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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
The original easter with the decorated eggs and the bunnies and all those fertility ceremonies was traditionally celebrated on the first full moon after the spring equinox (presumably so you could run naked through the woods without running into trees or tripping on roots (but tripping on something else was okay))
That is today (the 5th) Enjoy. This message has been edited by RAZD, 01-03-2005 20:18 AM we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Rand Al'Thor Inactive Member |
Here Here!
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SRO2  Inactive Member |
We must pet and stroke the easter bunny....we must never squeeze the easter bunny VERY, VERY TIGHTLY!
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
and hope it has nothing to do with the holy grail ...
run away run away run away .... we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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SRO2  Inactive Member |
I had a feelin' something like that was coming.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Seriously this is the reason that there is such a funny way to calculate when "easter" is celebrated. It is just one more festival that was adopted by the early church. They just moved it to the next sunday ...
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SRO2  Inactive Member |
Well I know...Eoster is a pagan holiday...no decent Christian would have anything to do with it.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Except that Easter is actually calculated in such a way that it doesn't have to be the Sunday after an actual full moon - it's a fictional event called the Paschal Full Moon instead. And then I always like the way that you count backwards 40 days, not including Sundays, to get to Ash Wednesday. Hmm.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Can anyone explain to me the connection between this pagan festival and the whole resurrection concept? If anything that would be an historical date, with an anniversary at the same time every year wouldn't it?
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SRO2  Inactive Member |
It must be that the gregorean calendar was recently converted using the new math....and the....metric system....
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
yes, it is the new kiloday metric format with 10 day weeks and 10 week months with 10 months per kiloday "year" no longer tied to the archaic solar period as we move forward into the new age of man free from old agriculatural seasonal ties. Days are now divided into 10 hours with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute. The "first day" of every month is a holiday and days 8 to 10 are rest (weekend) days. People wishing to observe any special days pertaining to their faith will need special dispensation, as this system is no longer biased for any one religion.
This resolves all problems with leap-years and changing annual periods with the rotation of the earth slowing down as that just doesn't matter anymore in this system of recordkeeping. Enjoy. [This message has been edited by AbbyLeever, 04-05-2004] we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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mike the wiz Member Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: |
So how old would the universe be? Lol
Does PaulK mean Paul kiloday?I'll do it, tee hee hee!
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
ahahahahaaa
5.0 billion kilodays ... (nice and even does it ...) you'll have to ask PaulK K? we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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mike the wiz Member Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: |
I firmly suggest an appearance of kilo age.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
well it makes me 21 ...
oh the fun we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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