>>9
And eggs symbolize the resurrection, reminding us of Phoenix, hatching from the egg warmed by its own ashes. Bunnies too, because they have sex all the time and reproduce very fast as the cycle of life cycles. Also, eggs are painted because painted eggs are more beautiful than plain. Makes sense!
>>9
Actually, Christian easter celebrations were adopted by Christians to promote the conversion to Christianity. The origins of easter included pagan worship of the Goddesses of fertility and birth and fertility rituals.
>>12
Shut up you're talking stupid. It's starting to get me pissed.
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Anonymous2010-06-10 14:51
>>12
Easter is direct derivative of Pesah (and is even called Πάσχα and Пасха (Paskha) in Greek and Russian) because, you see, Jesus was caught, tried and crucified when he arrived to Jerusalem for Pesah celebrations. Also, that bunnies and eggs nonsense was invented in late middle ages. But do not let the facts stand in the way of your nice little theory!
>>14
You mean the pagan elements were added in the same period that peoples with those pagan traditions were being converted to Christianity? You've definitely definitively refuted >>12, there.
>>17
No, I'm one of those people who trust unsourced claims on Wikipedia, for instance the one that says bunnies and eggs and stuff were first mentioned in ~1600.
>>19
Of course not, 1600 is when this stuff was first mentioned in the written form. My guess is then that it appeared earlier, in the late middle ages. Anyway, like, a thousand years after there were no more "pagans" in Europe.
>>21
You seriously think Europe was Christianized before the fall of the Western Roman Empire? For fuck's sake, even the Romans were still pagan a thousand years before the end of the Middle Ages.
>>28
No. American high schools barely even mention European history anymore. It's pretty much just the revolution and civil war these days, oh and Christopher Columbus too, despite the fact that he didn't discover the mainland.
>>28
Just as we have the military-industrial complex killing innocent people overseas and making a huge racket out of it, there's also the education-industrial complex making its own citizens less educated and more stupid.
>>31
No, actually most of /newpol/'s content is ``I hate Jews, niggers, spics, Obongo the Muslim, Marxist, socialist, and non-US citizen, STORMFRONT.ORG, etc.''.
>>36 KDE, where by default your desktop contains a Plasmoid showing your home folder.
FTFY.
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Anonymous2010-06-11 20:23
>>1 The standard worthless bloat that accumulates in projects once developers can't think of anything else useful to add, but are still compelled to continue adding things. 1