I’m just interested in what Kiwis usually do on Easter.
I know there is that traditional bunny thing, and the eggs, so probably some eating will be involved 
But what else? Any kind of special Easter activities? Or just normal random holiday stuff?
Myself is going to Easter Camp 8)
[quote=“Aiwe”]I’m just interested in what Kiwis usually do on Easter.
I know there is that traditional bunny thing, and the eggs, so probably some eating will be involved But what else? Any kind of special Easter activities? Or just normal random holiday stuff?
Myself is going to Easter Camp 8)[/quote]When I was a kid we had a big thing about making hot cross buns on Easter Friday, and we didn’t get our Easter eggs until the Sunday. The rest we more or less made up as we went along.
What is this easter camp people are all talking about?
Tis the camp held at Easter.
The Red Ravens of Palmerston North (a sword-fighting club) runs an annual camp at Easter, usually near Levin, or Eketahuna, or some such locality.
well this year it is a little closer to halfway between the two, just out of the bustling metropolis of Ashurst.
And before anyone mentions it it has absolutely nothing what so ever to do with religion, like the other easter camp, unless you count fighting, feasting, and the other F religious.
that being said a lot of people on the sat and sunday nights do call out to God a lot, but i dont think it is for the same reasons.
[quote]unless you count fighting, feasting, and the other F religious.
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I wanna join THAT religion. 
I shall be at Easter Camp, but only on Sunday and Monday morning.
Damn the Luck!!
But to answer your question Lucy, I grew up in a family that did not observe religous holidays, so easter was simply an excuse to eat chocolate, except for one year when i smashed my face open on Good Friday, and spent the entire holiday in bed drinking warm soup through a straw.
I grew up in a country that observes every possible holiday - and they are all simply an excuse to drink vodka…
why so few?
But I’ll see you anyway, and it’s good! 
I grew up in a country that observes every possible holiday - and they are all simply an excuse to drink vodka…[/quote]
My family belonged to a non secular religion that did not beleive in observing Secular holidays, so easter and christmas were simply an excuse to eat junk food and get presents. that being said my parents were very relaxed about this, my uncle and some other families did not even celebrate birthdays, and instead had “gift days” which were all of the secular holidays and birthdays all rolled into one.
And people wonder why i am anti religion
Its about chocolate right? And a kind of obscure fertility reference?
I mean Eggs and rabbits… my holiday message… create your own fertility ritual…
Oh I think theres some almost forgotten meaning in it to do with rebirth of some fellow… seems irrelevant in the face of it turning into another commerical holiday where we get to spend lots and give stuff to our loved ones… or to your hyperactive children and watching them spin like self motivated spinning tops. Or to other peoples hyperactive children.
Jared
Just for a change of Easter pace, apparently this Easter Sunday I’m going to be performing at an Indian Easter Ball… don’t ask me, I’m not even Indian.
That’s what you get for volunteering to help a friend, lol. So, now I’m not only making Victorian costumes, but madly sewing shiny stuff to make a dancing costume. Hooray for Ike’s Emporium!
Now why didn’t I make an Egyptian Princess character for Ravenholme? Then I’d only need the one costume for both!
Technically Easter was a pagan spring/fertility holiday long before Christians came along and hijacked it, probably because they realised the peasants would celebrate something no matter what they did.
I somehow doubt eggs and bunnies had a lot to do with some dude getting killed, unless it was the bunny from the Holy Grail.
If you’re Christian however, which according to the Census poll something like 51% of NZers are (I saw it on TV tonight) Easter is when Jesus Christ died on the Cross, (nailed by the WRIST not the PALM - the wrist was originally called part of the hand - the nail would pull right out through the fingers if nailed in the palm. And some texts say he may have merely been tied) on Good Friday, then three days later on Easter Sunday (yes, three) he rises from the dead in a not-zombie-at-all fashion. Sometimes this is celebrated on the Saturday night (for brevity, I assume.)
Nowadays, it’s basically a consumer culture chocaholic indulgence. With chocolate and marshmallows and chocolate and other sweet things and chocolate too.
If you put a big nail through a palm, it i not going to tear out between the fingers. Skin is tough stuff and the edges of nails are blunt.
The bigger risk is the hand slipping off the nail because the nail head is too small. But I suspect the Romans were clever enough to have used flat head nails.
[quote]If you put a big nail through a palm, it i not going to tear out between the fingers. Skin is tough stuff and the edges of nails are blunt.
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As disturbing as this thread is getting, I think I have to agree with this. I don’t know how strong HAND skin is, it seems pretty thin really, but I’ve seen guys on TV hung by only the skin on their backs on a couple of hooks and they didn’t tear out… .and they were swinging off them and everything. (this was also very disturbing, yuck) 
Anyway, it’s all just details and probably not that important to the story.
If that was just on that 20/20 episode recently, the guy on it works at Illicit on K’ Rd (he did my piercing).
But the main issue as I see it is can the skin hold it over several days, since being on the 5 hooks thing is only for a couple of minutes to avoid damage and being on the cross would usually take 3-4 days to kill you, there will be alot of stretching ect. going on in the skin.
The fertility aspect only applies to the Northern Hemisphere where it is spring. i.e. they are celebrating Beltain.
Here, where it is Autumn, the more appropriate ritual is Samhain - which celebrates the end of Summer.
Rabbits are a pretty accurate symbol of fecundity, though.
Apparently they’ve done research, can’t remember where and my net-fu ain’t that great, and the damage of the nail spreading the metacarpals, combined with the rather heavy dead weight of a human body, caused the hands to tear. But a nail through the wrist causes the carpals to act as a end stop. ichy
Apparently they’ve done research, ashtrays cause lung cancer…
I don’t care if someone is a Doctor and a Professor and has written 10,000 words on something and published it in Scientific Journals. If it smells like fish, it’s fishy.
Skin is tough stuff.