Easter Humor

sohp writes "The longest running Internet cartoon of all, Dave Farley's Dr. Fun, has this laugher on some tasty case mods for the Easter season." cojoco sends in a webpage covering the secret dangers of bunnies, and we here at Slashdot would like to make a public service announcement that humans have a responsibility to care for their pets even if they chew through computer cords. linuxwrangler writes "It's Easter and the 50th anniversary of the Marshmallow Peep. The fine folks at Peep Research have found them to cooperative test subjects. People with too much time on their hands (tm) have braved copyright complaints to create "Lord of the Peeps, FOTP" and we can't forget NASA's brave peep-o-nauts. Happy easter."

Comments

Dumping rabbits

[jamie]

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood...

One of the hats I wear is volunteer for the House Rabbit Society (Michigan chapter). We get hundreds of calls every year from people who get a rabbit for whatever reason -- gift from girl/boyfriend, Easter gift, parents bought to teach kids "responsibility," or like this case, someone who took a stray into his home instead of calling his local animal control facility.

Probably 95% of these calls are dump calls. People get sick of an animal and want to "get rid of" it -- and yes, those are the exact words they use, almost every time, "get rid of."

Most of those are just people who don't know how to take care of the damn thing. For cripe's sakes, people, when you get an animal, go buy a book and read it. Rabbits are not dogs or cats. For starters, they chew. And maybe I'm just in a bad mood but how much of a genius do you have to be to turn a chewing animal loose in your home without protecting your precious computer cables? Baby gates, plexiglass and cable wrap -- this is not rocket science.

How much of a genius, to not realize that an animal that chews through a power cord will very possibly kill itself?

And how much of a humanitarian, to blame the animal for your own fuckup, and dump it on a shelter?

(If you have a rabbit, by the way, we recommend the House Rabbit Handbook because it's simply the best guide out there.)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Blaine Hilton]

This is a very important topic. My mother has a rabbit for a pet and she goes around telling elementry school students how they should tell their parents that they don't want a live rabbit. Anyways the chocolate ones taste better :-)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[B3ryllium]

Naw, I wouldn't blame it on a bad mood. You make excellent points. To summarize:

"Bunnies have teeth. Teeth are for chewing. Duh."

Dogs chew, too. I lost a set of headphones to a dog once. Haven't yet lost anything to a cat.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

Lost a very long 50pin scsi cable and ironically... some Cat5 to my cat...

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

Gotta be expensive to forward those Michigan phone calls all the way to the British Virgin Islands. Anyway, what does the volunteer hat look like, rabbit ears?

Re:Dumping rabbits

[chrisseaton]

My cat ate an ink catridge once - and the little retard kept on chewing as ink was suprting out of the other end. Of course he (white as snow) didn't get any ink on him - it was all over my bed.

He was banished from my room for a few hours for that, but he sat outside looking so depressed that I gave in.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[hpa]

As a rabbit owner and heavy computer user (just google for my name if you don't believe me) I can positively confirm that a rabbit can be safely kept in the same room as the computer... in fact, that's where she lives. She even lived in my office at work for a while (and yes, she did run free when supervised.) What's the secret? Neat Ideas Cubes, and a little planning. These cheap little grid squares protect the backside of my desk where all the cords are, and cords that have to go through rabbit space are all wrapped in plastic piping -- makes them too big to chew comfortably, so she leaves them alone. Cute bunny in the office :)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[cperciva]

Rabbits are not dogs or cats. For starters, they chew

It's not just rabbits which chew. A certain cat of my acquaintance is very good at chewing speaker cables. Keyboard, mouse, video, power, and network cables are fine -- it's only the really thin (1mm?) speaker cables which he would attack.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

Who on earth keeps a rabbit in their house? Dont they leave droppings everywhere?

Re:Dumping rabbits

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

My cat ate an ink catridge once - and the little retard kept on chewing as ink was suprting out of the other end. Of course he (white as snow) didn't get any ink on him - it was all over my bed.

He was banished from my room for a few hours for that, but he sat outside looking so depressed that I gave in.

Dude, you must not know cats well. Of course he didn't get any ink on himself - he was just proving that he owns your ass.

(I speak as a guy that still has small scars from my cute widdle kitty kat from years ago :)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

You put them in a pen (cage) dumbass.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[ilsa]

Don't forget baby chicks. Thankfully this isn't as common as it used to be, but somehow parents with no common sense would buy baby chicks for the kids. Sometimes they would have thier feathers dyed. Assuming these hapless creatures survived the first few days of child affection and somewhat less than expert care, it would at some point become evident that the little critter was growing up to be a chicken.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Lobo]

My friend Clark Griswold had a cat chew thru his Christmas lights one year. Man what a disaster! Poor cat.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[The J Kid]

Whilest on the topic of people with too much time on their hands (;P )

You have absolutly got to see this: Peregrin's Interview

INTERVIEW WITH BUNNY BOYD/Peregrine Took

Our interviewer had the chance to sit down with Bunny Boyd on the set of 'Lord of the Peeps', to get his take on filling the feet of a hobbit.(I= Interviewer, B=Boyd)

I: How did you get picked for the part of Pippin?

B: I kenned the part was a' the go, bit I got it 'cause I'm bonnie, o'course. (laughs)

I: How are you getting along with the rest of the crew?

B: There maun be some ye want tae dang, bit most are guid laddies.

I: How did you feel about the accident to Sir Ian Peep?

B: Producers and their muckle great shoon - dinnae fret, it didnae take a tick o' time fur us tae scour the dirk.

I: Some people are afraid that the character of Pippin may be 'dumbed down' from the books, reduced to mere comic relief. What is your view on that?

B: A'fowk maun be lachin' at his lavrocks, aye, bit Pippin isnae a coordly laddie. He maunie be very pawky, and he maun be a blitherskate, bit he acts dauntonly.

I: Does your accent cause problem with immersing yourself in the languages of Middle Earth?

B: Wit accent?

I: Before you go - I couldn't help but notice the kilt you're wearing - is that an expression of your national heritage?

B: Dinnae be a gawk! Haw ye e'er tried tae put breeks oan a Peep?

I: Thank you very much, Mr. Boyd. All the best on your work!

Re:Dumping rabbits

[mcgroarty]

That's just -too- cool. Post photos of the cube bunny, hey? :-)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[qqtortqq]

Ferrets. Ferrets instinctively know what you want left in tact, and then actively seek to destroy it. I had two of them who were allowed to run loose in my bedroom. Not only did they enjoy cords, they also developed a taste for mountain dew- they knew what the cans looked like, so if there was one on my desk, they would knock it over to get the dew to spill out, usually all over the monitor or keyboard. The last straw was when they toppled a sprite bottle onto the $2000 thinkpad... They now live in a cage that has 60 feet of drainage pipe hooked to it so they have room to run around.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[athakur999]

My girlfriend works at Petco. Their store actually stops selling rabbits for about a few weeks prior to Easter until a few days after, just for that reason. Lots of people buy them on impulse and most of them end up neglected or returned once Easter is over. She gotten yelled at a few times by customers who wonder where the bunnies are, and when she tells them they usually shut up and look guilty :)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[jamie]

Rabbits should be kept in a house. Pet rabbits are a different species from the wild rabbits you see in the U.S. -- different genus, actually. They were bred by European monks to be docile and they don't like it outside. Strange sights, sounds or smells can literally frighten them to death.

Pet rabbits, like pet dogs or cats, should be kept inside.

As another poster mentioned, they litter-train easily. You keep them in a cage with a litterbox; shut them in at night and open the door when you're around during the day. They hop around your living room and occasionally leave stray droppings here and there, but mostly they go where they're supposed to go. And rabbit droppings are pretty solid and don't smell, so, eh, you vacuum them up. Not the worst thing in the world.

That's assuming you have the rabbits spayed and neutered, which you definitely should for health reasons anyway. Unfixed rabbits will mark their territory like crazy, and nobody wants that. But fortunately, a few months after that little operation, they lose those old habits.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[hpa]

Just check out the link in the original article :)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[technomancerX]

Amen. We have two rabbits and I personally hate this time of year. You always end up with a ton if idiots that see the cute baby bunny and bring it home with no idea how to take care of it and no intention of learning. Two weeks later the local Humane Society is flooded with little abandoned rabbits.

A little common sense and reading would solve so many problems.

As a rabbit owner unasociated with the House Rabbit Society, I also highly recommend the House Rabbit Handbook.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[black mariah]

My cats are banished from my room forever. I have lost too many guitar cords to the little bastards. I don't get it, they're not all that tasty.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm just a former pet store employee, and I have to agree. The store I worked at (part of a large chain whose name begins with pet and ends with co) actually forced the manager to let us refuse to sell livestock to young'uns without permission from an adult. I have no idea if that policy was legal, but it cut down on returns because the little tyke bought a mouse, gerbil, or rodent and didn't ask mom first.

