what did you get in your easter baskets

[#FF0000]

my mom made me a basket for some reason and i discovered that it is full of rum

so this is a good day

[Left Leanings]

I still give and receive treats at Easter. I got a cream egg Easter egg, and some milk chocolates. Oh, and two cans of lager :D

[Deicide]

Well.. In Lithuania (and Northern Europe in general, I think?) there was never this whole chocolate egg thing that exists in America and the UK. Traditionally, in Lithuania, people get together with family and paint regular eggs, with all sorts of designs.. like these below. I don't have any family in England.. so I did (and got) nothing this year ;) I just had several, rather long, phone conversations..

http://javlb.org/educat/marguciai/velykos01.jpg

http://www.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/2387/2387699.jpg

[Ele'ill]

my mom made me a basket for some reason and i discovered that it is full of rum

so this is a good day


Release the Kraken

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Well.. In Lithuania (and Northern Europe in general, I think?) there was never this whole chocolate egg thing that exists in America and the UK. Traditionally, in Lithuania, people get together with family and paint regular eggs, with all sorts of designs.. like these below. I don't have any family in England.. so I did (and got) nothing this year ;)

http://javlb.org/educat/marguciai/velykos01.jpg

http://www.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/2387/2387699.jpg

I got (and did) nothing, too . . . . . . . . .

I think we finally have something in common
http://data.whicdn.com/images/23737501/tumblr_lztfdg0sLx1qdmq4bo1_500_thumb.gif

[Princess Luna]

Beef Jerky, nothing says happy Easter like strips of dried cow flesh

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

My family is jewish, so I got a matzah.
Bummer.

[ColonelCossack]

I got too much chocolate.

[Luc]

Is easter today?

[ColonelCossack]

Yes

[Bostana]

My family took me to church and gave a me a 20

[Bostana]

My family is jewish, so I got a matzah.
Bummer.

Happy Passover,
nSJzchaQYd0

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Happy Passover,
nSJzchaQYd0

Dat sun.

[Prometeo liberado]

I got a basket of frozen shit carved out to look like chocolate bunnies. And a book entitled "A losers guide to the theory and practice of Rosterism". Ill wait for the movie and eat the bunnies.:(

[Arlekino]

Well.. In Lithuania (and Northern Europe in general, I think?) there was never this whole chocolate egg thing that exists in America and the UK. Traditionally, in Lithuania, people get together with family and paint regular eggs, with all sorts of designs.. like these below. I don't have any family in England.. so I did (and got) nothing this year ;) I just had several, rather long, phone conversations..

http://javlb.org/educat/marguciai/velykos01.jpg

http://www.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/2387/2387699.jpg

I do remember those days we used play for few kapeikas (Russian coin) rolling eggs it was fun.

[Railyon]

Chocolate eggs like a boss

[Ostrinski]

Today I had dinner with my mom's family in celebration of easter as well as my graduation. So I got a kickass dinner, pretty good conversation, and 400 bucks.

[Agent Ducky]

I just sat in the back of the car doing AP US History homework while my parents drove my family home from a weeklong road trip up the west coast of 'Murica.

I did get a chocolate ice cream at Wendy's and also a slushy from a gas station along the way.... It was nommy.

[Drosophila]

AP US History

I seriously feel bad for you

[Agent Ducky]

I seriously feel bad for you

Don't. Call me a nerd but I actually enjoy that class. My teacher is great.

[Dogs On Acid]

http://www.phixion.be/assets/images/galleries/182/guylian.jpg

That was one of them.

[No_Leaders]

I got peeps, chocolate bunny, nestle crunch easter eggs, jellybeans. On a side note i got dragged to church this morning with the family. The pastor was senile, he wished everyone a "happy thanksigiving"

[Dogs On Acid]

I got peeps, chocolate bunny, nestle crunch easter eggs, jellybeans. On a side note i got dragged to church this morning with the family. The pastor was senile, he wished everyone a "happy thanksigiving"

Thanksgiving? WTF? I'm not American and even I know that's on November...

Anyway, u religious?

[No_Leaders]

Thanksgiving? WTF? I'm not American and even I know that's on November...

