What Is Easter?
There's a lot I don't get about religion. However, one thing that I don't get the most is the popular manifestation of Easter. Supposedly, It commemorates when God in the form of a man was asphyxiated by being nailed to a cross and left to hang on the upright cross until death overcame him. A particularly hideous way to die. So in order to commemorate this grisly act, we are inundated with cute bunnies laying candy coated chocolate eggs and having our kids pictures taken at the malls with 6 foot tall rabbits who if they were real would scare the pants of kids more than the myriad of Santas during Christmas. Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me?
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Yes, they do - and do so at their own peril.
I believe that one must live a philosophy to prove it out. If one only professes it but does not act it, they are the very definition of the hypocrite. I appreciate people who act honestly even if misinformed because I know that they can still be enlightened and adjust their behaviors to fit reality.
Another one was 'every little boy wants to grow up to become like George Washington cherry wood kindling and all. except for one who said, "I'll make that story even better and chop down the whole country."
Hey those stories are every bit as good as the one's framed by George Soros and George Lakoff or Jimmy Carter and St. James of Carville. Produced by and Benita Pelosillyme
And more entertaining....
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Time for a creative writing competition
Four guys and I took a dare and spent a couple of hours one night in a big abandoned house reputed to be haunted.
We heard voices. Then I saw the fuzzy upper outline of a male person I could otherwise see through tilt his head over a shoulder as if he was thinking "What the heck are these people doing in here?" It quickly faded.
A guy standing beside me saw the exact same thing. The others missed out on that but all heard the voices. And some laughing--not the BWAHAHA kind)
There are TV shows about people who hunt such things. Just sayin'.
Save for that one thing, Rand's philosophy works very well for a Constitutional conservative (such as myself) who also happens to be a Christian.
A Christian like me ain't gonna change for finding Ayn Rand many years after they found Jesus. Such a person would already have to be in the process of losing their faith.
Herb, at least you're one nonbeliever I can get along with here in the Gulch.
posed Resurection (neither do I condone the hid-
eous murder of the Cruficifixion). But I think, that
while Good Friday is celebrated as a solemn day
of mourning, the Resurection Day (Easter) is supposed to be a day of great joy (although
somewhat solemn, too). Given the official and
expressed belief of Christian doctrine, that would
be understandable. But it is my understanding
that there are two different traditions involved
here, and that "Easter" (which in other Europe-
an languages is referred to by some corruption
of Pesach, the Hebrew Passover), was also
a pagan spring festival. In fact, I have heard
a Christian preacher on the radio complain
about that very circumstance.
Christians should stick together.
Even Big Brother is against us these days.
You have a 4 up there on that post now.
Interesting.
Of course someone else may come along, but what the heck.
the eyes still work!
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