And buying or adopting a pet and not making the proper accomadations for it is moronic. It is not a person you have let into your house, but an animal that does what it's insticts tell it. It can't be expected to know your rules or uinderstand if you tell it.

And to wrap up, I quote Sluggy Freelance:

"I'm a rabbit, I chew stuff."

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

How many guitar cords did you eat to come to that conclusion?

Just curious.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

"Pet rabbits, like pet dogs or cats, should be kept inside."

eh, not bloody likely. Depends on the dogs. Some dogs make great pets but are NOT house dogs. I pity the Lab, Husky or Shepherd kept inside, to name a couple.

And speaking from a non city dweller point of view here (A good half of my family on both sides are farmers and I grew up in the far north in a VERY small town), alot of cats and dogs who are pets live outside.

Animals meant to be inside? sheesh

Re:Dumping rabbits

[agentkhaki]

Ha. That definately made my night a little brighter. Thanks.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[thoughtcrime]

this is not rocket science.

Nope, but if you do it right, it just possibly could be brain surgery.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[TheTomcat]

I have a friend who "adopts" rabbits from societies like this -- his constrictor loves them. (-;

S

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

My roomate brought a cat to the appartment, I didn't want it at first, but it stayed. Problem is I'm not at home most of the time, leave early in the morning, goto work, come back late at night, goto bed.

I haven't got time for the cat, besides that it's not "mine"... and even then, I pay more attention to it than it's "owner".

Problem is, it meaows way too much, I make an effort to hang around the cat and play with stuff to amuse it, but eventually I get really sleepy and goto bed... it meaows outside the door for ages...

What to do about that?

Any tips? Should I arrange to send the cat away to someplace like your House Rabbit Society? .. For Cats of course...

I like my roomate's cat, but he's not paying attention to it (he buys food&sand, I feed it/clean up) and I don't have enough time to hang around it, it's an in-house cat, so I'm thinking it's bored out of it's mind.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[chickenbird]

I know this sounds like doubling your headache, but get the cat a friend -- another cat. If it has a friend of its own species to play with, it won't be so needy towards you.

Don't think this will stop the neediness entirely, but it cuts down on it a whole lot.

The ideal cat pairs are two sisters from the same litter. Unlike brother-sister, brother-brother, or non-related cats, they still love each other after kittenhood, they don't fight much at all, and they really know how to keep one another company when you are not around.

Since you probably don't have that option, if the cat is a girl cat, you'll be much better off with a second girl cat than with a boy cat. Boy cats can get pretty mean to other cats, and they can spray, even if they are fixed (really, almost all cats should be fixed unless you are a cat breeder).

Also, another solution is to give your roommate a good talking-to -- the roommate is the person who should be responsible for the cat! If he knew he didn't have time to spend with it, he never should have gotten it.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

(If you have a rabbit, by the way, we recommend the House Rabbit Handbook [isbn.nu] because it's simply the best guide out there.)

I'd recommend this recipe for Hasenpfeffer. Delicious AND nutritious.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Anonymous Coward]

The other problem is that our lease is up and we have to move, I don't know where we'll end. I'm looking for someone who's renting a room and I'm not counting on being able to bring the cat over.

My roomate is planning on going away for some time so it's not probable he can take the cat either.

That puts her (the cat) in a bad spot, however I have some friends who are willing to keep her, so I think she might go live with them.

I'll tell them about the 2nd cat option, they might go for it.

I hate this situation and that's one of the reasons I didn't want the cat in our appartment, I like it but I'm not in the position to have one right now.

Thanks.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[0x0d0a]

Anyways the chocolate ones taste better :-)

I dunno...I suspect that a well-cooked and seasoned meat rabbit would probably be pretty good.

Re:Dumping rabbits

[cojoco]

As the owner of the webpage for which this
thread was started, I feel that I have a right
to defend myself:

Lighten up!

- We saved a rabbit from a car park and almost
certain death
Bunny Karma +1

- We fed, watered and pampered it for a week:
Bunny Karma +1

- We don't have a large cage or grass in the back
yard, so we let it hop around the house when
we were home.
Bunny Karma +1

- We don't have the space to keep the rabbit,
so we had to find it a home
Bunny Karma 0

- We didn't realize that it would want to
chew through power cords in an attempt
to commit bunny immolation
Bunny Karma -1

- We took it to a very nice pet shop in the
hope that some family with a back yard
could keep it happily
Bunny Karma +1

Please remember that rabbits are not exactly
the flavour of the century in Oz, but do indeed
make a very nice casserole.

Regards,

-cojoco

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Cervantes]

Oh, come on, someone has to have some mod points to +Funny that! =)

Re:Dumping rabbits

[Doug Neal]

If your speaker cables are only 1mm thick then you aren't getting the most out of the speakers, unless you have very cheap speakers of course... give some thicker cable a try and you will really notice the difference, I promise!

Hmm ...

[B3ryllium]

I feel a sudden need for a link to that picture of the bunny with a pancake on its head.

Re:Hmm ...

[localghost]

Yes, Oolong, the rabbit that wore a pancake on his head. Sadly, Oolong is no more.

Re:Hmm ...

[Billly Gates]

Yes its right here in animated glory.

Easter

[Anonymous Coward]

Happy Easter Everyone.
Try this one too...
http://www.poddys.com/jokes/east_006.htm

Twix

Re:Easter

[Billly Gates]

No have a happy easter to you.

Re:Easter

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't get it.

Let us not forget...

[EraseEraseMe]

...the most dangerous rabbit of all

Re:Let us not forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Most dangerous rabbit of all? Don't you mean this one?

Re:Let us not forget...

[ncc74656]

...the most dangerous rabbit of all

That rabbit's got nothing on this one...

Re:Let us not forget...

[Savatte]

Don't forget about the one here

Re:Let us not forget...

[Kenshin]

Honestly, Bun-Bun could kick that rabbit's ASS.

There is no comparison.

Re:Let us not forget...

[black mariah]

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069005

They win.

Peep?

[Ignorant Aardvark]

Shouts out to all my peeps in tha house! ... Sorry

EVIL BUNNY!!!

[quantaman]

Note the glowing red eyes!

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes! They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses! And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?

(blatantly ripped off from Buffy)

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[KillerHamster]

Reminds me of this book I read years ago in school about Bunnicula, a vampire rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables during the night. Pretty scary stuff when you're nine years old and already grossed out by vegetables.

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's what I thought when I saw the pitch black bunny with glowing red eyes. BUNNY FROM HELL, RUN FOR YOU LIFE DUDE!

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[qqtortqq]

Holy crap, I read that book too. I read a bunch of books by that same author, all of the plot lines seem so strange now, but I guess at that age I was easily amused...

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[libre lover]

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes! They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses! And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?

Thanks.

After all this time I thought I had it beaten for good, but now I can't get that damn song out of my head.

In 20 minutes it will be another song from that damn episode.

Most .. demonic .. episode .. ever!

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, you're an idiot, the bunny has normals eyes, but the camera caught the flash reflection and it's called RED EYE. Happens to people too you know.

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[loucura!]

He got the mustaaaaaaaaaaard ouuuuut!

Re:EVIL BUNNY!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

-1, Get a life

Sorry kids...

[bj8rn]

...but easter is cancelled

Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

This is NOT offtopic... it is SO on-topic.

Lord I Lift Your Name On High ...
You Came From Heaven To Earth,
To Show The Way.

From The Earth To The Cross,
My Debt To Pay.

From The Cross To The Grave,
From The Grave To The Sky,
Lord I Lift Your Name On High.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

On Topic? For millenia easter was a fine spring celebration with bunnies and eggs and stuff. Wholesome good fun. Then you christians come and ruin everything with tales of a man nailed to cross and eating his flesh and drinking his blood.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah, I hear he's *really* coming back this year, eh? Good luck with that whole resurection thing.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Mononoke]

You forgot this part:

"Lord, I Lift Your Name on High," Rick Founds, ©1989 Maranatha!

Where's the RIAA when you really need them?

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Go fuck yourself, jesus freak.

And yeah, that's on-topic too.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Easter has always been about the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, no matter what you athiests try to say or "prove". You are just a troll.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Crispin Cowan]

Happy Dead Guy on a Stick Day. In His honor, we're having shish kabob for dinner.

Crispin

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

what has that got to do with bunnies? or chocolate?

Re:Lord I Lift

[frohike]

Easter has always been about the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, no matter what you athiests try to say or "prove". You are just a troll.

Right. Sorry, play again:

Historical connotations of Easter

Including the egg imagery that is so prevalent. How do the eggs fit into the resurrection anyway? That's something I never understood.

Sorry to feed a true troll, but someone needs to correct this misconception if it's going to be used to attack people. This has been a fertility holiday and a welcoming of spring for much much longer than Christianity has been around. You're welcome to use it for your own purposes, but quit the nonsense about it being a purely Christian holiday.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah, I hear he's *really* coming back this year, eh? Good luck with that whole resurection thing.

Perhaps you should look at the evidence - do you have any idea how much old prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus's life?

