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Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: riverhousebill ()
Date: March 07, 2009 05:47PM

at a candy store one Easter season, I heard a philosophical debate about
Jeus-themed confections. "It's just not right to eat a symbol of God,"
one women said as she gazed at a chocolate Christ on the cress.
A man agreed: "It;s sacrilegious. An abomination." An employee
overheard and jumped in. "I"ll ask my boss to take that stuff
off the shelf, she clucked.

I was tempted to say what I was thinking: "Actually, the holiest
ritual of cristian worship involves eating Christ's body and blood."
But I held my tongue: I was not in the mood for a brouhaha.

Where do you stand on this issue? Do you or do you not want to
eat a symbolic embodiment of your deity? If you do , what food
will you choose?

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Anonymous User ()
Date: March 08, 2009 03:09AM

I love ingesting the scents & tastes of the one I worship. grinning smiley

I find some Christian rituals rather bizarre & odd and it amuses me they find it so easy to judge other more "primitive" religions (or are so quick to refer to the "Greek Myths" but bristle when anyone refers to their myths for what they are) but I don't see anything wrong with them (people should be free to do what they wish in the privacy of their own churches as long as their not hurting anyone).

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: la_veronique ()
Date: March 10, 2009 05:17AM

hmmmm

raw chocolate easter bunnies

is one thing

but....

( fill in the blank)

is another

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Jgunn ()
Date: March 11, 2009 11:22PM

this thread makes me think of this cartoon smiling smiley



...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 12, 2009 03:31AM

..rabbits have it tough, but keep going about their business...

The 'rotating rabbit logo' goes back at least 1400 years.

[felice.naomi.googlepages.com]

..it's a circle.. life that is



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2009 03:38AM by loeve.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 12, 2009 04:17PM

..still trying to figure out the symbology of the three hares..

[www.threehares.net]

..the triangle formed in the center by bunny ears seems most prominent in the early Chinese cave drawing. I gather the triangle shape is commonly associated with male and the circle with female, and that the three legs of the triangle can also be thought of as a trilogy which can be reinterpreted in many ways going from culture to culture, thus its borrowing far and wide.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Tamukha ()
Date: March 12, 2009 08:25PM

loeve,

I never gave this motif that much thought, but now, because of your posts, it's become my springtime zahir. I would have been perfectly content to just appreciate instances of it in art books or pamphlets or whatever, but nooooo. Now, thanks to you, it's going to be the first thing I notice in church windows on a-b-c vacations or ask about at foreign museums. Until tour guides, docents, and close family friends begin to think me unhinged. Darn you, loeve. Darn you to heck.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 12, 2009 09:15PM

..glad you like them Tamukha, the early Buddhist examples are beautiful, imo

[www.threerabbits.net]

"Guan Youhui, a retired researcher from the Dunhuang Academy, spent 50 years studying the decorative patterns in the Mogao Caves. He believes the three rabbits image came to Dunhuang indirectly from the West (Central Asia) by way of Central China—even though no ancient examples of the motif have been found in Central China. "The three rabbits are just a small part of the whole decorative art of Dunhuang, and when we look at the surrounding patterns on the ceilings we notice that a lot came from the West. But the ceiling designs were not transported as a whole to Dunhuang. The local artists chose the artistic elements and assembled them into the Dunhuang designs. The rabbits—like many images in Chinese folk art that carry auspicious symbolism—represent peace and tranquility."

.."The rabbits... represent peace and tranquility" --cool

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Tamukha ()
Date: March 13, 2009 12:19AM

loeve,

[www.chinesezodiac.com]

Note what it says about rabbits needing cohesion in familial and friendly relationships. Perhaps the conjoined trifecta of bunnies is a kind of circle talisman, an unbroken wheel of fealty which nothing can breach?

This thread is officially, irretrievably hijacked . . .

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Anonymous User ()
Date: March 13, 2009 02:21AM

"my arse hurts" *snort* that's funny every time i see it. hee hee.

i've seen little chocolate earth balls at the health food store. cute.
round fruit looks like the planet too. good stuff.

no chocolate christ on the cross for me though, that's just wow, horrible. how the heck would you explain that to a kid?

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 13, 2009 03:01AM



..objects of veneration

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Tamukha ()
Date: March 13, 2009 03:45PM

loeve,

What's in the brass dish, the colored shiny objects? And was the rabbit there before this thread went awry? : )

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 13, 2009 10:41PM

From a cave ceiling painting in northwest China, this seems an idealic vision of harmonious and joyful living, where three hares share 'ears'. The Buddhist artist would purhaps have been familiar with the story of the Hare who sacrificed itself and was given a celestial place on the face of the moon.


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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 14, 2009 03:41AM

..or maybe the ceiling painting represents the spirits of hares that are on their way to what could be their heaven with their king Hare on the face of the moon, which conceivably is the dark circle within the triangle made by their ears, or the greater circle they appear in.. just speculating..



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2009 03:48AM by loeve.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: riverhousebill ()
Date: March 14, 2009 05:34AM

CINCINNATI–LR-4427, a two-year-old laboratory rabbit at Procter & Gamble's cosmetics testing facility, Monday gave his full endorsement to Cover Girl Long & Luscious waterproof mascara for sensitive eyes.

