How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"

GTBE email ^ | 10/07/05 | self

[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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[rattrap]

20 minutes later the person's house who puts chick tracts in those trick or treat bags is egged and TPed.

[grjr21]

I know it's rather small of me but one of my pleasures in life is watching someone take a really bad idea and run with it

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"What is this some kind of conservative reverse political correctness?"


You spam me three times with the same question.

So no doubt you've been diligent, in your own way, to speak out against evil, no matter how matter how attractively it is packaged.

Elaborate, please on your own efforts to act on your own convictions. Whatever they really are.

[ShadowDancer]

Stripes, I think.

[evets]

[KevinDavis]

My Halloween tradition was after I did my trick and treating, I was performing Satanic rituals..

[Arrowhead1952]

Made you go back to #13 and look, did I??????

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Sir, your tagline scoffeth.

See Psalm 1

[Kenton]

BOO!

Man, with all the serious stuff we gotta worry about.... is there a Halloween Grinch out there?

[Horatio Gates]

Myself, I'll be handing out goodies to the 100 or so beautiful kids who stop my my house on Halloween.

I'll be the tall kid who looks like he needs a shave. 8>)

[Central Scrutiniser]

I have magical powers, I once turned a car into a driveway.

[KevinDavis]

It was Stripes..

[Larry Lucido]

Troublemaker! :-)

'sides, that's what I was gonna wear.

[Elyse]

When my kids were little we started having fall parties at the church every Halloween. The kids and most of the adults all dressed up in non-ghoulish costumes. We played a bunch of party games and had a costume contest. Each family brought enough hotdogs and buns for their family and another sidedish or dessert. A bunch of the men took the hotdogs outside and grilled them.

We had a table set up with big paper bags and lots of arts and crafty things and let the kids take turns making their own treat bags. At the end of the night the adults lined up with bags of goodies and the kids took their bags and went down the line and ended up with a full bag of safe treats. It was always a lot of fun.

[Larry Lucido]

You wearing the same raincoat as last year? :-)

[killjoy]

20 minutes later the person's house who puts chick tracts in those trick or treat bags is egged and TPed.

LOL! Been there... done that...

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Dangit, it is not funny...looking at that.

[Overtaxed]

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

[blue-duncan]

"But let's be honest, most "Fall Festivals" are just Halloween carnivals in drag"

We are battling this at my church now. The irony of it all, after the "Fall Festival" the kids are going out
"trick or treating" with the parents who oppose the Halloween party. I remember our church substituting the "Senior Banquet" for the "Senior Ball" at the high school. Couldn't wait to get to college.

[MineralMan]

"I have magical powers, I once turned a car into a driveway."

Yeah? Well, I was hitchiking one night and got picked up by a witch. We weren't on the road for more than five minutes before she turned into a motel.