Or perhaps you don't believe in God at all. Do you think we live in an orderly universe created at random? So the computer you're typing in to came from white noise.

Here's a modified version of the song for you:

Darwin I Lift Your Name On High...
We Came From Nothing to Ocean,
if you stretch your mind a little...

From Ocean to more complexity,
if you stretch your mind a little more...

From more complexity to the land,
From the land to humans,
By white noise's will to survive!

(seriously though, what do you believe?)

Re:Lord I Lift

[Peterus7]

Slashdot is not a flamewar board. Get a life, and don't put down other people's point of view. Instead of proving yourself wrong with your own insults, can't you maybe try to bring some evidence?

Wait, this is religion we're talking about... Never mind.

But still, putting people's beliefs down only comes back to slap you in the face. It does nobody any good, and it wastes valuable server space. (But then again, so am I.)

But please, if you want to try to say something, be mature and put forth an arguement. Insults and swearing don't justify a logical arguements, and all you end up doing is ruining the /. experience for all the people who try to escape here for some sort of intellegent debate.

*/rant mode*

So I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm tired of people flaming over mundane crap like this. Get a life, and try to be nice. Eat some friggin peeps, and read all the interesting articles here on them.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

You can go fuck yourself too. Want evidence for that? You're a prick. There, that's your evidence. Not to mention your site and Photoshop skills suck.

*/irony-being-some-high-and-mighty-jackass-with- coke-bottle-glasses-telling-me-to-get-a-life mode*

Re:Lord I Lift

[muzthe42nd]

what i was taught is that the eggs are the boulder from the tomb, and that is why we roll the down the hills, because the boulder blocking the tomb rolled down the hill when jesus was resurrected. y'see? you know it makes sense

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Happy Dead Guy on a Stick Day.

Sorry, you missed that a few days back. Today is about the dead guy coming back to life again.

Perhaps some twice-baked potatoes or refried beans?

Re:Lord I Lift

[netsharc]

Yes, and those rings really give eternal life.

Re:Lord I Lift

[DCZX]

Like it or not, Jesus has been the topic of Easter for 2000 years. Bunnies are bunnies. Praise GOD! He is risen!

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, he sure is. And he's due back any time now..right..?

Oh, that's right. He's 2000 years late already. Fuck you too, jesus freak deluxe.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Peterus7, you moron, don't talk to flamers. It only gives them fuel. The best way to deal with flamers is to just ignore them, and maybe then they'll go back to their rooms and go watch yu gi oh or play mario sunshine or something. Just ignore them and they'll go away. Or mod the bitches down if they try anything. -Trogdor

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

*/irony-being-some-high-and-mighty-jackass-with- coke-bottle-glasses-telling-me-to-get-a-life mode*

Nice try, kiddo, but your comments are wrong. It should be /* [...] */

Dumbass.

Re:Lord I Lift

[Anonymous Coward]

Resurrection. The whole proof of this religion is based on the resurrection. But what does the bible say about the resurrection? From http://www.orahsaddiqim.org/Resources/Conflicting_ Accounts_of_Ressurection.shtml

Who found out that Jesus tomb was empty?

According to Matthew it was Mary and Mary Magdalene (Mt. 28.1).
According to Mark it was Mary, Mary Magdalene and Salome (Mk. 16.1).
According to Luke, it was Mary, Mary Magdalene, Joanna and another woman (Lk. 24.10).

Was the tomb opened or closed when they arrived?

Open (Luke 24:2).
Closed (Matt 8:1-2).

What did the women find at the tomb of Jesus?

According to Matthew, they found an angel (Mt. 28.5).
According to Mark, they found a man (Mk. 16.6).
According to Luke, they found two men (Lk. 24.4).

Were these men or angels inside or outside the tomb?

Outside (Matt. 28.2).
Inside (Mark 16:5, Luke 24:3-4).

What did the women do when they found out Jesus had come back to life?

According to Matthew and Luke (Mt. 28.8, Lk. 24.9), they rushed to tell Jesus disciples.
According to Mark, they kept the news to themselves (Mk. 16.8).

If we go outside the "synoptic" gospels, the picture becomes even more unclear:

At what time in the morning did the women visit the tomb?

At the rising of the sun (Mark 16:2)
When it was yet dark (John 20:1).

Not the longest running Internet cartoon.

[matt-fu]

From the slightly-out-of-date Doctor Fun FAQ:

Is Doctor Fun the oldest comic on the Internet?

No. That would be "Where the Buffalo Roam" by Hans Bjordahl. "Where the Buffalo Roam" started in 1991, and had its own Usenet group long before Doctor Fun came along, and is still running on the web.

Re:Not the longest running Internet cartoon.

[sohp]

Ooops. My bad.

easter message from MIT

[danitor]

god is dead, and i am alive. easter greetings

non-christian

[Transient0]

don't celebrate easter, so i wasn't thinking about it.

when i first read the post I thought it said "Eastern Humour" and I was wondering what easterners found so funny about rabbits.

[grin]

Re:non-christian

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you think that anyone cares how you misread the title? This type of post is getting as boring as "In Soviet Russia", "All your base" and "Beowolf cluster".

As heard on Buffy the Vampire Slayer....

[Lord_Slepnir]

Anya:
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies

For the complete lyrics and MIDI files

Obligatory python reference

[rsidd]

The deadliest rabbit ever (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Re:Obligatory python reference

[Cyno01]

That Rabbits dynamite!

bunnies are evil

[SnuFF3r]

My brother had the same problem with his bunny. Ate every cord in the house one night.

Scary. I was at pets on broadway today, buying cat treats for my puss.

Didn't see the rabbit though....

I am not trolling, eat them don't waste them

[linzeal]

I say eat it, use those knives you never use to skin it and dress it. I suggest a heavy citrus, scotch bonnet, salt (not too much) and vinegear marinade but that is just me.

If you are not familiar with cooking game, so to speak I would suggest James Beard's, "American Cookery". It is full with the history of the recipes and their particulars not just in a culinary manner but some social and cultural insights as well. A good read.

Re:I am not trolling, eat them don't waste them

[Bowling Moses]

Yeah I gotta agree. I doubt that dumped bunnies get picked up as pets in good homes very often (although the author of the original post could probably tell us) so they suck up limited resources at the animal shelter. We meat eaters are always going to eat meat so something's gotta die, if the excess rabbits are offered up to a homeless shelter or for sale for meat, it's just fixing two problems simultaneously.
I think rabbit stew or rabbit rolled in flour with black pepper and just panfried is preferable. Just don't get roof rabbit by mistake--unless your name happens to be Alf.

Re:I am not trolling, eat them don't waste them

[Anonymous Coward]

I say eat it, use those knives you never use to skin it and dress it [ntlworld.com].

Holy shit! Happy Easter! 8O

Re:repost: The Evolutionist

[Anonymous Coward]

Better tell the mudslimes. They seem to still be stuck in the 12th century.

It's Easter?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Easter? Woah. And here I am, thinking it's something else... I still wouldn't mind some peeps, though.

Christ's Victory over Death

[Anonymous Coward]

Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ.

Our sins have been washed away by the Blood of the Lamb.

That is what Easter is really all about.

Another Scary Bunny: Frank From Donnie Darko

[Nova Express]

Of course, it helps if you're six feet tale and have an evil metal face.

Remember kids

[Anonymous Coward]

It's also 4/20 today, a special holiday for us hippie types :)

Spark one up and say "high" to the easter bunny for me!

Ah peeps...

[Cyno01]

Reminds me when i brought in some peeps and we put them in the vaccum chamber in the chem lab. They started to grow a bit like we hypothesised(like the marshmallows in the jar in the foodsaver vaclock II infomercial) but then i guess all the air pockets in the marchmallow collapsed and we ended up with paper thin little blobs of purple sugar. Tasted the same, but not so chewey.

Peep War

[linuxwrangler]

Forgot this one from my original post: the Peep War strategy game.

nope

[SweetAndSourJesus]

Rabbits can be litter-box trained quite easily.

Meh..

[fadeaway]

I don't know about you guys, but the annual fight to the death involving my mother, aunt, and grandmother over how the stuffing should be prepared is just about all the Easter humour I can handle. =\

Re:Meh..

[Anonymous Coward]

make them serve ham next year - no stuffing and it is more traditional

they'll probly find something else to argue over anyway - like the glaze

aborted fetus easter eggs

[faeryman]

Kids love 'em!

Re:aborted fetus easter eggs

[Anonymous Coward]

That's funny!
But only if you are retarded.

Hi that movie sucked

[Anonymous Coward]

Alternate Universe? HORSESHIT! It was a tacked on ending by a lame director.

Tip of advice kids, unless you like sci-fi on the level of Battlefield Earth or "horror" equal to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer avoid this chunk of shit at all costs.

PS The rabbit is really donnies sisters Boyfriends Halloween Costume.

Some of us are different

[graveyhead]

We celebrate a different holiday today. Just call me a heathen ;)

Re:Some of us are different

[Cyno01]

Yup, lets all smoke a bowl for the ressurection!

eater eggs?

