
"is the ultimate fantasy for a Jewish kid with a case of Santa/tree/carols envy―Christmas, canceled.""
Well if that's so the ending must be a horrible disappointment.
The Grinch also never mentions Christ, or God or anything like that, it refers to it as a happy holiday, that's about it.
This has got to be the worst attempt ever at stringing a conspiracy together.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 16:37
I heard it on NPR. It's something many Jews believe.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 19:22
You are all narrow minded. It is Jews that commercialised Christmas, but you all enjoy the gorgeous Christmas ornaments, the Red and White Santa, Christmas bargains, and the lovely Christmas presents. These are all created by Jews for both the Jews and Goys enjoy. So what's wrong with Jews???
How could we have stolen something that we invented? Our God is the same as yours.
This is just another example of a conspiracy theorist trying to paint all Jews with the same racist brush.
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Anonymous2008-12-25 21:15
>>7
I am >>5, and I do not necessarily agree with you because I wrote >>5 to defend you.
Some of you are still taking non-Jewish people as being destined to become extinct from the earth. The thought is very troublesome, because it is the fundamental belief of your religion. The Talmud says God hates Goys (i.e. non-Jewish people) and some of you really believe they have the right to
exterminate Goys.
Yhwh, God in English, is who and a kind of system that human being created and made contract with for themselves in the present day middle east thousands of years ago. It is silly that people are still bound by the contract that the ancient people, who were primitive in the notion of human rights, exchanged with who they created.
We do not have to instantly abandon the contract with God=Yhwh, but should keep compromising. We should not conflict. The late Pope Jon Paul II was one of the greatest persons in this regard. He was very strict in his own belief but he also knew that dialogue, tolerance and tolerance were more important than anything.
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Anonymous2008-12-25 21:19
dialogue, tolerance and compromise
sorry for the typo.
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Anonymous2008-12-27 1:52
>>7
You people really do hate jesus don't you. All he did was be the messiah and bring about a golden age in human history and you just can't accept that. Let it go already. End the oppression of christians by jews.
Golden age? Man not up on History are we. the last 2000 years have been blody to say the least.
And since Christians are in the majority, I don't think Christians persecute Jews, it's the other way around.
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Anonymous2008-12-27 21:15
>>7
>How could we have stolen something that we invented?
Woah bitch.
Christmas is a purely symbolic holiday based loosely in old Dutch and Norse holidays (I'm sure you've heard some version of this).
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Anonymous2008-12-28 2:00
>>11
What the fuck are you talking about? Jesus said no one is without sin, I never said christians are perfect and never commit crime. Just less than other people.
Whilst the Islamic world and far east were busy enslaving and killing each other, christendom went off the bring civilisation to the world and construct modern civilistion. If you don't like reality just kill yourself.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 2:46
>>13
lol. You talking about the "Godless" Renaissance?
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Anonymous2008-12-28 7:04
>>14
The Renaissance occured side by side with the reformation, which resulted in protestant christianity, the religion of America.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 7:51
Jesus sucks. The worst human killers are European Christians.
Jesus was not God. It is only that the Christians claim he was.
Bible is not the book of truth. God does not exist.
God is what we human beings created.
>>16
I take it you believe non-christians and non-europeans are the epitome of moral righteousness.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 21:59
Learn Buddhism. The only solution.
Buddhism should not be categorised into religion.
It is a phylosophy superior to religion.
Whether you are Christians you practise Buddhism.
Buddhism does not deny God. It does not deny any gods at all.
After all it is not a question for Buddhism whether God exists or not.
Buddhism mentions gods indeed, which is just rhetoric when they teaches the ignorant like Christians the ideas of Buddhism, because without mentioning God you can hardly lead those who stubbornly believe in God.
The way Americans and Europeans practise Christianity is wrong and evil. We need to lead them to the right direction.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 22:02
>>17
You are only a 3 year old beast if I were a 12 year old human being.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 22:29
The reason why you Americans and Europeans tend to believe in God is that you always tend to be in haste to get clear words that explains everything instantly and that Christianity and Judaism have been using the tactics to get hold of the heart of every simpleton. Either belief or contract those religions always utilise, which are part of mind control to stop thinking.
Buddhism is completely different. Buddhism teaches you how to think or, if any, gives you helpful hints to think for yourself. This is why Buddhism is incomparatively superior to Christianity and Judaism. Enlighten yourselves with Buddhism.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 23:03
It also teaches belief in the supernatural, which there is no testable evidence for.
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Anonymous2008-12-29 18:07
Belief in the supernatural, that's Christianity and Judaism. Bddhism doesn't teach the existence of the supernatural including God and Yhwh at all. What you think are the supernatural in Buddhism is just part of the rhetoric to be used to lead "beginners" to the road for the real enlightenment. It doesn't matter at all whether the supernatural, including God and Yhwh, do exist or not. The core of the Buddhist idea is nothing to do with the question. You see a number of supernatural existences, which may look weird to you in the first place, in Buddhism because it first spread in ancient India, where most people believed in what appear in Brahmanism. Buddhism would more often than not have mentioned God, Yhwh, Jesus, Angels and the like, or gods and spirits that appear in European paganisms, if Buddism had reached into Europe before the modern era. Those who are well educated are taught the body of Buddhist theory in a different way, often without mentioning the supernatural at all. For example, see zen Buddhist denominations.
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Anonymous2008-12-29 23:25
>>19
Buddhism is the religion of laziness. Apparently it's not starvation that causes suffering but wanting to feed yourself and your family. Mao was a vicious murderer but looking at China's inferior culture I can kind of understand why he did it. >>21
Maybe it is because America has been the land of freedom for so long that religion has had the time to develop into something more amusing, rational and productive than the dull traditionalism of churches in europe. >>22
Not everything can be proven with testable evidence. Can you prove to me you are not a philosophical zombie? >>23
Your argument is contradictory. Can you prove enlightenment is possible?
