Posted on 10/27/2024 6:56:52 AM PDT by Duke C.
When you think Halloween, it’s hard not to picture candy corn (gross, but iconic), kids in overpriced costumes, and jack-o’-lanterns grinning like they just got their student loans forgiven. But this spooky celebration, now pretty much an American pastime, wasn’t born in the aisles of Spirit Halloween stores. Nope, it started as a Celtic tradition before America slapped its commercial magic all over it and exported it worldwide like a Marvel movie.
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There are “haunted house” festivals and attractions all over central PA, and countless private residences sporting hundreds of dollars’ worth of yard decoration. Twelve-foot high skeletons, colossal witches and Frankensteins, etc. Cobwebs, ghosts, pumpkins, zombies, things with red-light eyes, tombstones, inflatables, ad nauseam.
All I ever keep outside is a mailbox and a batch of security cameras.
I grew up in small town America — suburban white pickett fences, gaurding small, perfect lawns.
In those times, children went door-to-door and got free candy tossed into shopping bags. Parents ended those days by panicking over reports (many groundless) of needles and razors in apples, and other tampered treats. Long before that, the “tricks” aspect had been eliminated and declared as vandalism.
Then Halloween was re-cast for “safety”into costume party competitions at school gyms, and street level trick-or-treating was effectively ended.
Finally, Halloween became about adult fantaies and costumes that would have gotton their wearers arrested in earlier times became the centerpiece, along with parties for adults to booze it up and flaunt.
Hallloween was easily re-purposed by Satan over a few decades by playing on fear and sex. He’s good at that... ...and very patient.
If Halloween were abolished then there would always be something else to set off people offended/threatened by Halloween.
I hate Halloween.
“Halloween became about adult fantaies and costumes that would have gotton their wearers arrested in earlier times”
Sort of. It was the one night of the year the living could communicate with those who had passed away.
It started in Ireland not the US
You've never heard people laughing at a funeral?
Considering how all the Halloween decorations are skeletons, graves, ghosts, effigies bodies hung from trees with purple painted faces, witches, etc, yes it is a celebration of death.
People who feel offended and threatened by God need to think very carefully about it.
“skeletons, graves, ghosts, effigies bodies hung from trees with purple painted faces, witches”
“yes it is a celebration of death”
I go as Hunter Biden. Outside the crack pipe it costs nothing. Fortunately I live in the South and it’s usually not cold.
It wouldn’t make a good costume in, say, Michigan.
When people laugh at a funeral, what’s going on is a celebration of life in spite of death.
Halloween is a celebration of death for its own sake.
Quite a few 12 foot skeletons around here. I think they sell them at Home Depot. There’s a guy two neighborhoods over who keeps his up all year long. I’ll bet his neighbors love that!
Nobody who communicates with the dead really knows who they’re communicating with.
This is an example of deception.
This is that time to be unburdened what has been expired Nicorette candies. Stock up on razor blades and apples because of the upcoming dock strike. Or go cheap and leave out an empty jackolantern bucket with a sign reading “Take only one candy PLEASE”. Afraid to have a Trump/Vance sign in your yard because of vandalism/retribution? Put out a Harris/Walz “final tour” sign with ACDCs song “Highway to Hell” playing in the background.
We do not spend a dime on Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Chr*stmas.
Here in Los Angels the so called adults go even more crazy on Halloween they celebrate it greater than Christmas parades and huge parties always dressing up to hide what they are.
If you go to a funeral and laugh in celebration of the person’s death, and everyone knows and understands your reason for laughing, you will be forcibly taken out of the service by the person’s family.
Now do you understand the subtle nature of deception?
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