Happy Easter To All!
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Master
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 15:15
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I take Easter as a four day weekend to study/relax. But no, I'm not Christian. Hell, I don't even follow any religion. -------------------- Polaris - owns you. Undead Theories - double U slash E Posts: 3323 | Registered: Thursday, April 25 2002 07:00 |
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Master
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 16:38
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I went to church this Sunday, but then again, I do practically every other Sunday as well. I'll have to vote for chocolate just because. If you want to give me a present to go along with it, be my guest. -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, April 17 2006 01:01
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quote:Well, that makes sense. In German it would be: Fröhliches Fruchtbarkeitsfest! We would skip "germanisches" since everybody knows that Ostara is a german fertility goddess. PS: Strange: Google translates fertility indeed with "Ergiebigkeit". It's nonsense. -------------------- Slartucker: * facepalm facepalm facepalm * Dikiyoba: Are you unconscious yet? Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Monday, April 17 2006 01:05
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quote:Ok, admit it. Who the frig calls it the "Spring Bunny"? -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, April 17 2006 01:12
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Happy Chocolate day! Posts: 169 | Registered: Wednesday, September 24 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, April 17 2006 02:04
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quote:Only every other Sunday? Heathen... :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, April 17 2006 06:07
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I got lucky and found a 1-metre tal rabbit four 10 10? (=about 11 $) in a chocolat shop. France is wonderful! -------------------- How many shapers are there? Why is Drypeak controlled by Zakary? Why is Barzahl a Guardian? How does the Geneforge work? What's as small as nothing? Why am I asking stupid questions? -------------------------------- Shaper teacher : "DON'T TOUCH THAT!" BOOM!! apprentice :*little voice* "Sorry..." --------------------------- CSM RIFQ Neopets Do join, it's fun. Do you know what is the answer to the greatest question ever? It's here. Posts: 576 | Registered: Wednesday, March 2 2005 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, April 17 2006 11:36
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The Easter Bunny stocking up? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, April 17 2006 11:40
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quote:Google translates everything funny. The translator my computer has as part of "Sherlock" (which I think is similar) translates getröstet (comforted) as "get roasted". -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, April 17 2006 11:44
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quote:Almost all Christian holidays are rip offs from pagan rituals. It's practically a requirement, "find some holiday worshipped be a religion in a recently prostelized (sp?) part of the world, steal one of their holidays and christianize it." [ Monday, April 17, 2006 11:47: Message edited by: radix malorum est cupiditas ] -------------------- ??? ?????? ???? ????? Posts: 883 | Registered: Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Monday, April 17 2006 15:46
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I celebrate Easter with food and family, if only because I come from a Catholic family. My siblings, most of my cousins, one of my uncles and I are all agnostic. My grandmother is Catholic, but she's not very religious. When my mother and uncles were children, she would make them go to church with my grandfather, but she would stay home to "clean". Once, two of my uncles snuck away and looked in the window, and she was sitting there watching television. She's not very religious, but every time she eats with us on Easter, she tries to make me say grace because I'm the "man of the house", and I laugh at her. Everyone laughs. Then she starts preaching at us and my uncle makes fun of her. She eventually gives up her half-hearted attempts to look religious on Easter, and we eat. My siblings and I used to get Easter baskets with lots of candy and a present (usually a stuffed toy), but eventually the toys stopped and this year all we got was a chocolate rabbit with almonds. Not really complaining though, since I'm a bit old for toys and I'm trying to lose weight (I gave up for this week though. There's no way I can diet when there's ham and pizzagena in the house. One year, we all got plush rabbits on Easter. I named mine Theodore Ludwig Bunny. :P -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, April 17 2006 18:10
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quote:This is true, but Easter's place on the calendar actually does make sense. I mean, the Last Supper happened during Passover, so putting Easter near Passover is historically sound. [ Monday, April 17, 2006 21:55: Message edited by: Tyranicus ] -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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BANNED
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written Monday, April 17 2006 19:39
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Unlike christmas, which would have also taken place around Passover. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, April 17 2006 21:44
