Apr 16, 2017 9:15am THE ORIGINS OF EASTER!! (and yes, the bunny and the eggs are legit) The word Easter is of Saxon origin, “Eastra”, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered each year. Easter was a ‘movable feast’ which was celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox.” Eostre, goddess of Spring, (also known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre.) One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal. Celebrated at Spring Equinox on March 21, Ostara marks the day when light is equal to darkness, and will continue to grow. As the bringer of light after a long dark winter, the goddess was often depicted with the hare, an animal that represents the arrival of spring as well as the fertility of the season. According to Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, the idea of resurrection was ingrained within the celebration of Ostara: “Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian’s God.” The 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ [ee-oh’-ster-mohnth’] (Old English: ‘Month of Ēostre’, translated in Bede’s time as “Paschal month”) was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says “was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month”. The most widely-practiced customs on Easter Sunday include the symbol of the rabbit (‘Easter bunny’) and the egg. The rabbit was a symbol associated with Eostre, representing the beginning of Springtime. Likewise, the egg has come to represent Spring, fertility and renewal. In Germanic mythology, it is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found in the woods by changing it into a hare. Still partially a bird, the hare showed its gratitude to the goddess by laying eggs as gifts. (I love taking the babylon, jerusalem, and memphis propaganda out of our traditions and myths so that we can remember ourselves as we were before our defeat under constantine ); Curt Doolittle
Theme: Religion
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The Origins of Easter (Eastra’s Day)
Apr 16, 2017 9:15am THE ORIGINS OF EASTER!! (and yes, the bunny and the eggs are legit) The word Easter is of Saxon origin, “Eastra”, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered each year. Easter was a ‘movable feast’ which was celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox.” Eostre, goddess of Spring, (also known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre.) One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal. Celebrated at Spring Equinox on March 21, Ostara marks the day when light is equal to darkness, and will continue to grow. As the bringer of light after a long dark winter, the goddess was often depicted with the hare, an animal that represents the arrival of spring as well as the fertility of the season. According to Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, the idea of resurrection was ingrained within the celebration of Ostara: “Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian’s God.” The 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ [ee-oh’-ster-mohnth’] (Old English: ‘Month of Ēostre’, translated in Bede’s time as “Paschal month”) was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says “was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month”. The most widely-practiced customs on Easter Sunday include the symbol of the rabbit (‘Easter bunny’) and the egg. The rabbit was a symbol associated with Eostre, representing the beginning of Springtime. Likewise, the egg has come to represent Spring, fertility and renewal. In Germanic mythology, it is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found in the woods by changing it into a hare. Still partially a bird, the hare showed its gratitude to the goddess by laying eggs as gifts. (I love taking the babylon, jerusalem, and memphis propaganda out of our traditions and myths so that we can remember ourselves as we were before our defeat under constantine ); Curt Doolittle
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The steppe way of war practiced by our earliest ancestors, and practiced by musl
The steppe way of war practiced by our earliest ancestors, and practiced by muslims today, is superior to the interregnum method of war, relying upon a concentration of forces. That means: RAIDS. Conduct of many small raids costs little but creates great uncertainty and costs the host thousansd of times as much in defense. In our past, we could retreat via horse, retreat to our forests, and the muslims could retreat to the deserts, or today retreat into slums and favelas. The value of armies is looting. The value of raiders is in imposing costs. One can, as has ISIS, graduate from raiding to looting, to decimating. But this destroys capital, and ensures your eventual defeat if you attempt to hold an economy and profit from it.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 14:57:00 UTC
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OUR RENEWAL Please take a moment during this day of renewal, rebirth, and resurr
OUR RENEWAL
Please take a moment during this day of renewal, rebirth, and resurrection, to contemplate our civilization’s restoration, renewal, rebirth, and resurrection as one family, one people, who, for thousands of years, all alone, in small numbers, and little wealth, have struggled, by the virtue of our character, and our traditions, to drag humanity, imperfectly, sometimes badly, but continuously, out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, disease, and tyranny, one generation at a time.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 09:21:00 UTC
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THE ORIGINS OF EASTER!! (and yes, the bunny and the eggs are legit) The word Eas
THE ORIGINS OF EASTER!!
