This Easter, A Once in a lifetime Experience!
#1
Posted 20 March 2008 - 09:48 AM
Here's the interesting part.
This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (92 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!
Here's the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
So enjoy Easter people!
#2
Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:07 AM
#3
Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:39 AM
#4
Posted 20 March 2008 - 12:07 PM
#5
Posted 20 March 2008 - 03:56 PM
Then why the hell are they dependent on the date of that damn passover, p*ssover???
#6
Posted 20 March 2008 - 04:16 PM
Click on the link below,
You'll get a black page.
Then click your mouse anywhere on the page
+ see what happens.
Better yet, click + drag your mouse
all over the page.
enjoy!
#7
Posted 20 March 2008 - 04:20 PM
#8
Posted 20 March 2008 - 04:52 PM
Here' more spring flowers!
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#9
Posted 20 March 2008 - 05:34 PM
Click on the link below,
You'll get a black page.
Then click your mouse anywhere on the page
+ see what happens.
Better yet, click + drag your mouse
all over the page.
enjoy!
I finally have the lush garden I've always wanted!
#10
Posted 20 March 2008 - 06:12 PM
Easter already! Blame it on the bishops
By David Randall
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Annoyed that Easter is so early this year? Family life complicated by school and religious holidays being separated? Today, we name and shame the men responsible. Step forward Aristakes of Armenia, Protogenes of Sardica, Spyridion of Trimythous, and Eusebius of Caesarea. It was they, and several hundred other bishops, who decided at a meeting 1,683 years ago how we should lead our leisure lives today.
The Council of Nicea in AD325, to which all the leading clerics of the Christian world were invited, had been called by the Roman Emperor Constantine, and it had three main results: 1) the Nicene Creed (the first unified Christian doctrine); 2) providing an early and convincing-sounding Christian event for Dan Brown to misrepresent in The Da Vinci Code; and 3) determining when Easter falls.
Before Nicea, this was tied to the Jewish feast of Passover. After it, the day was set as the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal (spring) equinox. This latter event, something of a movable feast in those days, is now fixed on 21 March. Thus, the earliest that Easter Sunday can be is 22 March, the latest, 25 April. This year's date of 23 March is the earliest since 1913, and none of us will see its like again, the next such occurence being in 2160.
Of course, things could be simpler, as the Easter Act, passed by Parliament as long ago as 1928, tried to ensure. This said that Easter should fall on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. However, since this also required the agreement of the churches, it has never come into force. Time, maybe, for another Council of Nicea.
#11
Posted 20 March 2008 - 06:31 PM
But my source said that it'll be March 23rd again in the year 2228.
Yet this source from David Randall says that March 23 will be in 2160. Hmmm.
Edited by Takoush, 20 March 2008 - 06:36 PM.
#12
Posted 21 March 2008 - 08:17 AM
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#13
Posted 21 March 2008 - 09:05 AM
ԲԱՐԻ ԵՒ ԻՒՇՆԻՒՖԻՒՐ* ՄԻՆԾ** ԶԱՏԱԿ to all.
* Շնորհավոր.
** Christmas was known as ՊՏԻԿ ԶԱՏԱԿ , Small Zatik, and Eeaster was Big (մինծ, մեծ)Zatik***
*** We have spoken about the origin of Zatik/Զատիկ, that derives from “satak/սատակ” to mean “(animal) sacririfice“, only in post Christian times that word turned to the disgusting meaning as in “shan satak” .
PS. Dear SAS, can you please paste what Ajarian says about “zatik/զատիկ”?
#14
Posted 21 March 2008 - 11:59 AM
#15
Posted 21 March 2008 - 12:22 PM
#16
Posted 21 March 2008 - 01:27 PM
How come no one is congratulating Harut on his Name Day of
ՍՈՒՐԲ ՅԱՐՈՒԹԻՒՆ
??
#17
Posted 21 March 2008 - 01:32 PM
#18
Posted 21 March 2008 - 01:32 PM
Քրիստոս յարեաւ ի մեռելոց։
Edited by Takoush, 21 March 2008 - 01:34 PM.
#19
Posted 22 March 2008 - 12:07 AM
Maral, thank you, that was nice...
#20
Posted 23 March 2008 - 01:58 AM
Shnorhavor bolorit Surp Zatike, Astsu orhnutyune yev xaghaghutyune lini bolorit het.
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