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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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Right turn on red. People forget the two most important words after those four -- AFTER STOP.

My son's fiancé got bumped yesterday by a driver who rolled the right turn. She's ok, just a bit peeved.

So please folks, if you're at a red stop light, stop before turning right.
 
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The so-called major "Christian" holidays, IIRC, are actually co-opted versions of prior pagan holidays, are they not?

Easter - spring - rebirth?
Christmas - solstice - coming of new year?
 
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FreshFish said:
The so-called major "Christian" holidays, IIRC, are actually co-opted versions of prior pagan holidays, are they not?

Easter - spring - rebirth?
Christmas - solstice - coming of new year?
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The timings of the holidays were adjusted in order to help convert the various pagans. Even some of the decorations used were part of that conversion attempt.
 
FreshFish said:
The so-called major "Christian" holidays, IIRC, are actually co-opted versions of prior pagan holidays, are they not?

Easter - spring - rebirth?
Christmas - solstice - coming of new year?
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Easter is pretty well pinned to the calendar based on Passover. Research has possibly pinned the actual date to early April 30AD.
 
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FreshFish said:
The so-called major "Christian" holidays, IIRC, are actually co-opted versions of prior pagan holidays, are they not?

Easter - spring - rebirth?
Christmas - solstice - coming of new year?
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Just the dates and time of year. Otherwise- Birth of Christ and Death of Christ are not exactly pagan.
 
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alfablue said:
Just the dates and time of year. Otherwise- Birth of Christ and Death of Christ are not exactly pagan.
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So long as you ignore that such religious themes were quite common in one way or another around that time as inspirations for the original tale.
 
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joecct said:
Easter is pretty well pinned to the calendar based on Passover.
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Isn't it officially the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox?

That definitely would tie it to a predecessor "pagan" celebration, no? We have both the vernal equinox and the full moon invoked.
 
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Foxton said:
So long as you ignore that such religious themes were quite common in one way or another around that time as inspirations for the original tale.
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Fine, but the adopted or bastardized intent of Christmas and Easter is to celebrate the birth and death of Christ- which is just Christianity.

Whatever tales that were for those dates, including the tale of guy in the red coat with a beard delivering stuff, and the egg thing- it's all been taken over in the US for a Christian thing.

Anyway, if that means Thanksgiving as well as Christmas are the only religious holidays that the US Federal Government has days off for, that's fine. There are no others.
 
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FreshFish said:
Isn't it officially the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox?

That definitely would tie it to a predecessor "pagan" celebration, no? We have both the vernal equinox and the full moon invoked.
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Again, you are arguing about the timing.

It's hard to argue that the Intent of Easter is to celebrate Christ's death. Unless there's another religion out there that does anything specific for Easter...

Chocolate Budha dolls, perhaps?
 
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alfablue said:
Again, you are arguing about the timing.

It's hard to argue that the Intent of Easter is to celebrate Christ's death. Unless there's another religion out there that does anything specific for Easter...

Chocolate Budha dolls, perhaps?
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Now you're just being blasphemous towards Buddhists. Do people eat chocolate bunnies at Easter or chocolate crucified Jesus dolls?
 
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St. Clown said:
Now you're just being blasphemous towards Buddhists. Do people eat chocolate bunnies at Easter or chocolate crucified Jesus dolls?
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If I were less lazy I would google search for these. Pretty sure I have seen them somewhere.
 
alfablue said:
Again, you are arguing about the timing.

It's hard to argue that the Intent of Easter is to celebrate Christ's death. Unless there's another religion out there that does anything specific for Easter...

Chocolate Budha dolls, perhaps?
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Oops. Wrong day there. Good Friday is the commemoration of Christ's death. Easter is the resurrection from His death.

Without Easter, Christianity is a cult and a joke.
 
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joecct said:
Oops. Wrong day there. Good Friday is the commemoration of Christ's death. Easter is the resurrection from His death.

Without Easter, Christianity is a cult and a joke.
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Correction, without early Roman persecution, it would never have evolved beyond cult status.
 
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joecct said:
Oops. Wrong day there. Good Friday is the commemoration of Christ's death. Easter is the resurrection from His death.

Without Easter, Christianity is a cult and a joke.
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Same thing- it's all one weekend. Celebrate life, celebrate death. Celebrate again when he's risen. When kids are looking for eggs and we are eating figures made of chocolate, the meaning gets pretty darned lost. Just like X-mas.

Still, of all 3 of those days, only Christmas is a federal holiday. Bigger economic impact.
 
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