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I dont know since most of the pagan festivals that the the stole, half involved stuffing your face surely its going back to the roots of it all.
Posted: 00:05 Apr 10 2004
Easter
Does it mean anything beside a boost in chocolate shares and a week or two hiding from the scales?
Personally, I have to say no. Not that I feel particularly guilty hi-jacking a religious festival for copious chocolate consumption (since they did, after all, hi-jack most of them in the first place) but there's always much talk of the "real meaning" of Easter at this time of year. And with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ topping the box office right now, it's getting more attention than usual.
So, Easter, any religious significance left to a secular society: or should we just rechristen it Cadbury Yulde and be done?
Personally, I have to say no. Not that I feel particularly guilty hi-jacking a religious festival for copious chocolate consumption (since they did, after all, hi-jack most of them in the first place) but there's always much talk of the "real meaning" of Easter at this time of year. And with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ topping the box office right now, it's getting more attention than usual.
So, Easter, any religious significance left to a secular society: or should we just rechristen it Cadbury Yulde and be done?
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Posted: 00:05 Apr 10 2004 
For me:
Easter = four days off work where I can slob, eat chocolate and drink.
Prove me wrong, people. *Prove. me. wrong*
Easter = four days off work where I can slob, eat chocolate and drink.
Prove me wrong, people. *Prove. me. wrong*
Posted: 00:09 Apr 10 2004 Sounds about right to me
by Whistler
For me:
Easter = four days off work where I can slob, eat chocolate and drink.
Prove me wrong, people. *Prove. me. wrong*
Posted: 00:47 Apr 10 2004
Easter = a normal weekend with alcohol, friends, family just a bit more chocolate 
Posted: 00:55 Apr 10 2004 
I view it more like Christimas: an excuse to get together with family, and especially those memmbers of it you wouldn't normally see. Most people I know I uni who had stayed over the vac to do work are back home this weekend despite attaching no religious significance to the event.
Posted: 10:46 Apr 10 2004 
All it means for me is that the shops are shut and there's a few days of *really* crap telly..
Posted: 10:55 Apr 10 2004
Easter means a break from work...but also how spring is here. I celebrate Oestara earlier in March which is of course the original festival the Xtians stole for themselves...hey of course what am i saying...of course there were rampant bunnies,chicks and freshly layed eggs all around jesus when he was crucified...and how he loved chocolate!..
Posted: 02:16 Apr 12 2004 
"I am the cream of man", there's just something stopping-before-I-ban-myself about that.
by nemesis
...and how he loved chocolate!..
Cheers for the name of the spring festival Christianity (erm) borrowed. Ostara: cool name. (Paganism has *all* the cool names.) I've already been having fun education people about Yule, and this opens up a whole new book of Pagan goodness for the next time someone starts hassling me about the "real meaning of Easter"!
Posted: 02:36 Apr 12 2004
by Stoo
All it means for me is that the shops are shut and there's a few days of *really* crap telly..
Ditto.
Posted: 14:33 Apr 12 2004 
It seems that loads (if not most) of the shops in town are open today (and were on Good Friday)
I think it's only the supermarkets that have to be rigid about what hours they can sell certain food stuffs between.
The 4 day weekend is the bonus for most people, although I've mostly seen inside one room this weekend for more reasons than I care to mention.
I think it's only the supermarkets that have to be rigid about what hours they can sell certain food stuffs between.
The 4 day weekend is the bonus for most people, although I've mostly seen inside one room this weekend for more reasons than I care to mention.
Posted: 14:54 Apr 12 2004
i find it a shame the religious significance aint more important these days. i view it as a weekend no different from the others in the year really, especially as i don't get easter eggs any more..... which is a real shame, as i know it means a lot more than that to my faith....i gave it but a mere passing thought 
i didn't even drag my lazy ass down to church this year for any of the easter masses gaah, i feel bad.
i didn't even drag my lazy ass down to church this year for any of the easter masses gaah, i feel bad.
Posted: 20:58 Apr 12 2004
Where everyone else gets a 4 day weekend and retail workers still have to work 3 of those four days. At double pay though.
Posted: 11:45 Apr 13 2004
I spent Easter Saturday and Sunday selling donuts at Santa Pod raceway. Nothing like waking up to the smell of methanol
Posted: 01:34 Apr 14 2004 