Tis the reason for the season! Eostre... I love our Pagan roots.

[ORDagnabbit]

http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

and for those that want more heres a great site about the Pagan origins of the christ myth

http://www.pocm.info/

[katandmoon]

1. K&R

[HopeHoops]

2. The official Christian church accepted reincarnation until 555 AD.

The Ecumenical Council, by a narrow vote, reversed its position on reincarnation in 555 AD. Prior to that, reincarnation was preached as an accepted fact.

Isn't it funny how a bunch of men in silly clothes can get together and change how God works things?

[malaise]

5. Pssssssssssssssssssst

Everything about god is man made, including the books they wrote to spread their propaganda.

[patrice]

11. DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!

Call the police!! Arrest this man!

You're disturbing "the peace"! (And I'd laugh if that weren't soooooooo sadly ironic.)

[malaise]

16. LOL

and I am female. :rofl:

[patrice]

27. ooooppss!

:blush:

[Ikonoklast]

10. And many of the attendees were married men.

"Things change."

[Odin2005]

13. It did? A few Neo-Platonist bishops and monks did, but I doubt it was generally accepted.

[roguevalley]

19. the literalists ruined religion. the gnostics were destroyed and we

are left with a pedo-pope who feels its anti-semitic to call him out. sigh.

[DeSwiss]

22. And then branded Origen a heretic to boot! n/t

[rug]

29. If you're talking about the Second Council of Constantinople, you're wrong.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308b.htm

[patrice]

3. Yep. That egg-thing is soooooooooo Female, as in "keep 'em pregnant & un-educated, NOT inthe pulpit"

[old mark]

4. ....not to mention all those fertile rabbits hopping down the ol' bunny trail.....nt

[patrice]

9. AND!! What the Heck IS a "bunny trail" anyway!!! ESPECIALLY when it leads to eggs??

I'm wondering if this here holiday doesn't need some serious Parental Advisory stickers all over it.

:blush:

[conscious evolution]

30. Some people call it the happy trail

and thats all i'll say about that.

[Greyhound]

6. I love fertility and rebirth celebrations!

It's surprising how few "religious" people have any knowledge about their own religions. But then I suppose that is a prerequisite to following such absurdities.
:shrug::rofl::kick: & R

[mimitabby]

7. Easter/ Estrus

same origin

[MineralMan]

18. I thought you wrote "same organ" for a couple of seconds.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. No; 'estrus' comes from the Greek for 'gadfly' or 'frenzy'

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/estrus
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ire

http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=estrus&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact

Estrus is derived via Latin oestrus (frenzy, gadfly), from Greek οἶστρος (gadfly, breeze, sting, mad impulse). Specifically, this refers to the gadfly that Hera sent to torment Io, who had been won in her heifer form by Zeus. Euripides used "oestrus" to indicate "frenzy", and to describe madness. Homer uses the word to describe panic<3> Plato also uses it to refer to an irrational drive<4> and to describe the soul "driven and drawn by the gadfly of desire".<5> Somewhat more closely aligned to current meaning and usage of "estrus", Herodotus (Histories ch.93.1) uses oistros to describe the desire of fish to spawn.<6>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrous_cycle#Etymology_and_nomenclature

Compare with:
Easter
ORIGIN Old English, related to EAST.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/easter?view=uk

Etymology: Middle English estre, from Old English ēastre; akin to Old High German ōstarun (plural) Easter, Old English ēast east
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/easter

[ShrimpScampi]

8. Love it.

It pleases me to walk through mainstream stores during the different holidays while knowing the true origins. Ostara is a beautiful time of year...rabbits, eggs, fertility oh my! In the movie Chocolat (with Juliette Binoche) I covet her pagan chocolate molds! : )

[Arugula Latte]

12. Xtians have waged the War on Eostre

And they've screwed over many other holidays, too.

:grr:

[struggle4progress]

14. It's extremely unlikely that the Council of Nicaea was adopting Germanic or Saxon customs

when they fixed the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox as the date of the holiday -- and it's quite certain they didn't use any derivative or cognate of "Eostre" to refer to the holiday

Christianity originated as a splinter of Judaism: the date of the Christian holiday is modeled after the date of Passover, and the traditional names for "Easter" (Pascha, Festa Paschalia, &c) are derived from the Jewish Passover

[darkstar3]

25. Holy S***!!

You, YOU for cryin' out loud, posted something without a source!!!

Which leads me inevitably to the question of "where DID you get this denial of various sources on the matter?"

[Odin2005]

15. IIRC "Easter" is cognate with the Greek deity Eos, goddess of dawn.

Both come from an Proto-Indo-European root mean both "dawn" and "east".

[Bigmack]

17. My semi-fundie SIL nearly passed out...

from shock when I told her the names of the days of the week were pagan.

I confess... it really felt good.

[old mark]

24. Wait till you tell her about Easter....and christmas trees......

Oh, my!



mark

[DeSwiss]

20. K&R

[darkstar3]

26. W...T...F?!?! n/t

[DeSwiss]

28. When I first saw it.....

...I couldn't look away, and I had to have it. Then, once I got it, I could never find an appropriate place to connect it to the language in a thread. So this thread was as close to an appropriate use for it that I could find.

- Rabbits. Easter. It all fits!

[WCGreen]

23. I haven't visited the site because I am working (tax time) so I am

going to check it out later.

One observation I have is that rutting season is usually in late winter and early spring.

If I am not mistaken and the whole idea of abstaining from meat for lent came about to protect the years new birth. Plus personal and town stores were being depleted so that it is just another reason not to mess with mother nature...

K&R

http://mylungtransplantyears.wordpress.com