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Apr. 10th, 2012 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI really wish people would stop asking me if I had a good Easter.
I mean, I'm sure it's very nice of them to ask and I know they're just being polite and that they mean it well. But it takes me aback and I'm not entirely sure how to answer since "Yes" feels dishonest in a way that I find unpleasant* and "I had a nice weekend, thank you" apparently invites questions about don't I celebrate Easter and why not and, sometimes, Heathenry 101, which I don't really want to do for random strangers. Why "I had a nice weekend" isn't answer enough, I don't know. Surely there are other people in Kingston who aren't practicing Christians or Christians-by-cultural-default, right?
So, dear Christian Kingston people - no, I did not have a good Easter. I did not have any kind of Easter whatever, to be honest. I went to a scifi convention, as I have done for every Easter for the past 9 years, not that you are expected to know that. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the con is always Easter weekend, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have noticed that this past weekend was Easter at all. I did buy chocolate eggs, but I bought them a month ago for Ostara. They were delicious.
I hope that your Ostara was as pleasant as my Easter, really.
*I have no real objection to occasional dishonesty in general terms, as it's sometimes necessary.** But I don't like lying about religion and I'm lucky enough to live in a place and with people where I don't have to, so I try not to as a rule.
**Lokean, you guys. Also, I don't make a habit of lying on my lj/dw, so don't worry.
I mean, I'm sure it's very nice of them to ask and I know they're just being polite and that they mean it well. But it takes me aback and I'm not entirely sure how to answer since "Yes" feels dishonest in a way that I find unpleasant* and "I had a nice weekend, thank you" apparently invites questions about don't I celebrate Easter and why not and, sometimes, Heathenry 101, which I don't really want to do for random strangers. Why "I had a nice weekend" isn't answer enough, I don't know. Surely there are other people in Kingston who aren't practicing Christians or Christians-by-cultural-default, right?
So, dear Christian Kingston people - no, I did not have a good Easter. I did not have any kind of Easter whatever, to be honest. I went to a scifi convention, as I have done for every Easter for the past 9 years, not that you are expected to know that. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the con is always Easter weekend, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have noticed that this past weekend was Easter at all. I did buy chocolate eggs, but I bought them a month ago for Ostara. They were delicious.
I hope that your Ostara was as pleasant as my Easter, really.
*I have no real objection to occasional dishonesty in general terms, as it's sometimes necessary.** But I don't like lying about religion and I'm lucky enough to live in a place and with people where I don't have to, so I try not to as a rule.
**Lokean, you guys. Also, I don't make a habit of lying on my lj/dw, so don't worry.