(and yes, the bunny and the eggs are legit)
The word Easter is of Saxon origin, “Eastra”, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered each year.
Easter was a ‘movable feast’ which was celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox.”
Eostre, goddess of Spring, (also known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre.) One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal.
Celebrated at Spring Equinox on March 21, Ostara marks the day when light is equal to darkness, and will continue to grow.
As the bringer of light after a long dark winter, the goddess was often depicted with the hare, an animal that represents the arrival of spring as well as the fertility of the season.
According to Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, the idea of resurrection was ingrained within the celebration of Ostara: “Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian’s God.”
The 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ [ee-oh’-ster-mohnth’] (Old English: ‘Month of Ēostre’, translated in Bede’s time as “Paschal month”) was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says “was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month”.
The most widely-practiced customs on Easter Sunday include the symbol of the rabbit (‘Easter bunny’) and the egg. The rabbit was a symbol associated with Eostre, representing the beginning of Springtime.
Likewise, the egg has come to represent Spring, fertility and renewal. In Germanic mythology, it is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found in the woods by changing it into a hare. Still partially a bird, the hare showed its gratitude to the goddess by laying eggs as gifts.
(I love taking the babylon, jerusalem, and memphis propaganda out of our traditions and myths so that we can remember ourselves as we were before our defeat under constantine 😉 );
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 09:15:00 UTC
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Faith cannot be argued in the commons without imposing costs on others, any more
Faith cannot be argued in the commons without imposing costs on others, any more than a deceit. There isn’t any difference between costing people with a fantasy and costing them with a fraud. Both deprive them of the possible and the good via the true.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 02:05:00 UTC
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PLATITUDE OF THE DAY –“Man was meant to be free. Not a slave.”– Man wasn’t mea
PLATITUDE OF THE DAY
–“Man was meant to be free. Not a slave.”–
Man wasn’t meant to be anything.
There is no one to ‘mean’ so that man can be ‘meant’.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-15 17:30:00 UTC
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My mom. Adult Christianty is excellent: it’s all just parables. There is only on
My mom. Adult Christianty is excellent: it’s all just parables. There is only one message: do unto others…. But you have to FEEL it.
And there is the rub. You can’t FEEL that stuff any longer.
Her statement: “The church was too late”.
I said. Well, the moment you have no means of measurement, whether your the church, the chinese government, or the american treasury, or amerian (lost) rule of law – you must revert to what you ‘sense’ and feel. And when you do that you must rely upon intuitions.
So you lose causal relations. If you don’t know causal relations, you lose the ability to change inputs, operations, and outputs.
the church evolved as an institution by which to manage an poor ignorant population by deception. And the church succeeded in providing administration (and vast corruption) to the illiterate people of europe (that they ensured remained illiterate),
The minute the church fathers lied to themselves about the function of their work, they were dead.
The academy took the money by market (sale of degrees) rather than tax (tithe) and created a new priesthood that did the same (government and teachers).
The problem? degrees are now indulgences – meaningless.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 15:57:00 UTC
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SPORT AND RELIGION: PRIORS Over the past few days I asked a series of questions
SPORT AND RELIGION: PRIORS
Over the past few days I asked a series of questions about religon. this is because I have a fairly good idea of how to deal with the failings of the church, along with the conspiracy of the state and academy.
And as an example, I then attacked Soccer (Football) the same way I attacked the church the previous few days.
Ok. so my serious point here is that I’ve been talkin’ sports, and talkin’ religion, and you know what the difference in arguments is?
prior investment.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 10:24:00 UTC
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PAGANISM There is very little to understand about nature worship. There is very
PAGANISM
There is very little to understand about nature worship.
There is very little to understand about ancestor worship.
There is very little to understand about hero worship.
These are exercises in sacredness: non consumption and ritual demonstration of reciprocity (gifts, observances)
Evil religions emerged when we adopted corporatism instead of kinship and nationalism. And we did that in only because of war, conquest, and empire.
Yet all our advancements seem to occur in the periods BETWEEN empires.
The corporate empire is evil, the kinship nation sacred.
Empires violate natural law unless all they impose is natural law: nationhood.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 08:51:00 UTC