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How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"
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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."
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To: killjoy
20 minutes later the person's house who puts chick tracts in those trick or treat bags is egged and TPed.
81
posted on
10/07/2005 10:56:46 AM PDT
by
rattrap
To: absolootezer0
I know it's rather small of me but one of my pleasures in life is watching someone take a really bad idea and run with it
82
posted on
10/07/2005 10:56:57 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: bilhosty
"What is this some kind of conservative reverse political correctness?"
You spam me three times with the same question.
So no doubt you've been diligent, in your own way, to speak out against evil, no matter how matter how attractively it is packaged.
Elaborate, please on your own efforts to act on your own convictions. Whatever they really are.
83
posted on
10/07/2005 10:57:24 AM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: half-cajun
84
posted on
10/07/2005 10:57:46 AM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(Stupid people make my brain sad.)
85
posted on
10/07/2005 10:58:02 AM PDT
by
evets
(God bless president Bush!)
To: Blurblogger; All
My Halloween tradition was after I did my trick and treating, I was performing Satanic rituals..
86
posted on
10/07/2005 10:58:02 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
Made you go back to #13 and look, did I??????
87
posted on
10/07/2005 10:58:21 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Note to the MSM - Don't stay stuck on STUPID!)
To: PeteB570
Sir, your tagline scoffeth.
See Psalm 1
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:58:50 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
BOO! Man, with all the serious stuff we gotta worry about.... is there a Halloween Grinch out there?
89
posted on
10/07/2005 11:00:08 AM PDT
by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
To: MineralMan
Myself, I'll be handing out goodies to the 100 or so beautiful kids who stop my my house on Halloween.I'll be the tall kid who looks like he needs a shave. 8>)
90
posted on
10/07/2005 11:00:40 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: KevinDavis
I have magical powers, I once turned a car into a driveway.
To: ShadowDancer; All
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posted on
10/07/2005 11:01:23 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: ShadowDancer
Troublemaker! :-)
'sides, that's what I was gonna wear.
To: All
When my kids were little we started having fall parties at the church every Halloween. The kids and most of the adults all dressed up in non-ghoulish costumes. We played a bunch of party games and had a costume contest. Each family brought enough hotdogs and buns for their family and another sidedish or dessert. A bunch of the men took the hotdogs outside and grilled them.
We had a table set up with big paper bags and lots of arts and crafty things and let the kids take turns making their own treat bags. At the end of the night the adults lined up with bags of goodies and the kids took their bags and went down the line and ended up with a full bag of safe treats. It was always a lot of fun.
94
posted on
10/07/2005 11:02:55 AM PDT
by
Elyse
To: Horatio Gates
You wearing the same raincoat as last year? :-)
To: rattrap
20 minutes later the person's house who puts chick tracts in those trick or treat bags is egged and TPed. LOL! Been there... done that...
96
posted on
10/07/2005 11:04:08 AM PDT
by
killjoy
(Real Men Love Bush)
To: Arrowhead1952
Dangit, it is not funny...looking at that.
To: Corin Stormhands
I just want to know why I should buy candy for other peoples' children.
98
posted on
10/07/2005 11:07:18 AM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(Home is where the hard drive is.)
To: Buggman; Corin Stormhands; P-Marlowe; xzins
"But let's be honest, most "Fall Festivals" are just Halloween carnivals in drag"
We are battling this at my church now. The irony of it all, after the "Fall Festival" the kids are going out
"trick or treating" with the parents who oppose the Halloween party. I remember our church substituting the "Senior Banquet" for the "Senior Ball" at the high school. Couldn't wait to get to college.
To: Central Scrutiniser
"I have magical powers, I once turned a car into a driveway."
Yeah? Well, I was hitchiking one night and got picked up by a witch. We weren't on the road for more than five minutes before she turned into a motel.
100
posted on
10/07/2005 11:07:45 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
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