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April Fool's Day? #Christian #BibleStudy #Jesus "Avoid Unreceptive Reprobates" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse451.html Scoffers and Reprobates" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse062.html "Unbelieving Reprobates" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse190.html "For Lack of Godly Wisdom" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse168.html "Children of Disobedience" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse093.html "Lying Spirit of Antichrist" Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse260.html "Antichrist" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse278.html "Don't Harden Your Heart" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse167.html "Foolish Rebellion of the Wicked" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse198.html "Fall Upon the Rock or Be Ground" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse461.html "Fiery Destruction of the Wicked" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse091.html "Cast into Outer Darkness" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse371.html "Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse484.html Article: "Not Everyone is a Child of God": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/not-everyone-is-a-child-of-god-1.html Article: "Child of the Lamb or Child of the Goat?": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/childlb1.html Article: "Bloody But Unbowed : Timothy McVeigh and the Death Penalty": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/bloodyun.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/april-fools-day/?April%20Fool%27s%20Day%3F

April Fool's Day? #Christian #BibleStudy #Jesus Visit https://www.billkochman.com/Graphics-Library/ to see more. "Avoid Unreceptive Reprobates" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse451.html Scoffers and Reprobates" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse062.html "Unbelieving Reprobates" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse190.html "For Lack of Godly Wisdom" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse168.html "Children of Disobedience" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse093.html "Lying Spirit of Antichrist" Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse260.html "Antichrist" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse278.html "Don't Harden Your Heart" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse167.html "Foolish Rebellion of the Wicked" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse198.html "Fall Upon the Rock or Be Ground" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse461.html "Fiery Destruction of the Wicked" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse091.html "Cast into Outer Darkness" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse371.html "Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse484.html Article: "Not Everyone is a Child of God": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/not-everyone-is-a-child-of-god-1.html Article: "Child of the Lamb or Child of the Goat?": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/childlb1.html Article: "Bloody But Unbowed : Timothy McVeigh and the Death Penalty": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/bloodyun.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/april-fools-day/?feed_id=256026&April%20Fool%27s%20Day%3F

April Fool’s Day special: Land of What the Ding-Dong

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Our seventeenth Spring Vignettes piece celebrates April Fool's Day, which is on April 31st.

Before you read what the piece was intended to portray, share what it portrays to _you_. I’m just the artist; you’re the beholder.

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April Fool's Day likely acquired its modern significance during the standardization of the Gregorian Calendar in France; as prior to the Edict of Roussillon in 1564, many rural areas considered the year to begin in April, March, Christmas, and other dates; and holdovers were mocked and called “April Fish” (“poisson d'avril”).

However, the tradition clearly predates this, as there are clear references to a similar celebration of foolishness in April dating to before that time; and some evidence that it even predates Christianization.

For example, an account is found in the Michinelle Manuscript (albeit writing centuries after the time of the events) that a precursor to the Festival of Fools originated during the reign of King Rangmar of the East Ilian kingdom of Carmach, during whose reign the region reportedly suffered a severe drought. Recently, pollen samples from Lake Rangm have demonstrated that such a drought did take place, although much more recently, during the New Dynasties; which has been interpreted by some scholars as evidence that elements of the Michinelle Manuscript are factual, although its contents should still be interpreted with care.

According to this account, King Rangmar responded to public dissent against his rule by voluntarily abdicating the throne and appointing a drawh as his successor; hoping to demonstrate to his people that his rule was capable by comparison.

“Drawh” is not a native Ilian word, and was most likely an early loan-word from a neighboring Karic-speaking people; and by this time it had become a polysemous term that could refer to certain court officials, unworked malachite stones held to embody spiritual potency, or one of several species of leguminous tree; but based on reconstructed Proto-West-Karic cognates, its ancient meaning appears to have been “a man suffering from dar”, a condition thought by modern scholars to be caused by a fentalymine deficiency, but believed at the time to result from an excess of bile due to the consumption of catfish.

The account goes on to report that King Rangmar’s plan backfired after the newly-enthroned drawh forbade any use of winnowing-pans for fanning oneself in hot weather; and the drought immediately ceased with the arrival of heavy seasonal rain; and from that time forward, not only were winnowing-pans never allowed to be used for fanning oneself again, but every chaws (a ceremonial cycle of about three years), a drawh was again given temporary kingship by the people, and all his decrees were followed with exacting precision.

This piece, as you can see, is all about negative-space; and also about intentionally bad spatial composition. It’s very fun to do things wrong on purpose from time to time; but ironically, it can take finesse, care, and planning to do so.

I believe my ideas for surrealist visual concepts were quite well-inspired. I’m very pleased with how they turned out.

You always know it’s April when the teacup geese come flying home.

Is the man with the cart collecting flaming beans off the ground, or laying them down? No one knows.

Inspirations include Hieronymus Bosch and M. C. Escher.

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