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    Do you write Easter Cards?

    Do you write Easter Cards?

    Before you say "No!" - please remember that Easter is also a pagan spring festival.

    #2
    Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

    Nobody? Really nobody?

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      #3
      Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

      Some years I've sent a few out in return to people who sent them to me. But it's not really a big thing. When I was a kid it was, though.
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        #4
        Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

        Pagan is a very broad term we don't all celebrate the same holidays. But personally no, I don't. We have other culturally based traditions here I observed when my grandparents were alive though.

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          #5
          Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

          I send food and flowers and ask (every year, and every year everyone says no) if they want some fertilized multicolor eggs.

          Does that count?

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            Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

            Easter is one of a vast number of holidays that I spend my day exerting entirely too much effort not asking locusts in human skin suits customers if they don't have anything better to do than wreck the store I work at. Like most other holidays, I'm generally not in a celebratory mood when it rolls around.
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              #7
              Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

              Originally posted by iris View Post
              Just a heads up, the forum isn't very active. Give it a few days for people to see a new post.
              OK! We'll see then.

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                Re: Do you write Easter Cards?

                Originally posted by Dunkeld View Post
                Nobody? Really nobody?
                Just a heads up, few things make people want to respond less than this kind of thing.

                I don't celebrate Easter, it's a Christian holiday. Sure you can call it a pagan spring festival all up and down, but the actual evidence for that is kind of nebulous. When we're establishing pagan traditions on the basis of ethnolinguistics and have next to no clue about the actual practices, I don't feel it's fair to "reclaim" it. Ostara is good enough, and I don't send cards for that either. The wheel of the year is mostly a modern construct and modern pagan practice has very little in common with whatever ancient pagan spring festival preceded Easter.
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