Easter is fvcking stupid.

[icejunkie]

silly rabbit, trix are for kids.

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: Stojakapimp

Originally posted by: cobalt

Originally posted by: SampSon
Usually you get to eat ham and scalloped taters though.

Unless you're Greek like me then I get to eat tasty tasty lamb. But I celebrate Catholic and Greek Easter, so 2x the food. I myself am not all that religious but most of my family is.

That's cheating. I celebrate Orthodox Easter, which is usually later than Protestant and Catholic Easter, so we get stuff on sale.

Wassup J-dawg? I was gonna ask if the guy celebrated Orthodox Easter since most Greeks are Orthodox. Nice to see you can post on ATOT but not reply to my aim messages douche.

 

[tranceport]

I just tried to plug all that into excel. So I could enter the year in the cell and it would tell me what the date would be...

Alot of the equations come out to equal zero...

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: tranceport
I just tried to plug all that into excel. So I could enter the year in the cell and it would tell me what the date would be...

Alot of the equations come out to equal zero...

Remember that it is integer math...

I'm such a dork...

R

 

[So]

wow. Good times.


:beer: for your efforts.

 

[mhillary]

:Q

 

[Fudssa]

:Q

 

[sandorski]

I don't care, just as long as they keep making 1lb solid Milk Chocolate Bunnies!

 

[conjur]

I think this is called for.

 

[DainBramaged]

:Q You hate baby Jesus don't you! :Q

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Hey, Jesus is born, we get presents, he dies, we get candy.

 

[dragonballgtz]

Originally posted by: notfred
Whoever came up with this method of setting the date of Easter was a moron:

Computing the Date of Easter

The rule is that Easter is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21. The lunar cycles used by the ecclesiastical system are simple to program. The following algorithm will compute the date of Easter in the Gregorian Calendar system.

The algorithm uses the year, y, to give the month, m, and day, d, of Easter. The symbol * means multiply.

Please note the following: This is an integer calculation. All variables are integers and all remainders from division are dropped.

c = y / 100
n = y - 19 * ( y / 19 )
k = ( c - 17 ) / 25
i = c - c / 4 - ( c - k ) / 3 + 19 * n + 15
i = i - 30 * ( i / 30 )
i = i - ( i / 28 ) * ( 1 - ( i / 28 ) * ( 29 / ( i + 1 ) )
* ( ( 21 - n ) / 11 ) )
j = y + y / 4 + i + 2 - c + c / 4
j = j - 7 * ( j / 7 )
l = i - j
m = 3 + ( l + 40 ) / 44
d = l + 28 - 31 * ( m / 4 )

That hurt my brain😱

 

[DeMeo]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
I just wrote a FORTRAN program to calculate the month and date of Easter given the year. Does this make me a vapid tool?

R

hate to say it, but, you just might be. Most of us just look at the calendar to see when Eater is, No need to code a program to figure it out.

 

[Jzero]

I'd guess that it was originally a pagan holiday that was co-opted to help "sell" the faith.

Having the first Sunday after the first full moon of the spring doesn't seem so outrageous, though, considering the current date of Easter was settled in the 4th century AD when most people probably still measured the passage of months by the lunar cycle.

 

[Toasthead]

I always thought it was the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. how hard it that?