[Anonymous Coward]

just cause it's easter..

http://www.dvdeastereggs.com

Re:Buffy fans know about bunnies

[Anonymous Coward]

She even dressed up as one for halloween! Scary and sexy as hell

Chewing through cords

[Anml4ixoye]

and we here at Slashdot would like to make a public service announcement that humans have a responsibility to care for their pets even if they chew through computer cords

Funny this should be brought up. Last night my fiancee called me and while we were talking she noticed the light was out in her refrigerator. I asked her if the fan was running which she said it wasn't. So I said it could only be three things - 1) The plug was unplugged, 2) her rabbit chewed through the cord, or 3) the breaker tripped. Turns out it was number 2 - her rabbit had chewed through the 120v AC cord without being electricuted. Lucky rabbit!

That isn't a rabbit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone see the picture of [that] rabbit?

Look at it's eyes! Look at it's inherent evil! It desires to chew a power cord and ruin that Unix system's perfect uptime! Rabbits are an institution of Microsoft! Eat the rabbit and you get four lucky rabbit feet; that's what MCSE's carry on their keychain's because they too know Microsoft and uptime are a snowball's luck in hell! Somebody, anybody, don't let the rabbits into your house or the [Microsoft] terrorists win!

Oh and happy Jesus Christ's second birthday! :D

Funniest Easter Humour I saw...

[philovivero]

NTK Now (or NT Know, depending on your chronology) sez:

To celebrate Jesus being buried in a chocolate egg and on the third day ascending to heaven as a little yellow chick, (and also because it's a public holiday in Britain) we're not doing an NTK this week.

Ha! That is funny.

Hmm..easter..

[ThumbSuck]

I moderate this whole article as +1, Thrull

Re:The Evolutionist

[Anonymous Coward]

But Evolution *can* be disproved by science,
You Know It Really Can - Entropy canNOT decrease in a closed situation.


Perhaps you should go back to grade 9 science and re-examine the world around you. Earth is not a closed system, it's powered by the sun, which is a screaming source of entropy increase. The solar system and galaxy are also not closed systems. The universe might not be a closed system either, but Stephen Hawking hasn't gotten back to me on that one yet.

You know that a few centuries ago people like Hawking were burned at the stake for heresy and pi was equal to 3 exactly? Christianity is cool!

Re:repost: The Evolutionist

[Anonymous Coward]

> Darwin ... Showed ... 9/11 just a learning curve.

Linking evolution to terrorism, good job! Man, I haven't seen a flimsy connection that farfetched since someone said that Harry Potter led to kids disobeying their parents. (Clue: Especially in the first book of HP, the adults don't listen to or dismiss the kids - even when the kids have something important to say. That's the lesson.)

> But Evolution *can* be disproved by science,
> You Know It Really Can - Entropy canNOT decrease in a closed situation.

Earth's not a closed system. It receives constant energy input from the sun.

Sorry, troll. You Lose.

Heh

[Ryan Stortz]

Happy Jesus on a stick day!

Re:Heh

[s20451]

You missed it. That was Good Friday.

Re:Heh

[eclectro]

Happy Jesus on a stick day

"Jesus on a stick day" would be traditionally "good Friday", or the Friday before Easter, when he died on the cross.

The day that he rose from the dead and left the tomb is Easter and celebrated today.

Re:The Evolutionist

[hpa]

Of course, the Earth isn't a closed system, so the entrophy argument is complete bull; you see, there is this little thing called the Sun...

Of course, so's the rest of this. Today's Doonesbury is kind of apt...

Rabbit! Tasty!

[Fished]

Every year for easter, I have rabbit for dinner. Sometimes stewed, sometimes BBQ'd. I explain to my kids that we are "eating the easter bunny". (This is my one touch of right-wing Christian reactionary - I can't stand the silliness that is indulged in the name of "celebrating" Christian holidays. I hate Satan "I do not exist" Claus, and I DESPISE the "easter bunny." If you wanna be a pagan, fine - not my business - but for those who claim to be Christian to celebrate the most holy-days of our faith with pagan nonsense is stupid.)

Rabbits are pagan to Easter, here's a picture

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is a picture of why Easter was canceled in an Amish Community.

Re:repost: The Evolutionist

[stevejsmith]

Who gave Colin Powell a Slashdot account? First tying to link Iraq to September 11, and now trying to link evolution to terrorism? What's next, Syria!? Oh...right...

Ah, yes...

[ransom2003]

Let's remember what Easter is all about...Bunnies. It's got nothing to do with God coming to earth in the form of a man to pay the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. Let's dress this holiday up just like we dress up every other Christian holiday and turn something sacred into a great way to sell Cadbury Eggs.

Re:Ah, yes...

[Mononoke]

It's got nothing to do with God coming to earth in the form of a man to pay the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. Let's dress this holiday up just like we dress up every other Christian holiday and turn something sacred into a great way to sell Cadbury Eggs.

It's a pagan holiday. Just because you christians decide to celebrate somthing else this weekend doesn't mean you can dictate the was the rest of us spend our day.

Don't believe me? Here's the real story about how Eastre was originally a pagan celebration

Re:Ah, yes...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds good to me.

Re:Ah, yes...

[ransom2003]

Yes, I'm perfectly aware Easter is on the same day as an old pagan holiday. So is Christmas. So are most Christian holidays, as established by the Catholic church in the dark ages. HOWEVER, when you refer to EASTER (as the topic of the post did) you are talking about the holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Christ, not the Pagan one. Now I personally don't care what you do with your day, just as long as your not calling it Easter.

Re:Ah, yes...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ultimate sacrifice?

It would've been quite a bit more ultimate if he'd stayed dead... what kind of sacrifice is giving your life if you come back a few days later?

Odd thing to build a religion around, if you ask me.

Re:Ah, yes...

[dotgod]

The sacrifice was His suffering and separation from God for sins/crimes He had not committed. Despite the fact that Jesus was resurrected, he still suffered an agonizing death. Being raised up afterwards doesn't change that.

Re:Ah, yes...

[TheMidget]

HOWEVER, when you refer to EASTER (as the topic of the post did) you are talking about the holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Christ, not the Pagan one.

Did you actually read the link? The very name of the holiday comes from the pagan goddess of springtime, Eastre.

If you spoke French, you'd have a point: in French, Easter is called Paques; this word is derived from the Jewish holiday Pesach (Passover).

Re:Ah, yes...

[black mariah]

Who gives a fuck? Oh shit, we can't have several things happen on the same day! :P

Re:Ah, yes...

[Anonymous Coward]

And one agonizing death is supposed to some way account for the sins of all humanity...?

It wouldn't be the first unfair agonizing death, nor the worst...

Re:Ah, yes...

[NickFitz]

If He wanted to pay the ultimate sacriice, He should have stayed down here with us.

Re:Ah, yes...

[mink]

I believe the apostr you responded to was responding to the "Just dont go calling it Easter" comment.

April 20 is also Adolph Hitler's birthday! NoJoke

[Anonymous Coward]

I should know, I did the research. April 20 (I forget what year) is when Adolph "JewHater" Hitler was born. That's one sick bastard, but that doesn't dampen Jesus Christ's second birthday! Praise Jesus Christ!

420

[stevejsmith]

Dammit. The Catholic church is the only church that would screw up 4/20 by shoving the holiest day of the year right down on top of it. Yeah, well smoke this, God!

By the way, does anybody else find it funny that if you do a Google search for 420, most of the sites are down? Including High Times magazine!

Re:420

[Anonymous Coward]

Hightimes isn't down, its just *very* busy.
You really should check things before you open your mouth.

Re:420

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus smokes it, this I know, 'cos Ozzy Osbourne told me so!

Thanks for the Dr. Fun reference

[Anonymous Coward]

I needed that!

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Mononoke]

I can't stand the silliness that is indulged in the name of "celebrating" Christian holidays. I hate Satan "I do not exist" Claus, and I DESPISE the "easter bunny." If you wanna be a pagan, fine - not my business - but for those who claim to be Christian to celebrate the most holy-days of our faith with pagan nonsense is stupid.

Why stupid? Christmas is just a bunch of pagan celebrations (Winter Solstice, etc.) misapproprated by christians for their own use in forcing their beliefs on the general public. Think Easter is any different?

...Life of Brian for Easter of Course!

[SubtleNuance]

Dancing and singing "Bright Side of Life" while on the crucifix. THAT is the appropriate Python for Easter.. Bright Side of Life .wav for ya
Have a look at the script, including some small pics of our friends up on their Roman Mounts

Re:...Life of Brian for Easter of Course!

[rsidd]

Oh yes, I forgot that one. Well lets say, Python at any time of year? (I'm even a recent convert to the python programming language.)

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Fished]

Why stupid? Christmas is just a bunch of pagan celebrations (Winter Solstice, etc.) misapproprated by christians for their own use in forcing their beliefs on the general public. Think Easter is any different?

