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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Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st. Some believe that Samhain was the more important festival, marking the beginning of a whole new cycle, just as the Celtic day began at night. For it was understood that in dark silence comes whisperings of new beginnings, the stirring of the seed below the ground. Whereas Beltane welcomes in the summer with joyous celebrations at dawn, the most magically potent time of this festival is November Eve, the night of October 31st, known today of course, as Halloween.
"What in SamHain is that?........
Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st. Some believe that Samhain was the more important festival, marking the beginning of a whole new cycle, just as the Celtic day began at night. For it was understood that in dark silence comes whisperings of new beginnings, the stirring of the seed below the ground. Whereas Beltane welcomes in the summer with joyous celebrations at dawn, the most magically potent time of this festival is November Eve, the night of October 31st, known today of course, as Halloween.
your post is one of the scariest things I've ever read on the FR.
Okay, I don't allow my kids to say anything but Jeez wouldn't bother me in the slightest. That's just going overboard.
But, dear Suzi, they MUST spoil your fun! They care too much for your immortal soul to allow you to have one little speck of enjoyment out of life.
You MUST wear a sorrowful expression at all times and turn your head from abominations such as jack-o-lanterns and Christmas trees.
Above all, perform your wifely duties in a locked-doors lights-out environment only, with your ankle length flannel nightgown bunched up just enough to permit the shameful act that brings forth children to occur.
I see Halloween as fun time for kids, maybe I'm wrong, but I wouldn't take that away from children. They love it, and even adults have fun giving them candies and chocolates.
Instead of candy howzabout handing out those pink chewable tablets the dentist gives you to show where to brush?
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. --H. L. Mencken
Sorry but Halloween is just a silly, fun day for kids..candy and dressing up..ANY day or Holiday can be made "evil" by idiots. Dont let the wack jobs take one more fun childhood memory away from kids...
Did I say they couldn't practice their religion? I simply commented that their were people out celebrating their religion by dressing up in black robes and walking to the top of a big hill. I have no idea what they did after they got to the top. We left. We had other things planned. It was bizarre to me because I had never seen such before. If I had never been to a Catholic church, and I visited for the first time, I would probably describe what happens there as "bizarre."
Regardless of what other people do, we don't celebrate Halloween. That probably makes us "bizarre," and so what!
Was the event associating Columbine with Halloween at all? If so, that's pretty terrible. And is your church anywhere near Jefferson, Colorado?
Hey now, our kids would riot if we tried to sneek off to Octoberfest without them.
One price gets them in the gate and they're off to the rides while us older ones meander over to the beer tent.
I was thinking you probably had a reason for not enjoying Halloween. Yes, a carload of teenagers from outside your neighborhood is a good reason for your feelings. What a shame that they can ruin the fun for the neighborhood children. I understand how you feel.
"Christianity, unable to suppress the belief, adopted it."
Well, not in my ex daughter-in-laws house. If anyone wants to know how really bad this nonsense can get read on:
My ex daughter-in-law threw out every Disney movie I gave my grandaughter. " If you look really hard in the "Lion King," she said, "you can see the word SEX written in the clouds."
She blacked-out with a felt marker the horn of a unicorn on a poster I gave her daughter since God never made such a creature.
She burned all the first edition Harry Potter books I
bought.
She smashed every pumpkin I supplied in the fall, being too stupid to bake a pumpkin pie instead of making a Jack-O-Lantern.
She was very well versed in the Bible, though. Since she believed that God would always provide everything she needed---took it to mean shoplifting at Foleys at the perfume counter was OK.
OMG!!!! Your ex daughter-in-law sounds like a nightmare...and worldclass nut job. YIKES......She sounds like a Life Time Movie.
Now, every year, more and more people leave their porchlight out (the local signal for "don't stop here"). It's a shame, but I can't blame anyone for going that route after the mess things have become.
Didn't this used to be about the kids in the neighborhood?
Fall Festivals are just the leftover "Harvest Festivals" from days gone by.
Kid in the city hardly know what a farm is, let alone a harvest season.
Halloween is the only event of note they can identify with for Fall.
Ever had your yard toilet papered?.................
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