****THE OFFICIAL GOOD FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD****

Awesome Eggs ^ | April 6, 2007

[Lucky9teen]

Good Friday To You All!!!

 

From the earliest times the Christians kept every Friday as a feast day; and the obvious reasons for those usages explain why Easter is the Sunday par excellence, and why the Friday which marks the anniversary of Christ's death came to be called the Great or the Holy or the Good Friday.

 

Easter marks the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his Crucifixion. Sandwiched between the 40 preparatory days of Lenten penitence and the seven weeks of Eastertide, it is the most important and most joyous holiday on the Christian calendar. 

 

Easter, like the spring season it graces, is associated with birth, renewal and fertility.  In 2007, Easter falls on April 8.

 

The Easter timeline runs as follows:

• Shrove Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras

• Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent...

• Lent — 40 days, excluding Sundays

• Holy Week, the last week of Lent, consisting of:

  • Palm Sunday

  • Maundy Thursday

  • Good Friday

  • Holy Saturday

• Easter Sunday

• Easter Monday

• Eastertide, the 50 days leading up to Pentecost...

• Pentecost

According to the eighth-century theologian the Venerable Bede (who came up with the dating system of AD and BC), Easter is named for Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. She is associated with the egg and with the hare, both symbols of procreation that have been enduringly incorporated by the church in the form of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny who brings them.

 

 

 

 

Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate Easterr

10. You absolutely love the movie, "The Ten Commandments".

9. You look really, really good in yellow.

8. You just went on a low cholesterol diet and didn't want to waste all those eggs in the fridge.

7. You figure any Holiday that starts with a "Good Friday" can't be all bad.

6. You love to bite the heads off chocolate bunnies.

5. It's a good time to check out your neighborhood church and not be noticed.

4. You have this bunny suit you love to wear, but are too insecure to wear it without a reason.

3. Even though you don't know what it is, you really like the sound of going to a "Passion Play."

2. You figured since Jesus went to all THAT trouble to make it to the first Easter, you'd give it a shot.

1. As a Christian you celebrate the resurrection every other day, why not Easter too?
 

 

 

"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.  You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!"

[Pan_Yan]

Your arguing on the silliness thread about being too serious on the silliness thread?

Thats ... uh ... silly.

I'm sure when I was 23 that would have made sense to me too.

[Pan_Yan]

Ping to # 106.

[ilovew]

If I wanted a stupid immigration rant, I would’ve gone to one of the 6 billion immigration threads.

[llevrok]

a girl? Not a woman at 23?

I rest my case, sweetie.

[ilovew]

Same friggin difference. And DON’T call me sweetie, you condescending twit.

[llevrok]

And DON’T call me sweetie,

I agree. Girl, you are no sweetie. (an under statement!)

[FreedomHasACost]

One thing to you monster....get the f back.

[ilovew]

At least I know the difference between son and nephew.

[llevrok]

At least I know the difference between son and nephew.

If you say so. Who am I to argue with a 23 year old, wet behind the ears, less-than-worldly girl that has some sort of toaster fetish? (did you get those awards on FaceBook or from your sorority, sweetie?)

[ilovew]

Don’t post to me anymore, loser. I don’t want to talk to you.

[llevrok]

ditto, punk.