Guarantee you I know more church history than you do, and I think you are more or less full of it. For example, Easter is timed to coincide (more or less) with the Jewish passover, not the Vernal Equinox. The Celts tried to change easter to more closely match the vernal equinox (more or less - at least that was what the Roman church assumed) and very nearly got inderdicted for it. Christmas, on the other hand, you have a case.

However, as far as "forcing beliefs" on people - you are a bit of a jackass, aren't you? Do you honestly think that you celebrating the easter bunny forces MY beliefs on YOU? How 'bout when they teach my children about Santa Claus in the public schools? Who is having beliefs forced on them?

Salute The Easter Peeps American Flag

[theodp]

I pledge allegiance to the Easter Peeps Flag of the United States...

+1 Underrated.

[Anonymous Coward]

lol....

you think the bunny was bad...

[pensano]

lets see what happens to his server now.

I wouldn't be posting this obvious comment, but in this case, we can watch the page hits go from 6 to 6000+

http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=22 79 242

Re:you think the bunny was bad...

[NickFitz]

And if you really want to have fun, you can open his net statistics in a separate window/tab, reload the original page, then reload the statistics to see if you're in the "last 10 visitors"! Took me three goes to get there in time at all, and I was already down to number 8 :-)

Well, it's a holiday, so I really do have too much free time. Anyway, there's someone at Boeing who isn't doing any work, either.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Tralfamadorian]

Nice troll!

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Fished]

I should probably mention, however, that I am perfectly aware of the origins of the name "Easter" - yet, that is another case of paganism polluting Christianity, not the other way around.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Mononoke]

Guarantee you I know more church history than you do, and I think you are more or less full of it.

This has nothing to do with church history. It has to do with human history. The history of the Easter holiday

However, as far as "forcing beliefs" on people - you are a bit of a jackass, aren't you?

The first time I go a week without hearing how evil I must be for choosing not to be christian is the week become less of a jackass.

So says my wife's brother

[Sabalon]

When my wife was a kid:

Wife: what's good friday?
Brother: That's the day Jesus died.
Wife: then what's easter?
Brother: Thet's when the easter bunny came along and dug him up.

And I married that pagan.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Fished]

This has nothing to do with church history. It has to do with human history. The history of the Easter holiday [holiday.com]

How on earth does it have nothing do with church history? Good grief - your contention is that the church took over your holidays to force our religion on you, and you think that has nothing to do with church history???

The first time I go a week without hearing how evil I must be for choosing not to be christian is the week become less of a jackass.

Great - so because some Christians are jackasses you're going to join them? (I never told you how evil you were for not being a Christian - I told you how evil Christians were for not being serious about their faith.)

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Mononoke]

I should probably mention, however, that I am perfectly aware of the origins of the name "Easter" - yet, that is another case of paganism polluting Christianity, not the other way around.

A: You got your paganism in my christianity!

B: You got your christianity in my paganism!

Mmmm, tasty!

This can only be countered with...

[sfraggle]

Ah yeah, here we go again!
Damn! This is some funky shit that I be laying down on your ass.
This one goes out to all my homey's working in the field of evolutionary science.
Check it!

Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
Every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
Straight up fairy stories even children don't believe.
I'm not saying there's no god, that's not for me to say,
All I'm saying is the Earth was not made in a day.

Fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck the Creationists.

Break it down.
Ah damn, this is a funky jam!
I'm about ready to kick this bitch back in.
Check it.

Fuck the damn creationists I say it with authority,
Because kicking their punk asses be me paramount priority.
Them whack-ass bitches say, "evolution's just a theory",
They best step off, them brainless fools, I'll give them cause to fear me.
The cosmos is expanding every second, every day,
but their minds are shrinking as they close their eyes and pray.
They call their bullshit science like the word could give them cred,
If them bitches be scientists then cap me in the head.

Bass!
Bring that shit in!
Ah yeah, that's right, fuck them all motherfuckers.
Fucking punk ass creationists trying to set scientific thought back 400 years.
Fuck that!
If them superstitious motherfuckers want to have that kind of party,
I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes.
Fucking creationists.
Fuck them.

Re:This can only be countered with...

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice language. I guess it reflects what YOU believe in. Believe me, I KNOW it does.

Re:This can only be countered with...

[Anonymous Coward]

Mentioning that all of those lyrics are from Fuck the Creationists by MC Hawking (http://www.mchawking.com/) might not be a bad idea.

Re:This can only be countered with...

[kingkade]

Well, you used ALL CAPS in strategic portions of your reply, so you must know what you're talking about.

Re:This can only be countered with...

[ionpro]

I tried this out with the Catholic schoolgirls, but damn if they didn't only want to talk about sex.

Horny bitches

Happy Tree Friends celebrate Easter too!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget this!

http://minibytes.mondominishows.com/easter/main. as p?affil=fan

Favorite: "yummy"

Re:Tasty Case Mods?

[Anonymous Coward]

but.. we're NOT all christians?

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Tralfamadorian]

Now that I think about it, I agree with the original poster. There's too much pagan stuff in Christianity. I say we form a new, non-religion by taking all of our good stuff away from the Christians, and let them keep their worshipping, water splashing, and lowercase T waving to themselves.

However, I must disagree with your statement about Christians forcing their beliefs upon people. That is not true, they have no monopoly on being assholes, and I have met Linux advocates who are just as ignorant.

Besides, someone telling you that you're evil isn't forcing their beliefs on you. Stop being a pussy, and just say to yourself, "I have willpower, and I cannot be led by this". Even more so when that person isn't talking to you directly, but is posting a message in a forum.

G*d, I'm sick of whiners who cannot read opposing viewpoints without feeling that those viewpoints are being 'forced' upon them.

As soon as you are being questioned by the inquisition, then you can talk about having beliefs forced upon you.

Re:Cats are edible

[mythr]

You act as if cats and dogs were useful for any other purpose. Until it is proven to me that they serve a useful purpose, other than as meat, to society, maybe I'll condemn their slaughter for food purposes. Until then, I say let the cute and furry animals be cooked up just like the not-so-much so. To do otherwise would be discrimination.

Re:The Evolutionist

[Anonymous Coward]

But Evolution *can* be disproved by science,
You Know It Really Can - Entropy canNOT decrease in a closed situation.

You're 100% right - it's NOT closed.

Hince the argument for Christianity - and thus against the "closed-system darwin inspired bilogy student"

Their argument is that everything was created out of white noise. Take the "clock example." Imagine you see a watch laying on the ground - would you assume that it was created completely at random from an orderly Godless universe?

The "entropy argument" states that unless "complex forces" act on something, its orderness cannot increase. For example, a simple force can shatter a glass, but it would take very complex forces to reassemble the glass. This is also an argument for time travelling only in one direction.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[GigsVT]

You know, that's one thing that I agree with Christians with, but for opposite reasons.

I see santa as a way to indoctrinate kids with the belief that there is an all powerful being that judges whether they have been good or bad, and rewards or punishes them accordingly.

Sorta like training wheels for later life when they fear the judgement of the god/afterlife fantasy, instead of developing an independant system of ethics to guide their choices.

It's it strange how one concept can be hated on both sides of the fence for totally opposite reasons?

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you misspelled "God"...

chocolate bunnie research

[urbazewski]

For interspecies comparison with peeps, check out this research project on Lindt Gold Bunnies.

Now THAT'S Easter Humor

[Anonymous Coward]

i need a hardcopy for the office

Re:More easter humor

[Anonymous Coward]

wow, brett

just wow

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Ogrez]

Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Fished]

It's it strange how one concept can be hated on both sides of the fence for totally opposite reasons?

Indeed. :)

I see santa as a way to indoctrinate kids with the belief that there is an all powerful being that judges whether they have been good or bad, and rewards or punishes them accordingly. Sorta like training wheels for later life when they fear the judgement of the god/afterlife fantasy, instead of developing an independant system of ethics to guide their choices.

Possibly. However, I have to say that in part, I am a Christian not because I was indoctrinated from an early age (I wasn't) but because I am not convinced that a sensible ethical code can be formulated without some kind of teleological (that is, losely speaking, goal-centered) foundation. In order to answer the question of "what is right" or "what should I do", one must first figure out what they are trying to accomplish. Then, having figured out what is right, we must then figure out how to accomplish it. Any ethical system needs to be evaluated according to these three questions: What should I do, Why should I want to, and how will I be able to?

So far, I have not seen any non-religious ethical system that can answer the latter two questions. Humanism tries, but fails: why should I care about the good of humanity? And, in case you haven't noticed lately, the secularization of human services under the banner of government has not given the wonderful results promised. (Go down to the 'hood sometime and see all the parentless children if you don't believe me. They were there before, they are there now. But there may be more now. "The poor will be with you always.")

As a Christian, I can answer these last two questions, but probably not in the way you expect. My answers are as follows:

• What to do? What God tells me to.
• Why? Because I love God, because he is good and just. Yes, I really feel that way. (And yes, I'm familiar with the gazillion old testament examples that you might feel inclined to cite.)
• How? With his power, and with the assurance that if I sacrifice my welfare in this life, I need not worry because I can look forward to something better in the next.

