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bejohnson

03-19-2008, 10:27 PM

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee158/bejohnson/eggs.gif

<HTML>To All The Good Eggs I Know!!!

"A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though they know you are slightly cracked."

Happy Easter!</HTML>

efernandez_98

03-20-2008, 12:16 AM

<HTML>To All The Good Eggs I Know!!!

"A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though they know you are slightly cracked."

Happy Easter!</HTML>

Ain't it the truth! :bounce

Airmack

03-20-2008, 08:38 AM

Yeah for Jesus

efernandez_98

03-20-2008, 02:58 PM

Am I the only one that gets Groundhog Day and Easter mixed up? When baby Jesus gets reborn and comes out of his hole, and if he doesn't see his own shadow then its going to be a long winter. I'm not quite sure where the dancing naked ladies and hiding of eggs comes from but I'm guessing it has to do with those crazy pagans.

fruni

03-20-2008, 03:03 PM

lol ^^, would it not be: if jesus exits his house/hole and is not scared of his own shadow? lol

norfolk

03-21-2008, 04:25 PM

To all a very happy and safe holiday:thumb

robodude666

03-21-2008, 05:10 PM

What does chocolate, eggs, bunnies, and jesus have to do with each other??? :What the

norfolk

03-21-2008, 05:52 PM

What does chocolate, eggs, bunnies, and jesus have to do with each other??? :What the
Absolutely Nothing!,Thats the problem! Man has managed to changed a very sacred event into a money making event! Very Sad. :mad

efernandez_98

03-21-2008, 05:57 PM

What does chocolate, eggs, bunnies, and jesus have to do with each other??? :What the

Its the result of catholic church adopting pagan holidays as to influence indoctrination of people who weren't of their faith.

G~man

03-21-2008, 05:59 PM

Happy Easter to all! :wavey

455olds

03-21-2008, 06:30 PM

Happy Easter

ewilson92

03-21-2008, 06:41 PM

G~man

03-21-2008, 06:44 PM

ewilson92

03-21-2008, 07:20 PM

lol, few, couple, what's the difference?

G~man

03-21-2008, 07:54 PM

lol, few, couple, what's the difference?

lol! :)

It's so funny to think about the fact that our entire time/ year system is based upon this one point in history.
:spin
Just a thought.

ewilson92

03-21-2008, 08:03 PM

Our modern calender is actually a "few" years off of the most accurate time. It's really about 2014.

Manic Mouse

03-22-2008, 08:19 AM

robodude666

03-22-2008, 08:35 AM

Happy chocolate-jesus-bunny day everyone! wooooh!

ewilson92

03-22-2008, 08:55 AM

Easter really is one messed-up holiday.

On what dates was Jesus executed & resurrected? We know when he was born, so there's no excuse that people didn't have calendars back then. Easter is one of those strange holidays that moves around. I find it funny that the anniversary of an important religious event such as a prophet's execution & resurrection can't be tagged to a particular day.

Instead, Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. How screwey is that?

Nevertheless - Happy Easter Everyone! :KICKASS

He wasn't "executed", he was Crucified.

nilzxx

03-22-2008, 10:22 AM

Happy Easter!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/123380632_2bd133e745.jpg

(Let's see who will actually punch that into a binary translator. ;))

bejohnson

03-22-2008, 11:27 AM

I'd like to say, "Thanks for wishing me a Happy Easter!", and, "You have a Happy Easter, too.", but, today is Good Friday. Jesus was Crucified a few thousand years ago today. But, hey, in 3 days he will have risen from the dead a few thousand years ago to that day, and I guess that is what you were wishing for us to be happy. Maybe I should quit ranting now...

HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!!!

The celebration is for Jesus dying for our sins. The fact that God allowed his son to die for us so our sins could be forgiven is the core value of Christianity.

The resurrection is the act that revealed to the world that whom ever believed in Jesus and accepted that he died for our sins would have everlasting life as Jesus when he was resurrected and ascended into Heaven.

That is why the day of the crucifiction is called "Good Friday" as on that day a very good message, that through the belief in Jesus that eternal life was guaranteed, was delivered to the people through the act of Jesus dying for our sins.

As to the dates of Christmas and Easter, Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Jesus is really about 90 to 120 days off. When Jesus was born there were newborn lambs and other animals at the stable. This is indicative of early spring in the Middle East.

