ToM Dracone

Yeah. That's not it. "Easter" comes from the goddess Eostre (spelled Ostara elsewhere), a germanic goddess of the dawn. Her festival was held in springtime and was, as with all celebrations of Spring, connected to rebirth and fertility, hence the eggs.

As far as I've heard, no one knows exactly where the rabbits came from. However, they're also connected with spring celebrations. Fertility and all that.

You are aware, I hope, that Ishtar is the Sumerian goddess of love?

Though, Easter probably was originally a festival of the goddes Ostara (or Eostre), which is where the name comes from. And the rabbits and eggs, probably.

Dude, that sounds awesome. Great for you!

I'm going to college this fall; I hope I end up with a similarly cool rooming situation eventually... for now I'm just hoping I like my roommate Freshman year.

Did I ever tell you about the paper I titled "LESBIANS"?

(that is an awesome title, by the way; I'd go for the more specific version myself)

Hooray!

Dunno, I actually have an okay photo on my license, and nothing terribly unpleasant happened to me along the way. Maybe I was just lucky?

And a deep discussion of religious themes is probably not a good idea. Though we've been doing lovely...ly so far, and I wouldn't mind at all such a discussion, here is not the place for it.

That's a good point, actually, for you, Velox – if you had to read only one of the books, and you're concerned about elements against your religion, the Golden Compass is the one to choose. One, it has the least anti-Catholic stuff; two, if you just read The Amber Spyglass, half the time you wouldn't know what the heck was going on.

And three, The Golden Compass is an amazing book!

And, it's more of 'greatly' rather than 'slightly'

Litotes is my specialty.

Wait... litotes is double negative, right?

Understatement for effect.

Wiki says it's understatement through double negative. And I always learned it as being just double negative...

And I always learned it as just understatement. Huh. Well then.

Edit: Hm, apparently meiosis is for understatement in general. That's just unnecessarily confusable with the biology term...

Also edit:

Well, it just seemed like there was this huge thing when TGC came out in movie form that no Catholics should see it or something like that 'cause it made fun of the Catholic Church in some way... I was also told that TGC attacked the Church too...

Haha, the movie doesn't even mention Catholicism. They removed all direct references to the Church when making the movie and just left it as the Magisterium. Now, the book actually is directly anti-Catholic here and there, but again it's nothing compared to the other two.

You should always find these things out for yourself if you're curious!

And, it's more of 'greatly' rather than 'slightly'

Litotes is my specialty.

Wait... litotes is double negative, right?

Understatement for effect.

Anyway, I guess I'm not too sure about The Amber Spyglass, as I haven't read it nor heard anything about it. But other books you've mentioned like The Golden Compass make me greatly against that book... which really sucks. I've also heard that it was written -very- well.

See, this puzzles me in general, because The Golden Compass is the -least- anti-Catholic of the three. Golden Compass is more like a "what if?" scenario against the abuse of power; the following two are the ones that directly attack the Church...

And, it's more of 'greatly' rather than 'slightly'

Litotes is my specialty.

But if it's boring, clearly there's no material to be discussed.

PARADOX

I would appreciate those quite as much as you. I started a new Learn to Fly chapter a while ago, but then I was carried off by tides of work to do...

And Lady K, that's awful.