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[ekwy]

We went to see my grandparents today. And I got a chocolate bunny! I love chocolate bunnies. Last year, grandma gave my little cousins one each, and I got some fancy orange chocolate instead, and I was so disappointed. I wanted a chocolate bunny, dammit! So this year, I got one, and now I've eaten it, and I fell kind of nauseous, but... Mmm,

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[puredeadthingy]

I think you should pay for a new laptop screen for me. *wipes water-and-ricecake off the moniter*

[ekwy]

I shouldn't be allowed to make up stuff after I've eaten an entire chocolate bunny... People always get so angry and demand that I pay for new keyboards and screens and stuff. And I'm poor.

But hey, can YOU come up with an explanation that makes more sense? And don't give me that "oh, it's a pagan Spring festival, fertility, blah, blah, blah," because that's just plain silly, and I don't buy it one bit.

[puredeadthingy]

OK...um...Jesus did not rise again, because he was dead. Instead, a family of rabbits who lived in that cave pushed him out, and everyone thought they were special for witnessing the son of God get up. Thus, chocolate bunnies with slightly disgruntled expressions, as if to say 'God, I wish humans could understand me right about now.'

[puredeadthingy]

And the eggs-well, no-one knew much about anatomy then. >.>

[eryn111]

I got a chocolate chicken. My friend says that it's easter related because "It is actually a little known fact that Jesus' last supper included chocolate chickens as the dessert. The man himself found them to be a lovely delicacy and wished only to have a few of them left in the cave with him. Today we eat chocolate chickens so Jesus can live vicariously through us."

I like my other friend's explanation. She explained the threefold thing by saying Jesus was an egg, with the shell, white, and yolk being the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I still wonder what the air bubble is. And honestly, that poor chick has to breathe in air that came from THE INSIDE OF IT'S MOTHER.

That is all.

[elfie_samurai]

I got a normal chocolate bunny and a LITTLE CHOCOLATE BUNNY PLAYING THE ACCORDION OMG. AND a chocolate Buddha. How's that for Easter symbolism? =P

I read somewhere that bunnies and eggs are part of Easter because the Celtic goddess Easter/Eostre/Ostara saved a bird whose wings had been frozen from the cold by turning it into a rabbit, but since it was originally a bird it could still lay eggs. =P

As for another theory, a kid on my MSN list explained yesterday in his tagline: "Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back as a friendly rabbit that hides colored eggs."

Anyway, your theory = TEH WIN!

*scurries off to eat chocolate*

[ekwy]

That was a Celtic myth? I've heard it too, but a Greek version, with the Goddess of Something-or-other that took pity on a bird that had had its nest stepped on by the great hunter Orion. To revenge on Orion she turned the bird into a rabbit, which set a trap that led to Orion's death by scorpion. However the rabbit still missed being able to lay eggs, so the Goddess said "fine, you can, but only once a year, you spoiled animal, you." I always liked that story.

But the MSN kid has got a valid point, I think.

[elfie_samurai]

It was an email my dad sent me... Maybe it said "pagan" and not "Celtic." =P Can't remember. Whatever. I like your story, though. =)