Christian ethics call for a profoundly unworldly viewpoint -- one that says "money doesn't matter, stuff doesn't matter, heaven knows that war on iraq doesn't matter: only God matters" -- and this viewpoint will ALWAYS be unpopular. When Christian ethics becomes trite, as in the formulation you gave in your post, is when it is watered down in an attempt to make it practical for people who *don't* love God more than their own life. Is it really surprising that it fails in such cases?

Re:The Evolutionist

[PD]

I presume you mean randomness when you say white noise.

That's not even remotely accurate. Natural selection isn't random in the least.

Run Away! Run Away!

[da3dAlus]

ARTHUR: What, behind the rabbit?
TIM: It is the rabbit.
ARTHUR: You silly sod!
TIM: What?
ARTHUR: You got us all worked up!
TIM: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!
ARTHUR: Ohh.
TIM: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armour I was so scared!
TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!

Death awaits with large, sharp, pointy teeth! (Now, THAT's an easter bunny for ya.)

Re:The Evolutionist

[Anonymous Coward]

If I see a watch lying on the ground I'd assume that it was made by someone in Switzerland.

White noise -> (QCD/QED) -> sub-atomic particles -> (weak nuclear forces) -> hydrogen -> (fusion) -> elements -> (strong nuclear forces) -> molecules, including RNA, DNA and the rest of biology.
We also have gravitational forces giving us planets etc. and electromagnetic forces giving us headaches^H^H^H^H^H^H the Internet etc.

God certainly went to a lot of trouble to keep us occupied when it seems that chiselling "have faith or you'll go to hell" on to a stone tablet would have done the job.

p.s. Some of my forces may be a little confused.

Ob Family Guy Quote

[DTC]

"Damn long-ears taking easter away from Jesus" --Peter Griffin

How 'bout passover?

[wwwgregcom]

Im jewish, you insensitive clod!

Re:How 'bout passover?

[LittleGuy]

But there's the annual 'two-hour forty-minute padded to almost five hours' showing every springtime. And how 'bout those SFX of the Red Sea....?

And for the non-Hollywood version....

Re:How 'bout passover?

[superyooser]

The word Easter comes from the Greek word Pascha, which occurs 29 times in the B'rit Hadashah. It is translated as "Easter" in Acts 12:4 in the King James Bible, but as "Passover" in all other occurences. In almost every other version, Pascha is always translated as "Passover". In case there is any doubt, notice that the previous verse says that King Herod arrested Peter during the days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzah).

Easter is basically Passover with a new focus. Instead of (or in addition to) celebrating the rescue of God's people from the slavery of Egypt, it celebrates the rescue of God's people from the bondage of sin.

Matthew 26:26 tells us that Messiah Jesus, at His last Passover feast, took a piece of matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." The Seder matzah represents the crucified and now-risen Messiah.

Just as you celebrate God's grace exhibited through the Passover lambs whose blood saved the believers in Egypt from certain death, believers today celebrate the Lamb whose redeeming blood saves them from a certain death. Just as God raised up the water of the Red Sea to part and provide the way to refuge for His people on the third day after the Passover lambs were slain, God raised up The Way to salvation for the world on the third day after His Passover Lamb was slain. The angel of death passed over the believers in Egypt, and death passes over believers today.

All Jews and Gentiles who trust in the blood of the Passover Lamb should celebrate on Easter. Death has passed over them! The One Who died for us said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever puts his trust in Me will live, even if he dies; and everyone living and trusting in Me will never die." (John 11:25-26) Then He asks the gravest, most substantial, eternally-consequential question a person will confront in his entire life, "Do you believe this?"

Re:Cats are edible

[Saeger]

It's not about logic, it's all emotion. There's nothing wrong with eating cats, dogs, pigs, or cows, unless you grew up in a culture that arbitrarily empathizes with them as if they were sentient like humans.

Americans eat cow, Indian's worship them; Asians eat dog & cat, Americans love them; Redneck Americans eat Nutria (rats), some Indians worship rats.

--

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Tralfamadorian]

Ach! Don't say His name! :)

Ants and Peeps Results

[antdude]

Here -- Victim Peeps were put between at least four anthills in an attempt to replicate some ancient torture tests attributed to Native Americans from many years ago. While the Bunnies are hardly masters of torture, the honey was easy enough to come by. The rest should have been obvious, but this "experiment" provided proof positive that the Peeps are *so* evil, and *so* impossible to deal with. Essentially NO ants took the bait. A few unfortunate insects managed to get themselves trapped in the honey, only to either escape after many minutes of struggling, or drown in the golden pool of death.

Mardi Gras ( WAS: Re:Christ's Victory over Death )

[kingkade]

Mardi Gras celebrates the showing of breasts.

College students will all throw-up in the dumpster by the KFC on Bourbon St. and people will be having drunken sex and getting trashed all night long.

That is what Mardi Gras is all about.

Tabasco

[rootnl]

Add few drops to cable, watch bunny flip... No more cable chewing bunny.

Re:repost: The Evolutionist

[Anonymous Coward]

Following on from the other MC hawking post..

But Evolution *can* be disproved by science,
You Know It Really Can - Entropy canNOT decrease in a closed situation.

Creationists always try to use the second law,
To disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
Only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
So fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!

Gimme a Linus Torvalds egg anyday!

[Anonymous Coward]

Joy of Tech Easter Eggs

hmmm, the David Pogue cheese slice looks good too!

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Anonymous Coward]

The first time I go a week without hearing how evil I must be for choosing not to be christian is the week become less of a jackass.

The reason most atheists/Satanists/musicians are looked at funny by Christians is the atheist/Satanist/botanists petty bitchiness about telling everyone they're not Christian/Muslim/Buddhist (RMS is a good example of this, actually), and finding it offensive to even be THOUGHT of as such. Frankly, I don't give a shit what you believe. You do your thing, I do mine. When you start pissing on the graves of things I consider sacred, I WILL defend my beliefs. I would expect you to do the same for things you believe in.

Re:Cats are edible

[Anonymous Coward]

so by extension, if we were only to eat non-sentient beings, we could consume lusers

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[black mariah]

G*d, I'm sick of whiners who cannot read opposing viewpoints without feeling that those viewpoints are being 'forced' upon them.

Me too. You'd think that presumably intelligent adults would be able to understand someone else's viewpoints and deal with differing opinions accordingly.

For some reason I'm remined of Richard Stallman's website where he talks about how to "deal with" Christians during Christmas. He seems to think that anyone wishing him a Merry Christmas is akin to him being buttraped by a 500lb black dude that calls himself "Candy". For such a presumably intelligent person to get so upset over something like that is completely laughable. I've had Jewish people wish me a happy Hannukah, I've had Satanists wish me a good trip to hell in a handbasket, and I've had Buddhists tell me they hope I have a happy 15 lifetimes. I can honestly say that I haven't ever been offended, and I can't understand why anyone would be unless they were nothing but reactionary assholes in the first place.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[black mariah]

"Confess! Confess!" "I CONFESS! I CONFESS!" "Not you, HER!"

And this stupid "Don't use so many caps" thing is fucking annoying. They're yelling in the script, dipshit!

Bunny Munchies...

[JoeCommodore]

Besides those scrumtious chewey cords bunnies are also known to like remote control buttons (those soft rubber ones), cardboard boxes, and paperback book covers, newspapers too.

Our rabbit soon learned the computer room was off limits - that's how he learned when no one was noticing he could then make a bee-line right under the computer desk. (especially when guests are present)

Also the best dorrway barrier for bunny assault is a Copmmodore SX-64, standing on it's base it is too heavy to push or paw around and the added handle at the top sufficiently keeps climbing rabbits at bay.

Re:Cats are edible

[Anonymous Coward]

aligator tastes like chicken. rabbit tastes like chicken. rats taste like chicken..

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[GigsVT]

As a Libertarian, I know government doesn't work also. I don't think it has anything to do with religion though. As a Libertarian I do adovcate eliminating government charity in favor of private charity, be it secular or religious.

About humanism, it does have a weak foundation. I don't believe in humanism completely, I believe in something that could be described as "selfish humanism". I believe every action we take is inherently selfish, on some level or another.

To take your words: "I sacrifice my welfare...because I can look forward to something better"

Inherently a selfish action. You are acting a certain way, because of a percieved quid-pro-quo of getting something after you die. Every action, no matter how altruistic it seems, can be viewed in this light.

I build a system of ethics from this inherently selfish foundation. Surprisingly, it works pretty well. Selfishness doesn't imply a lack of empathy, or of feelings, only a primary motivation to do things for yourself before you do them for others. Often doing things for selfish reasons benefits others.

An example, maybe someone joins the peace corps "to help people" because it gives them warm fuzzies, or because it will increase their social standing back home, or because they can put it on their resume, or because it gives them a license to act like they are better than someone else, etc...

