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How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"
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| 10/07/05
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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."
(excerpt from email) GREAT RESOURCE SITE for Teachers, Parents & Students.
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Information from the site includes quotes from "Occult Crime Control: The Law Enforcement Manual of Investigation, Analysis, and Prevention," concerning the problem of "self-styled Satanists" in high school students.
To: EdReform; trussell; little jeremiah; Born Conservative; NYer; Salvation; Victoria Delsoul; All
Please send this info to non-FReeper teachers, parents and students.
Thanks.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:16:37 AM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: Blurblogger
Why not recognize it for waht it is/was? All Hallows (Saints) Eve? The night before All Saints' Day, originally a Catholic holy day? Nothing evil in that..............
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:17:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
To: Blurblogger
I prefer the ghoulish as part of my Halloween.
Of course the reason the schools in my neck of the woods went to "Fall Festival" was to not offend practicing witches. Geesh!
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:18:15 AM PDT
by
Horatio Gates
(The pen is mightier than the sword...when it's stuck in the skull of the dude with the sword)
To: Blurblogger
Look, Halloween is fun. It's this sort of Jack Chick-ian view that gives Christianity a bad, prudish name.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:18:19 AM PDT
by
Tim Long
(Gingrich Brownback '08)
To: Blurblogger
GTBE, isn't that a gay advocacy group? < kidding > LOL
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:18:30 AM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
(("It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."))
To: Blurblogger
Here's what you need to do if you're concerned about this: chill.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:19:31 AM PDT
by
Minn
To: Tim Long
Long live Jack Chick! Where's your Chick tracks?
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:20:24 AM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: Blurblogger
Please send this info to non-FReeper teachers, parents and students.
Why? So even more people can laugh at this?
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:21:34 AM PDT
by
drjimmy
To: drjimmy
"Why? So even more people can laugh at this?"
Right. It's embarrassing enough having it here on FR.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:23:20 AM PDT
by
bonfire
(dwindler)
To: Blurblogger
OMG!! Someone, somewhere is having fun, we must put a stop to it!
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:23:21 AM PDT
by
rattrap
To: Horatio Gates; mad puppy
I just got my Halloween mask. How do you like it?
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:24:23 AM PDT
by
SirChas
(I seem to be rapidly approaching the apex of my mediocre career)
To: Red Badger
To: Blurblogger
Aw, cmon...we're a long way from what 'All Hallows Eve' used to be back in the get-down and party days of the Druids. Sheesh! Keep it Halloween not some warm fuzzy excuse of a Holiday.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:25:36 AM PDT
by
Leg Olam
("There is no Hell. There is only France." F. Zappa)
To: Blurblogger
And remember! It's not Christmas anymore, its the "Holiday Season".
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:25:38 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Blurblogger
Bu-rother.
Right Wing Political Correctness is just as stupid as Left Wing Political Correctness.
Halloween has always been a fun time for the kids and adults. It also lets us address and laugh at Death and Evil.
I know a place where you can get a loan and rent a life.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:25:47 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Durka Durka Durka. Muhammed Jihad Durka.)
To: Blurblogger
Sheesh. This is just as bad as what the libs do with making Christmas a "Winter Holiday".
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:26:03 AM PDT
by
itslex71
(southern by birth, republican by the grace of my dad)
To: drjimmy
When this type of stuff gets posted it reminds me that I need to go get some pumpkins!
To: Blurblogger
This is silly! Halloween is just fun, for kids and adults. Dress-up, candy, parties. FUN! Not evil! This is SILLY!
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