3/25/2005
it seems to be the going thing these days to post conversations, and since its easter and i havn’t posted in ages here is a log (which i found amusing) of my confusion over this holiday
L: remember no eating meat today!
jig: yeah but dont get why
L: because today is when Christ was hung on a cross
jig: yeah i know that
jig: but why cant we eat meat?
jig: whats that got to do with jesus dieing?
L: disresectful, eating red meat would be a symbol of eating him… no that doesnt sound right…
jig: but he is made of bread wafers
L: jesus was a symbol of a lamb who died for our benefit, and therefore eating meat would be disrepectful
jig: people eat him all the time in church
L: but thats different
jig: speaking of, how many of those wafer things do you need to eat before you have a whole jesus
L: in the presbytarin church it is bread not wafers
L: so i guess in a lifetime you could eat enough wafers and drink enough wine to consumer an entire jesus
jig: makes you wonder if he was on the fat side of things
jig: i mean he has been eaten from for ages
jig: and there is still enough to go around
L: well he is eternal or something, so i guess he just keeps reproducing limbs after they are eaten or something
which also brings me to the point, how did easter turn into the egg giving tradition it is? what does chocolate eggs, and rabbits have to do with jesus dieing?
10:37 ::
Only reasoning I can find is that Jesus was considering the “Shepard” and we are his sheep. So I guess eating meat is like eating ourselves, the reason fish is allowed is because he was (literally, as opposed to the less than literal shepard description) a fisherman and by eating fish I guess we’re showing that we appreciate all he has done for us, in our own little way.
As far as eggs, I’m sure sothis is what happened.
Chocolate manufacturer 1: Hmmm, how could we sucker people into buying chocolates, we’ve already exhausted the give chocolates to your loved ones deal, so what else… come on people I’m open to suggestions.
Chocolate Manufacturer 2: Well, maybe we could work it into the Queen’s birthday have little chocolate Queen heads.
CM1: Nah, won’t fly, I think people would be abhored by the concept of putting the Queen in their mouths.
CM2: Well… how about the death of that Jesus dude, that’s pretty popular among Christians, sure that limits our buyers to a specific religion, but come on, they’re trying to convert anyone and everyone, it’s just a matter of time before some war breaks out and they emerge victorious. SO what say we have little chocolate christs.
CM1: I’m liking your thinking, but maybe not Christ as such, an animal, one that everyone loves.
CM2: RABBITS! Everyone loves cute little bunnies.
CM1: Yeah, except when the fuckers destroy crops. But I see where you’re going, and I’m liking it, Easter Bunny. Has a nice ring to it.
CM2: We could have chocolate eggs too!
CM1: Um… why?
CM2: They have nothing to do with rabbits, people will get so confused as to why rabbits are giving out eggs that their minds will just say, “don’t think too hard about it, just buy the damn thing”. It’s a win win.
CM1: My God, it’s genius! You’re getting a promotion!
CM2: WOO!
So yeah, there’s the explanation for both counts, what would you do without me.
Comment by Sin Ogaris — 3/25/2005 @ 23:19
an egg is symobolistic of new life. ’cause they hatch.
Comment by t — 3/26/2005 @ 19:56
chocolate eggs dont, and if so why aren’t they given out on monday instead of sunday/saturday considering thats when jesus popped out the cave
Comment by Jigarbov — 3/26/2005 @ 21:14
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Um… no. Jesus rose on the Sunday, hence why it’s so damn important. Died on the Friday, rose on the Sunday.
Comment by Sin Ogaris — 3/26/2005 @ 21:52
oh right, it makes sense then. i always thought it was monday since its a day off, shows what i know about religion
Comment by Jigarbov — 3/26/2005 @ 21:55
The only reason why the monday is off is because Easter is on Sunday. The way I see it, the original story would have been Jesus died, rose two days later. Now, people had to factor this in to holidays, they couldn’t make it a Tuesday he died on then Thursday he rose, that’d screw up the week, likewise with most other combinations. However, they make Good Friday the day of his death and the Sunday his resurrection. The Sabbath was already the supposed day of rest, so what better to do on this day than praise the miracle of Christ’s rebirth? However seeing as this fell on the Sunday (or Sabbath) which was already a holiday, the day of rest, then this gave rise to the creation of Easter Monday, shift the otherwise useless Public Holiday from the SUnday, to the Monday. Works out a win win, people get a four day weekend, and the two day resurrection is still in tact.
Comment by Sin Ogaris — 3/26/2005 @ 23:45
of course chocolate eggs don’t hatch - hence the inclusion of the word ’symbolistic’.
and yeah monday is a day off just ’cause we love our holidays.
Comment by t — 3/27/2005 @ 21:21
You people are all stupid. Do you not know anything at all. Jesus did die on the Friday and he rose THREE days later, which would make it on the MONDAY. And for how eggs are thrown into the story it is derived from the pagan’s festival of harvest, and they did give eggs as a sign of fertility and rebirth.
Comment by Anonymous — 4/1/2005 @ 09:52
So then Easter Sunday really is a worthless holiday since NOTHING happened on that day? Or is Good Friday the worthless one. Meh, who cares, Christians are idiots for relating eggs to their holiday when they spent centuries KILLING pagans. This is why religion is moronic.
Comment by Sin Ogaris — 4/1/2005 @ 12:22
well i hate easter because im not religous and im allergic to chocolate
Comment by michelle — 4/5/2005 @ 11:25
Well done.
Comment by Sin Ogaris — 4/6/2005 @ 10:34
I’ve so never heard of not eating red meat cause of easter. We like have a big family thingie and eat all sorts of things till we’re lying around stuffed and chat till we’re in comas. It’s great fun.
Comment by Fey~ — 4/29/2006 @ 15:22
Well, Easter is one of the many holidays that came from conversion of rome to catholicism. Basically, they took a lot of holidays that they already had (christmas, easter, etc) as part of their pagan religion and gave them christian backstories, etc, so they could keep celebrating them without being (gasp!) heretical. Easter really has nothing to do with Christianity — in fact, it is a day that originally worshipped the ol’ babylonian goddess of fertility, Ishtar (hence the name). The egg represents the egg that fell from the sky which Ishtar then hatched out of, and the bunny represents fertility.
*smartass alarm sounds here*
Comment by JD — 7/17/2006 @ 06:32