Holidays, rabbits and answers....
Good day my dear readers, followers, friends and the general assortment of global folks who don't know me at all! It is Easter weekend. Easter, a very confusing religious based holiday that has more strangeness than Christmas. A holiday that has almost as much over-the-top commercialization to blind everyone to the religious basis. What is it, this Easter holiday?
Hmmm, let's see, it is not the holiday with the creepy corpulent guy who lives in cold environments and runs an illegal sweat shop that the government celebrates. Nope, that's Christmas and Santa Clause. Oh, and that is supposed to be based on the biblically recorded birthday of Jesus. That's pronounced "Gee-zUss" for the uninformed, not "Hey-zues". Jesus Christ- the basis for the word Christmas. This is why the religious world takes offense to the commercial world changing it to a rather un-Christ like X-Mas.
No, this is to celebrate the death and resurrection of the aforementioned Jesus. When I was a very young child that was very disconcerting that Jesus became a full grown man in under four months- but by the time I was 6 years old I figured out. Somewhere along the course of history a rabbit became an affiliated associate of Jesus. No, not an apostle, there were only 12, not a disciple, there were allegedly 72, no, just a associated lagomorpha.
Now, the rabbit, or bunny as he is called (and that is usually a nickname for a woman named Bernice!?! confused yet?) doesn't possess any magical powers. No, nothing like somehow getting his fat butt down your chimney to not burglarize your home for the holiday. No! Bunny colors eggs and delivers them with chocolate in baskets. He is called Easter Bunny. Did any of you outside the USA know that this not considered strange here? It is weird. Let's step back for a moment. Christmas has some twisted connectivity to the biblical event. Gifts are given to celebrate the holiday because three not so wise guys followed a star for days and delivered gifts of precious metal, aromatherapy and perfume. They gave these to a woman who just delivered a child. Got it? Good, so we move on to Easter.
The world was a mess and according to the bible, God, THE God, not a Greek god like Zeus, God, no name given sent his son as the Mess-i-ah. This was Jesus' nickname, Messiah, y'know, the guy they send in to clean up messes...it's right in his nickname- like Christ is in Christmas....or is supposed to be. Oh, quick note, Answerman- not a religious guy. Despite the 12 years of assault and battery at the hands, rulers and yardsticks of black and white clad gang members wielding bibles and changing the meaning of its many chapters some 9 years into the academic program. But I digress.
After 33 years of saving humanity from itself the wicked people of the world made him drag a heavy wooden cross through the streets all Friday long. At the end of the day, they hung him on it, stabbed and killed him. This was not good behaviour toward their saviour. This is somehow, innaproppriately called "Good Friday." WHAT? As the biblical story goes, after three days he rose from the dead because the world was still a mess. Hey, his Dad was God, like I said, such a big deal that he actually is the God with no name, so there, beat that eh? You thought your dad was cool?
Are you confused about how a burrow living creature that delivers live mammals at birth, not via egg-laying became associated? Hmmm. Are you confused about why J-e-s-u-s is only pronounced "Hey Zeus" as if you're friends with a Greek god and you see him in the produce aisle, and not "Gee-zUss." like the original? Well yeah, a lot of us are, in fact in a moment of absolute blondeness someone I know well told me her client had hired a guy named "Gee-zUss". Well that company must've been a mess. I hope OSHA didn't see him walking across their retention pond behind the production facility.
Anyway, Bunny is not your typical leporidae. Nope, he's an adult sized mammal that can apparently take the palm leaves from palm Sunday (different story) and he can weave baskets despite hairy paws and no opposable thumbs. Bunny doesn't have a factory or elves helping him. Apparently he has a sizable farm with chickens and cacao trees and has a science education so he can create colorful dyes. I can't make this up- because someone else already did it for me and all of humanity.
I will say this out loud, or actually type it out. How did this correlation between Jesus and an overgrown rabbit delivering colored eggs and chocolate happen? I don't have the answer, you read it right- Answerman has no answer. I decided that we need an answer and so I created my own story.
Answerman says "After the misnomer of Good Friday, Jesus, (Gee-zUss) - not to be confused with Jesus (Hey-Zues) is laid to rest in his mausoleum. Three days later he rises from the dead and Bunny comes to see him. If Bunny doesn't see Jesus' shadow then there will be 40 more days of Lent. No meat on Fridays and long periods of self examination. If Bunny sees Jesus' shadow then they work together to deliver all the eggs from the Easter farm that were dyed the night prior along with the chocolate that was painstakingly prepared. It's a miracle. Really it is......really." Happy Easter.