Not all selfish motivations are tangible, many may be subconsious, but the key to my system of ethics is understanding this.

This may sound a lot like Objectivism, and it's similar, but I don't agree with many of the conclusions the mainstream Objectivist comes to.

This message was originally about 200 lines longer, but I cut a lot out. This is just way too big a subject matter to discuss effectively here.

Rabbit of the Day

[animalfriend]

Pet of the Day has a real Easter Bunny along with a bulldog and a cat with rabbit ears.

Easter cancelled!

[nightsweat]

Did you hear they cancelled Easter this year? Yep, they found the body.

Illiad has it right...

[KC7GR]

The User Friendly strip for Easter Sunday has the right idea. ;-)

Slashdot mostly Christian?

[Jagasian]

I thought that there was a poll, and most slashdotters weren't Christian, but instead were Hindi or Muslim. I might be wrong though.

Re:Slashdot mostly Christian?

[Anonymous Coward]

Three Fourths of Slashdot users worship The Church of Goatse

Re:Slashdot mostly Christian?

[GodLessOne]

And I thought they were mainly Jedi!

protecting cords from rabbits

[billstewart]

At least they took the bunny to the pet store and not the pound, so there's more chance of it being adopted. I've had a couple of pet rabbits over the years, and they're much nicer and happier as free-running housepets than stuck in cages. They house-train pretty well, and at least if you've got wood floors instead of carpet it's easy to clean up when they don't get to the box.

But yes, they chew on things. They especially like phone cords - data and power cords are ok, but phone cords have just the right chewy texture and usually don't taste like they've got electricity in them. Cordless phones help take care of this problem, and you'll have cordless phones pretty soon whether you plan for them or not :-)

Plastic piping of various sorts forces you to keep your cables neat, or at least to keep them out of reach, and to keep the spare cables stashed in a drawer. They also make other shapes of cord protectors - spiral sorts of stuff. If you're not normally neat (which I'm not) you'll end up having to learn a bit about keeping the back of your desk and the floor under it neat instead of cluttered with cables, but you'll get some positive reinforcement because the bunny periodically gets in and eats all the cables you didn't secure.

Now that it's been a few years since our last bunny, and I've acquired more computer equipment with more cords, I've lost most of those neatness habits except putting away the unused cables :-( The DSL modem is on the floor, mostly for convenience, and it makes a nice warm thing for the cat to lie on when he's hanging around while I work.

Bunny Joke of the Day....

[codesmith.ca]

Did the Easter Bunny come to your house this year?

Don't know, haven't checked my snares yet....

MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

The parent AC post was +3 insightful, but antichrist mods put it down to 0. MOD PARENT BACK UP.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Anonymous Coward]

>>>Possibly. However, I have to say that in part, I am a Christian not because I was indoctrinated from an early age (I wasn't) but because I am not convinced that a sensible ethical code can be formulated without some kind of teleological (that is, losely speaking, goal-centered) foundation.

That's similar to my choice I had. When I was a kid, our family only went to church rarely. It soon became "too much a hassle", a statement we hear plenty of times. From 1'st grade all the way up to my sophomore year, I wasnt indoctrinated with anything. God, Jesus, Heaven, and the bible was a passing subject. At that time, it wasnt important.

Something was missing that I couldnt name. I first thought it was either my hobbies, or school. It was neither. I then decided, myself, that I wanted to try church again. My parents agreed, but was shocked that it was my decision alone. I go to the Catholic church in my city, but they were... cold. They wern't mean or anything. I then went to a small town's Catholic Church, St. Agnes (located in Nashville, IN) was the name of that small place. That is what I was missing all that time. If you're ever there, just ask Sister Mildred for Josh Crawley.

>>>In order to answer the question of "what is right" or "what should I do", one must first figure out what they are trying to accomplish.

It's soo much simpler than that.

Love one another.

>>>So far, I have not seen any non-religious ethical system that can answer the latter two questions. Humanism tries, but fails: why should I care about the good of humanity? And, in case you haven't noticed lately, the secularization of human services under the banner of government has not given the wonderful results promised.

Too true. If anything, what welfare needs is a community helping its own people. Money from big govt helps.. any money helps, but having their own neighbors come out and help is what we need to back to. Our church doesnt "look down" on those with other beliefs, or deny food and shelter because yopu wont convert, though those who hate Christanity wish to think that true.

>>>(Go down to the 'hood sometime and see all the parentless children if you don't believe me. They were there before, they are there now. But there may be more now. "The poor will be with you always.")

It's a moral decline. "Now, sex is ok for everybody." attitude sickens me. If anything, they ought to think what they do not just affects themselves, but a future life.

>>>As a Christian, I can answer these last two questions, but probably not in the way you expect. My answers are as follows:

* What to do? What God tells me to.
* Why? Because I love God, because he is good and just. Yes, I really feel that way. (And yes, I'm familiar with the gazillion old testament examples that you might feel inclined to cite.)

Even in the old testament, God still forgave. Sometimes it took a while, or he gave chances to an unjust city.

* How? With his power, and with the assurance that if I sacrifice my welfare in this life, I need not worry because I can look forward to something better in the next.

>>>Christian ethics call for a profoundly unworldly viewpoint -- one that says "money doesn't matter, stuff doesn't matter, heaven knows that war on iraq doesn't matter: only God matters"

Do you see a hearse followed by a U-Haul? You come with nothing, and you leave with nothing.

-- and this viewpoint will ALWAYS be unpopular. When Christian ethics becomes trite, as in the formulation you gave in your post, is when it is watered down in an attempt to make it practical for people who *don't* love God more than their own life. Is it really surprising that it fails in such cases?

What's oh, so funny is that after going to church for 3 years, I met the love of my life. I've turned from a darkish-gray to a white hat, and I've learnwed to love God.

I truly am happy now.

Can't believe no one posted this yet...

[Nalanthi]

This is one is one of my favorite comics of all time
Nal

I say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Kill da wabbit! Kill daaa waaabbbitt!

The only bunny (or bunnies) I'll keep...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are those playboy bunnies. They can chew anything they want...

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[Zagadka]

For some reason I'm remined of Richard Stallman's website... For such a presumably intelligent person to get so upset over something like that is completely laughable... I can't understand why anyone would be [so offended] unless they were nothing but reactionary assholes in the first place.

I think that about sums it up.

What's really wrong with dumping a rabbit?

[0x0d0a]

And how much of a humanitarian, to blame the animal for your own fuckup, and dump it on a shelter?

Okay, I know this will probably offend some people, but...what's the deal here? Really and honestly, if you get a chicken or a duck or a rabbit or whatever, there are people running around who are saying that if you aren't sure you can take care of it, you shouldn't get the thing. What do they have to support their argument? What's *wrong* with getting an animal, deciding that you don't like it, and having it put down?

It isn't on "humanitarian" grounds, as jamie's pointing out, since a humanitarian specificaly values *human* welfare.

Some sort of general ban on killing animals? I kill bugs, like the ants that like to get into my room all the time, and don't have the slightest problem with it. Most people don't. What's the mysterious dividing line between rabbits and ants? They both sense pain, etc, etc.

Some sort of pratical issue? We ban murder in most societies because allowing murder produces severe negative social effects on the society. If you allow it, people get desperate and attack other people back, and the society devolves into violence. Killing a rabbit -- there isn't much of a social impact there. Hitchcock's The Birds was a fantasy -- the critters aren't going to be able to do anything back to you.

The only reason I can think of that we have shelters for rabbits, but not for spiders, is that rabbits and fuzzy animals trigger a deep irrational "It's cute!" response -- the same sort of thing that drives PETA. Then we develop a moral system using these basic, irrational reactions as axioms that we then use to *justify* the reactions and our actions. "But it's *wrong* to keep a rabbit and then let it die!" *Why*, I ask?

Finally, if jamie and PETA and friends succeed, and people run out and buy N - M rabbits one year instead of N rabbits...then what? You have M rabbits that don't even have a chance at *life*. Yeah, maybe those rabbits would have ended up spending their last moments working on an electrical cord...but I'm still glad that *I* exist, even if I happen to die next week getting run over by a car.

Re:What's really wrong with dumping a rabbit?

[Cybrr]

What's *wrong* with getting an animal, deciding that you don't like it, and having it put down? It isn't on "humanitarian" grounds, as jamie's pointing out, since a humanitarian specificaly values *human* welfare.

humane adj. 1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion: a humane judge.

"But it's *wrong* to keep a rabbit and then let it die!" *Why*, I ask?

Needless suffering and/or a waste of a perfectly good rabbit.

Christianity and Irrationality

[0x0d0a]

Possibly. However, I have to say that in part, I am a Christian not because I was indoctrinated from an early age (I wasn't) but because I am not convinced that a sensible ethical code can be formulated without some kind of teleological (that is, losely speaking, goal-centered) foundation.

Not meta enough. Why do you consider a "sensible" ethical code sensible? Why do you *need* an ethical code?

