Rhianna Antiires
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Post by Rhianna Antiires on Apr 8, 2007 5:11:05 GMT -8
From all of us here at SWRP,to all of you,
HAPPY EASTER
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Colleen MqCray
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Post by Colleen MqCray on Apr 8, 2007 8:06:29 GMT -8
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Post by Laryn En'faal on Apr 8, 2007 10:13:49 GMT -8
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Post by Jango Reiss on Apr 8, 2007 10:23:00 GMT -8
Happy Easter!
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Post by Soleia Reiss on Apr 8, 2007 19:31:05 GMT -8
Christ is risen!
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Xy'eth Fett
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Post by Xy'eth Fett on Apr 8, 2007 19:36:32 GMT -8
I never really got the whole egg thing... it's like we didn't even try for a tradition on that one.
Guy: "Easter, the day Jesus rose from the dead. What should we do?"
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Unhelpful Guy: "How 'bout eggs?"
Guy: "I don't see what that has to do with Jesus...."
Unhelpful Guy: "All right. We'll hide them!"
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Post by Soleia Reiss on Apr 8, 2007 19:39:39 GMT -8
Yeah, I'm not sure where the egg thing originated.  |
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Post by Laryn En'faal on Apr 8, 2007 19:44:34 GMT -8
I never really got the whole egg thing... it's like we didn't even try for a tradition on that one. Guy: "Easter, the day Jesus rose from the dead. What should we do?" ... Unhelpful Guy: "How 'bout eggs?" Guy: "I don't see what that has to do with Jesus...." Unhelpful Guy: "All right. We'll hide them!" Well, Jesus is hidden, too. Sort of. Actually, I think it has to do with this being spring and all, when lots of eggs hatch and stuff |
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Kalo Visor
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Post by Kalo Visor on Apr 8, 2007 20:15:43 GMT -8
It's a little late now, but Happy Easter!
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Jacinth Visor
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Post by Jacinth Visor on Apr 8, 2007 21:25:22 GMT -8
He is risen indeed!!!!! ;D I dunno about the eggs. perhaps it symbolizes life. And Christ died and rose again and gave us all a chance for a new- eternal- life in Heaven  Or pagans created it as a way to get their kids to eat more eggs by coloring them pretty colors and hiding them to make it more fun wii shall never know. |
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Jacinth Visor
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Post by Jacinth Visor on Apr 8, 2007 21:26:41 GMT -8
Either way, today I celebrate Christ's gift to the world, His life as a sacrifice for our sins. thank God for His love and happy Easter to you all!! |
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Post by †Adria Phoenix† on Apr 9, 2007 3:00:38 GMT -8
Because I can't sleep... {Click.}History Decorated Easter eggs are much older than Easter, and both eggs and rabbits are age-old pagan fertility symbols related to Ostara. The Passover Seder service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new life and the Temple service in Jerusalem. The Jewish tradition may have come from earlier Roman Spring feasts. The ancient Persians also painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration falling on the Spring Equinox. This tradition has continued every year on Nowrooz since ancient times. In Christian times the egg had bestowed upon it a religious interpretation, becoming a symbol of the rock tomb out of which Christ emerged to the new life of His resurrection. It can also represent the darkness inside the tomb inside a hollow egg. Over the years it progressed that the egg, representing spring and fertility, would be merged into an already pagan springtime festival. Connecting this symbol to Christ’s Resurrection in the spring required much creativity and human reasoning. Easter egg origin stories abound—one has an emperor claiming that the Resurrection was as likely as eggs turning red (see Mary Magdalene)[citation needed]; more prosaically the Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lent. In the West, eggs were forbidden during Lent as well as other traditional fast days. Likewise, in Eastern Christianity, both meat and dairy are prohibited during the fast, and eggs are seen as "dairy" (a foodstuff that could be taken from an animal without shedding its blood). Another Orthodox tradition is the presenting of red colored eggs to friends while giving Easter greetings. This custom had its beginning with Mary Magdalene. After the Ascension of Christ, she supposedly went to the Emperor of Rome and greeted him with "Christ is risen", as she gave him a red egg.[citation needed] She then began preaching Christianity to him. The egg is symbolic of the grave and life renewed by breaking out of it. The red symbolizes the blood of Christ redeeming the world, represented by the egg, and our regeneration through the bloodshed for us by Christ. The egg itself is a symbol of the Resurrection while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it. One would have been forced to hard boil the eggs that the chickens produced so as not to waste food, and for this reason the Spanish dish hornazo (traditionally eaten on and around Easter) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient. In the North of England, at Eastertime, a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other players egg with their own. This is known as "egg dumping" or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, the Republic of Srpska and other countries. They call it tucanje. In parts of Bavaria, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen. |
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Post by Soleia Reiss on Apr 10, 2007 12:02:33 GMT -8
That's interesting.
Egg dumbing?? XD What a sport!
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Post by darthdodo on Apr 11, 2007 7:49:16 GMT -8
Happy very late Easter!!!!! |
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