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Lab rabbit LR-4427 enjoys all-day glamour with Cover Girl Long & Luscious mascara.
"Cover Girl Long & Luscious waterproof mascara will dramatically magnify your lashes for a look that's glamorous and natural," LR-4427 said. "And the great part is, they won't irritate your eyes, even if you accidentally smear some over your clamped-open eyeballs with a Q-tip and can't flush it out for 48 hours."
LR-4427 said he also likes the fact that the Cover Girl product stays on, rain or shine.
"No matter what the weather, you're guaranteed gorgeous lashes with Long & Luscious mascara," LR-4427 said. "And they'll stay that way all day long, in 10 hours of 200-degree heat from a hair dryer or icy blasts from a shower head."
In the past six months, LR-4427 said he has tried "literally hundreds" of different mascaras. Of these, he said, Cover Girl Long & Luscious offers the best combination of good looks, durability, and non-corrosiveness.
"The Cover Girl mascara they ground into my right eye is 10 times better than the Max Factor Midnight Thicklash that was ground into my left," said LR-4427, speaking from immobilization cage 39B. "The Max Factor stuff is greasy and cheap-looking, not satiny and sophisticated like Cover Girl. And, unlike Cover Girl, Max Factor doesn't wash away easily–not even with industrial soap and steel-wool scouring pads."
According to LR-4427, eyes are the first thing you notice about a person. And nothing is more important to the look of a woman's eyes than mascara.
"If you're anything like me, you hate it when the look you spent all day perfecting is ruined by your mascara running or dripping," said LR-4427, @#$%& his head as much as possible inside his plastic holdfast collar. "Well, your worries are over, because Cover Girl Long & Luscious stays on your eyes right where the injectors put it. With Long & Luscious, there's no need to cauterize your tear ducts shut, unlike some mascaras I could mention."
LR-4427 added that clinical tests have proven that Cover Girl Long & Luscious will leave your lashes 40 percent thicker than Elizabeth Arden mascara. In addition, Long & Luscious will feel 50 percent less like your eyes are melting down your cheeks after being pierced with red-hot fireplace pokers.
"The last thing you want right before a big date is to lose confidence in your mascara," LR-4427 said. "You need to know that his eyes will be on yours–not on any chemical scarring."
"And if you have a long day... or night," continued LR-4427, attempting a saucy wink despite his surgically excised eyelids, "touch-up's a breeze. Just pack more Long & Luscious into your orbital sockets, your nostrils, your anus–any of the delicate tissues that get stressed by your busy lifestyle–and you're ready to go."
LR-4427 then returned to work, where he is finishing up testing a new aloe-scented exfoliating scrub before being reassigned to Procter & Gamble's small-arms ammunition division.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Sundancer ()
Date: March 14, 2009 05:53AM

Poor sad bunnies.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: riverhousebill ()
Date: March 14, 2009 06:13AM

the story of the Hare who sacrificed itself and was given a celestial place on the face of the moon.

a two-year-old laboratory rabbit at Procter & Gamble's cosmetics testing
facility,

Is this Zen Bunnisim? Sacred, not sacred, pain, no pain.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2009 06:18AM by riverhousebill.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Sundancer ()
Date: March 14, 2009 06:16AM

Are you a Zen Bunnist?

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: riverhousebill ()
Date: March 14, 2009 06:26AM

Sundancer Wrote:
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> Are you a Zen Bunnist?


yes it will hop into your life and you will experience the calming efect!

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Sundancer ()
Date: March 14, 2009 06:41AM

Cool -- as long as right livelihood includes lots of carrots!!!

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: riverhousebill ()
Date: March 14, 2009 07:14AM

Zen Bunnies have not reached enlightenment, We still have to hop.
We Zen bunnies are exempt from enlightenment, I have a Certifacte
of Exemption from Enlightenment. All Zen bunnies are exempt.

This document certifies that
Rabbit Housebill is immune to the lust for enlightenment and is
exempt from the need to seek enlightenment.

This document also certifies that
Rabbit Housebill has seen through the fraud of the enlightenment con
game and is excused from further clawing and scraping to own a piece
of that specious reward.

This document further certiies that
Rabbit Housebill is free from the temptation to be consecrated as
enlightened by any guru, saint,holy person, or religious organization
that claims the right to do so.

Finally, this document certifies that
Rabbit Housebill has already been enlightened a million times in
a million different ways anyway, seeking even further enlightenment
would be redundant and even greedy.

To insure the continued validity of this document,
Rabbit Housebill vows to regulary renew these three understandings:
That it is imposable to ever reach a complete and permanent state
of enlightenment: that there is no single state of awareness that
constitutes enlightenment; and that since the nature of reailty
keeps changing, the nature of enlightenment keeps chanfing as well.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: riverhousebill ()
Date: March 14, 2009 07:20AM

Sundancer Wrote:
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> Cool -- as long as right livelihood includes lots
> of carrots!!!


Carrot and apple sounds good

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: loeve ()
Date: March 14, 2009 01:44PM

> Is this Zen Bunnisim? Sacred, not sacred,
> pain, no pain.

I don't know, could be, this 'hare in the moon' story is attributed to India --



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2009 01:55PM by loeve.

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Re: Jesus -themed confections
Posted by: Sundancer ()
Date: March 14, 2009 02:15PM

<Carrot and apple sounds good>

with a little ginger, no?




I lift my carrot to unenlightenment!

;D

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