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How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"
GTBE email ^ | 10/07/05 | self

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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To: Larry Lucido

LOL...I wish. The zipper is stuck.


101 posted on 10/07/2005 11:08:21 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)
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To: Larry Lucido

I'm going to send the two of them halfway down the block like that and then I'm going to come running after them waving a bible and screaming 'Heretics!!' at them. Bet you wished you trick or treated with me, don't you?


102 posted on 10/07/2005 11:08:52 AM PDT by ShadowDancer (Stupid people make my brain sad.)
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To: Blurblogger

I survived my youth without turning to the occult just because we enjoyed the silliness and fun of Halloween. Some folks just take things way too seriously, IMHO.


103 posted on 10/07/2005 11:09:00 AM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything)
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To: evets

Another scary halloween ghoul.

And the candidates from last year's state fair...notice anything funny about the base mask used for Kerry?

104 posted on 10/07/2005 11:09:57 AM PDT by cj2a (When you're pathetic, but you don't know you're pathetic, that's really pathetic.)
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To: Tim Long
Look, Halloween is fun. It's this sort of Jack Chick-ian view that gives Christianity a bad, prudish name.

Exactly.

105 posted on 10/07/2005 11:09:57 AM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything)
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To: Blurblogger

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106 posted on 10/07/2005 11:10:07 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." AYN RAND)
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To: Overtaxed

"I just want to know why I should buy candy for other peoples' children."

Nobody's forcing you to do so. For myself, I find it a really good way to meet some of the kids in my neighborhood, and often their parents, as well. Besides, I always buy way too much candy, so there's plenty for me for several days afterwards.


107 posted on 10/07/2005 11:10:41 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: blue-duncan

"I remember our church substituting the "Senior Banquet" for the "Senior Ball" at the high school. "

Blech! Served by the church ladies in the basement?


108 posted on 10/07/2005 11:11:30 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Blurblogger

dark...by your definition....


109 posted on 10/07/2005 11:11:54 AM PDT by dakine
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To: Blurblogger
You're taking a lot of abuse here and I think some folks are being a little cavalier. Although I've always loved Halloween myself, these last few years I have noticed a darker side to it, which I'd never seen before. Last year I brought one of my grandsons to a Halloween store to buy his costume and was a little freaked out by the place. I know this sounds weird, but the place just felt evil to me.

Of course, I've still got a huge inflatable tarantula on my front lawn. And he's surrounded by wooden ghosts staked into the ground. The only holiday we do more decorating for is Christmas. We love seeing the kids costumes every year. Very few of them are anything resembling evil. Lots of Bob the Builders and Power Rangers. Princesses, butterflies and dogs. Halloween is just a fun holiday. And our kids could always eat themselves silly on candy because they had off the next day for All Saints' Day.

110 posted on 10/07/2005 11:12:50 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: Blurblogger
There's already a fall festival. It's called Sukkot.

Ever notice how the ACLU never demands equal time for the Jewish fall holidays with "halloween?" I think if any school tried to ban "halloween" they'd probably sue them!

111 posted on 10/07/2005 11:12:56 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo-ya`avdukh yo'vedu!)
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To: elbucko; Blurblogger

No need to try to put down Blurblogger just because you feel your special day is being threatened.


112 posted on 10/07/2005 11:13:15 AM PDT by k2blader (Hic sunt dracones..)
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To: MineralMan

Think I'll give out carrots and celery.


113 posted on 10/07/2005 11:13:25 AM PDT by Overtaxed (Home is where the hard drive is.)
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To: Blurblogger

Anyone else notice that the stores are starting to push the Halloween stuff back earlier and earlier? This year, I saw stuff at the end of August! I guess they're trying to make more money, but for me, it's a turn-off. Halloween is just not a major holiday.


114 posted on 10/07/2005 11:13:41 AM PDT by Antoninus (The greatest gifts parents can give their children are siblings.)
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To: Elyse
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.

That sounds like a lot of fun too. When I was a kid, our church had Halloween parties and they even invited us little ghouls, ghosts and witches too!

115 posted on 10/07/2005 11:14:00 AM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything)
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To: Overtaxed

"Think I'll give out carrots and celery."

Not a good idea, unless you can get them in some sort of sealed packages from the store. Most parents won't let their kids have any home-made goodies. Too bad, too, because I make some really good cookies.

It's candy all the way for me.


116 posted on 10/07/2005 11:15:03 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Clemenza

Clemenza, your little picture both takes the name of Jesus in vain and shows your lack of couth.

Your post is indeed a disgrace to this thread and to the credo of FreeRepublic.

The Lord rebuke thee, Ma'am.


117 posted on 10/07/2005 11:15:08 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: Blurblogger

I love Halloween, the ghouls, ghosts, and kids in costumes. In fact, it's just about my favorite time of year.


118 posted on 10/07/2005 11:15:22 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: Blurblogger
Ok, the church lady made me do it.

The closest holy book I have to my computer is a copy of the Quran. Will that work?

All my bibles are spread out around the house.
119 posted on 10/07/2005 11:15:27 AM PDT by PeteB570 (The church lady made me post this)
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To: Overtaxed

It's your civic duty.


120 posted on 10/07/2005 11:15:39 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (You are stuck on stupid, I’m not going to answer that question ~ General Honore)
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