Another Easter Rant?
I could easily have another stab at Easter and how shitty and commercialised it's become. But that would be far too easy (and besides, the Easter Bunny promised me lots of chocolates if I was nice).
On second thoughts, Easter Bunny be damned! I can get my own chocolate. Where to begin... Stuff I hate about Easter:
On second thoughts, Easter Bunny be damned! I can get my own chocolate. Where to begin... Stuff I hate about Easter:
- It's become the third most commercialised holiday (after Christmas and you-just-got-raped-by-hallmark day)
- It's harder to find good chocolate because so much suck-arse stuff is going around.
- The Easter Show - pay money to wade through manure and little kids? No thanks.
- The Easter Bunny is a mean bastard who only gives chocolates as hush money. I will not be silenced!
- How the church tries desperately to make people feel guilty about not going to church even though Jesus allegedly sacrificed himself to save us all and what not.
- How the media says that everything else they report is only 'alleged' (alleged murderers, alleged drug mules) but not Jesus' resurrection which is just "Jesus' resurrection".
- The kids at the Easter Show because they're spoilt little shits.
- The kids not at the Easter Show because they're in the city making life difficult for me everytime I want to see a movie, go to a restaurant or play pool.
- The chocolate. Even though there's more shifty chocolate out there, it's still chocolate and everybody knows that chocolate is one of only three things that solves everything. The other two are classical music and poetry.
- The chocolate.
- The chocolate.
- Oh, and don't forget the chocolate.
posted by Yuki at
10:53 PM
15 Comments:
I'm surprised you didnt mention that they call it "The Easter Show" for totally commercial reasons. I mean what does it have to do with Easter other then being in the Easter break?
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Anonymous, at April 17, 2006 10:57 AM
i'm actually all for the commercialisation of holidays, it's more appealing than the christianisation of holidays.
consider it a contribution to the secularisation of society.
... too many "ations" in this comment.
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Anonymous, at April 17, 2006 11:56 PM
Lauren - That's a very good point. Don't know how I could have missed it.
Megan - As much as I prefer the commercialisation of the holiday to the Chritianisation of it, Easter was a Christian celebration to begin with.
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Yuki, at April 18, 2006 10:02 AM
"The other two are classical music and poetry."
You mean Tchaikovsky and Pushkin.
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Samantha, at April 18, 2006 1:09 PM
No, I meant Tchaikovsky and Eliot (T.S. and not George, of course)
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Yuki, at April 18, 2006 2:03 PM
all of our major holidays are christian.
society = less and less christian.
so let the christians have their holiday, but at the same time us commercial people can have a completely different holiday.
and we'll just call them easter and christmas because it's traditional. for most people, neither holiday has anything to do with jesus. one is a celebration of chocolate, the other is a celebration of presents.
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Anonymous, at April 18, 2006 9:49 PM
Pushkin > Eliot (T.S.), simply because the former is Russian. <3
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Samantha, at April 18, 2006 11:15 PM
Did you know that a lot of Christianity is borrowed from paganism?
...So are we inadvertently celebrating paganism?
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Anonymous, at April 19, 2006 5:19 PM
umm christianity is a product of judaism, from the middle east. paganism comes from europe. the two only ever coincided during the christian conversion of europe. (go hsc religion and first year medieval history =P).
parts of christianity arent borrowed from paganism...
ah unless you mean the non-christian parts of easter, like rabbits and eggs. yeah, they come from the spring fertility festivals of the pagans. and christmas happens to coincide with the winter equinox.
i wouldnt say that this equated to supporting paganism, though. it's more likely that the pagans, when they converted to christianity, just decided to keep their holiday dates and change the actual celebration.
/endrant. =)
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Anonymous, at April 19, 2006 6:08 PM
Sammy - I'm almost inclined to agree with you except that would be akin to blasphemy.
Megan and Lauren - It doesn't matter where Christianity came from, it's still irrelevant and as such will be going nowhere.
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Yuki, at April 19, 2006 6:35 PM
heh yeah. im just rather pedantic about religion. that beauty of a subject got me into uni =P
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Anonymous, at April 19, 2006 11:35 PM
Umm hello, the best part about Easter is the Resurrection of Jesus! YAYNESS and umm yeah the chocolate too, but then you could have chocolate any time =P Does the church really pressure people to go to mass at this time? I mean I admit holidays like this have been commercialised in an attempt to maintain interest I suppose, but I haven't felt pressured by the church. Maybe Desi gets pressured by my parents, but that's another story xD Seriously though Alan, we all need some sort of guidance to turn to. Just have to look beyond all that commercialism ^^V
P.S.: Megan, you smartie!
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εïз (c h i l l y), at April 20, 2006 3:27 PM
I agree that we all need guidance from time to time. I just don't think that the church is providing it. And as far as praying goes, it sometimes feels like you're guiding yourself out of problems. No offence to Christians but that's just the way I see it.
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Yuki, at April 20, 2006 4:46 PM
I'm godless because I choose to be, and because I tried living with Christ and it totally Does Not Compute.
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Anonymous, at April 20, 2006 9:37 PM
if it was alleged there wouldnt be any chocolate or holidays....alan u r on to something with the hush money, or in this case chocolate.
It's hard to base one's religious inclination by what you learn in school, even if u went to a catholic school for 13 years (like me) the level at which they teach u is so basic. YOu are either turned off by what you learn or follow blindly.
Alyssa
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Anonymous, at May 31, 2006 3:39 PM
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