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Happy Easter - a history lesson within

ShanadeusShanadeus Registered User regular
edited April 2011 in Social Entropy++
http://www.remnantofgod.org/easter.htm
THE NAME (EASTER) can be traced back to the name "Astarte," the Syrian sun goddess, known as the "queen of heaven"

At the end of the winter, the season changes because the earth tilts as it rotates on its axis. Spring arrives when the sun is over the equator. On the first day of Spring, known as the vernal equinox (which means "spring equal night"), both day and night are an equal twelve hours long. Which meant that the long winter nights were over, and that the sun again began to take control. This time was marked by celebrations and festivals to thank the pagan gods. These ancient rituals were fertility festivals, observed in hopes that the gods would bless them with fertile flocks and fields. Animal and child sacrifices were offered to the gods to receive this favor.

Venerable Bede, an eighth century Christian historian, indicated that the name Easter came from the festival of "Oestre" (also found as "Ostere," "Ostara), the Anglo-Saxon goddess of Spring and fertility. There was also a Teutonic (Germanic) goddess known as "Eostre" (also found as "Eastre," " Estre"), who was the goddess of dawn and light, fertility, and Spring. It is from these deities where the name Easter actually originates. The festival in her honor, was held during the vernal equinox.–Controlled by the Calendar p 42

EASTER THE ORIGIN OF EASTER: The English word Easter and the German Ostern come from a common origin (Eostur, astur, Ostara, Ostar), which to the Norsemen meant the season of the rising (growing) sun, the season of new birth. The word was used by our ancestors to designate the Feast of New Life in the spring. The same root is found in the name for the place where the sun rises (East, Ost). The word Easter, then, originally meant the celebration of the spring sun, which had its birth in the East and brought new life upon earth. This symbolism was transferred to the supernatural meaning of our Easter, to the new life of the Risen Christ, the eternal and uncreated Light. Based on a passage in the writings of Saint Bede the Venerable, the term Easter has often been explained as the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess (Eostre), though no such goddess is known in the mythologies of any Germanic tribe. Modern research has made it quite clear that Saint Bede erroneously interpreted the name of the season as that of a goddess. -Francis X. Weiser, Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1958), p. 211. Copyright 1952 by Francis X. Weiser.

O S T A R A (around March 21st but date may vary by more than two days ) also known as: Spring Equinox, Ostara, Alban Eiler, Esther, Eostre, Ostarun, ™startag', Eastre, Eoastrae, Oestre The first true day of Springtide. The days and nights are now equal in length as the Young God continues to mature and grow. We begin to see shoots of new growth and swelling buds on the trees. Energy is building as the days become warmer with promise. May: You Call It Easter, We Call It Ostara [1 essays - 56,869 reads] -- You Call It Easter, We Call It Ostara by Peg Aloi (For a Printable Version Click HERE ) Try this sometime with your children or a young niece, nephew or cousin: on the day of the Vernal or Autumnal Equinox, just a few moments before the exact moment of the equinox “ –The Witches Voice The 8 Pagan Holidays

What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears the Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Ninevah, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments is Ishtar. -The Two Babylons, by the Rev. Alexander Hislop, published 1943 and 1959 in the U.S. by Loizeaux Brothers, Neptune, New Jersey, page 103.

The 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica’s "Easter" article states, "There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic church Fathers." The ecclesiastical historian, Socrates is quoted in the same article as he points out that neither the Lord or His apostles enjoined the keeping of this day. He says, "The apostles had no thought of appointing festival days, but of promoting a life of blamelessness and piety". He attributes the observance of Easter by the church to the perpetuation of an old usage, "just as many other customs have been established." Early Church reformers such as Calvin and Knox protested strongly against Easter because of its pagan origins. Observance of the holiday was not widely celebrated in America until well after the Civil War. ( Easter: Its Story and Meaning by Alan Watts; Babylon, Mystery Religion, Ralph Woodrow; Calvin Tracts; Knox’s History)

Easter has long been known to be a pagan festival! America’s founders knew this! A children’s book about the holiday, Easter Parade: Welcome Sweet Spring Time!, by Steve Englehart, p. 4, states, “When the Puritans came to North America, they regarded the celebration of Easter—and the celebration of Christmas—with suspicion. They knew that pagans had celebrated the return of spring long before Christians celebrated Easter…for the first two hundred years of European life in North America, only a few states, mostly in the South, paid much attention to Easter.” Not until after the Civil War did Americans begin celebrating this holiday: “Easter first became an American tradition in the 1870s” (p. 5). Remarkable! The original 13 colonies of America began as a “Christian” nation, with the cry of “No king but King Jesus!” The nation did not observe Easter within an entire century of its founding. What happened to change this?

