worryingly jolly batman

True

There's also bunnies...

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Mmmm bunnies...

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cmaireserkeiel.livejournal.com

Theres also the whole idea that Jesus died and rose again, which is the basis of Easter.

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rysade.livejournal.com

Yeah, but you can't make chocolate out of that!

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I dunno, kids biting the heads of little chocolate saviours, a trail of jam in the garden "come one kids, let's go find Jesus!"

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LOL
For real

I can see a whole new career path opening up

"Jesus on a stick, anyone??"

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*crying laughing* Oh my god, trail of jam, you are a bastid. :D :D :D

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I'm so sad that that amused you guys so much.

because

It's Not My Joke.

Robin Williams DVD. That man is hilarious.

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It was the way you told it

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Yeah, delivery was brilliant. ;)

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Well, it is what the Christian festival is about, but the original Easter was much more pagan and about sex.

Winter ends, life returns, and what brings life? Sex.

Now, bunnies are known for breeding like rabbits and Eggs are the beginnings of life.

Hence, the symbolism of new life that Christianity has taken on but rarely actually seems to mention anymore.

Hey anyone, the Last Supper was Passover wasn't it? When is Passover for the Jews anyway?

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End of April (http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/)

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So, if that tradition is accurate, shouldn't they sort of overlap?

Sometimes I think I'll never understand a large amount of this world...

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Easter
When: First Sunday after the first full moon after March 21

The exact day of the year that Easter falls on is very confusing, and the logic seems pretty old-fashioned in this digital age, because it's based on the lunar calendar and tied to the start of the solar spring. But the Western Church (Catholic and Protestant) continues to observe it based on the rules of long ago — that it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21. It can't come before March 22 or after April 25. In contrast, Orthodox Churches wanted to tie Easter to Jewish Passover, given the relationship between Passover and the day of Christ's resurrection. Because the Jewish calendar determines the date that Jews celebrate Passover, Easter for the Orthodox Churches can vary by as much as five weeks from the Western Church.
(from Dummies.com)

See http://www.jacwell.org/Archbishop%20Peter/The_Date_of_Pascha_and_the_Council_of_Nicea.htm
for dating of Passover. Accorting to Jews, it's the year 5765, BTW

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Exactly. Easter itself, as a name, comes from Eoster, I believe, who was like... a fertility goddess. (I can't be bothered Googling, I'm getting all of this from American Gods anyway, so my be slightly erroneous)

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Not bad. At least Gaiman does good research

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/JO-Eo.html

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*laughing* The stuff about Good Freya's Day is making me Amused.

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... no, it's not. However, there are many people in this world, myself included, who don't celebrate Easter as a religious holiday who, for whatever reason, don't believe that Jesus died and rose again. I don't believe it because I'm atheist, but of course there are many other reasons.

This being the case, it is not always appropriate to wish someone Happy Easter; someone Jewish, for example, might not appreciate it; similarly anyone living in a non-Western culture. Because LJ in general, and I hope my LJ in particular, is open to people of any religious stripe, it is therefore not always appropriate to wish the entire f-list happy easter.

Believe me, I am familiar with Easter in its form as a Christian celebration, and I didn't mean to imply that Easter itself was about chocolate. ;) To me, it's just a holiday where I get to eat chocolate, so, Chocolate Day (or, really, Chocolate Long Weekend.) For me it really doesn't have any higher significance. Obviously it's different for you, so Happy Easter! :) I hope it's a joyous occasion for you and your family. <3

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Easter is not about the chocolate though. At all. Maybe people who don't beileve in Easter should have their own chocolate day that doesn't coincide with Easter. If you aren't religious, you shouldn't celebrate it. That's just my thoughts.

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That would be fine if it's an option. But Easter is a compulsory public holiday. If you don't want people who aren't Christian to eat chocolate on a day that coincides with your religious festival, then you need to stop it being a public holiday.

As it is, Easter is no longer wholly the property of Christians. As I said, I don't celebrate Easter like a Christian would because I'm not Christian. I do eat chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday- but then eggs don't really have much to do with Easter either.

As I was saying, I didn't intend to imply that Easter, the rligious celebration, is about chocolate. But if you're not religious, or rather not Christian, the Easter public holiday is about chocolate, or maybe about a five-day weekend. That's just the way it is.

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Oh come on. You force the damn festival on us and then forbid us to do anything? Get over yourself, Cindy.

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I don't force it on you at all. I've always thought that the week shouldn't be a holiday, it should only be for Christians only.

I don't have anything to get over.

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You're too tall to be a dwarf and you don't look Macedonian.

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Macedonian dwarf? That puts me in mind of dear old Alex. Now Tui and he certainly have several things in common...

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Hrm, who is this Alex you speak of?

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Um?

... The Great?

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*dying* Wow, I certainly suck a lot tonight. :D

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Moi aussi.

I thought it might be some 'friend' of yours in chch

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It was the Macedonia and the being a classics geek that tipped it for me.

Though for a while I was wondering what they had in common

*is silly*

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