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someone texted me about easter [ shout-out to a certain vampire ] and i realized ive never actually put much thought into it before bc i think its pretty morbid
considering what had to happen to j to make easter a thing in the first place
which was that he was tortured and murdered
but then i realized its kind of like a second bday i guess which is a little bit funny

the egg thing has always confused me tho
so i looked it up last night and it still doesnt make sense to me that its tied to j coming back??
i guess bc an egg represents life??
but why paint them with polka dots and stripes and then hide them?

anyway its technically gonna be my first easter bc lu hates it
so im not sure what i should do for it if anything, since its in that weird middle-ground of sort of being my holiday but not really
bake a cake maybe????
anyone else here that celebrates it, what do you do??

also!! the shelter i work at is doing a doggie easter egg hunt (+ bbq), where they put out a bunch of those weird plastic eggs with dog treats and other stuff in them
theyre going to do it tomorrow at the dog park in heropa and its open to anyone who wants to come out and hunt eggs with a shelter dog or bring their own dog
the only thing they ask is maybe buy a hot dog while youre there or consider donating so :) see you there??

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[extremeteenbible]

WAIT JUST A PAN-DARNED MINUTE--!!!!
i thought Easter was a spring/fertility holiday
what with all the eggs, rabbits, baby chickens, etc

You're telling me it's about a guy getting TORTURED AND MURDERED???

[ He has only the vaguest understanding of who Jesus was. ]

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i think its both?? depending on what you celebrate???

[extremeteenbible]

well **I** don't wanna celebrate a murder! I'm not into that Dark Brotherhood crap.

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well the easter part is about him coming back to life
good friday is the day he was killed, then sunday is easter, which is supposedly when he came back
but lu says it actually happened in the summer so

[extremeteenbible]

It took 3 whole days for someone to cast a resurrection? What kind of shitty clerics did they have on hand back then??

[ Says the shittiest cleric. ]

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[ hahaha bless merle. ]

stuff like that doesnt exist where im from! i mean, theres no magic that regular people can use that can bring back the dead

[extremeteenbible]

[ squiiiiiiiiiint ]

so how'd J do it?

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hes different from anyone else
special, you know??

[extremeteenbible]

y, bc his dad was a god?

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'the' god where im from!

anyway what the heck is up with that dark brotherhood stuff

[extremeteenbible]

OH yeah i keep forgetting about all you monotheistic people.

[ What's the fun if you can't pick one from a pantheon of many gods? ]

iDK, my man... they comne on the network asking people to do a murder... that doesn't sound like my kind of worship

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hahaha sorry
tbf there are a lot of religions where im from and most of them arent monotheistic
'the' god is the only one i know actually exists tho

definitely not :( idk why anyone would want to

[extremeteenbible]

that's so weird to me... to believe in a god but you don't know whether they exist or not..,.....
idk why all those other gods are so quiet to their followers.

EH you get all kinds, unfortunately. even the Evil aligned ones. there're plenty of liches and necromancers on my world.

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i think it would be just as weird to people where im from to have confirmation that theyre real
theyre all supposed to take it on faith i think

do they murder people???

[extremeteenbible]

Faith is all well and good, but it's easier to believe when you have a little proof.

most liches do murder folks, but not all of them do. They're mostly just concerned with gaining power and keeping it

[fettering]

i feel like then its not belief so much as proof
but on the other hand, my understanding of religion in general is pretty limited

#yikes
its not illegal??? i mean youd think if theres really that many of them thered be laws??

[extremeteenbible]

I MEAN... law enforcemnt isn't really a... *thing* on Faerun? like towns have sherrifs and stuff, but largely a lot of shit happens anyway.

[fettering]

that is pretty scary
kind of everyone has to learn self-defense at least i guess???

[extremeteenbible]

yeah, pretty much. between the monsters and the evil people...

Gues that's why there's so many more adventurers there.

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[applewatcher]

We hope you'll have a nice day, all the same.

[extremeteenbible]

IT'S YOU!!!!!

while i have you here, what are your thoughts on this whole Easter thing?

[applewatcher]

Indeed it is.

As I understand it, we have a similar concept. The Unholy Matron's murder was a sacrifice that ensured her ascension to the Void and to godhood.

The only other god I can think of that rose upon death is Talos, and he died of old age at 106.

So you may be right in your initial assessment.

[extremeteenbible]

so this Jeesus guy isn't even special for coming back from the dead!

these people would be better served if they opened their theistic horizons a bit...

[applewatcher]

Well, lich certainly do that all the time. Gods, though, most simply began as an aspect of the universal interplay between order and chaos.

I agree, though I understand the draw of a welcoming religious community.

[extremeteenbible]

That's something I'd like to build in this world... a place for people of different faiths to come together and practice freely.

Though-- no offense, but no murder religions allowed.

[ Since he TOTALLY DIDN'T talk to this anon about his church idea. ]

[applewatcher]

[It's definitely the first time they've conversed on the subject!]

We did note that idea of yours some weeks ago. We wish you luck with its construction.

No offense taken. We understand the sentiment. And besides that, it would be just as disruptive to our rites as to yours.

[extremeteenbible]

Good. Thanks for the support, I s'pose!

[applewatcher]

You're very welcome. Enjoy your day.

[extremeteenbible]

You too, Mr. Murder club guy!

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[specialise]

educate me
who is this j
then i can tell you about the egg

[ she actually can't ... because she doesn't know what easter is. but let a girl live. ]

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js my template! have you seen the religious figure some churches use here, the person nailed to the cross?? thats him
not exactly the most flattering way to remember him but people are kind of weird about him

[baphlement]

Hey what do you think about those little Bwitter egg faces, before the profile pic goes up? Is that like birthing a second life thing, too?

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ive never used bwitter!! or twitter back home for that matter
but it kind of is right?? a digital rebirthing....

[baphlement]

"To rebirth, is to rebrand."

- Baphomet

video. private. WILDLY ALARMED.

[functusofficio]

Your second birthday is about ... your template is J, correct?

Your template being tortured and murdered? This is a holiday?

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[ oh!!! his fave person!! josh flips the video on, waving both bandaged hands happily.

a pause, then a dismissive little wave of one hand, signing as he speaks as usual. ]

Yehoshua's my template. J. But the holiday is technically about the day he came back from the dead. They do seem to call the day he died Good Friday, though, so I'm not really sure how it works. It's weird to me.

[functusofficio]

Oh. That's.

[ She pauses, considers, still fairly confused and not thrilled about this all. ]

Well, I suppose celebrating his resurrection would be understandable for a holiday, but it all still seems quite strange.

Still, the event by the shelter does seem like it would be quite a nice way to spend an afternoon.

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Yeah.. Lu hates it. I'd never really given it much thought before coming here, because Lu is aggressively anti-Christian holidays. The only one he does anything with is Christmas, and that's because he made it my birthday.

[ but he brightens then, grinning briefly. ]

I think so, too! I think the dogs will have a good time, and maybe we'll get a few adoptions out of it.

[functusofficio]

I'm afraid I still only have a slight understanding of Christian holidays, here. They seem --

[ Ingrained in the culture? Odd? She's not sure the words. ]

But at least some good will come from this one, if you can find homes for some of the dogs.