Something came up this weekend I am looking for an answer to if you know it. My little cousin asked me where that silly character the Easter Bunny's eggs come from. She knew as well as I do that rabbits don’t lay eggs, and I didn’t have a lot of other choices so I just told her it was all a lie anyway and apologized to her on behalf of the entire grown up world. But does anyone know where the lie is supposed to go regarding that issue?
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It is thought that the hunt for eggs came first, with no association to the rabbit. Eggs were traditionally given out at the start of Spring in Egypt and Persia. Then, as children searched for the eggs, they flushed out rabbits and hence began the stories of the rabbits leaving the eggs.\n\nContinued at http://001egreetings.com/1F/D/AB/index.shtml
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:}\nIsn't it interesting that many of these same Correspondences have been retained in the Christian celebration of easter. Not only have they been retained, but they have taken on new and meaningful symbolism. \nEven the name of the Holiday:  Eostre's Day and Easter Day \nEaster bunnies and colored eggs including the Pastel Colours:\nPink, Yellow, Grass Green, Robin's Egg Blue\n\nI for one am thankful that pagan holiday which was as lust oriented as was the Vernal Equinox could have been apropiated to such an important spiritual purpose.
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the only good thing that happened last night was that Luke called lorelai when april was believed to have appendicitis. I think that was a good thing. Did that not tell Luke something? Did that not tell Lorelai something? Or are they going to be dumb and not get back together. good luck and god bless and happy thanksgiving.
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i'm not that familiar with the story, except that it is about witch hunting in a town. this quote, whoever says it, is someone begging Thomas not to get involved in witch craft. is it his wife? that would make sense, that she's begging her husband not to get in it because the town (who was full of people paranoid about witch craft) would charge them with the crime.
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yes i've wondered why and i think its not fair that the rabbit can't eat his own cereal.  the kids are being selfish.  who cares that if rabbits eat cereal they may very well die. but its his choice.  i mean he's on the box.  let the rabbit have some cereal, i'm sure he's hungry after doing all that running and planning to try and get  some Trix.  the kids are very mean
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The true meaning of Easter has nothing to do with Jesus. Some Christians decided that's when they were going to have one of their festivals because they thought that stealing Pagan dates, etc. would encourage more Pagans to convert to Christianity. Easter, or Eostre, is a Pagan godess of fertility. That's what the eggs and bunnies are all about.
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How did you find out about this? Did Bernie tell you? He promised not to tell. He is probably upset because I got pregnant and he says he is sterile.  Ok, Bernie thinks that Harold is the father.  To be honest, I think I have gas and am not pregnant, just senile. What is a granny to do except to dream?
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Thank you for saying :"some of you".  I think your question is a very good one.  I purposefully did not tell my children about Santa Clause or the Easter bunny when they were little.  The Bible says "Because they receive not the love of the truth, for this cause God shall send them strong delusion."  I think these "lies" are perpetuated by the masses so they won't have to think about the birth of One who can forgive their sins, or One who was resurrected from the dead to give eternal enjoyment and Bliss in His presence. The easterbunny has its roots in pagan fertility rites. A lie is a lie is a lie.  There are no "white lies".  Who is "the father of lies"?  Who is "The Way, the Truth and the Life"?  The two can not have communion together. "Whatsoesver is not of the truth is a lie". "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin".  I think you are doing a wonderful job in raising youre children by telling them the truth.  It is becoming harder and harder for Christians to raise their children as day by day the forces of worldliness and anti-Christ well up in "public opinion" angainst Christian doctrine.  You are doing what Jesus wants you to do.  Christians in many cultures have had to undergo persecution and ridicule but it has only caused the "true church" to grow stronger, and the "little white lie" church to be exposed as what it really is: lukewarm hypocrites which Jesus said He will spew out of His mouth.  Be brave, continue what you are doing.  Jesus said, "they that overcome shall receive a crown of Life."\nRead Revelation! <smile>.  # 8^ ) 3
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ooh! I almost missed this one =)\n\nOnce upon a time in Disneyland there was a Victoria's Secret model named Oscar Wilde. All night and all day her third cousin twice removed forced her to scrub the toilet. Then one day, she received a visit from the little old lady who lived it a shoe. The old lady says, "Hi! I am Papa Smurf and I am here to pump... you up. \nLost in an unbearable lightness of being, Oscar says to P. Smurf "how many licks *does* it take?", to which Papa replies, "They are the eggmen. I am the walrus. Goo goo g' joob!" \n\nSo then Oscar and Papa find a field of magic mushrooms and live happily ever after...or did they?
