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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Egg Fail
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:43:34 -0400
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On 4/14/2025 4:47 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article <vthegp$3ld3l$2@dont-email.me>,
> j_mcquown@comcast.net says...
>>
>> On 4/13/2025 12:13 PM, Ed P wrote:
>>> On 4/13/2025 11:05 AM, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>> On 4/13/2025 9:05 AM, Ed P wrote:
>>>>> Yesterday our community had an Easter Egg Hunt.  I figured it would
>>>>> be a great way to score breakfast for the next week or two.
>>>>>
>>>>> Turns out, they have some silly rule that is is for kids only!  Seems
>>>>> like discrimination to me.  I tried to tell them I'm handicapped and
>>>>> at a disadvantage as you have to bend over to pick them up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Next year I'm taking my lawyer with me to resolve this inequity.
>>>>
>>>> Easter isn't until the 20th.  I'd be questioning why the were hunting
>>>> for rabbit eggs on the 12th.  Cheaters looking for an early egg score? ;)
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> The same mentality that puts Christmas decorations on sale the day after
>>> Labor Day.
>>
>> I'm still wondering what rabbits have to do with Easter... ;)
> 
>     You've probably swallowed the myth that Easter is about
> Christianity.
> 
I haven't bought into any of the Christian myths.

>     It's another of the ancient pagan festivals
> appropriated by Christianity For thousands of years
> before, far older religions celebrated the spring equinox
> as the season of fertility, rebirth, reproduction and
> renewal. When birds begin to lay eggs, hares dance, and
> rabbits represent extreme reproductive fertility.
> 
>     The origin of Easter, is the springtime worship  of
> Oestre, the pagan goddess of fertility/rebirth  whose
> symbol was a hare or rabbit.
> 
>      
> 
>     Janet UK
> 
That makes sense.  Nice explanation. :)

Jill