Posted on 11/01/2003 12:12:30 PM PST by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Halloween is over, but I can still see beaming ghosts and goblins, witches and sorcerers, monsters and hip-hop stars parading around outside my local elementary school yesterday. They were the lucky kids; many schools offered only "harvest celebrations" yesterday.
The harvest celebrators saw Halloween as someone else's holiday. When my children were in preschool, both Jewish and Christian schools objected to Halloween. The Jewish preschool teachers explained to me, a Christian, that Halloween celebrated a Christian holiday, All Saint's Day. Though I grew up Catholic, this was news to me, but OK, no Halloween party in Jewish preschool. One year later, in a Christian preschool: no Halloween party because Halloween was a devil-worshipping, Satanic holiday.
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Perhaps YOU were a Beatle goupie/loved their mostly prutresant noise; however, none of that was for me...least of all that dope induced, anti-war/anti-American codswallop. Projection, yet again, on your part, methinks, pet. And as far as living in an imaginagry world goes, YOU are so immersed in your's, that you deludedly " imagine " reality to be " imaginary " !
Get a life...a REAL one. ;^)
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