ASHTAROTH—THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN: Astarte (Easter)-worship was always associated with the worship of Baal or sun worship. Astarte was Baal’s wife. Notice that another name for Astarte was Ashtaroth. The following quote makes this point clear: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven…Now, the Assyrian goddess, or Astarte, is identified with Semiramis by Athenagoras (Legatio, vol. ii. p. 179), and by Lucian (De Dea Syria, vol iii. p. 382)…Now, no name could more exactly picture forth the character of Semiramis, as queen of Babylon, than the name of ‘Asht-tart,’ for that just means ‘The woman that made towers’…Ashturit, then…is obviously the same as the Hebrew ‘Ashtoreth’” (Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pp. 103, 307-308).

Notice this conclusive quote from Microsoft Encarta Multimedia Encyclopedia: “Ishtar was the Great Mother, the goddess of fertility and the queen of heaven.” So, in actuality, Ashtaroth (Ishtar) was Nimrod’s harlotrous, mother/wife widow, Semiramis, as many other ancient historians attest! Easter is now established as none other than the Ashtaroth of the Bible! We can now examine the scriptures that show how God views the worship of this pagan goddess—by any name!

GOD CALLS EASTER EVIL: “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord…And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth [Easter]” (Judges 2:11, 13)
“…put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only…Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only” -1Samuel. 7:3-4

EGG – A sacred symbol of rebirth and fertility among the Babylonians, Druids, Egyptians and other pagan cultures. Dyed eggs were used as sacred offerings during the pagan Easter season and were also used as symbols of the Goddess Oestre or Ishtar in various cultures. (Encyclopedia Britannica, Babylon Mystery Religion)

During the rule of Caesar Augustus, Hyginus, an Egyptian who was the librarian at the Palatine library in Rome, wrote: "An egg of a wondrous site is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian goddess (Astarte)." Part of their worship to this goddess was the ritual involving the "golden egg of Astarte." This was where we got the tradition of the Easter egg.

Pope Gregory (590-604), forbid the followers of the Catholic Church to eat eggs during Lent, so they became a treat at Easter. The people in Poland said that the Virgin Mary dyed eggs in various colors for Jesus to play with when He was a child. The Ukrainians incorporated blue dots in the design of their eggs, which they say represent the tears of Mary. They believe she took a basket of colored eggs to Pontius Pilate as a gift, in hopes of convincing him to have mercy on Jesus. As she was making them, she began crying and the tears fell on the shells, making the dots. The orthodox of Romania dyed their eggs red, because they believed Mary left a basket of eggs at the cross during the crucifixion to appease the soldiers so they would treat Jesus better. They were not accepted, and his blood dripped on them. In Russia, there is a tradition that Mary Magdalene gave an egg to the Roman emperor as a symbolic token of the resurrection of Jesus. –Controlled by the Calendar p 45

The egg was a mystical symbol to the pagan religions of Egypt, Japan, Greece, Persia, Phoenicia, India, and Babylon. On page 496, he wrote: "The serpent entwined round the egg, was a symbol common to the Indians, the Egyptians, and the Druids. It referred to the creation of the universe. A serpent with an egg in his mouth was a symbol of the universe containing within itself the germ of all things that the sun develops. The property possessed by the serpent, of casting its skin, and apparently renewing its youth, made it an emblem of eternity and immortality." Thus, we see an indication that the egg initially represented serpent worship, and, by extension, Satan worship. - Albert Pike, an Illuminati member, in his Masonic treatise “Morals and Dogma,”

Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead was probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Easter eggs, the children are told, come from Rome with the bells which on Thursday go to Rome and return Saturday morning. The sponsors in some countries give Easter eggs to their god-children. Coloured eggs are used by children at Easter in a sort of game which consists in testing the strength of the shells (Kraus, Real-Encyklop die, s. v. Ei). Both coloured and uncoloured eggs are used in some parts of the United States for this game, known as "egg-picking". Another practice is the "egg-rolling" by children on Easter Monday on the lawn of the White House in Washington –Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm )

RABBIT or HARE –A pagan symbol of fertility and new life. (Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs) Bede, the eight century English monk and scholar related that the Tutonic goddess of spring and fertility, Eastre, had the hare as her symbol. (The American Book of Days, ed. by Jane Hatch, 1978, p. 302)

To begin with, it is actually the hare, and not the rabbit which is Easter's main character, because according to ancient tradition, the hare was a symbolic representation for the Moon, since they only came out at night to eat. Also, the Egyptian name for the hare was "Un" (which means "open"), because they are born with their eyes open, while a rabbit's are not. Legend has it, that the hare never blinks or closes it eyes. To some pagan cultures, the Moon was the "open-eyed watcher of the skies." The hare is associated with the goddess Ishtar, and was the symbol of fertility because they reproduce so quickly.

There is also a pagan tradition concerning a bird who wanted to be a rabbit, so the goddess Oestre turned the bird into a rabbit, who could still lay eggs. Every Spring, during the festival dedicated to Oestre, the rabbit laid beautiful colored eggs for the goddess. This tradition is exemplified in the Cadbury television commercial for the filled chocolate eggs. Another tradition, which has been passed down, comes from Germany. According to the legend, during a famine, a poor woman dyed some eggs and hid them in a nest, as Easter presents for her children. When the children found the nest, a big rabbit leaped away, the story that the rabbit brought the eggs. –Controlled by the Calendar p 46

The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility -Simrock, Mythologie, 551 –Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm )

One more thing I would like to mention. If you still are unsure as to the rabbit being used as a method of sexual symbolism, then I suggest you ask Hugh Heffner, the publisher of Playboy magazine why he uses a "bunny" as his main logo?

But really, none of this matters when it comes down to it.

Happy Easter you heathens!

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Easter is the day zombie Jesus comes back from the dead to eat eggs and celebrate rabbits.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    I don't care which mythology is claiming the holiday as long as I can buy ham on the cheap.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Easter is the day that Jesus came back from the dead

    And we celebrate it by allowing a communistic Nazi Satanic bunny to break into our houses under the assumption that it will give us candy, and not death or anal penetration

    At least, I think that's what my priest told me

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Hunter wrote: »
    Easter is the day zombie Jesus comes back from the dead to eat eggs and celebrate rabbits.

    I'm going to steal this from twitter:
    A lot of people joke Jesus is a zombie because he rose today. That's disrespectful. He's a lich, because he can do magic.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Jesus isn't a lich because he doesn't have a phylactery.

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  • moocowmoocow Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    How do you know he doesn't have a phylactery? Maybe the bible just didn't talk about it because talking about someone's phylactery is unseemly.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    everyone knows jesus is a holy ghost and i wont have any of this nonsense!!!!!!!!!!

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  • moocowmoocow Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I think the holy ghost is his straight man partner

    They roam around solving crimes and performing miracles

    A crime fighting match made in heaven

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    i got sixteen cadbury creme eggs today

    sixteen!!

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    Easter is the day zombie Jesus comes back from the dead to eat eggs and celebrate rabbits.

    I'm going to steal this from twitter:
    A lot of people joke Jesus is a zombie because he rose today. That's disrespectful. He's a lich, because he can do magic.

    demilich

    he is his own phylactery

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  • ShanadeusShanadeus Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The phylactery is his bones duh.
    It's the perfect object, and kept guarded by the most ardent fanatics while everyone else don't give a crap.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Anyway this whole lich nonsense and ghost nonsense is silly. He used resurrection with no huffy wuffy undeath stuff. He's clearly a Josh Whedon miniseries that didn't really go anywhere but keeps getting brought up by its fans.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    this is the first easter i've ever been hung over for.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    JESUS WAS BLACK

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    damn long ears trying to take easter from jesus

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    What I want to see is a new The A-Team, only with Jesus, Santa, The Easter Bunny, and Cthulhu.