The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke place Jesus' birth under the reign of Herod the Great, who died in 4 BC, although the Gospel of Luke also describes the birth as taking place during the first census of the Roman provinces of Syria and Judea in 6 AD. Biblical scholars generally assume a date of birth between 6 AD and 4 BC.

While Christmas, in honor of Jesus' birth, is celebrated on December 25, there is no indication that this was his actual birthday. Jesus died after Passover, a Jewish holiday occurring in early spring. Christians commemorate Jesus' death at this time of year, on Good Friday.

The dates of Easter are determined by certain rules that are to say the least convoluted. :Wink

The following is from the Astronomical Applications Department of the United States Naval Observatory.

The Date of Easter (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.php)

Easter is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every year within the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is the standard international calendar for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. At that time the Roman world used the Julian Calendar (put in place by Julius Caesar).

The Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council constructed special tables to compute the date. These tables were revised in the following few centuries resulting eventually in the tables constructed by the 6th century Abbot of Scythia, Dionysis Exiguus. Nonetheless, different means of calculations continued in use throughout the Christian world.

In 1582 Gregory XIII (Pope of the Roman Catholic Church) completed a reconstruction of the Julian calendar and produced new Easter tables. One major difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendar is the "leap year rule". See our FAQ on Calendars for a description of the difference. Universal adoption of this Gregorian calendar occurred slowly. By the 1700's, though, most of western Europe had adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The Eastern Christian churches still determine the Easter dates using the older Julian Calendar method.

The usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules. The full moon involved is not the astronomical Full Moon but an ecclesiastical moon (determined from tables) that keeps, more or less, in step with the astronomical Moon.

The ecclesiastical rules are:

* Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;
* this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and
* the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.

resulting in that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The Gregorian dates for the ecclesiastical full moon come from the Gregorian tables. Therefore, the civil date of Easter depends upon which tables - Gregorian or pre-Gregorian - are used. The western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) Christian churches use the Gregorian tables; many eastern (Orthodox) Christian churches use the older tables based on the Julian Calendar.

In a congress held in 1923, the eastern churches adopted a modified Gregorian Calendar and decided to set the date of Easter according to the astronomical Full Moon for the meridian of Jerusalem. However, a variety of practices remain among the eastern churches.

There are three major differences between the ecclesiastical system and the astronomical system.

* The times of the ecclesiastical full moons are not necessarily identical to the times of astronomical Full Moons. The ecclesiastical tables did not account for the full complexity of the lunar motion.
* The vernal equinox has a precise astronomical definition determined by the actual apparent motion of the Sun as seen from the Earth. It is the precise time at which the apparent ecliptic longitude of the Sun is zero. (Yes, the Sun's ecliptic longitude, not its declination, is used for the astronomical definition.) This precise time shifts within the civil calendar very slightly from year to year. In the ecclesiastical system the vernal equinox does not shift; it is fixed at March 21 regardless of the actual motion of the Sun.
* The date of Easter is a specific calendar date. Easter starts when that date starts for your local time zone. The vernal equinox occurs at a specific date and time all over the Earth at once.

Inevitably, then, the date of Easter occasionally differs from a date that depends on the astronomical Full Moon and vernal equinox. In some cases this difference may occur in some parts of the world and not in others because two dates separated by the International Date Line are always simultaneously in progress on the Earth.

For example, take the year 1962. In 1962, the astronomical Full Moon occurred on March 21, UT=7h 55m - about six hours after astronomical equinox. The ecclesiastical full moon (taken from the tables), however, occurred on March 20, before the fixed ecclesiastical equinox at March 21. In the astronomical case, the Full Moon followed its equinox; in the ecclesiastical case, it preceded its equinox. Following the rules, Easter, therefore, was not until the Sunday that followed the next ecclesiastical full moon (Wednesday, April 18) making Easter Sunday, April 22.

Similarly, in 1954 the first ecclesiastical full moon after March 21 fell on Saturday, April 17. Thus, Easter was Sunday, April 18. The astronomical equinox also occurred on March 21. The next astronomical Full Moon occurred on April 18 at UT=5h. So in some places in the world Easter was on the same Sunday as the astronomical Full Moon.

