Out and About

I spent most of today away from home, trying to chase down a pirate patch for my left eye and doing other ocular-related activities.

Do you know how hard it is to find an old-fashioned eyepatch? Even the medical supply place in town didn’t have any. I am now working via the Internet, with the best bet being an accessory that attaches to the lens of my glasses.

I also had to get a prescription for new eyeglasses and take it to the optician’s. This set is only temporary — presumably, when my condition settles down into whatever the new “normal” will be, I’ll be getting another pair of specs, with a prescription for the left eye that is very different from the right.

Because of all this extracurricular activity, posting has been light today. I’m working on a major report, but can’t possibly finish it before tomorrow.

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There will be a story in tonight’s news feed about an elementary school in Alabama that has banned the use of the word “Easter” in school. The kids can have a “bunny”, and “eggs”, and “baskets”, and so on, but the faculty and staff can’t precede any of those words with the dreaded E-word. The rationale for the decision is that the school wants to “honor religious diversity”.

If there were such a thing as “Ramadan eggs”, I bet those would be OK…

I was reminded of that story this afternoon, when a checkout clerk in the supermarket wished a customer a “happy holiday”. I suppose she was playing it safe — Easter or Passover; she had them both covered. There aren’t any other holidays coming up, no Eid or Diwali that I know of. Or is there an Afrocentric version of Easter, some sort of Kwanzaa with bunnies?

I’m used to the purging of Christmas, but the reaming-out of Easter is a new one to me. Unlike the word “Christmas”, the word “Easter” is devoid of any reference to Jesus or Christianity. It’s an Indo-European word dating back to pagan antiquity, and refers to the festival of the spring equinox. It’s cognate with the word “east” and also related to words for “dawn” in various European languages.

The word for “Easter” in many languages, however, is a variant of “Pasche”, which of course is derived from the Aramaic word for “Passover”. In other words, it’s — gasp! — Jewish!

Now we can’t have that, can we?

Better to stick with “Spring Festival”. That’s nice and inclusive.

16 thoughts on “Out and About

  1. In Australia, the “Religion of Peace and Love” will prostitute herself in taking money from terminally dhimmy CADBURY whose entire offerings of chocolate Eastereggs will be HALAL certified. Making money from a Christian celebration – talk about “inclusive pimping”.

    Psssst: Cadbury: not a single Halal contaminated chocolate easter egg will even get near my lips, let alone pass them. So there !

  2. I have been having an ongoing discussion with my 28 year old son about the drastic changes in our culture just since his birth. We each try to find examples in the current culture of change like this Easter story. It seems pretty clear that anything with a Christian bent is being shunned, even though as you aptly pointed out the whole Easter egg thing is really a pagen tradition. The bunny and the eggs are a pagen thing about the rejuvination of the earth in spring, not about the ressurection of Jesus Christ. But, why let facts get in the way of Christian bashing?
    The readers here might also want to play this mind game. 20 years ago did you see ads for “male enhancement” products or the graphic ads for pads and tampons?
    I recall back in 1991 when Bill Clinton was running for POTUS his going on MTV and being asked whether he wore boxers or tightie whities. I can even recall what I was doing when this came across my TV screen; I was ironing. I stopped dead in my tracks and said uh-oh…
    Can you imagine any POTUS prior to Bill Clinton answering a question like that? I mark the fast decay of our culture to that MTV appearance. That is where the filthy underbelly of our culture not only revealed itself but became popular.
    The most powerful man in the world was reduced to discussing his sexual proclivities:
    “I did not have sex with that woman.” Which, of course, was a lie.
    The attack on Easter is just one more nail in the coffin of Judeo-Christian culture.
    I do not have any anomosity toward the principal of the elementary school in Alabama that decided to ban the word Easter. She is a product of her education and environment. I do hold anomosity toward the people that educated her.

