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The Spinozist Mormon » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday To Me — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:51:00 +0000

[...] Many of you found your way here because of the generosity of other bloggers. Some I noticed: Kaimi included me in a post on new blogs, and Nate drove traffic here with post responding to The Elusory Breath of Life. Dave put me on his blogroll—even though it’s now on a separate page in his “Sidenotes”—and so did David. Geoff and his friends added me to their real-time overview of the Bloggernacle [nowadays, see also the customizable LDSelect]. Links to specific posts were provided by Ronan—and by Lisa, who happens to be famous. Thanks, everyone. [...]

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

5) Easter is about the bunny…now gimme some candy.

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Or, as in my case, we were too busy celebrating Easter to be bothered with posting about it. ‘Course, in my case, I’m in the choir and that takes up a lot of time during Easter. Time is precious enough that Mrs. Woody and I have taken to celebrating Bunny Day on Saturday, so we can concentrate on the Passion on Sunday. Much nicer arrangement. Even Bishop was impressed!

By: Heather P.

Heather P. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just remembered that Amira had some great posts at her blog on the Holy Week. Here they are: Palm Sunday A Little More on Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday Mournful Friday A Worn Hymnbook in Jerusalem

By: Jordan Fowles

Jordan Fowles — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The themes associated with Easter are great, marvellous, and central to our religion, but it doesn’t make a very good blog topic. The existence/non-existence of Mormon “easter-blogging” is certainly no way to draw assumptions about how mormons view Easter.

Personally, I hate Easter as a holiday, much the same as I hate Christmas and every other holiday. I revere the events associated with them, but think the holidays have nothing really to do with the events save a name association only. I prefer to revere the underlying events all year round.

I always wish I could just sleep through the actual holidays, because I *hate* the expectation, obviously furthered by Ronan here, that we actually *have* to talk about the underlying events on the silly, stupid holidays which we, for whatever dumb reason, have associated with said events. Actually talking about the events on the days set aside for them seems really empty and more like paying lip-service than anything else.

So, congrats to all of you out there who have learned how to pay homage and give lip-service in socially appropriate ways and at sociall appropriate times.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Jordan,
the expectation, obviously furthered by Ronan here, that we actually *have* to talk about the underlying events.

Well, I’m a believer in Church PR, and for Mormons not to talk about Easter at Easter would seem unwise. Nonetheless, my conclusion as to why Mormons didn’t blog obsessively over Easter was that there isn’t much to say (#4). It was not a criticism.