For those who are not parents and for whom this film may not have crossed their radar, a trailer to prove that I am far from the first person to riff on the Easter Bunny as real, and dealing with real-life problems. What if He were not only real but (like the Dalai Lama) only the latest incarnation of a dynasty of Easter Bunnies throughout the ages? And what if *you* were about to be named the Big EB, and you didn't want to do it? You'd rather play in a rock 'n roll band. That's the basic plot of a movie made by some of the creators of "Despicable Me."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwWf8PTLtk ________________________________ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 12:10 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Can non-believers in the Easter Bunny experience Easter eggs? Given a recent thread, it occurs to me that this deeply philosophical question might be appropriate for a deeply philosophical discussion on FFL. The other thread, after all, postulated that if one was an atheist, one could not experience transcendence (the clear experience of Being, as I think that poster might define it). So I got to thinking, "What if this theory were not only correct, but a kind of Law Of Nature that applied equally to other entities that people believe in, such as the Easter Bunny?" Might those Laws Of Nature cause an issue for abunnyists? What would happen, I wondered, in a household in which the kids believed in the Easter Bunny, and that He was the one who magically deposited their candy eggs in mysterious places for them to find during their spiritual quest for Egglightenment, and the parents did not -- they were abunnyists. These unbeliever parents, after all, might have caught a clue as to the Easter Bunny's existence while they were hiding the eggs supposedly hidden there by the EB Himself. You can see how someone might develop heretical abunnyist thoughts in a situation like that. So it seems to me that the question in the Subject line might create kind of a koan if the theory about belief in God being necessary to experience transcendence were really true and a Law Of Nature. For the kids, finding the eggs is No Problem. Because they *believe*. So the eggs are there. But now consider the parents -- the abunnyists -- discovering that not all of the eggs they had hidden earlier had been found by the kids, and so they now have to go on their own egg hunt to find and retrieve the stragglers before they become ant magnets. Would they be able to find the Easter Bunny's eggs? Or would their lack of their belief in the Easter Bunny cloud their minds and keep them from finding them? No answers here. I'm just cafe-rapping on a blustery Sunday morning. It's just a warm-up rap, nothing serious, and should not be construed as me suggesting that belief in God is on the same level as belief in the Easter Bunny. Even though it is... :-)
