[UA] The Easterbunny

[Unknown VariableX]

I think the symbolic stuff has no logical connection whatsoever, just like 
Christmas. Christianity couldn't out-and-out beat the original "pagan" 
religion with a holiday involving evergreen trees, so it had to assimilate 
the tradition into itself. Easter must be a case of a similar thing 
happening  with two different spring-rebirth holidays, one dealing with the 
eggs (symbols of growth and rebirth) and another with the rabbit (symbols of 
reproduction and the actions related to it on a massive scale).

I think part of the stuff that eventually drove me to leave religion to the 
rest of my family and become a Man of (Mad) Science is the fact that 
Christianity couldn't come up with any decent holidays on its own. To spread 
and get more followers, it had to steal holidays from pre-existing 
religions. Or to put it better, when it spread into new areas where these 
festivals were key, it could not compete on the strength of its core message 
alone and had to make accomodations. Of course, that's probably a good 
thing, because religions that don't make accomodations are either (A) 
fundamentalist nuts who get easily angry for no good reason, or (B) cults 
who are in it for the money and the cyanide kool-aid. Compared to those two, 
mainstream religion doesn't look nearly as bad.

But they still remind me a little of the tiny cleaner shrimp that clean up 
the larger sea creatures... and a lot of the cuckoo that leaves its own eggs 
in the nests of other birds. So I stay away from them. YMMV.

-Variable (Your Messiah May Vary)

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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Russell Rayburn" <rusrayburn at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] The Easterbunny
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:10:12 -0400

On 5/3/07, graver <graver_13x at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>So, what do you guys think the easterbunny and easter symbolize in a
>post-modern industrialized society?
>

Easter Bunny in his off time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPb0po2jzfg

More seriously, the symbolism seems to represent comercialism to many
people... as the symbology of a rabbit laying eggs for zombie jebus
seems lost, it's presumed corporations use the symbology for candy
sales.


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