"Diana" <dianaiad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Diana" <dianaiad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Hey, don't go yelling at me!
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>> I'm not yelling at you, just the third person "you".
>> Can't we yuck it up a bit at the expense of those who make a mockery of
>> the Church?
>>
>> Otherwise I will have to drink myself into a stu**** to cope....
>>
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>>> The church I go to doesn't have a cross in or around it. Our Easter
>>> services don't involve eggs or a bunnies (though I imagine that, just
as
>>> I did when I was a child, and as I did for my own children, there were
>>> Easter baskets and egg dying and all that sort of stuff done at home),
>>> and our parties are reserved for NEXT week.
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>> As a kid I thought it was a ball chasing around colored eggs - when
doing
>> it I didn't associate it with the fertility goddesses of ancient lore.
>> I would think that as long as colored eggs and the Christian church
>> aren't associated there is no harm or foul.
>>
>>> So you guys might want to give people a break here.
>>
>> You missed the action from years past. I think that we post on here
>> maybe 1% as much as we used to. Found other things to do I guess.
So
>> in that regard, everyone is getting a break.
>>
>>
>>> Especially about symbols. Yes, most of the symbols that Christians use
>>> today have pagan origins, from the bunny to the eggs to "Easter"
itself.
>>> That doesn't matter; a symbol only has the meaning that the *user*
>>> assigns to it. So it doesn't matter what the egg USED to mean.
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>> Yeah, symbols like, I don't know, the OT ceremonies, feasts and
>> sacrifices. Symbols don't mean anything :(
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> Excuse me...but since when does "a symbol only has the meaning that the
> user assigns to it" equal "symbols don't mean anything?" If symbols had
> no meaning, one can't change them. Change in meaning only happens if
there
> is a meaning to change.
(sigh) I forget, some people need the </sarc> tag.
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