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Whoa! Thanks so much for the LOGICAL information against evolution, especially the lie about us being 99 percent identical to chimps. I knew about some of the other forgeries, but thanks. What's disturbing, though, is that some of these things are still promoted by biology teachers in school as fact. For example, the industrial melanism and peppered moth example has still been used in high school biology courses, even AP Biology. Thanks for all the information; it definitely strengthens the idea of a God who wouldn't let this all happen by chance. \nThe only question that remains for the evolutionists, though, is why. Why would they want to support an idea that says we are related to monkeys? Why would they want to downgrade the status of man like this? I simply don't understand it. Though, according to classification, we are primates, we are much greater than that. We are humans. It mystifies me as to why evolutionists can't accept this idea.
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Well, if Finkin is a liar, then Blinkin and Winkin must be telling the truth. However, Blinkin said that only Winkin is a liar and Winkin said that everyon is a liar. These two statements do not agree.\n\nSo Finkin must be a liar.\n\nIf Finkin is a liar, then Winkin and Blinkin are NOT both liars. One of them must be telling the truth.\n\nIt is impossible to tell which one, Winkin or Blinkin, is the liar though. But we only need to know how many are liars so:\n\nTwo men are liars and one is telling the truth.
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""SHE DIDN'T SIN, she was born without sin so she could give birth to Jesus. Besides, wouldn't you (maybe not you exactly)love it if everyone worshipped your mother.""\n\nAin't it always something!?  A good christian girl with the number 69 in her name!  Just what I have always come to expect for them.\n\nBTW... 69 chick?  Mary was born without sin?  then that would make HER the Christ and not Jesus!  HER parents had sex to conceive her!!  I hope you feel liek a dumb@$$ right now since the PAGAN chick had to straighten you out on your biblical "facts".
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Why do people lie here?  Any one here can view other posters Q&A.  I personally try to read a persons previous Q&A before I answer a question.  I have found that some are at best inconsitant.  Why?
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Alot of people hide easter eggs. my mom and dad used to hide the baskets. My 2 brothers and I would run around looking for our baskets and if we find someone elses we couldn't tell where we found it or the Easter Bunny wouldn't come the following year! It was actually a ton of FUN!
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I have no idea, i tryed to google it and use yahoo search engine.  I came up with nothing, maybe she just made it up
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What?!? The tooth fairy isn't real! Whatever next, soon you'll be saying Santa Claus and the Easter bunny don't exist!
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1) Because they can? :^)\n\n2) Because they like to stir up debates between creationists and evolutionists.\n\n3) Because they think it is an unanswerable riddle when it isn't.\n\nIt is an interesting question but people really don't think it through enough to show just how interesting it is.  How you answer the question reflects on your belief system, your powers of deductive reasoning, and/or your sense of humor.\n\nIf you subscribe to evolution (as I do), then it's very simple -- eggs existed long before chickens ever did.  Fish lay eggs.  Amphibians lay eggs.  Reptiles lay eggs.  Dinosaurs layed eggs.  Prototypical birds layed eggs.  Early mammals layed eggs.  (Even current mammals called monotremes lay eggs).  So obviously eggs came before chickens by this line of reasoning.\n\nFollowing evolutionary theory, genetics, and the development of embryos, one might argue that again, the egg came before the chicken because the first chicken is a genetic mutation of two chicken like parents.  So, from this line of reasoning, you might, again argue the egg if you are talking about first chicken relative to the egg.  For the first chicken had to develop inside the egg as the offspring of two chicken-like parents.\n\nBut then I realized "Hey, how did the first zygotic chicken (fertilized ovum) get inside the egg in the first place?"  If the ovum was inside an egg shell with yoke and rooster sperm is added afterward, then the egg comes first.  But what if the the ovum is fertilized first, then encased in an egg shell?  Then would not the zygotic chicken come before the egg?\n\nA quick look on Wikipedia for bird reproduction indicates that the eggs are fertilized with sperm during the descent from the ovaries through the cloaca.  If this is the case, then, again, the egg comes before the chicken.\n\nSo, I forgot to add one reason people ask this question every six minutes:\n\n4) Because they have too much time on their hands. :^)