Wave o' The Future: Eggs? Or Spheres?

[TheDude]

Possibly even "semi-oblated spheroids" in the interests of "GC" (that is, Geometrical Correctness)?)

I am sure that you have heard by now that "Easter" is "Under Attack" by "The Forces of Darkness" . . .

So . . . Waddahya think?

Here are my initial thoughts on the [matter] . . .
(gleaned from an earlier email)

Yeah, I read about that Idiotic "PC" Teacher/Incident in Leona Salazar's column . . .

The thoughts and alleged actions of that "teacher" are so stupid, on so many levels, (even beyond lack of a basic knowledge of geometry terms) that it would be difficult to count them all. My reply to this idiocy would go something like this:

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(Beta Version):
1) The root word for "Easter" is the name of a pagan god or goddess. (Note: I'll have to look that up.)

2) Eggs, rabbits and candy have nothing, whatsoever, to do with the Christian celebration of the Resurrection. Nor do yellow Peeps vaguely resembling baby chickens. (Much as reindeer, Santas, elves, decorated trees, overcommercialization and debt generation have nothing to do with Christmas. Xma$, yes. Christmas, no.)

I think that the "powers that be" in that school district need to give this brilliant "educator" a raise before she threatens to go on strike and deprive all of her charges of her enlightenment and illumination. (If you could drag them away from some Neo-WiccanDruid conclave long enough to take a vote.)
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So . . . Have you ever heard the little Holiday tale of the "slow" girl who brought an empty L'eggs container (one that was supposed to contain candy and whatnot) to class to represent The Meaning of Easter? Turns out she was using the empty plastic egg to represent the empty tomb.

I submit that, henchforth, it could also be used to represent that "teacher's" head.
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Dang. I hope I wasn't too harsh.
Really.

[BoatBabe]

Nope. I have not heard the tale of the girl who brought an empty L'eggs container to school. We don't even have those "spheres" here any more.

Clearly the teacher in question (I haven't seen this "news" story) has a religion/educator problem, which isn't unusual these days, compared to the empty head analogy.

I'm sorry.


What was the question?


Besides eggs aren't spheres?



;D

[gailkate]

Even if she is unclear about the secular side of Easter, what does she have against eggs? Spring eggs are actually quite appropriate to the natural order. She could have dumped the Easter Bunny and never gotten embroiled in the GC confusion. A jolly celebration of eggs, symbolizing new births in the renewal of spring. But maybe she doesn't want kids thinking at all about bunnies and eggs, given our understanding of the copulatory prowess of bunnies. Better to leave eggs and rabbits out of the picture entirely?
So then I wonder just what her celebration would be about. And where would jelly beans fit in?

[doctork]

As an anthropologist by training (though I have finally gotten used to being a doctor too, but I don't forget how I started out), I must note that almost all cultures have rituals and celebrations of the arrival of spring. Eggs are perfect symbols for that.

I took geometry too along the way. Eggs are NOT spheres. A sphere is a solid from whose center the radius measures the same in all directions.

That is not true of an egg. It is ovoid in shape.

I am not a Latin or Greek scholar, so I am not familiar with this goddess for whom Easter is named, but the root for the medical term "estrous" (Latin or Greek I dunno, docs mix them up freely) has to do with fertility, as in "estrous cycle" concerning estrogen levels. It's fertility - rabbits and eggs are appropriate symbols.

Thus spoke Dr. K. There!

PS - I am very fond of those chocolate bunnies, but chocolate eggs are OK too. At least with them you don't have to debate about where it is appropriate to start eating. I start with the ears myself.

[gailkate]

you don't have to debate about where it is appropriate to start eating. I start with the ears myself.

Something which has troubled me all my life.