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Anonymous2008-12-30 7:47
>>24
You misunderstand not only Buddhism but also China. First, indeed Buddhism doesn't force you to work hard, it doesn't mean Buddhism is the religion of laziness, and you only superficially look at Buddhism to draw completely incorrect consequence with intention of the wrong and hollow belief - Christianity. Second, China's Buddhist culture became almost extinct long long ago, and what dominates the Han Chinese mind is Taoism, not Buddhism. Unlike Buddhism, Taoism is as simple and material as Christianity is.
The lethal problem of the Protestantism is that people completely rely on their personal understandings that things are all either good or evil. There is no dialectic in it. This way of thinking is so primitive that it often is harmful to human beings. Christianity itself is not necessarily wrong where as the way Americans toy with Christianity is dangerous.
Enlightenment itself is not difficult at all. To be determined to practise Buddhism is nothing but enlightenment. You find my argument is contradictory - yes contradictory indeed and superficially. When you're talking with me, you need to sublate what I say. Buddhism often use contradictory such as "it exists and it doesn't exist", where you must find the ultimate truth is. Looking back at the Christianity sects, they all stop at the primitive level of antinomy. This is rather dangerous.
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Anonymous2008-12-30 7:51
Buddhism is so difficult that people need to get educated throughout their lives. They can't be lazy to practise Buddhism. If there is a lazy Buddhist person, he is walking in a wrong road.
Christians indulge themselves into antinomy and do never go forward. This is what laziness is, you have to understand.
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Anonymous2008-12-30 11:59
If it's so open minded and philosophical, then why start with a set list of ethics such as the Eightfold Path? Listing a bunch of things you don't like about human nature doesn't make them true, it only imposes a subjective view of ethics as moral absolutism, leading to fear and shame of human nature as followers try not to 'sin' under those rules, like another version of the ten commandments (don't lie, don't kill). Saying a system of ethics is "true" doesn't make it true, it just makes it a system of ethics.
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Anonymous2008-12-30 21:50
>>25
If I'm not mistaken a major tenet of Buddhism are the 4 noble truths which state that sufferring is caused by desire. So a buddhist never fights for freedom because it is a desire, a buddhist never bothers working hard to explore, trade and improve the economy because materialism is a desire, buddhists never develop a system of scientific analysis and inductive reasoning because knowledge is a desire. A good buddhist sits on the floor with his legs crossed trying to think about nothing all day.
You are right though, I don't understand why "what is the sound of one hand clapping" or "this is a snail, this is not a snail" gives you an excuse to ignore all criticism. I must be ignorant and narrow minded.
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Anonymous2008-12-30 23:10
>>27
You are still misunderstanding. The Eightfold Path is not precepts. It is merely what you are recommended to keep in mind if you wish for enlightment. It is not forced to you at all. If there WERE any other ethics with which you could enlighten yourself, then you might feel free to follow. The Path is said to have been advocated by Gautama Buddha, who said that if you wish to awaken your spirit then you take it easy just keeping the Eightfold Path and proceeding slowly but being determined. It is not necessary to endure austerities. As for the latter, history tells you that it is not Christianity but those who have toyed Christianity, who have been actually people of the European origin, killed so many people in the name of Jesus and God. Also ethics is not the truth but just measures to reach the truth, you should understand.
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Greedy is a better translation than desire. The word "desire" contains both favourable and unfavourable meanings. For the former, for example, you desire to pass the exam to enter an uni is in most cases favourable. We should not play with words in such a case, because there is always a possibility of mistranslation. What you have said proves that you have never read the Vimalakirti Sutra, where Vimarlakirti, a merchant in ancient India, works hard and always has a desire to learn, and not just sitting on the floor with his legs crossed. My assumption is that when you talk about Buddhism you only imagine what they call the Hinayana Buddhism, where people persue personal enlightenment to be content with becoming an arhat, not as high as a bodhisattva or buddha. Reading the latter paragraph of your post, I don't think I need to talk to you into doing anything. The innocent question shows for itself that you have already started walking in the right path. You have questions, which begginers always have, and will have more, because you have just departed for the truth. It is important to "find" questions and think for yourself patiently and not to make haste to get as easy an anwer as leaders in Christianity and Judaism gives you. Be feel free to be ensured that, a Christian or Judaist, you needn't apostatise your religion to become a Buddhist. Following Buddhism is not a betrayal to your old faith at all. So, be relaxed.
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Anonymous2008-12-30 23:17
Vimarlakirti, in the sutra, even makes fool of bonzes and criticises them for being intellectually lazy.
This is rich.
The jews plunder our wealth and now they want us to become Buddhists.
GIF MONEY PLOX
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Anonymous2008-12-31 9:05
GIF MONEY PLOX
OOOOOOOOOOM...
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292008-12-31 21:07
>>32
Talking about me? I'm not Jewish or of Jewish ancestry at all. You are blinded by your own evil and narrow mind. You'd better take a good, hard look at yourself in the first place.
I'm just like you!
Let me suck your precious bodily fluids... it's for your own good, trust me.
*suck suck suck*
ugh... xP
I thought we were friends
Oh my gosh I'm fucking dying
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Anonymous2009-01-06 18:49
The Chinese are more poisonous than Jews. Surely, the two will conflict with each other before long. No European races could arbitrate.
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Anonymous2009-01-06 23:15
>>38
Dumbass, the Chinese love the Jews. In the Middle Ages, Jews immigrated into China and the Chinese loved them so much that the Jews became completely assimilated and disappeared in China. I.e., the Chinese loved the Jews to death.