Anyway, u religious?

Haha seriously! it was one of those wtf moments, i think i sat there for a minute trying to figure out if i really heard that right. No, i was raised christian as a kid but as i got older i just didn't really see the point of it. I guess it was around the time i first read Karl Marx when i was 14 and then Bakunin I started seeing religion as more of a tool used to indoctrinate and brainwash. Everyone's entitled to their personal beliefs but i can't see the rational of thinking a book written by man is somehow the word of God. I mean if you think about the notions of 'God's' came about with early civilization mostly used as a way to justify the things they saw. I.e. the change from daylight to night time. That's the origins of the 'Sun God's' and what not with ancient Egypt.
Of course having those views really puts me at odds with my mother, she's really religious also very liberal mind you.
Sorry for the rant there :) What about you?

[Lilith]

Easter baskets?! :lol: You have got to be shitting me. Isn't that stuff for little kids?

[Dogs On Acid]

Easter baskets?! :lol: You have got to be shitting me. Isn't that stuff for little kids?

I'm a big kid, do you have a problem with that? :lol:

[Dogs On Acid]

Haha seriously! it was one of those wtf moments, i think i sat there for a minute trying to figure out if i really heard that right. No, i was raised christian as a kid but as i got older i just didn't really see the point of it. I guess it was around the time i first read Karl Marx when i was 14 and then Bakunin I started seeing religion as more of a tool used to indoctrinate and brainwash. Everyone's entitled to their personal beliefs but i can't see the rational of thinking a book written by man is somehow the word of God. I mean if you think about the notions of 'God's' came about with early civilization mostly used as a way to justify the things they saw. I.e. the change from daylight to night time. That's the origins of the 'Sun God's' and what not with ancient Egypt.
Of course having those views really puts me at odds with my mother, she's really religious also very liberal mind you.
Sorry for the rant there :) What about you?

I never grew up with religion imposed on me. My mother is agnostic and my father is atheist.

Growing up seeing my father working as a builder with severe health problems and my mother being unemployed most of the time, made me see life with a more "down to earth" (sorry for the pun) point of view. I can't really explain it, but I've always seen religion as something that the ignorant hold on to so they can find some sort of meaning to their suffering, my father completely rejected this and took things into his own hands.

I've also always been really interested in science since I was a little kid, and anything that rejected scientific proof or analysis kind of put me off, hence why today I'm a skeptic.

I guess that kind of rubbed off on me, and once I read Marx for the first time at the age of 16, that kind of solidified my rejection of religion.

[gorillafuck]

chocolate and jellybeans

[RedAnarchist]

I'm a big kid, do you have a problem with that? :lol:

Even bigger once you've finished off that egg of yours a few posts above.

[Railyon]

Easter baskets?! :lol: You have got to be shitting me. Isn't that stuff for little kids?

Says someone who most likely watches My Little Pony.

[Thirsty Crow]

my mom made me a basket for some reason and i discovered that it is full of rum

so this is a good day
I got an easter basket in my easter basket so I can put something nice in that new easter basket for next easter, as a present for my folks.

Or better yet, I got a new government decree enabling me to volunteer and work for a company while getting not a wage, but an allowance (paid by the government) in the amount of about one third of the median wage (the special scheme for people fresh out of college to be put into practice, whadda ya know, just one I'll be on my way out).

I didn't get jack shit.

[Lilith]

Says someone who most likely watches My Little Pony.

Never have, actually. I never ever heard of it until I started seeing shit about it on the internet. Why would you think that?

[No_Leaders]

I never grew up with religion imposed on me. My mother is agnostic and my father is atheist.

Growing up seeing my father working as a builder with severe health problems and my mother being unemployed most of the time, made me see life with a more "down to earth" (sorry for the pun) point of view. I can't really explain it, but I've always seen religion as something that the ignorant hold on to so they can find some sort of meaning to their suffering, my father completely rejected this and took things into his own hands.

I've also always been really interested in science since I was a little kid, and anything that rejected scientific proof or analysis kind of put me off, hence why today I'm a skeptic.

