Doll Festival (2/16/07)

Aangeliceus

Aangeliceus

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Doll Festival Extraordinaire! (02/16/2007)

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Has it been a year already? It seems like only yesterday when adventurers were last dining on gourmet rice cakes and posing for glamour shots all across the cities of Vana'diel. That's right, the Doll Festival is here again, and the moogles down at the MHMU headquarters have been burning the midnight oil preparing a fresh new batch of sweet rice goodness for all the good little boys and girls. And for those of you who need a little more stimulation than gluten and natural coloring has to offer, we are also planning a doll festival/spring-themed fan art contest, to be held right here within the Topics.

*Poppin' fresh rice cakes are scheduled to arrive in the delivery boxes of every adventurer on Monday, February 19, 2007.

*Entries for the fan art contest will be accepted starting Friday, February 23. For information on how to participate, be sure to check the Topics on that day.
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I personally would like to see a "Pinthetailonthegalka" event, but that idea hasnt stuck with them yet.

~Pitlith
 
I'd like to do an event like they did at the events they were putting on around the country. they had the Tarutaru cure marathon. i could have won it, but i wasnt very familiar with tavnazia at the time and i got lost.

anyway, how it worked was everyone was a nekkid level 1 taru whm with 500 gil. the marathon started with everyone grouped together near the sacrarium entrance in misereaux coast, and ended at the old tavnazia look out point just passed the level 75 xp area in lufaise meadows. the object was to be the first person to cast cure on the GM at the end point. halfway there you had to find the GM that was invisible and surrounded by gigas and by a cure scroll from his bazaar for 500 gil. you also didnt have a map... sort of, they gave us hard copy maps, but all the important areas were conveniently covered by "legends, rules, etc." if you died along the way, you auto-hp'd back to the sacrarium entrance. man that was a blast, even if i did lose, lol
 
I see... so we get to celebrate JP holidays!!! o... wait....
 
Arafea said:
I see... so we get to celebrate JP holidays!!! o... wait....
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do they celebrate Halloween? and since japan isn't a predominantly Christian/Catholic country, do they celebrate easter?

the only festival/celebration/holiday that i don't see is Hanukkah.
 
Japanese have the Obon Festival where the dead return to their birthplaces, kinda like halloween.

Easter is a Pagan holiday to celebrate the vernal equinox. Constantine didnt want to alienate his mostly pagan empire so he allowed celebration of easter (their most important holiday) and sort of fudged it so it looked Christian. The Patriarchate of Constantinople in the 1200s lined up jesus' ressurection with pagan easter (not the other way around) and later in the 1950s? United Churches counsel merged all Churches to celebrate easter at the same time including those still on Gregorian Calender (The Sunday following the first full moon of the equinox) effective in 2001 (which nobody actually listened to) so they are shooting for 2010.

This doesnt make sense anyway since Jesus Died on a Wednesday
--(John 19:31) "Day before.. [High Sabbath] (which fell on a thursday)"
--In the Old Testimate There were 2 Sabbaths, 1 weekly and a 7th anual sabath day which could take place at any day of the week. (this would be a Thursday)
--(John 19:31) [FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]"The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."
[/FONT]--Finally, [FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]"Several computer software programs exist that enable us to calculate when the Passover and God's other festivals fall in any given year. Those programs show that in A.D. 31, the year of these events, the Passover meal was eaten on Tuesday night and Wednesday sundown marked the beginning of the 'high day,' the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread."
-- Good News Magazine
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and was resurrected on a Saturday.
--(Matthew 28:1) "And on the Eve of the Sabbaths...
--Jesus was ressurected before sunset because Mary Magdalene (according to the Gospel of John) found the empty grave on Sunday morning before Sunup (which is the start of a day)



Anyway, I digress. Easter is more about the Vernal Equinox than Jesus' ressurection, and Everyone celebrates the nominal equinox, why do you think there is the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs? Those are both pagan traditions as well as symbols of both spring and life.


--Knowledge, out.
 
very nice ash, lay down the knowledge. ya the points u make have strong merit.

-Ara
 
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