[Brother V]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

I never said they were in the Bible. But every Christian church in town has Easter egg hunts on the front lawn for the little kids after Sunday School on Easter Sunday morning. They're stealing a pagan idea, the pagans aren't imposing it.

Then they obviously aren't Christian churches, now are they?

Which is what we've been saying all along.

Pay attention.

V

[BadAssButterfly (On Moderation)]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

Bunnies and eggs are not part of Christian celebrations. Show me where they figure in the Bible, please!

I never said they were in the Bible. But every Christian church in town has Easter egg hunts on the front lawn for the little kids after Sunday School on Easter Sunday morning. They're stealing a pagan idea, the pagans aren't imposing it.

[Brother V]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

Bunnies and eggs are not part of Christian celebrations. Show me where they figure in the Bible, please!

Bunnies are unclean!!!

Leviticus 11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

Or at least they were...

Acts 10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

Chocolate bunnies are not mentioned.

V

[BadAssButterfly (On Moderation)]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

So even your brother wants to break free of homer depravity. Friend, can you not see you are drowning in a sea of spunk? The only life guard who can save you is Jesus.

That's not what you said when you asked to borrow my pink lace thong for your last date. Wash it before you return it this time, will you?

[OnYourKnees]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

You aer deliberately missing the point, which is par for the course. Pagan celebrations of the changing of the seasons (such as the celebration of the vernal equinox) were going on long before the birth of your Jesus. It is those celebrations with their fertility symbols of rabbits and eggs that Christians co-opted into their Easter celebrations. Even the name Easter is derived from the goddess Oestre (as is the word oestrus, referring to sexual heat in animals). Easter is all about sex, my man - get over it and get it on!

Bunnies and eggs are not part of Christian celebrations. Show me where they figure in the Bible, please!

[BadAssButterfly (On Moderation)]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

Take a shot win a prize...

3 balls for a dollar.


John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Try again.

YIC
V

You aer deliberately missing the point, which is par for the course. Pagan celebrations of the changing of the seasons (such as the celebration of the vernal equinox) were going on long before the birth of your Jesus. It is those celebrations with their fertility symbols of rabbits and eggs that Christians co-opted into their Easter celebrations. Even the name Easter is derived from the goddess Oestre (as is the word oestrus, referring to sexual heat in animals). Easter is all about sex, my man - get over it and get it on!

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

He said he had a date with you....

So even your brother wants to break free of homer depravity. Friend, can you not see you are drowning in a sea of spunk? The only life guard who can save you is Jesus.

[BadAssButterfly (On Moderation)]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

It's just typical of people like you that as we approach the saddest day in the history of mankind; the anniversary of the mutilation, torture and temporary death of Sweet Baby Jesus, that all you can think about is eating chocolate bunnies. Will you be having sex with your brother on Easter too?

He said he had a date with you....

[Deaner]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

The bunny was here first.

It's just typical of people like you that as we approach the saddest day in the history of mankind; the anniversary of the mutilation, torture and temporary death of Sweet Baby Jesus, that all you can think about is eating chocolate bunnies. Will you be having sex with your brother on Easter too?

[Brother V]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

The bunny was here first.

Take a shot win a prize...

3 balls for a dollar.


John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Try again.

YIC
V

[BadAssButterfly (On Moderation)]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

As firm believers in Jesus perfect economic system capitalism we think commercialism is great. Jesus loves it when you buy stuff for His Holy Days. What we object to the attempted by the tree borthers to inject anti-Christian pagan symbolism into OUR holiday.

The Easter Bunny is an attack against Christ.

The bunny was here first.

[OnYourKnees]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

"Shall" is used in legal documents to indicate compulsion and requirement, but that's a quite different situation.

This is why the KJV1611 uses "shall" (in the middle-English form "shalt") frequently. It is indicating a command. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass." (A verse Ted Haggard might have reviewed more frequently.) "Will" indicates intent.

As recently as 1980, Strunk and White (Elements of Style, 3rd Edition, 1979) expressed the difference so:

A distressed swimmer cries, "I shall drown; no one will save me!" The swimmer doesn't intend to drown.

A suicide cries, "I will drown; no one shall save me!" The suicide does intend to drown.

See the difference?

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

Would you buy fair trade chocolate and goods? or would you buy the cheaper goods knowing that a 13 year old boy spent hours on them, and gets paid disgracefully for them? even if the boy be a devout christian who believes everything written in the bible, but was born in a poor country?

Jesus taught that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven. All these "fair trade" schemes are doing is endangering these poor children's chances of getting into Heaven by burdening them with unwanted wealth. We would protect the poor boy by buying the cheaper chocolate.

Thirdly.. if the bible say it is wrong for.. persons of a darker skin tone to sleep on their porches all day then it is wrong. But as the bible says nothing on the subject.. (although I am sure it talks about the sin of idoliness to some degree.) then how can you condemn an act God has not condemned? Give me a biblical passage. thats the only way I will believe it.

Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

See? The souls of lazy porch-sleeping mud people have nothing. That seems pretty clear to me.

[Alexia]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

This makes much sense. Our school mistress was very oldfashioned british woman. Most europeaners learn a sort of American style of english and therefore many of them have a slight American Accent rather then the English one that the girls in my school have picked up. Generally I prefer to say will and write shall as will is more easier to speak. But thankyou for that advice.

[Enobarbus]

Re: Easter is coming up soon - SOON!

Shan't isn't right? Forgive me for making such a mistake. What must I say instead? And as for the school teachers, I take very few of them seriously at all. Shall an Will are different are they not?

Try not to infringe my name dear woman with Anorexia please. It's ALEXIA. if it isn't too much trouble. I hold my hands up, and if the menfolk blame you, Just tell them it was me..would they really deny you an easter ham? How utterly horrible. Okay back to Easter then.. Is this sunday right?

No, I wouldn't say "shan't" is incorrect at all. It's just that it is very English English -- BBC type pratt talk -- or even slightly old-fashioned. You'll find it in Jane Austen and other books of that type, but I don't think that you'll hear it often in God's own language American (instead of 'will') and especially not colloquial American. As a contraction of "shall not", it is perfectly acceptable, but 'shall' itself, although not what I'd call "incorrect", is not often used by native speakers outside the south of England, except in questions like 'shall we dance?'.

There is a "rule" about the difference between 'shall' and 'will' but it is a disputed one. The 'rule' is a grammarian imposed one and the short version of it often taught is worse than useless. Few native speakers ever follow the rule in practice. I certainly don't and I doubt anyone else here does. What use is a rule that most native speakers -- including greats of the language (and Winston Churchill too, ignore?).

"Shall" is used in legal documents to indicate compulsion and requirement, but that's a quite different situation.

For practical purposes such statements as:

"I will go" and "I shall go", are identical, with the use of 'shall' diminishing, especially outside the South of England.
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