My guess is that you want something that "feels" good because it allows you to justify the majority of your actions? Christianity is pretty much a big book of decent rules of thumb, along with its own agenda. But you can certainly live by Christian rules of thumb ("it tends to pay off to be civil to people, regardles of how they act toward you", etc) without adding in the extra crap associated with Christianity.

I mean, I can say to you "Don't stick your hand into fire. This is because there's a big fire elemental turtle that lives in all fires and wants to bite your hand. You should be sure to give me some money each week to help me, the only person who can control him, from overrunning the world". I've got a decent rule of thumb there, but you're certainly under no obligation to follow any of the other BS I have attached to it.

And Christianity *does* make people do some irrational things, even if it also has some decent rules.

The influence of Christianity has been in free-fall since the Reformation as more and more of the growing intelligentsia class have seen inconsistencies in it and become irritated with some of its doctrine.

Re:Christianity and Irrationality

[Fished]

My guess is that you want something that "feels" good because it allows you to justify the majority of your actions? Christianity is pretty much a big book of decent rules of thumb, along with its own agenda. But you can certainly live by Christian rules of thumb ("it tends to pay off to be civil to people, regardles of how they act toward you", etc) without adding in the extra crap associated with Christianity.

I think that your view here -- that Christian ethics tend to justify Christian presumptions -- comes more from a perversion of Christianity than from the real thing. You seem to be reacting to a kind of Ned-Flandersish view of Christianity, where Christians are those people who always do everything right; they are the upright, moral people looking down on all the shit-classes.

While I can certainly see how you would get that view from Christianity in America today, I don't think it lives up to the Christian moral vision. Let's face it - Christianity is a religion founded by a bunch of convicted criminals. At least six of the New Testament books were written from jail, and the two longest (Luke/Acts) may have been written as defense briefs! If most Christians wouldn't have anything to do with a criminal, can we really say that they are following in the footsteps of Jesus? Not everything that quacks like a duck is a duck.

For me, Christian ethics is something that continually confronts me with my own failings. It requires (and I expend) enormous effort to avoid watering it down, making it practical.

Husbands love your wife as Christ loved the church -- Ephesians 5. Do I really love my wife enough to die for her?

Submit to authority -- even when it's NOT good -- John 18.35 (or somewhere aroundd there). Can I really do that?

Do not repay evil for evil - Matthew 5, Romans 15. Can I REALLY turn the other cheek?

Love God. do I really love God as much as I love myself?

"In Christ, there is neither male nor female, slave nor free, Jew nor Greek" (Galatians 1:something). Can I really love people who are not from my social caste, not of my gender, not of my culture? Can I welcome into fellowship the people who don't look like Ned Flanders?

Let me tell you something ... I can't say that I succeed at any of the above. In fact, I can't think of any that I really do keep. But I *try* - because that is the closest to loving God I can get. And it is the effort that gives life meaning. So... I can't argue that the description you give may be true for many American Christians (especially the loud ones who don't read their Bible as much as they quote it.) But I don't think it can explain a St. Frances or a Martin Luther King.

Re:Christianity and Irrationality

[0x0d0a]

I don't think that you have to be the sort of snobbish person that you're representing (well, maybe you do and the people I've run into just hide it well) to fall into logical fallacies and try to use Christianity to justify itself.

The overwhelming majority of Christians that I know of take what they do without much rigor. They have a kind of warm, fuzzy set of "good" feelings about Christianity, which is why they tend to follow the doctrine. They trust and respect their parents, who were Christians. Or, perhaps all the media's depiction of Christians as being the sort of people one can rely on is what prompts this. But most people, when you start asking them, say, "Why" repeatedly a few times about a religious point, pretty much break down to "well, that's just the right thing to do" or use some particularly nice-sounding slogan like "God is beyond human understanding" to make everything right -- and they don't really think about or understand what they're doing.

I don't think it lives up to the Christian moral vision. Let's face it - Christianity is a religion founded by a bunch of convicted criminals

I don't think that anyone claimed that the people involved were perfect -- the thief upon the cross is probably intended to show that.

For me, Christian ethics is something that continually confronts me with my own failings. It requires (and I expend) enormous effort to avoid watering it down, making it practical.

So you are primarily attracted to the forms of Christianity? For example, I know a Jewish guy who isn't particularly religious -- doesn't put much stock in a God -- but sticks to the appropriate fasts and eats kosher food, because he likes the structure.

But I don't think it can explain a St. Frances or a Martin Luther King.

Sure, but there are also great people who are not Christian -- Nelson Mandela, or Ghandi.

Re:Christianity and Irrationality

[Moridineas]

Sure, but there are also great people who are not Christian -- Nelson Mandela, or Ghandi.

Not at all trying to get in on this conversation, I was just interested--but what is Nelson Mandela is my question? I know he attended missionary school and would ASSUME he's Christian, but I don't actually know. SA IS about 70% christian after all.

Maxwell's Demon

[0x0d0a]

The Second Law is a statistical law. It is not required to hold -- it is just the (very, very) common case that it does hold.

Maxwell's Demon is a decent counterexample.

Any argument based on "entropy" that is not simply designed to produce a useful, but not necessarily accurate model, is broken. Entropy is a useful human concept, but it cannot be rigorously defined (it runs into the same problems as "order", "randomness", and "probability"). You cannot say "this is *impossible*, because it violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics". You *can* say "Because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, failure of this system can be considered extremely unlikely, so our firm should build it".

microwaved peeps

[musselm]

I was hoping for pictures of microwaved peeps. I was sure the "reaction to heat" link would be it, but no, alas...

Re:The Evolutionist

[BKX]

For a second I thought you were quoting Steven "MC" Hawking (http://www.mchawking.com/) in his song Entropy:

"Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!"

Re:More easter humor

[Brett Glass]

Don't click on the above. (I certainly did NOT post it.)

MODERATORS ON CRACK

[Anonymous Coward]

Who the fuck moderated this stupid redundant (didn't get the parent posters joke) statement as "insightful"???

A person has great insight if they don't understand a joke? WTF?!

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[cardshark2001]

Possibly. However, I have to say that in part, I am a Christian not because I was indoctrinated from an early age (I wasn't) but because I am not convinced that a sensible ethical code can be formulated without some kind of teleological (that is, losely speaking, goal-centered) foundation. In order to answer the question of "what is right" or "what should I do", one must first figure out what they are trying to accomplish. Then, having figured out what is right, we must then figure out how to accomplish it. Any ethical system needs to be evaluated according to these three questions: What should I do, Why should I want to, and how will I be able to?

Typical inane, self satisfied, self-righteous Paulian crap (yes, Paulian, not Christian). There are plenty of non-Christian, non-religious philosophers who have devoted their entire life to moral and ethical study, but because it doesn't come from that stuffy old book of yours it couldn't possibly have value, right? Get over yourself. Some people do good merely for the sake of doing good, and don't need the threat of "eternal damnation" or the promise of "eternal life" to motivate them. *I* am of the opinion that anyone who bases their moral decision making on religious grounds can never truly be a "good" person because their basic motivation is selfishness. I try to do good by people even though I don't believe in your god or in your bible. Some of the most well mannered, morally righteous people I know have no religion whatsoever, and some of the "Christians" I know are the rudest, most evil people you'd ever care to meet, all the while thinking that they're "good" because they go to church.

If your moral code is based on dogma rather than on upbringing and simple truths, you won't have the creative energy necessary to deal with morally ambiguous situations. What will you do, carry a bible with you everywhere you go so that you can refer to it if you get in a situation where you're not sure what the "right" thing to do is? Maybe if your moral code was a bit simpler, like "try not to hurt people", you'd be better prepared for life. Read the "ten" commandments sometime. There are a lot more than ten, and some of them are clearly ridiculous. If you see your daughter naked, both you and she get the death penalty, for example. A truly "moral" code based on the bible only works if you ignore a large portion of the bible. Otherwise, your code will be very *immoral*, in my opinion.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[To0n]

Current beliefs that peoples "orignally" had are commonly found after conversion to a different religion - mainly because there is some ambiguity with religions. Anyway, you want examples? Virgin Mary in Mexico, the hillside of the reported sighting was also a hillside used previously for fertility rituals. More you say? Go to christianized Africans and ask for a picture of Baby Jesus. By GOLLY HE AIN'T WHITE! And with some, he replaces spirits that affected weather/fertility/etc.

All in the order of making those major denominations more palitable. Originally, as long as they got (most) of it right, colonizers didn't care too much, as they were more after resources. Major Religions were more used as a way to get things under control (YES... Read The Colonizers Model of the World by Blaut)

And yes, I am an Anthro Major.

Re:Rabbit! Tasty!

[boots@work]

Thomas Paine said all that needs to be said:

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

Re:Cats are edible

[Cybrr]

Cats protect our food storage from mice.

IN SOVIET RUSSIA ALL YOUR BASE HAVE BEOWULF BUNNIE

[Anonymous Coward]

S!!