What Is Easter?
There's a lot I don't get about religion. However, one thing that I don't get the most is the popular manifestation of Easter. Supposedly, It commemorates when God in the form of a man was asphyxiated by being nailed to a cross and left to hang on the upright cross until death overcame him. A particularly hideous way to die. So in order to commemorate this grisly act, we are inundated with cute bunnies laying candy coated chocolate eggs and having our kids pictures taken at the malls with 6 foot tall rabbits who if they were real would scare the pants of kids more than the myriad of Santas during Christmas. Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me?
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I also prefer lite beer, not being a teetotaler kinda Christian.
It's your right.
I don't, it's my right
So...what else is new?.
That left me feeling cheated.
I want my magic wand and pointy-tipped Gandalf the wizard hat.
At least the mystics in The Dark Crystal were kinda cool~
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Me precious.
Me precious.
Mmmmmmmmmm~.
ME PRECIOUS!
A man studied the black arts. Then he married a beautiful woman. He was very jealous of her He summoned up the Devil. He asked the Devil to keep his wife from cheating on him. The Devil said that in exchange for his soul, he'd give him a ring, and as long as he worn that ring she could never cheat on him. The man agreed. The Devil said, you will sleep now and when you wake the ring will be upon your finger. That morning when the man awoke he found his finger in his wife's vagina.
We must be related.
As for my other quarter, they came over first or more accurately some of them did.
This info was learned by my American born full-blooded (fully gened?) passed away Swedish father at a Mormon institute that specializes in ancestry.
Half of mother traces back to French colonists kicked out of Acadia (no longer exists in Canada) by the Brits. Some became Cajuns. Mine became Yankees and that makes me some kind of a quarter mongrelized Frenchie.
That's OK. If a full Frenchie, I'd still be mongrel anyways.
I've heard it said mongrels make the best dogs.
No, I will not bark like Hitlery. .
Well--
I'm a mystic! I'm a mystic!
Ooga freakin' booga!
No one here is gonna intimidate me with that.
Someone calls me the zombie that caused Susanne43 to leave?
Well, I'm The Bulletproof Monk (I actually saw that forgettable flick).
In other words, save for faith, I love the way most people think in the Gulch.
That last caveat provides your proof.
The first statement supports mine.
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http://tinyurl.com/judasrc
posed Resurection (neither do I condone the hid-
eous murder of the Cruficifixion). But I think, that
while Good Friday is celebrated as a solemn day
of mourning, the Resurection Day (Easter) is supposed to be a day of great joy (although
somewhat solemn, too). Given the official and
expressed belief of Christian doctrine, that would
be understandable. But it is my understanding
that there are two different traditions involved
here, and that "Easter" (which in other Europe-
an languages is referred to by some corruption
of Pesach, the Hebrew Passover), was also
a pagan spring festival. In fact, I have heard
a Christian preacher on the radio complain
about that very circumstance.
...about Jesus.
Why it is bunnies, eggs and chocolate (yum...much better than horseradish) is because it was mixed with the celebration of Spring or "Ashtar" (easter) when Constantine mixed paganism with early Christianity to create Catholicism.
No big deal...I am personally celebrating the melting of the snow in my yard. 👍
Also: Rare prime rib with horseradish sauce (my personal favorite).
Makes a really good sandwich on a freshly baked bun.
I have to split one with my husband because as I age the rich foods are hard on my body but a couple of weeks ago we went out for prime rib and it was delightful.
😃
I have seen, lots of scorn and derision, some fun and folly, and some poetic metaphor and symbolism, in most everything seems grounded in concrete reality.
Carson came from the ghetto and became a brain surgeon I think he offered a great example how to pull oneself up by the bootstraps.
The pagan mysticism's were embarrassing but always felt there was a bigger more mature lesson there...turns out I was correct.
It's not meant to be mystical because it's quantum physical.
It takes an old ugly guy to think like another old ugly guy.