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[labellementeuse]

Happy Easter or alternatively Chocolate Day, everyone!

Or, if you're living in a country where it's not recognised, I'm very sorry we have a five-day weekend and you don't. ;)

Oh, that was nasty, sorry.

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*wryly amused* I've always thought she'd be a bit more... serene than me. And more socially conservative.

Comments

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

True

There's also bunnies...

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Mmmm bunnies...

[cmaireserkeiel.livejournal.com]

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

[rysade.livejournal.com]

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

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

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!"

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

LOL
For real

I can see a whole new career path opening up

"Jesus on a stick, anyone??"

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

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

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

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

because

It's Not My Joke.

Robin Williams DVD. That man is hilarious.

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

It was the way you told it

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, delivery was brilliant. ;)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

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?

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

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

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

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...

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

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

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

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)

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

Not bad. At least Gaiman does good research

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

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

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