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How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"
GTBE email ^ | 10/07/05 | self

Posted on 10/07/2005 10:14:25 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance

Re-focus Halloween!


If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult and, instead, focus on the event as a fall festival. ...

"When you turn evil into a game, it trivializes it and numbs children to its darkness."
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To: Central Scrutiniser

This far into a thread that even mentions witches and not one Python reference? I'm disappointed...


181 posted on 10/07/2005 11:47:24 AM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: ShadowDancer

I think Jeez is short for Jesus - Dad told me not to say it back in the 50's when I was a kid.

That being said, I don't mind bad language in the right time and place, like on fishing trips, where it comes in handy.

I like Halloween, though, especially up north, when there is a chill in the air and the leaves have turned. It brings back childhood memories.


182 posted on 10/07/2005 11:47:28 AM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: YankeeGirl
"The Celtic idea of immortality was that death was but a changing of place and that life went on with all its forms and goods in another world, a world of the dead, or the fabulous Otherworld. When people died in that world, however, their souls were born in this. Thus a constant exchange of souls took place between the two worlds; death in this world took a soul to the Otherworld; death in that world brought a soul to this...

"There was one day of the year when the Otherworld could become visible to this world: on the feast of Samhain, the eve of 31 October to 1 November. This was a time when the supernatural boundary between the two worlds was broken down and people, the dead and living, could move freely between the two lands. It was a time when those who had been wronged by the living could return and haunt them. Christianity, unable to suppress the belief, adopted it, 1 November became All Hallows Day or All Souls' Day and the evening before, 'Hallowe'en."

Source: "The Ancient World of the Celts" by Peter Berresford Ellis.

183 posted on 10/07/2005 11:47:52 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: Overtaxed

"I just want to know why I should buy candy for other peoples' children."

Bah HUMBUG!....;)





184 posted on 10/07/2005 11:48:02 AM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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To: Tim Long

It's the only time of the year your kids can go from door to door begging so we parents can pick out all the BEST candy for ourselves. And if destruction and destroying private property is your thing, you can toilet paper a house and say...TRICK. :-)


185 posted on 10/07/2005 11:49:02 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Tim Long

ah, we did one of those almost 20 years ago. but i still find that in totally different taste. did i mention that when they did the columbine thing it was in 99? only 6 months after the incident.


186 posted on 10/07/2005 11:49:41 AM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Overtaxed

A dentist in our neighborhood gives out mini toothpaste. The kids actually like it.


187 posted on 10/07/2005 11:50:38 AM PDT by aaronbeth (Our freedom was won from the barrel of a gun.)
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To: Overtaxed; Corin Stormhands

"I just want to know why I should buy candy for other peoples' children."

You're not if you do it right. Buy a couple of large bags of Snickers and put them in the freezer. Then buy a couple bags of cheap corn candy and tell yourself that as soon as the corn candy goes you will start handing out the Snickers. History says you won't finish the corn candy and all the cool good stuff is yours.


188 posted on 10/07/2005 11:50:56 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: Blurblogger
Elaborate, please on your own efforts to act on your own convictions.



Eat the preachers! Rrrrooooowwwrrrrr!!!


189 posted on 10/07/2005 11:52:41 AM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Got ya beat! I once turned a car into a ditch!

Another time I turned a car into a cornfield! The beers made it easy!

190 posted on 10/07/2005 11:53:39 AM PDT by uglybiker (This tagline sponsored by the Masonic/Illuminati/NWO Conspiracy. BOO!)
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To: -YYZ-
Rather than Fall Festival or Festivus, I vote for:


191 posted on 10/07/2005 11:56:28 AM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: Blurblogger
The Lord rebuke thee, Ma'am.


192 posted on 10/07/2005 11:57:01 AM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: evets

Is it still wrong if you dress up like the Holy Ghost? Sorry...that's so wrong. It's from one of the Simpson's Tree House of Horror Halloween books...you know, the one where Cletus uses old bathroom rugs to dress up like Chewbacca.


193 posted on 10/07/2005 12:02:51 PM PDT by aaronbeth (Our freedom was won from the barrel of a gun.)
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To: freedumb2003
Halloween has always been a fun time for the kids and adults. It also lets us address and laugh at Death and Evil.

We never went all out for Halloween like some of our friends did. We were usually pulling some sort of costume together a couple of days before.

If folks don't want to celebrate it, then don't, but don't make a fuss and spoil everyone else's fun, for heaven's sake!

194 posted on 10/07/2005 12:03:43 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Blurblogger; Eaker; TheMom; wardaddy
People who think that Halloween is an "evil" event have some really serious issues they need to tend to IMHO......

Positively terrifying to see a 6 year old kid in a superman costume demanding candy and such in the dark of night.......BOO !
195 posted on 10/07/2005 12:05:03 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Blurblogger

LEAVE THE KIDS AT HOME AND GO OUT FOR OKTOBERFEST INSTEAD!


196 posted on 10/07/2005 12:07:32 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Blurblogger

Noah had trouble getting folks to join him on the ark. Don't worry.

We don't celebrate Halloween either. Our children get plenty of candy, and they have plenty of time for make-believe/dress up.

Last Halloween, we were doing our annual Christmas shopping, and we stopped at a local city park parking lot to take care of our newborn baby. We quickly noticed an out-of-the-ordinary gathering. There was a Wiccan ritual event taking place at the park. I had never seen such. It was bizarre. To say the least. Grown-ups all dressed up in black robes, marching up the hill to the highest point in the city. (non-building) Bizarre. Halloween's not just for kids going door-to-door and saying, "Trick or treat!"


197 posted on 10/07/2005 12:07:47 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Corin Stormhands

I have been taught that rule since I was tiny, and have taught my four children, as well.

Who wants to knock on the door of a grumpy person, anyway? : )


198 posted on 10/07/2005 12:08:23 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Must I use a sarcasm tag?)
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To: petitfour

> There was a Wiccan ritual event taking place at the park. I had never seen such. It was bizarre. To say the least.

Consider *any* religious excercise form *any* religion. To an outsider, it's bizarre. Dressing up in a robe and going toa hilltop to commune with Nature or whatever is objectively no weirder that putting on yer Sunday Best, going to an inefficiently designed stone building and being lectured at about a book you're perfectly capable of reading yourself.


199 posted on 10/07/2005 12:14:21 PM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: petitfour; All

God forbid people pratice religion their own way... That pesky Freedom of Religion... I don't like Wicca, but who am I to tell people in how they should live..


200 posted on 10/07/2005 12:15:17 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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