"Unearthing the mystery of the meaning of Easter" Topic

…Island's Moai.

"Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at large, believed the statues capable of producing agricultural fertility and thereby critical food supplies, according to a new study from Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project, recently published in Journal of Archaeological Science.

Van Tilburg and her team, working with geoarchaeologist and soils specialist Sarah Sherwood, believe they have found scientific evidence of that long-hypothesized meaning thanks to careful study of two particular Moai excavated over five years in the Rano Raraku quarry on the eastern side of the Polynesian island…."

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Amicalement
Armand

Is your title misleading in a deliberate attempt to aggravate people? Or is it just a happy circumstance?

@Strydberg: ???

Yes, the "Island's" should have been in the title.

Get it …

"Unearthing the mystery of the meaning of Easter"
As if we don't already know it's a religious holiday.

My bias and intellectual blinders caused me to see another attempt at trying to undermine the foundations and traditions of what I believe have made my religion and country great. And seeing that, got my dander up.

My apologies if my dander has offended or confused anyone.

Thanks, Stryderg. As one engaged in a very long struggle to see my own bias and blinders, I am really encouraged to know that I'm not alone.

In that light, I would offer an idea that has helped me:

When you read the title of a post by Tango and feel your dander coming up, you may consider trying to remember that he's not a native English speaker (Easter is Pascua in Spanish, e.g.), and maybe try taking a few deep breaths before you post something dander-based.

I try to do things like that when I'm out in the wilds of the internet. Sometimes it helps me get a better perspective.

There was a show on PBS that showed a (replica) statue being "walked" with ropes. I thought that was pretty clever…

Tango's titles are always shortened first lines of the article, and yes, sometimes the cut-off point (is that software-imposed?) comes in a strange place.

Oh, I was hoping for enlightenment. Disappointed that the thread is about Easter island and not the Christian holy day. The meaning of life is an interesting topic.

"Tango's titles are always shortened first lines of the article…."

Not my fault… I asked Bill several times to enlarge the space of titles… but it seems it's impossible…

Amicalement
Armand

@Tango: You just keep on doing you ,-)
There are plenty of tools for the unappreciative.

It's aliens …

Drat those pesky little green guys again!!

How do you manage to get triggered by a thread title? Although Tango has clearly resorted to clickbait article tactics to get a response.

@newarch

Rough day at work, family related stress, financial stress, listening to obviously biased news programs, getting older and more cantankerous (by the way, Git off mah lawn!), and generally not understanding how some people can hold the views that they do, all culminating in a "I've had enough" moment. Fortunately, it only involved a keyboard and some non-random letter placements, for which I have already apologized.

It wasn't the thread title, it was the misleading thread title. See, you missed an important bit there.

Yes, as I and many have said … no one forces anyone to click on a thread here on TMP. Unless that has changed ?

<sigh>
I apologize for getting triggered.
I apologize for clicking the link.
I apologize for making my first post vague and unclear.
I apologize for posting while having a bad day
I apologize for breathing too heavily while posting.
I apologize for hitting the keys on my keyboard too vigorously.
I apologize for my sarcastic wit, which also seems to aggravate some folks around here.
I apologize for my religious and political beliefs which others disagree with.
I apologize for not playing well with others.
I apologize for not playing enough tabletop wargames.
I apologize for my lack of painting ability.
I apologize for my lack of artistic taste when photographing minis.
I apologize for having a defeatist attitude.
I apologize for my unclear sentence structures.
I apologize for my lack of spelling ability.
I apologize for apologizing so much.
I apologize for not apologizing enough.
I apologize for not committing suicide in my teens like I should have, which would have made all of your lives that much better.

@Stryderg:

The flip side of my comment above is, don't let the bastards get you down. You spotted and acknowledged your biased/blindered reaction, and apologized to anyone you might have offended. I think you did everything you needed to.

If others are piling on with negativity after that, that's them. It doesn't have anything to do with you at that point, really.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I found one of those things in my 6mm terrain collection !!!

Actually Easter gets my dander up too.

Why does it have to move about? Why does it's timing wreck my work projects every year?

How does the bunny-rabbit get the eggs into the basket?

It would be better for me, pre-planned preventative maintenance, and the rest of the World if we could have three or four festivals spread evenly through the year.

How does the bunny-rabbit get the eggs into the basket?

Another holiday I believe the Christian Church "nicked" from a pagan holiday. IIRC The pagans believed in a Goddess called Ostra(?). Kind'a like the Rites of Spring, rebirth, fertility, etc., thing. The Bunny represents Ostra(?) and lays eggs again to symbolize Spring, rebirth, etc., AFAIK …

Always confused me too, when I was a kid. What does the rising of Christ has to do with bunnies and eggs ?

Someone tell me if I got that wrong ? Or came close ?

The eggs and bunnies were transmuted from pagan cultures into representing eternity/everlasting.

Thanks for the clarification !

Hipitus, hoputus.

Is that Latin ?