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For those so inclined, happy Easter! Hope you have an enjoyable day with your families.

You know I've never really understood the hunt for Easter eggs or the connection of candy or coloring eggs to Easter. I get the whole rebirth analogy but really the egg and candy things are just commercialization of the holiday, like all holidays.

But I hope you enjoy whatever traditions you have in your family and in honoring whatever religious tradition you observe.

For everyone else, enjoy those Cadbury eggs for no reason. Those things are great!
 
I worked 10 hour shifts this past wednesday, thursday, friday, and saturday.
I have today off.
Then next week i work monday, tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and saturday all 10 hour shifts. 60 hours plus 10 hours of holiday pay today. Nice paycheck. So today being my only day off and its nice and sunny and beautiful and im going to spend time at my sisters house with family means im really digging easter this year.


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LogGrad98 said:
For those so inclined, happy Easter! Hope you have an enjoyable day with your families.

You know I've never really understood the hunt for Easter eggs or the connection of candy or coloring eggs to Easter. I get the whole rebirth analogy but really the egg and candy things are just commercialization of the holiday, like all holidays.

But I hope you enjoy whatever traditions you have in your family and in honoring whatever religious tradition you observe.

For everyone else, enjoy those Cadbury eggs for no reason. Those things are great!
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St. Peter=Peter Rabbit. Hence the tall hat to hide his ears. Sometimes you have to look more closlier to see the truth. How do I know? Well, let's just say I am a member of the Hare Club for Men.
View: https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/z3vtk5/south-park-peter-rabbit
 
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TheGoldStandard said:
St. Peter=Peter Rabbit. Hence the tall hat to hide his ears. Sometimes you have to look more closlier to reveal the truths.


View: https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/z3vtk5/south-park-peter-rabbit
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So just what I said, commercialization. The modern iteration originated with Beatrix Potter's books Peter Rabbit, which was actually named after her childhood pet, a rabbit named Peter.

The first in the series was The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first self-published in 1901, and commercially published in 1902, which established the tradition of a rabbit named Peter. Potter herself had had a pet rabbit named Peter Piper as a child, which explained her use of the name for her most famous protagonist. Her fictional Peter also had a sibling named Cotton-tail, which supplies the second half of Peter Cottontail’s name. Peter and his siblings feature in several of Potter’s books, which you can read online: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail: Some Cultural History | Folklife Today

Note: Some of this research, and an interview with the author, is being included in a report on CBS Sunday Morning, which should air Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016. While I was doing the research for my recent blog post on the history of the Easter Bunny, I noticed that the Library of Congress has …
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Sometimes the meaning isn't as deep as people would like it to be. Human nature is to seek out meaning in everything, which is part of why we see faces in all kinds of things and conspiracies abound.
 
I had a lovely day with family, food, conversation - and Easter egg hunts. I've been traumatized by them since I was a child because I am terrible at finding things. So of course my family makes me do them.

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fishonjazz said:
I worked 10 hour shifts this past wednesday, thursday, friday, and saturday.
I have today off.
Then next week i work monday, tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and saturday all 10 hour shifts. 60 hours plus 10 hours of holiday pay today. Nice paycheck. So today being my only day off and its nice and sunny and beautiful and im going to spend time at my sisters house with family means im really digging easter this year.


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Bitch! I've been getting paid time and a half all weekend while at home.
 
LogGrad98 said:
For those so inclined, happy Easter! Hope you have an enjoyable day with your families.

You know I've never really understood the hunt for Easter eggs or the connection of candy or coloring eggs to Easter. I get the whole rebirth analogy but really the egg and candy things are just commercialization of the holiday, like all holidays.

But I hope you enjoy whatever traditions you have in your family and in honoring whatever religious tradition you observe.

For everyone else, enjoy those Cadbury eggs for no reason. Those things are great!
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Easter, Ishtar and Eostre

Some New Atheists have latched onto memes claiming "Easter" and its customs are stolen from paganism. But is just another case of them not checking facts?
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So this prohibition gave rise to two European customs maintained to this day: eating pancakes and pastries on “Shrove Tuesday” before the Lent fast began and eating eggs on Easter Sunday when it ended. Using up what eggs, milk and butter people had before the fast made sense rather than letting this perishable food go to waste. And since hens would be paying no attention to any fasts and still laying through Lent, there would have been plenty of eggs on hand to eat on Easter Sunday morning. In fact, eggs gathered in the week ahead of Easter could have been stored or hard boiled in preparation for Easter Sunday morning, when they would have been quite a treat to peasants who had just endured over a month on a diet of bread, vegetables and some fish.

We have the first references to these eggs being decorated in the thirteenth century, but that practice may have started earlier. What we don’t have is any reference to any pagan spring festival or customs involving eggs. The most logical source of Easter eggs, therefore, is the Christian practice of a Lenten fast in which this readily available staple could not be eaten.
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The “Easter Bunny” is a modern commercial take on the northern European association of hares (not rabbits) with Easter. Again, there is no evidence of any pagan origin here. Hares are generally shy and solitary animals, but in early spring they become more social as part of their mating behaviour. So around March in most of northern Europe hares can be seen in the fields “boxing” – with males competing for mates and females occasionally rebuffing males physically. The sight of groups of hares in the fields would have been a sign of the onset of spring and that Easter was around the corner for rural people without calendars, thus the German and Dutch tradition of the “Easter Hare” which came to the US and became the “Easter Bunny” and then spread to the rest of the world as a way of selling more confectionery. So, again, no paganism.
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Well, its Tuesday and I just realized Sunday was Easter. So I had a great Easter celebration. Oddly had a delightful day on the electric bike in nice sunny weather and grab some great beers outside with friends before going shopping at some luxury mall that was overwhelming.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Well, its Tuesday and I just realized Sunday was Easter. So I had a great Easter celebration. Oddly had a delightful day on the electric bike in nice sunny weather and grab some great beers outside with friends before going shopping at some luxury mall that was overwhelming.
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I'm assuming Easter isn't really a thing in China.

What are some of the holidays they celebrate that we have never heard of?
 
Gameface said:
I'm assuming Easter isn't really a thing in China.

What are some of the holidays they celebrate that we have never heard of?
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There are not really religious people in China so its not much of a thing. The main two holidays are Chinese New Year and National day. Those are both two week holidays where pretty much the entire country is off. But other holidays that are celebrated are tomb sweeping festival, Dragon boat festival, and lantern festival. Oh and moon festival or something like that where everyone eats these small pastry moon cake things.
 
Ron Mexico said:
There are not really religious people in China so its not much of a thing. The main two holidays are Chinese New Year and National day. Those are both two week holidays where pretty much the entire country is off. But other holidays that are celebrated are tomb sweeping festival, Dragon boat festival, and lantern festival. Oh and moon festival or something like that where everyone eats these small pastry moon cake things.
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Yep, in the distribution business for many of our customers we plan for major drops in volume 4-6 weeks after Chinese New Year, because they stop producing anything and it takes 4-6 weeks to get containers over the ocean, so that gap appears 4-6 weeks after the New Year week.
 
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