    • interesting… does your son have any view on the demographic changes taking place? I’m only a couple of years older, but find there is a gap – not only between older and younger, but between East and West. Here in Eastern Europe (and among Eastern European immigrants in Western Europe), you’ll find a lot more opponents of mass immigration among the younger generation, like me, than in the younger generation in Western Europe (with a few notable exceptions among the latter). I’m wondering why this could be… that they’ve found immigrants to be so brilliant, or been sucked into leftist thinking? Or that they’re afraid to speak out knowing how ‘offended’ their enriched friends would be? Or are they too busy watching MTV and other “enriching” television? I used to be a lot more “tolerant” than I currently am, but my attitudes have changed A LOT – possibly since I stopped watching television. I also notice that among my friends, those who are the most liberal are those who watch a lot of TV…

      As for MTV, I’ve also been wondering about it, and the effects it’s intended to have. Particularly why it and other music channels are blurting out “ghetto” music 24/7 – even here in Eastern Europe, where there’s still hardly a non-white person to be seen… are they on some kind of a mission, in the process drowning out any decent rock music that might make a change to the “look at me & my bling bling” videos currently dominating the airwaves??

      • To Green Infidel in Poland. Here in Britain there has been a massive brainwashing campaign going on since the 1960s by the Marxists to the effect that there are no racial differences and all cultures are equally valid. Anybody who questions this, like Dr Frank Ellis, is an out and out racist and must keep quiet. He was just forced to resign from his university post. However, no, not all young people believe this. But there is little they can do. You must remember that they are being constantly observed by their teachers, their employers, their peers, especially those of non-English ancestry for signs of any deviation from the mulitcultural agenda. Big brother is watching. As you will see from the fate of the EDL even those who voice genuine concerns about islamification are rapidly silenced. In a recent survey carried out by an Asian it was stated that only a quarter of the English population believed you had to be white to be English (forget the fact that the English are meant to be the Angelcynn, the kith and kin of the Angles). However, I wonder whether this was a secret survey. If an Asian gentleman asked me the same question I would be terrified of giving my true opinion in case he called the police and had me done for racism. 1984 is here in England. However, I am afraid that this demonstrates the sheer arrogance of the Asians who have settled here. I wonder what his reaction would have been if I had asked if you have to be brown to be Indian?

        Well done Baron for your erudition. I suppose that Easter is really the festival of the Golden Dawn but only in Greece these days. We are waiting for a golden dawn here but it just seems to get darker and darker. If you are of English ancestry, Baron, then you must know that your home country is all but lost. Here white self-genocide is probably more advanced than on the Continent. To show you how near the end we are, I have just been listening to Khalid Mahmoud the mp for Perry Bar in Birmingham explaining to Russia Today that many “British” fighters returning from Syria ( sounds as if they have been armed to the teeth by Al Qaeda) are bringing their weapons back ( no security checks at Heathrow then) and are bent on continuing the fight in the land of their birth – but not allegiance. Mahmoud explained that muslisms see an attack against Islam anywhere as an attack against the whole muslim community and of course the British have been so horrible to them over the last 20 years. Birmingham was, of course, Enoch Powell’s native city. A prophet is not without honour save in his own land. Why is it that brilliant people are treated in this way.? Could it be that the dim and greedy shabby lot that have constituted our mps for all of my 60 plus years don’t like to be told the truth by people of such high intellect.

  3. If you remember it was the Feminista who started this with their ‘manager’ being a sexist word (instead of being a word derived from the Latin ‘manus’ [hand])

    The problem with institutionalized ignorance is that it breeds further ignorance and follows it up with predjudice (remember ‘racial predudice’) based on what are essentially lies

    Easter is the anglicism for ‘Ishtar’, the later name for the Sumerian ‘Semiramis’ wife of Nimrod and mother/wife of Tammuz. She was the architypal earthmother goddess who somehow crept into the Christian calender as a substitute for ‘Passover’. presumable sometime after the Jewish ‘Bar Kochbar’ revolt so infuriated the Romans that anything the slightest bit Jewish had to be dropped out of proto-Christianity to facilitate survival.

