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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I’m not speaking to my subjective desire.
I’m speaking to the objective truth of the matter.
The objective truth of Halloween, as seen in the skulls, the skeletons and the monsters, is that it is a celebration of death.
When I was in Germany in 1961, Halloween was unknown, but All Saints Day was a big deal.
In 1965, we celebrated Halloween by visiting the ruins of Burg Frankenstein—aka “Frankenstein’s castle”—an abandoned medieval castle near Pfungstadt. During our visit, we were the only ones there. However, the Americans at the nearby base in Darmstadt soon discovered it and started holding Halloween parties there. Germans began to attend and eventually took over the event after the American armed forces left the region.
Burg Frankenstein is currently being renovated, so parties are no longer held there. They have been moved to a new site, Königstein Castle, near Frankfurt.
Pirates kill.
Nurses are supposed to heal the sick.
Did we have “sexy nurses” during the times of our nation’s founding? The answer is no, and it’s because we knew better what we were doing in those days.
You absolutely ARE speaking of your subjective desire. Because your “objective truth” is objectively FALSE.
The objective truth of Halloween is that it started as a celebration of life by mocking and not fearing the hard times to come. And has evolved into an excuse to let our hair down and have some fun. The death imagery comes the old days when it was about not being afraid of death, which it not a celebration at all.
You are, objectively, wrong on all counts. The death is YOUR obsession.
From "All Hallows' Eve", the night prior to All Hallows Day (also known as All Saints Day) on November 1st and two nights prior to All Souls Day on November 2nd, both days dedicated to prayers for the dead.
Do you know the cost of the average person’s Halloween costume?
Most people don’t consider costumes to be free of cost.
Pirates do a lot of stuff.
You’re damn right there were sexy nurses back then. Not as a costume, but as a life. Healing is sexy, and nurses have kids. So yes we knew what we were doing, and it wasn’t what you’re saying.
Do you realize that people don’t have to spend that? You said it as an absolute truth “costumes are expensive”. And just like all your other absolute lies on this thread you are WRONG. Costumes CAN BE expensive. But they can also be FREE. It’s up the costumed.
I’m only warning you to be vigilant.
I don’t mean to upset you, or to cause you to be emotional.
The real meaning of Halloween is to get people to do the devil’s bidding by celebrating death without knowing they’re doing it.
Without knowing they’re doing it.
The “witches” at Salem weren’t real witches. However, if witch hunters had waited three centuries, they would have found Salem to be a happy hunting ground. When I visited there some years ago, a tour guide said that Salem has the largest population of self-proclaimed witches of any city in America.
In the days of our nation’s founding, men knew to control themselves. They didn’t look at nurses that way.
Men knew to look only at their wives that way. That’s how nurses have kids. With their husbands.
The way people behave today has brought chaos, which is another theme of Halloween.
No. You’re LYING. Over and over and over.
You haven’t upset me. You do DISGUST me. Because holier than thou liars are DISGUSTING people.
The real meaning of Halloween is to have fun, and not fear the inevitable. It’s not the devil’s bidding. It’s not celebrating death. You are, again LYING.
And you know you’re doing it.
One of the sickest things about witchcraft is that its dark side has persisted, hidden in darkness where most can’t see it, since the beginning. They torture and kill children. It goes on to this day.
There’s no such thing as benevolent witchcraft.
Some know what they’re doing, others don’t, but they all serve the devil.
BWAHAHAHA. There you go with those lies again. Plenty of men couldn’t control themselves back then. But they had enough control of society to always blame the women. They ABSOLUTELY looked at nurses that way. Men did NOT look only at their wives.
Really, you need to do some learnin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
Exactly.
The sacrificing of children must be exposed.
The sacrificers must be brought to justice.
If you love the truth, you will find it.
If you don’t love the truth, it will be hidden from you.
Or are you laughing in a good way, celebrating the person’s life?
The difference is subtle, but huge.
Not subtle at all. A simplistic view on your part.
I'm 75, so, been to a few funerals. There was laughter at every one of them including my parents'. No one being inappropriate.
If your experience is different, I suggest a new circle of friends.
No, that’s not true.
You can see the evolution of men’s behavior even in the 20th century, just by watching old movies and television shows.
If today’s movies, with men preying on women like they do today, were produced in the 1950s or even the 1970s, they would have failed at the box office.
In the old days, men behaved themselves because they knew God.
Sounds like the people laughed for the right reasons at those funerals.
They were not celebrating death, they were celebrating life.
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