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- juhls0
Jnr, I seem to remember a discussion about the whole "Happy Holidays" thing a while back. I was stating something about how all this political correctness was disgusting, and gramme agreed with me. Just thought I would bring up that little story :P
Anyway, I'm glad I have a 4-day weekend.
- mikotondria30
I however, am NOT glad to have a 4 day weekend - My grandpa died on Tuesday, and because the funeral people, death certificate, council grave people etc are all away for the 'holidays', we can't know exactly when to plan his funeral and we're all up in the air about it, can't book flights back to uk or anything. I wish he was Jesus, then he'd come back to life again and I could see him. Now he's gone, and I won't see him again. It makes me really sad, and now Im crying a bit. Damn you, odd Easter-type thread !
- My Sympathies to you and your familyMal
- very sorry to hear. all my best to you and your family7point34
- thanks man, it's kinda rough. He was 93, and not ill until the very end. Preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, so...mikotondria3
- sorry to hearjuhls
- Sorry to hear this as well. It's no consolation, but having you faculties to the end is a good way to go and such a nice old age.Mimio
- Sorry for your loss.NotByHand
- I'm sorry, MitoRand
- Very sorry to hear about this miko. Will pray for the family.Scotch_Roman
- Mal0
There is NO doubt that Easter is a totally Pagan holiday but to each his own.
- but eggs and rabbits are Christian symbols of fertility, aren't they ? oh...mikotondria3
- all the christian holidays are based from pagan holidays this is not news7point34
- It's only fitting since the judeo/xtian religion is based on an amalgam of pagan beliefs.Mimio
- *i know, but they all think it was some magically revealed, ordained out-the-box thing. They dont like to hear that.mikotondria3
- Mimio, that's bullshit and you know it.Scotch_Roman
- 7point340
i really wanted him to say "jesus" at the end of the ad instead of "the easter bunny"
- ukit0
Can someone draw a line for me from the gruesome torture and murder of Jesus to little fluffy bunnys running around hiding rainbow colored eggs?
Rabbits don't even lay eggs FFS.
- The (Easter) bunny, the oldest pagan symbol of fertility - SemiramisMal
- Early on, most Christian celebrations had to be "disuised" as more acceptable celebrations at the timelocustsloth
- Hurley0
I just had a realization. We are living in a parallel universe but that parallel universe is right here on the plant. Everyone see's the universe through their own eyes which gives them their own opinion and argument. Every topic has support from all sides from at least one person or another making up billions of opinions. Each person is on their layer of the parallel universe as they see it through there eyes and there actions and opinions ripple out through there enviroment.
- flavorful0
- hey, thanks!ukit
- hahahahaha...NotByHand
- hahjuhls
- hahaha :)mikotondria3
- flavorful0
Also, I believe gramme will not respond to this thread as he will be abstaining from anything that was not available to Jesus from 01-03PM during his local time.
Which is the time He was on the cross.
Dead as a cross nail.
- Huh?Scotch_Roman
- Well of course he died, that was his reason for coming to earth as a man.Scotch_Roman
- And then he rose from the dead, since death cannot contain God.Scotch_Roman
- TheBlueOne0
Happy Easter to all...
*chews peeps head
- juhls0
- it does - thats a rear-view mirror, not a jpg..mikotondria3
- heehejuhls
- Everything is Simpsons References!! :Dflavorful
- mikotondria30
The thing about the flying spaghetti monster is that given the Drake equation, there are probably billions of intelligent life forms far more exotic than our tiny minds can comprehend. THere is almost a version of every alien from every sci-fi book or film or atheistic thought-experiment somewhere, right now.
- funny how most are humanoid in shape too...version3
- You have to keep actors employed. The same was true 2,000 years ago, haha.flavorful
- hahhaamikotondria3
- I like Douglas Adams' theory that anything can be grown somewhere in an infinite universe.zarkonite
- Not_Ghey0
oy!
- emukid0
christ dies for us and i don't even get a day off. what kind of a world are we living in? jesus!
- Scotch_Roman0
Those who say that the date of Easter is merely an appropriation of a pagan holiday are mistaken. You're confusing it with Christmas. While we know within about a one year range when Christ was born, no one is exactly sure what time of year he was born—though there has been speculation that it was some time in late spring.
The time of Christ's death and resurrection can be accurately calculated because it coincides with Passover. The well-known "last supper" that Christ spent with his disciples was the Passover Seder meal. Passover goes back to the time of Moses, when the angel of death stalked Egypt and passed over the houses of the Israelites. It has absolutely nothing to do with any sort of pagan rite. Any coincidental alignment of dates is just that.
- says the book that was re-written 12309472x to fit the "new" facts. c'mon...zarkonite
- Scotch_Roman0
zarkonite, it's a weak argument to say the Bible is disreputable because it was supposedly re-written many times. The argument is weak because it isn't true. In fact, we have original or second-generation copies of manuscripts for every single book in the Bible—from the Pentateuch to the Prophets to the entire New Testament. Because the languages—ancient Hebrew and Greek—are still known by scholars today, one can go directly to a verbatim copy of one of these original manuscripts and read the words written thousands of years ago.
Of course the Bible is now available in many versions and has been translated into many languages, but if you compare several of the available English versions, for example, there is no fundamental difference in what they are saying—it's differences like purple and scarlet, beer and ale, thou and you, etc. etc. They all contain the same fundamental information.
At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, when a group of bishops met to determine what would officially be grouped into the canon of Scripture, they only took seriously the Biblical accounts that were still available in the form of original or second/third-generation manuscripts, i.e. nothing that was written more than a couple hundred years after the respective events.
- I mean if you simply don't believe it that's fine, just find a better argument.Scotch_Roman
- I'm talking from taking many many religious studies courses at uni, it's a well known fact it was adjusted a lot.zarkonite
- I even took two classes tracing stories cross-polinating across religion and their evolution through time.zarkonite
- You can belive what you want but the scholastic study of religion as litterature is quite clear on the facts.zarkonite
- Scholastic study my ass. Bunch of atheists and agnostics looking to justify their unbelief; nothing more.Scotch_Roman
- (of course I suppose you could say the versa about Christians...)Scotch_Roman
- But the fact remains that secular Biblical scholars are woefully unschooled, whether you took a uni level class or not.Scotch_Roman
- not.Scotch_Roman
- BTW I got my information from numerous people with Master of Divinity Degrees. Some even have PhDs in Divinity.Scotch_Roman
- Mau0
happy easter gramme.
I don´t care about political correctness... I also wish my friends a nice ramadan, or should I say a happy day off? kindergarten
and some of you should stop taking documentary reports like "Zeitgeist" too serious
- mikotondria30
Yeh, genuinely a Happy Easter to you, Gramme, I hope you enjoy your time and it's truly significant to you. All the best.