Purim in Israel.
Costumes, but no paganism....
Posted on 10/31/2021 5:34:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
People gave full-size candy bars in those days. None of those miniature bars that people get at the CVS or Wal-Mart. Of course, some cheap people would give out those horrible Circus Peanuts - or the Milk Duds that basically made your teeth stick together for about an hour.
The "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett would play on the radio.
Kids don't really go trick or treating anymore like they used to. I think the helicopter parents have them all inside playing video games.
Yeah, sure, kids don’t trick or treat anymore. How out of touch you are
[Jack Kinsella]
Exchanged a few messages with Jack, back in the day.
A memorable Halloween.....probably around 6
....wearing a store bought costume and a plastic mask ......couldn’t breathe
When I returned home, my parents discovered I had chicken pox!
Ok.Lets try this:
(in a nutshell offering)
1.First Harvest, Lammas, August 1, grain.
2.Second Harvest, Mabon, Sept. 21/Equinox, all vegetables
3.Third and final harvest, livestock, Oct.31.
The last harvest being the bloodiest, preparing the livestock to meats for the winter. Al the vegetables are in the root cellar, all the herbs hanging in there to dry. All the grain threshed and milled, in sacks in the root cellar, too.
The last harvest was known as Sanhaim, pronounced sow-when.
Now, the Christian hysteria in the New World, claimed its first victim, not in Salem, in the Colony of Massachusetts, but in the Colony of ConnecticUT, in the town of Windsor, in 1640, with a young girl named Alcee Young. She would be the first person in the New World hanged for the crime of witchcraft.
I am thankful that we Americans have The 1st Amendment, so that no such hysteria can trouble the populace, ever
again.
6
Spent the day Watching
“Jesus Christ Superstar”
the 1973 Movie, Love it!
Theologically messed up but
Like Halloween, it’s
Between me and Jesus.
.
Popcorn balls suck!
No day is Satans. The victory is already won and he is defeated. If Christians want to take the little ones trick or treating there is nothing wrong with it. That said we should also do nothing to dishonor our Lord. Demonic costumes are not becoming of us.
bkmk
This is just flat-out wrong.
First of all, the earliest Irish Martyrologies had a feast for All Saints in Spring. So there can have been no connection (originally) between All Saints and Samhain in Ireland.
As for Italy, Boniface IV in 609 or 610 consecrated the Pantheon to all the martyrs and essentially kicked off All Saints Day. But that was May 13th....and it was a local feast in Rome.
Gregory III then consecrated a chapel in St. Peter's Basilica to All the Saints on November 1st. This is where our modern date comes from. But again, this was a local feast in Rome....and it was only extended to the universal Church by Gregory IV in the 800s.
Americans understandably tend to think of the British Isles as the center of history, but to the Romans from the 600s to the 800s, Ireland was a far-off island at the edge of the known world. An afterthought.
Why would a Roman care about some obscure faraway Druid cult, to the point of cooking up a feast just for them?
What actually happened is that the Nov. 1 feast got started in Rome because of the dedication of the chapel--which are very important days in the Catholic calendar and still celebrated today--which eventually spread to Ireland and took hold there.
Now I wouldn't say that it couldn't have *picked up* some features from Samhain (if even it was still celebrated, and as I understand the Irish sources do not give us very much information about what Samhain actually was), but it certainly didn't *come from* Samhain or any other pagan festival.
I have different rtake on Halloween, in that it precedes by a day, the Day Of The Dead. My theory...(and it seems to be born out by various researchers), is that the Day of the Dead was the mourning for all those lost during the cataclysm from the skies about 12,850 years ago. if naturally follows that Halloween was an attempt to appease the “gods” before the great event.
There is evidence that something from the Taurids struck the planet in the Fall period that brought an end to the Ice Age. Veliovsky (sic) has spoke of this as well as Randall Carlson among others (in relation to the Day of the Dead)—as for the cosmic event itself, I would refer one to the website https://cosmictusk.com for more information. For Randall Carlson’s essays go here: https://sacredgeometryinternational.com/cosmic-lessons-the-day-of-the-dead
Christianity came thousands of years after the Day of the Dead, which is celebrated in one form or another around the world. It is sort of our one connection to the hazy mist of the past...
Not wanting to tread on anyone’s religious beliefs, but that is my take on the matter. This does not mean that Santanic forces have not taken over aspects of this remberance period....(All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day and All Souls Day.)
Lighten Up,Francis.
.
Corn Pop is
Listening.
I went with my son and grand daughters tonight.
It was great, been a long time.
Not many out.
You are right, no day is satans day.
Remember when the religious right was batpoop crazy accusing roleplaying games and all rock of being satanic?
And now the left has become ten times crazier
And yet instead of letting the left eat itself, some of these religious right guys are going “no how dare you make yourselves look crazy! WE are the crazy ones!!!”
Satan is everywhere but sometimes just in people’s mind and thoughts.
Some great songs came from that musical; Jesus Christ, Superstar, Day By Day , I Don’t Know How To Love Him”, others
Purim in Israel.
Costumes, but no paganism....
I was 18 when it came out
and it blew thru my
Neighborhood like
The Wuhan.
.
“Walk across My
Swimming Pool”
,,,
Just Great!
The guy in the
Sunglasses must be
Mossad.
We rent a house in the middle of town and hand out candy. It’s my wife’s thing. There are two main drags that families and their kids trick or treat on. The rest of the town’s neighborhoods largely don’t participate, but those two areas are thronged. There was a haunted house nearby and a school doing “trunk or treat. We served around 900 kids and teenagers.
The little ones are so cute. The parents stand back and wave and say thank you. The bigger kids come along and people don’t give them a hard time because society has all but wrecked their lives. They are out having a good time and are for the most part, very polite.
Very few Covid masks this year,as opposed to last. I would take a bullet for any of them. They are all wonderful people.
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