The following are dates of Easter from 2008 to 2024:

2008 March 23
2009 April 12
2010 April 4
2011 April 24
2012 April 8
2013 March 31
2014 April 20
2015 April 5
2016 March 27
2017 April 16
2018 April 1
2019 April 21
2020 April 12
2021 April 4
2022 April 17
2023 April 9
2024 March 31

Computing the Date of Easter

The rule is that Easter is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21. The lunar cycles used by the ecclesiastical system are simple to program. The following algorithm will compute the date of Easter in the Gregorian Calendar system.

The algorithm uses the year, y, to give the month, m, and day, d, of Easter. The symbol * means multiply.

Please note the following: This is an integer calculation. All variables are integers and all remainders from division are dropped. For example, 7 divided by 3 is equal to 2 in integer arithmetic.

c = y / 100
n = y - 19 * ( y / 19 )
k = ( c - 17 ) / 25
i = c - c / 4 - ( c - k ) / 3 + 19 * n + 15
i = i - 30 * ( i / 30 )
i = i - ( i / 28 ) * ( 1 - ( i / 28 ) * ( 29 / ( i + 1 ) )
* ( ( 21 - n ) / 11 ) )
j = y + y / 4 + i + 2 - c + c / 4
j = j - 7 * ( j / 7 )
l = i - j
m = 3 + ( l + 40 ) / 44
d = l + 28 - 31 * ( m / 4 )

For example, using the year 2010,
y=2010,
c=2010/100=20,
n=2010 - 19 x (2010/19) = 2010 - 19 x (105) = 15, [see note above regarding integer calculations] etc. resulting in Easter on April 4, 2010.

Manic Mouse

03-22-2008, 11:37 AM

He wasn't "executed", he was Crucified.

A slight difference in terminology here. :Blah

Execution is the word given to the lawful killing of someone according to the prevailing governing body at the time (in this case - the Romans).

Methods of carrying out this execution include poison gas, lethal injection, hanging, beheading, impaling, electrocution and crucifiction. I'm sure there are a few others, but you get my drift ;)

@bej: After all that, I just have to ask.... exactly what date was Jesus executed on? :KICK ASS (Good Friday is one of those moving targets too.)

bejohnson

03-22-2008, 12:12 PM

...@bej: After all that, I just have to ask.... exactly what date was Jesus executed on? :KICK ASS (Good Friday is one of those moving targets too.)

The day that he physically died. :taunt :KICK ASS (WTFKoC :spin)

DemonicDerek

03-22-2008, 12:58 PM

What does chocolate, eggs, bunnies, and jesus have to do with each other??? :What the

it's explained in South Park... St. Peter is actually a rabit!

Lol that episode is hilarious.

ewilson92

03-22-2008, 01:13 PM

What does chocolate, eggs, bunnies, and jesus have to do with each other??? :What the

Jesus died for our sins, and was re-born. (so-to-speak)
The egg represents something that will soon be born. The bunny represents purity. (white like a bunny) You give them all, including chocolate, to children who are not yet held responsible for their sins. Children are the closest thing on this Earth that we have to Jesus himself.

DemonicDerek

03-22-2008, 01:14 PM

Happy Easter!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/123380632_2bd133e745.jpg

(Let's see who will actually punch that into a binary translator. ;))

it reads easter@egg. they should have changed the 7th line to 00000001 to create a space rather than an @

Tivon

03-22-2008, 05:19 PM

I've added the Happy Easter 3GM picture on the main page and added a link to this thread.
HAPPY EASTER!

nilzxx

03-22-2008, 05:26 PM

That's cool! Who made it?

Tivon

03-22-2008, 05:47 PM

That's cool! Who made it?

I've got crazy photoshop skills. :)

Funny thing is.. right after I finished it. I pulled my flash stick from the USB and the computer froze. I then was greeted with the "Bad Bios Checksum" screen and was freaking out. Loaded the Recovery disk and was backup and running. :Yea right

3dGameMan

03-23-2008, 11:27 AM

I've added the Happy Easter 3GM picture on the main page and added a link to this thread.
HAPPY EASTER!

Tivon, Very nice work :) I was happily surprised to see it there :Thumb

Happy Easter everyone :food

Manic Mouse

03-24-2008, 03:29 PM

A day late but, happy what?

http://cyberguy.dyndns.org/photo/convert.php?showorig=true&currname=happyeasterey7.jpg&currdir=misc&showvideo=ture

Salavat23

03-24-2008, 08:13 PM

Happy Easter everyone!