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Finding a virgin Bunny is going to be harder than finding a virgin Welsh girl... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Finding a virgin Bunny is going to be harder than finding a virgin Welsh girl ![Sheep | [baah]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif)
FTFY 
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Fertility, not virginity. That's what spring festivals and goddesses are about everywhere, and the pagan trappings of Easter are no exception.
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Pagan orgies. 
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It's rather a moot point[^] now, I think...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I am listening more and more of him for few days. Before this time period, all I knew about him was ganja and rasta head gear. Now that I have started to listen to him, I feel he was immensely talented which most people wearing t-shirts with his picture on it do not know.
Does anyone here is a fan of this legend? If yes, could you recommend a best of Marley kind of song collection I can get?
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http://www.amazon.com/One-Love-Very-Marley-Wailers/dp/B00005J9U1[^] is a good start.
I tend to listen to him in summer - his music doesn't work for me when it's cold and wet and miserable.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: cold and wet and miserable
So you listen to him when you are not in UK. Right?
Thanks for link.
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No, just outside Wales... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well, some bits of Hampshire are quite pleasant...And the Cornish know how to enjoy themselves!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well, I have never been that South. London was the Southernmost I ever saw, so wouldn't know.
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He didn't make that many so just buy the lot.
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Try and get hold of some Jimmy Cliff too - something like Harder Road To Travel: The Collection as an introduction
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Peter Tosh is also worth a listen.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
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d@nish wrote: most people wearing t-shirts with his picture on it do not know.
Bit of a three-hills assumption, there: "I didn't know, so no-one else knew, either".
Needless to say, .
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so forgive me for a complete violation of your personal beliefs, convictions, etc. 
In the early 1900's Rudolf Steiner wrote a series of verses for each week. Here's the Easter week one (one translation)
In light, which out of Spirit depth
In space fruit-bear weaving,
Which there reveals the gods' creating:
The essence of the soul appears
Expanded to the universe
And resurrected
From narrow selfhood's inner might.
Happy Easter!
Marc
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I dunno - typical Christians, trying to bring religion into Easter! 
Happy Chocolate Egg Day! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Quote: typical Christians, trying to bring religion into Easter Passover!
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: typical Christians, trying to bring religion into Easter Passover celebrations of fertility and spring!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Which there reveals the gods' creating:
Interesting possessive apostrophe indicates older, pagan roots. Steiner must have been a smart man to work that in so cleverly. Unless it is a translation error... Nah, couldn't be an error... 
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(For more of those interesting pagan roots, read p. 78 & 79 of The Hibbert Lectures[^]. That the Hebrew authors were aware of the sacrifice of sons is reflected in Micah 6:7[^]. So 'Jesus' being sacrificed has a precedent, and isn't as original as everyone thinks. In spite of these facts, I hope you have a happy Easter! Religious ideas were always meant to make the world better! I support that goal entirely.)
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David O'Neil wrote: So 'Jesus' being sacrificed has a precedent, and isn't as original as everyone thinks. In spite of these facts,
The entire Christ story -- virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, son of God, etc., is repeated numerous times in pre-Christian mythologies dating back thousands of years. One of the biggest claims against Christianity is in fact that it is a copycat of earlier pagan lore.
Marc
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You probably know that most of the claims are groundless, and based on bad scholarship about 150 years ago by a man who felt like ripping Christianity apart[^]. The example I give in my book is he said Mithras was born from a Virgin, yet in the myth he sprung forth fully formed from a rock!
Unfortunately Bill Maher - and others - repeat the claims without going into them in depth and seeing the falseness at their heart. Going to some of the original myths I concluded that Christianity isn't as derivative as many say it is, although it does contain some older roots like the 'sacrificial' one I pointed out. That was never brought to my attention during my religious turbulence, and is something I stumbled on in my own studies.
Although I am no longer religious in the usual sense I hold a deep respect for Christianity (and other religions). Religious thinking molded everyones' consciousness (including atheists) in ways we don't even think about. I hope my work helps us comprehend some of those things that have been forgotten till now.
Best wishes,
David
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