    Cthulhu is obviously in the Mr. T role.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    JESUS WAS BLACK

    not really

    more like brownish

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I get both fri/mon off this weekend

    hooray public sector work

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  • nateknatek unh unh Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    everyone should be watching the hot new movie, Hop, this easter

    in theaters now

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    No

    That movie sucks

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    Easter is the day zombie Jesus comes back from the dead to eat eggs and celebrate rabbits.

    I'm going to steal this from twitter:
    A lot of people joke Jesus is a zombie because he rose today. That's disrespectful. He's a lich, because he can do magic.

    I tend to go with bizarro zombie. he comes back from the dead, and then we eat him.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The whole "Jesus is a zombie" thing might have been funny and edgy when it started but it's dumb and trite now

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  • moocowmoocow Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I <3 farscape so much

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    The whole "[internet joke]" thing might have been funny and edgy when it started but it's dumb and trite now

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    raptor jesus!

    (slide whistle)

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    oh god

    my ex was obsessed with raptor jesus

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  • HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I remember this historical forensics show or something that was like 'Here we have a skull that's most likely the size and shape of Jesus, considering his ethnicity, region, lineage, etc." Then they do that thing where they add the clay onto the skull to make it onto a face and add all the hair. "As you can see, he looks NOTHING like what ANYONE thinks as shown on films, in paintings and other art." But really the mockup just looked pretty much the same as all the pictures depict, if a bit more middle-eastern.

    I just thought it was kind of funny how we have some weird new fad where we insist that everything in history is nothing like we think. I remember being taught that those who built the pyramids were slaves, then suddenly they were just workers in a high class society, now I think they were just paupers with terrible living conditions. It's okay to want to find the truth, but people tend to leap gung-ho into any new hypothesis that comes along, which is as unhelpful as holding onto untruths.

    I always expect to turn on the news to find out that the new popular theory is that Lincoln was actually Chinese and his original surname was Ling Un.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    rfilyaw wrote: »
    I always expect to turn on the news to find out that the new popular theory is that Lincoln was actually Chinese and his original surname was Ling Un.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Hypothesis_about_Parthian_captives_from_Crassus.27_army
    There has been speculation that seventeen years after the defeat of Crassus's forces by the Parthians, a detachment of troops, which was said to have used a typically Roman military tactic, had been captured by Chinese forces.[17] In this account, during the Battle of Zhizhi in 36 BC, a Han Dynasty army led by General Chen Tang encountered troops of Zhizhi Chanyu that were using "a fish-scale formation" -- which was hypothesized to mean the testudo formation. It has also been argued that the account of the Chinese historian Ban Gu, who lived during that time, implies that there were troops of Caucasian appearance fighting alongside Zhizhi Chanyu. In this account, the Chinese took these soldiers prisoner, but were so impressed by their courage and fighting abilities that they incorporated them into their army to defend the province of Gansu, calling them Li-Jien.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Jurassic Park is on.

    God I love this movie.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    the classical world was crazy

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I know there's really no evidence for that Roman thing but I would fucking love to read a book or see a movie about a Roman legion that gets separated and fights their way across Asia for the next 20 years

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    That new movie Hop offends me, mostly because Easter is the last sort of religious holiday we celebrate at my house, and they would have kids believe that the easter bunny poop jelly beans, flies a purple egg sleigh, has a magic easter wand, and has been around for thousands of years.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I know there's really no evidence for that Roman thing but I would fucking love to read a book or see a movie about a Roman legion that gets separated and fights their way across Asia for the next 20 years

    that would be super, super sick.

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Sort of like that weird King Arthur movie that was actually really awesome.

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    i remember waiting for the bus a year or so ago, got talking to this little old lady

    she was a devout christian, handed me one of many pamphlets she carried (the kind with a big question mark on saying 'what has Jesus done for me?')

    just for devilment i asked her if she thought jesus was white, with brown hair and blue eyes

    'of course he was.'

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    yeah I didn't read any of that OP

    guys I went to maryland for brunch and had some pretty good crabcakes and poached eggs and man it was good

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    C.S. Lewis wrote:
    "Now as myth transcends thought, Incarnation transcends myth. The heart of Christianity is a myth that is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle."

    I love C.S. Lewis.

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