Hi Stranger. You just have to plan ahead – after many years of being annoyed at how everything shuts down on Easter, I chose today for my 10 mile run, instead of yesterday, as you had done. That was your only error. The weather was around 50 and gray, but quite satisfying for the task.
As a Christian, this holiday annoys me for the very reason Elysian laughs at it: all of those pagan fertility symbols.
Another thing that gets me: It’s taken serious enough that it has a rediculously scary calculation to figure out the date, but shouldn’t Palm Sunday be 5 days before Passover? (c.f. John 12:1, 12-13)
Doesn’t that mean that a proper Easter would be permanently bound to the Jewish Passover?
That’s one thing I miss, but I am too lazy to do it right and my beloved swamp-yankee Wife has always felt that brown and white were plenty of colours for eggs to come dressed in…
Regarding my own participation in these holidays…I don’t. Not anymore.
This applies only to myself and is not meant against anyone else, regardless of how they celebrate the holiday.
It seems wrong to celebrate a holiday and ignore the meaning of that day. For me, secular celebrations of religious holidays seems disrespectful, if not sacrilegious. So I choose not to observe the day, much to the chagrin of my family (none of whom are religious).
Well, they haven’t been completely taken over by conspiracy theories and alien crap as of yet. Though the amount of programming will deals with actual history is descreasing (I have no idea why they now have their own “Build a Hotrod” show now).
Those chocolate bilbies are soooo cute! The animal itself is cute-ish… it looks a little bit like an exaggerated caricature of a real animal, though. But I would totally bite the head off a chocolate bilby. Beats the hell out of that Cadbury bunny.
Next year, consider watching Critters 2: The Main Course. There’s an Easter egg hunt, and a man in a bunny suit that really capture the spirit of the season.
Actually the Greek Orthodox Easter isn’t until May 1st this year, because they do follow the Jewish calender. ;j I also wanted to second Maxxxie about Greek families traditionally giving gifts at Easter as well as Christmas.
It should be. "Easter"is about Jesus’ permanent resurrection. The bunny and eggs are pagan crap. I like to buy extra egg coloring kits and use them later in the year when peopleask where on earth i found themat that timeof year!
No we don’t – we follow the Julian calendar. The reason for the late date of Pascha is because it is calculated with the assumption that the spring equinox is on March 25, Julian calendar, and also because it cannot fall on or before Passover.
Back to the OP – I think this kind of whining is a good example of the general sense of entitlement many Americans have. To imagine that this one stupid holiday – and all its “terrible” annoyances and inconveniences – is enough for someone to start a rant about is ridiculous. Sheesh.
Not in my house, buddy! My grandma made a fish entirely of dark chocolate. Oh, the goodness of it. I don’t miss my grandma much, but there are times I miss her cooking. Especially the chocolate fish.
And let’s not forget the bread “doll” - a loaf of bread shaped somewhat doll-like, with a big hard-boiled egg (dyed red) in the middle of it.
One of my earliest Easter memories is of being at my grandfather’s house and waking up to the sound of a shotgun blast. In reality he had shot to scare a wild dog who was trying to get into his chicken coop, but he decided it would be a funny joke to tell me he’d just shot a rabbit with a basketful of eggs. For effect he tossed me a rabbit skin (he was always hunting small game and he kept rabbit skins, squirrel tails, etc., around) and said it was the Easter Bunny’s.
I loved my grandfather. It’s always been one of my great regrets that I was never able to tell him so because by the time I was verbal again he’d been dead for ten years.
:rolleyes: It’s a rant–the sort of thing The Pit is intended for–and far from having a sense of entitlement, I was just expressing a perfectly obtuse and avowed discontent borne from blatent self-interest.
Holy (heh) Shit! You people live in cities that shut down everything on Easter?
I live in North Da-fucking-kota. It doesn’t get much more Red than this. And Christians? Unless Bob and Ethel moved out of state just about everyone is Christian.
Here’s what I got done today.
Filled up the gas tank.
Filled my prescriptions.
Went with all 3 BIL’s to play pool, shoot darts and drink beer after dinner.
Stopped at Hollywood Video for a few movies.
Stopped at K-Mart for laundry detergent and dishwasher soap.
All within 8 blocks of my home.
Thanksgiving, on the other hand. Last fall me and a BIL almost drove to Canada just to get some beer. Nothing but truck stops were open here. First dry Thanksgiving in over 15 years.
Public holidays are public holidays! I have never been a christian but choccy eggs are good and Santa is good. These are not religous events just cultural ones.
Christmas is about Santa and family, Easter is about chocolate for children…no god needed.
I’m sure they would. Kinda my point really. I’m 38 and have “celebrated” Easter every one of those years. My celebration never involved god, just chocolate and bunnies.