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quote:Since you've brought that one up, TM, I am somewhat curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion. Biblically speaking, I believe the only specified clues at time of year are the Roman Census (however, historically, this undertaking took several months); and the fact that there are shepherds with sheep outside of pens at night, the accepted logical reason being birthing season, which would place Christmas in mid-spring. Is there some other historical evidence? -------------------- The Silent Assassin once declared war upon some guy whose name I don't remember. After a significant amount of research that involved dissecting phone books and destroying the kitchen, he left the Bunker with a "secret weapon." I did not find out what he had been doing until I noted an item in the news the next day: the assistant to a senator from Ohio had been involved in a run-by pie-ing on the steps of the Capitol Building. The Silent Assassin told me that it had been a short war. -------------------- -Lenar Labs What's Your Destiny? Ushmushmeifa: Lenar's power is almighty and ineffable. All hail lord Noric, god of... well, something important, I'm sure. Posts: 735 | Registered: Monday, January 16 2006 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Tuesday, April 18 2006 16:14
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Pretty much everything in the Bible is symbolic, open to interpretation, or impossible to determine exactly anyway. I am of the opinion that you should probably focus on the actual idea that is cause for celebration, rather than the damn date. -------------------- quote: Posts: 1115 | Registered: Sunday, May 15 2005 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, April 18 2006 16:54
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quote:Wasn't Christmas just kind of merged with Saturnalia or the Winter Solstice or whatever people were celebrating in a given place? ("Hey, we've got this holiday too! Except we call it Christmas!") -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, April 18 2006 18:49
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I understand that many christian holidays are actually christianized "pagan" holidays. People love to bring this point up. My question, "So what?" If early christian missionaries decided to merge their religious celebration with the local culture, so much the better. When I am celebrating Christmas and Easter, I am celebrating the birth and resurrection of Christ. If other people celebrated something else at that time, that is wonderful for them, but irrelevant to me. -------------------- "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." --Albert Einstein -------------------- Posts: 536 | Registered: Sunday, September 7 2003 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Tuesday, April 18 2006 19:06
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It puts some doubt on the idea that Jesus was actually born on December 25th. It's always useful to remember that religious stories are considerably more important for their spiritual significance than their factual content, and if this serves as a reminder of that, I think that's a good thing. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, April 18 2006 19:12
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Sure, so what, but in a discussion of what time of year holidays are, it is relevant to bring up. -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Wednesday, April 19 2006 05:33
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Even though I like chocolate (alot) I still voted #4. Hope everyone had a good holiday. -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, April 19 2006 08:00
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The link between Passover and Easter, or specifically the fact that Easter can't just be whenever, was a strong motivation for the adaptation of the Julian calendar that became the Gregorian calendar. —Alorael, who always wanted a wandering holiday. It seems so boring to know when everything will happen. One day, he'd like to wake up and find out that Thanksgiving has been relocated to tomorrow. This is, believe it or not, no part of his motivation to be a cultist of the Whitean persuasion. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Councilor
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written Wednesday, April 19 2006 08:22
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Originally by Alorael: quote:Well, in that case...happy birthday, Alorael. :P Dikiyoba should not to be taken seriously. Unless, of course, a cultist will say so yesterday. Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 00:15
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im not cristian but hay a day were i get nerly a kg of chocolate cant b half bad..atleast i dont have to go to some boring church serimony or chire.. i hate those :D Posts: 80 | Registered: Wednesday, March 29 2006 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 00:53
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quote:Given your level of maturity I would place you at late single-digits to early teens. Far too early for fertility to have any meaning. Given this reasoning, you celebrate easter neither for it's christian religious reasons nor it's pagan roots. Why is this day different from any other day you could go out and buy a kilogram of chocolate for your personal enjoyment? EDIT: Chire? Lick, anyone? [ Thursday, April 20, 2006 01:13: Message edited by: radix malorum est cupiditas ] -------------------- ??? ?????? ???? ????? Posts: 883 | Registered: Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 03:26
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quote:A friend of mine once read the bible, and he told me about a part in the Bible, that God is described as a big metal object. He thought they meant God as some sort of UFO. So yes, everything in the Bible is pretty open for your own interpretion. -------------------- There are 400 words in the dictionary that begin with "self" and only 8 that begin with "fellow". When in doubt. . . mumble. Posts: 150 | Registered: Saturday, August 20 2005 07:00 |