Posted on 10/16/2014 11:34:54 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
I don’t get candy corn or cotton candy. Just eat raw sugar.
Now chocolate of course is one of the basic food groups.
Yup, gotta watch out for those Catholic Groundhogs, they’re bad news.
Seems like every year I have to refute this.
The earliest martyrologies we have show that the Celtic Christians indeed celebrated All Saints Day in Spring (I believe April actually). Later martyrologies show it was moved to the Roman date, which was Nov. 1.
But the author got the reason totally wrong.
The reason the Romans celebrated on Nov. 1st is because on that day a church was dedicated in Rome to "All the Saints". It was pretty typical then, as indeed it still is, to celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of a church.
Believe me when I tell you a Roman in the 700s or 800s wouldn't have cared one flying fig about an obscure holiday celebrated by Celtic pagans at the boundaries of the known world.
I dunno. Clown Poop?
It’s fun. Don’t worry about Pt. 2.
But it’s fun.
Last year I got a bunch of treats and no one came to our door. This year I will still buy some but the number will be low.....one can only consume so much in the aftermath. :)
Halloween was instructive to me... taught me to engage adults in a conversation. In particular, when we were visiting grandparents in Wilmington Delaware and my uncle took us around the neighborhood (duplexes and row homes with front porches) This was early 1960’s and there were many older couples there. We knocked on the door, we were invited into the living room and asked about our costumes and coaxed to sing a song or otherwise entertain the people there.
That was a lot of work to get the candy!
Some of the best parties I’ve been to are Halloween Parties,,, never a bad one...
Part one was irritating and boring enough. This guy needs to get the fudgesickle stick surgically removed from his anus and take a couple shots of Bushmills and loosen up a little. :-)
I have the no costume folks too. I’m the bad women who gives candy only to those in costume (and to older kids who are chaperoning the younger ones).
I’ll open early 5 or 6 o’clock, once the pre-teens are through (about 7), I turn off the porch light.
In Italy up until recently, there was a) no Christmas tree, b) no yule log, and c) no Santa, and d) not really much gift giving? Halloween wasn't even heard of there.
These things you are finding fault with actually came from mostly Protestant countries--but for many many hundreds of years before that and really most everywhere in the world, the essence of Christmas and Easter and All Hallows was *going to Church* and having a great big celebration afterwards.
You can't just cherry pick these tiny insignificant aspects of a modern holiday--which up until recently weren't even widespread--and claim that is evidence of pagan associations. That's just insane. Especially since we know for a fact that Christians were celebrating Christmas and Easter when they were still a persecuted minority.
Remember what Tertullian famously said as he scoffed paganism: "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Who harshly denounced pagan celebrations? Even HE celebrated Easter.
Nah! The best Halloweens were during the 50's, when Halloween decorating was encouraged, Halloween parties were still allowed in schools, and you didn't have to worry about getting bad things in the candy you collected. Because you went to the same neighborhoods every year, you knew the best houses to go to, and the type of candy you'd get. Halloween for kids back then was a safe and fun experience. It was one of the best times of the year...next to Christmas.
I’ll sit here eating my candy corn and carmel apples waiting for part II.
That can be said for several of our holidays.
We need to shake up our holiday calendar--get rid of Halloween and the above-mentioned holidays, give greater emphasis to Martin Luther King Day, and make Cesar Chavez day (March 31), Cinco de Mayo (May 5) and John F. Kennedy's birthday (May 29) national holidays.
FWIW, a humbug is a public hoax, or one who perpetrates public hoaxes.
P.T. Barnum was known as the "Prince of the Humbugs".
When Ebenezer Scrooge said, "Bah! Humbug!" about Christmas, he was calling it a hoax.
Gee whiz, I just can’t wait for part II. (snicker)
When the kids come to my door shouting "trick or treat," I always ask them what trick would they do if I didn't treat them. That usually stops them, because they've never thought of doing some kind of trick. I treat them anyway.
Now wouldn't that freak out all the leftists on college campi across the country to have some students stroll into class dressed like Columbus?
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