i know what your talking about. i think i brought this up at christmas , and i know i did around holloween. and i know i opended up another can of worms.
I am quoting this from another site. It is not my own words. The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices. After discovering that people were more reluctant to give up their holidays and festivals than their gods, they simply incorporated Pagan practices into Christian festivals. As recounted by the Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer, clever clerics copied Pagan practices and by doing so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan folk reluctant to give up their festivals for somber Christian practices. In second century Europe, the predominate spring festival was a raucous Saxon fertility celebration in honor of the Saxon Goddess Eastre (Ostara), whose sacred animal was a hare(bunny). The colored eggs associated with the bunny are of another, even more ancient origin. The eggs associated with this and other Vernal festivals have been symbols of rebirth and fertility for so long the precise roots of the tradition are unknown, and may date to the beginning of human civilization. Ancient Romans and Greeks used eggs as symbols of fertility, rebirth, and abundance- eggs were solar symbols, and figured in the festivals of numerous resurrected gods. Pagan fertility festivals at the time of the Spring equinox were common- it was believed that at this time, when day and night were of equal length, male and female energies were also in balance. The hare is often associated with moon goddesses; the egg and the hare together represent the god and the goddess, respectively. Moving forward fifteen hundred years, we find ourselves in Germany, where children await the arrival of Oschter Haws, a rabbit who will lay colored eggs in nests to the delight of children who discover them Easter morning. It was this German tradition that popularized the 'Easter bunny' in America, when introduced into the American cultural fabric by German settlers in Pennsylvania. Many modern practitioners of Neo-pagan and earth-based religions have embraced these symbols apart of their religious practice, identifying with the life-affirming aspects of the spring holiday. (The Neopagan holiday of Ostara is descended from the Saxon festival.) Ironically, some Christian groups have used the presence of these symbols to denounce the celebration of the Easter holiday, and many churches have recently abandoned the Pagan moniker with more Christian oriented titles like 'Resurrection Sunday.
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
im still thinking about it. i can agree with it and not at the same time. i have things that agree with it but at the same time i have things that dont. ..if that makes any sense.
If there is something to desire there will be something to regret If there is something to regret there will be something to recall If there is something to recall there was nothing to regret If there was nothing to regret There was nothing to desire.......
yea so i went to the doctors to ask about my sleeping problems and i end up needing to do a sleep study. so they put all these wires on me and everything. they moniter my breatheing and my leg movements and a bunch of other things. i found out i have sleep apnea which means i stop breathing when i sleep. so now i get to use this lovely mask which sucks. but now i have to go in on wensday for some bloodwork, and i cant eat or drink anything after 12am the day of. needless to say it gonna take about 4-5 hours to complete all the testing. and i still have to make an appointment to go over the results of my sleep study. yay tons of fun for me. ..well on the bright side ive gone out with this really cool guy on several dates since dec. and im hoping we'll be in an offical relationship soon. ...the last two havent worked out so well and im not gonna go into it but anyone that would like to know about them can email me and i'll fill ya in on what happened with those. so yea im back but i dont know for how long and sorry for any gramar and spelling mistakes.
You feel like a candle in a hurricane Just like a picture with a broken frame Alone and helpless Like you've lost your fight But you’ll be alright You’ll be alright
Chorus: Cause when push comes to shove You taste what you're made of You might bend, till you break Cause its all you can take On your knees you look up Decide you’ve had enough You get mad you get strong Wipe your hands shake it off Then you Stand, Then you stand
Life's like a novel With the end ripped out The edge of a canyon With only one way down Take what you're given before its gone Start holding on, keep holding on
Chorus: Cause when push comes to shove You taste what you're made of You might bend, till you break Cause its all you can take On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough You get mad you get strong Wipe your hands shake it off Then you Stand, Yeah then you stand.
Bridge: Everytime you get up And get back in the race One more small piece of you Starts to fall into place Ooohhh
Chorus: Cause when push comes to shove You taste what you're made of You might bend, till you break Cause its all you can take On your knees you look up Decide you’ve had enough You get mad you get strong Wipe your hands shake it off Then you Stand, Then you stand Yeah then you stand. Yeah then you stand. Yeah baby ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhh ooohhhhhhh then you stand
in a way i feel your pain. my mother uses my siblings and i against my farther all the time. even now when im 18 i still have to bend to her will. i need the medical insurence and it is through hers so if i piss her off she could take it away. she took away my younger sisters b/c my sister wouldnt let her claim my neice on her taxes. if she cant get what she wants she finds a way to make us suffer for it. it sucks it really does. i feel your pain and i hope it gets better for you.
i do agree with you there. if you COME into another country dont expect it to bend to your needs. YOU came all by yourself and you shuold learn the language or go back where you came from. the language is one thing that unites a country and if no one can understand anyone else then nothing is gonna happen and the country falls apart.
if we were to do this then at least a few people would sue. then there is the little fact the we are SUSPOSED to seperate church and state but we all know that hardly ever happens. i dont care that god is mentioned in the pledge i just leave that tid bit out. i also dont care if some students pray durning the min of slience i respect their choice to do so and remain quiet. but what gets me is that there can be christian related clubs at schools but students have to fight to have other religous clubs. they would have a sponser and be watched and follow all school rules. but they say no most of the time. i also dont care if there is a christian store right around the corner but mention a wiccan store and people want it closed down asap. as well as having christian schools (private schools) and wiccan schools people throw a fit over it. that is having a wiccan school. and that goes for any religion out side of any one god religion. just some things ive noticed.
today really sucked. i went to the docs to ask about my sleep problems. hopeing this one wouldnt pass it off as me just being a teenager and it being normal. anyways, i ended up needing several blood test which took an hour to do and 5 pricks with a needle. one right between my nuckles. but thats not what really bugs me. what is bugging me is that this guy ive gone on several dates with. he is a year older than me but made a mistake by getting married at 18 and then a few months later his wife wants a divorce so he has a month to go b4 it is finalized. what she did to him was horrible. in short she made him feel worthless so he cant wait to be rid of her. but because she is such nice person she goes and emails him that see cant take it anymore and needs a change of senery and is moving to canada. so i ended up haveing to convice him that people do care about him ie me but anyways. i feel bad b/c he is going through this and i cant help him much. and i know i cant do much but im the kind of person that wants to help even if i cant do much but offer kind words ya know. i know what he is feeling in a sence b/c i went through a similar hell not too long ago but not everyone is able to find the good in the bad like i can. i dont know how i do it but i do anyways yea im just rambleing but its been bugging me and i dont really have many people to talk to here and i just needed to get it out.
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i know what your talking about. i think i brought this up at christmas , and i know i did around holloween. and i know i opended up another can of worms.