I guess that kind of rubbed off on me, and once I read Marx for the first time at the age of 16, that kind of solidified my rejection of religion.


I know how you feel in terms of your view on religion. I just see it as something people feverishly cling onto to give their life meaning. It's the same way as how people try and hold onto material possessions as if they somehow define your life and worth. I feel sorry that people feel the need to live their life by a book of stories written by man. And try to justify hatred and vile bigotry by the same works of man. I think it really boils down to people not only being afraid but feel like if there's nothing else except this very life, then somehow it means there's no meaning to life? Which is a silly notion all together. Well you're lucky your parents are more open minded, i'm pretty much the black sheep of the family hahah. Ah well makes things interesting i suppose.

[Left Leanings]

Haha seriously! it was one of those wtf moments, i think i sat there for a minute trying to figure out if i really heard that right. No, i was raised christian as a kid but as i got older i just didn't really see the point of it. I guess it was around the time i first read Karl Marx when i was 14 and then Bakunin I started seeing religion as more of a tool used to indoctrinate and brainwash. Everyone's entitled to their personal beliefs but i can't see the rational of thinking a book written by man is somehow the word of God. I mean if you think about the notions of 'God's' came about with early civilization mostly used as a way to justify the things they saw. I.e. the change from daylight to night time. That's the origins of the 'Sun God's' and what not with ancient Egypt.
Of course having those views really puts me at odds with my mother, she's really religious also very liberal mind you.
Sorry for the rant there :) What about you?


I never grew up with religion imposed on me. My mother is agnostic and my father is atheist.

Growing up seeing my father working as a builder with severe health problems and my mother being unemployed most of the time, made me see life with a more "down to earth" (sorry for the pun) point of view. I can't really explain it, but I've always seen religion as something that the ignorant hold on to so they can find some sort of meaning to their suffering, my father completely rejected this and took things into his own hands.

I've also always been really interested in science since I was a little kid, and anything that rejected scientific proof or analysis kind of put me off, hence why today I'm a skeptic.

I guess that kind of rubbed off on me, and once I read Marx for the first time at the age of 16, that kind of solidified my rejection of religion.


I know how you feel in terms of your view on religion. I just see it as something people feverishly cling onto to give their life meaning. It's the same way as how people try and hold onto material possessions as if they somehow define your life and worth. I feel sorry that people feel the need to live their life by a book of stories written by man. And try to justify hatred and vile bigotry by the same works of man. I think it really boils down to people not only being afraid but feel like if there's nothing else except this very life, then somehow it means there's no meaning to life? Which is a silly notion all together. Well you're lucky your parents are more open minded, i'm pretty much the black sheep of the family hahah. Ah well makes things interesting i suppose.

My experiences are similar.

I was taken to church as a kid by my mother, though my dad, being an atheist, never went. Mum was never particularly zealous about religion, and no longer attends church herself. I have asked her why she took me and my bro, and she just said she felt it was a good idea.

At the age of 16, I stopped attending regularly, and by 18, dropped out of the whole Holy Moses thing altogether. I started getting interested in politics significantly whilst in sixth-form at school, and throughout my time at university.

I adopted a position of agnosticism for a while, but moved to full-on atheism. I used to be a member of the National Secular Society, the most militant organization in the British freethought and humanist movement.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I seriously feel bad for you
I took AP US and European History. had i not, i probably wouldnt have heard of labor struggle in classes. sure, its all from a bourgeois perspective, but its so much better than the regular history classes.


i mean for fucks sake we watched kenneth clark docs(bourgiest of bourgie). in AP EU.


such an interest in history is probably why when i read the communist manifesto for the first time, did things actually make sense. sure, i ddint get it all, but at least in those classes they are somewhat thought provoking.




as for easter, 'my' company gave us workers an 'employee appreciation' pizza lunch. whoop-de-fucking-doo. i forgot it was easter until i got to work anyways.

[Railyon]

Why would you think that?

"Nerd" stereotype. Or more like archetype.

[Raúl Duke]

what did you get in your easter baskets

Nothing

Forever Alone

[Igor]

i pretty much forgot it was easter, it's a pretty useless holiday for me