    We celebrated Passover last night, the 15th day of the first month, we roasted our lamb on a spit and spent the evening around the camp fire in a picnic area about a mile from Gaza. The moon was full and bright and the site was full of moon shadows….. It was stunningly beautiful.

    There were about 5 families present, with people from Russia, Brazil, Argentina, North Carolina, Minnesota, California, UK and Sabra (native Israelis).

    • MC —

      It’s important to emphasize that any relationship between “Ishtar” or “Astarte” and “Easter” is speculative, and not a confirmed etymology.

      What is certain is that “Easter” was said by the Venerable Bede to be derived from the pagan word “Ēostre”, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility whose festival was celebrated at the spring equinox. The word is cognate with all the Germanic words for “East”, and is thought to derive from a (hypothetical) Common Germanic root Austrōn.

      Moving further back, the Indo-European base is thought to be aus-, from which are derived the Latin (aurōra), Greek (αυγή), Lithuanian (aušrà), and Sanskrit (usrā) words for east, dawn, morning, and other related concepts.

      “Ishtar”, however, is an East Semitic word, Akkadian or Sumerian, and hence not Indo-European. Any etymological connection with the IE aus- stem must remain conjectural, since it cannot be historically documented.

      • I concede that the Etymological relationship is difficult to prove, especially since the word in greek (translated ‘Easter’ in KJV) ‘pasch’a G3957 in Strongs. However the connection is widely accepted because of the obviously pagan flavour of some of the Easter traditions:

        http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/03/easter-pagan-symbolism

        “All the fun things about Easter are pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures.”

        The connection between Eostre as the northern version of Astarte/Istar can be posited on the idea that both were representative of the same “fertility goddess” whose rites were celebrated at the spring equinox

  4. @Babs—
    What makes a chocolate egg halal? Do you have to make sure the chocolate suffers while it is being made?

    • I think the cow that gave the milk used in the egg has to have its throat cut and bled to death afterwards. Do we have a choice as to whether we eat halal eggs or not, no I didn’t think so.
      If you are a muslim and traces of pork are found in the halal chicken you are served in school then it is an outrage. But if you are a Brit who believes in compassion for animals you don’t get a look in, even if backed up by the racist RSPCA.

      There is a green hill far away,
      Outside a city wall,
      Where the dear Lord was crucified,
      Who died to save us all.

      We may not know, we cannot tell,
      What pains He had to bear;
      But we believe it was for us
      He hung and suffered there.

      He died that we might be forgiven,
      He died to make us good,
      That we might go at last to Heav’n,
      Saved by His precious blood.

      I shall be singing this tomorrow, probably but wondering for how much longer. There are those preaching now who speak openly of the Christian persecution to come. At present, as has been explained, they are just trying to totally marginalise Christianity. By the way I heard that Christian prayers are no longer allowed in the open at public events in the US. Are muslims allowed to block the streets by praying there I wonder.

  5. Easter is one of what should be six critical and important celebrations of Christ. It is a secondary interpretation (gnostic) to make it paramount; this boilerplate interpretaion is now pretty much universally accepted. (Important days are Birth, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, Pentacost, not to mention lack of interest in his verbal teachings).

    I find it quite wonderful how early European rites like bunnies, eggs and spiffy clothes were incorporated into it. The pagan joy of spring, a celebration of the rousting from the death of winter into the joy of reawakening life… seems to join seamlessly with the rising of Christ. Or it used to until post modern fusion cuisine.

    Easter eggs aren’t a bit dangerous unless you eat too much chocolate, but too many Ramadan eggs–now that should be a concern–as they do hatch and commonly form into cultists.

    All totalitarian-based holidays/celebrations must be banned from all schools a healthy society. Instead, we get the inversion; anything that helps break down society shall be introduced.

  6. Making Ramadan Eggs is simplicity itself: simple slice the top off a soft boiled egg.

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