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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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 Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:02 am Post subject: Easter |
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I wanted to see when Easter was this year, so I googled it. Well, what a shock. Turns out, the full moon plays a role in it. This is word for word what I found.
Rules for determining the date for Easter are:
Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox is fixed at March 21. There are some highly technical rules for determining the actual date of the full moon. But, when you take all of this into account, the result is that Easter can never occur before March 22 nor later than April 25.
What the H. Is this a GRE question?
In any case. this year it is April 8.
I think it would just be easier to oracle every year when Easter is.  |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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If you are in a public school or in most hogwans, you won't have to teach on Easter!  |
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Sophocles
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
Location: MetroSeoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| If you are in a public school or in most hogwans, you won't have to teach on Easter! |
Well, considering it's ALWAYS on a Sunday, I should hope not! Now, Easter MONDAY... now if you get that off... congrats! |
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sock
Joined: 07 Oct 2006
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"Easter" was originally a pagan celebration that included a number of scandalous fertility rituals meant to bring good fortune in the coming season of crops and animal births. Rabbits and eggs were a sign of springtime fertility for obvious reasons and the "Easter bunny" is a symbol we still use today.
Easter, being originally a pagan holiday akin to New Year's, was celebrated based on both the equinox and the lunar calendar, just as it still is today. I think it's interesting that it's one of the most important "Christian" holidays and yet almost everything about it has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. Anyway, yeah, so it got changed to being celebrated on a Sunday just to make it more Christian--and to make the heathens who celebrated it more Christian as well.
It's the only (Western) holiday that's still celebrated according to the lunar calendar. That's why it's such pain to calculate. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:29 am Post subject: |
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hee-tee-hee...It's been on my birthday twice. I got birthday presents and an Easter basket...^^ YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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Sophocles
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
Location: MetroSeoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| sock wrote: |
| "Easter" was originally a pagan celebration that included a number of scandalous fertility rituals meant to bring good fortune in the coming season of crops and animal births. Rabbits and eggs were a sign of springtime fertility for obvious reasons and the "Easter bunny" is a symbol we still use today.. |
I was always taught that the eggs and bunnies were a symble of new life, what Christians believe Jesus was meant to have brought to the world. Bursting from the egg like bursting from the tomb upon resurrection...
Yes, it is a pain to calculate. |
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