Hmmm, let's see, it is not the holiday with the creepy corpulent guy who lives in cold environments and runs an illegal sweat shop that the government celebrates. Nope, that's Christmas and Santa Clause. Oh, and that is supposed to be based on the biblically recorded birthday of Jesus. That's pronounced "Gee-zUss" for the uninformed, not "Hey-zues". Jesus Christ- the basis for the word Christmas. This is why the religious world takes offense to the commercial world changing it to a rather un-Christ like X-Mas.
No, this is to celebrate the death and resurrection of the aforementioned Jesus. When I was a very young child that was very disconcerting that Jesus became a full grown man in under four months- but by the time I was 6 years old I figured out. Somewhere along the course of history a rabbit became an affiliated associate of Jesus. No, not an apostle, there were only 12, not a disciple, there were allegedly 72, no, just a associated lagomorpha.
Now, the rabbit, or bunny as he is called (and that is usually a nickname for a woman named Bernice!?! confused yet?) doesn't possess any magical powers. No, nothing like somehow getting his fat butt down your chimney to not burglarize your home for the holiday. No! Bunny colors eggs and delivers them with chocolate in baskets. He is called Easter Bunny. Did any of you outside the USA know that this not considered strange here? It is weird. Let's step back for a moment. Christmas has some twisted connectivity to the biblical event. Gifts are given to celebrate the holiday because three not so wise guys followed a star for days and delivered gifts of precious metal, aromatherapy and perfume. They gave these to a woman who just delivered a child. Got it? Good, so we move on to Easter.
The world was a mess and according to the bible, God, THE God, not a Greek god like Zeus, God, no name given sent his son as the Mess-i-ah. This was Jesus' nickname, Messiah, y'know, the guy they send in to clean up messes...it's right in his nickname- like Christ is in Christmas....or is supposed to be. Oh, quick note, Answerman- not a religious guy. Despite the 12 years of assault and battery at the hands, rulers and yardsticks of black and white clad gang members wielding bibles and changing the meaning of its many chapters some 9 years into the academic program. But I digress.
After 33 years of saving humanity from itself the wicked people of the world made him drag a heavy wooden cross through the streets all Friday long. At the end of the day, they hung him on it, stabbed and killed him. This was not good behaviour toward their saviour. This is somehow, innaproppriately called "Good Friday." WHAT? As the biblical story goes, after three days he rose from the dead because the world was still a mess. Hey, his Dad was God, like I said, such a big deal that he actually is the God with no name, so there, beat that eh? You thought your dad was cool?
Are you confused about how a burrow living creature that delivers live mammals at birth, not via egg-laying became associated? Hmmm. Are you confused about why J-e-s-u-s is only pronounced "Hey Zeus" as if you're friends with a Greek god and you see him in the produce aisle, and not "Gee-zUss." like the original? Well yeah, a lot of us are, in fact in a moment of absolute blondeness someone I know well told me her client had hired a guy named "Gee-zUss". Well that company must've been a mess. I hope OSHA didn't see him walking across their retention pond behind the production facility.
Anyway, Bunny is not your typical leporidae. Nope, he's an adult sized mammal that can apparently take the palm leaves from palm Sunday (different story) and he can weave baskets despite hairy paws and no opposable thumbs. Bunny doesn't have a factory or elves helping him. Apparently he has a sizable farm with chickens and cacao trees and has a science education so he can create colorful dyes. I can't make this up- because someone else already did it for me and all of humanity.
I will say this out loud, or actually type it out. How did this correlation between Jesus and an overgrown rabbit delivering colored eggs and chocolate happen? I don't have the answer, you read it right- Answerman has no answer. I decided that we need an answer and so I created my own story.
Answerman says "After the misnomer of Good Friday, Jesus, (Gee-zUss) - not to be confused with Jesus (Hey-Zues) is laid to rest in his mausoleum. Three days later he rises from the dead and Bunny comes to see him. If Bunny doesn't see Jesus' shadow then there will be 40 more days of Lent. No meat on Fridays and long periods of self examination. If Bunny sees Jesus' shadow then they work together to deliver all the eggs from the Easter farm that were dyed the night prior along with the chocolate that was painstakingly prepared. It's a miracle. Really it is......really." Happy Easter.
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