Posted on 10/07/2005 10:14:25 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
This far into a thread that even mentions witches and not one Python reference? I'm disappointed...
I think Jeez is short for Jesus - Dad told me not to say it back in the 50's when I was a kid.
That being said, I don't mind bad language in the right time and place, like on fishing trips, where it comes in handy.
I like Halloween, though, especially up north, when there is a chill in the air and the leaves have turned. It brings back childhood memories.
"There was one day of the year when the Otherworld could become visible to this world: on the feast of Samhain, the eve of 31 October to 1 November. This was a time when the supernatural boundary between the two worlds was broken down and people, the dead and living, could move freely between the two lands. It was a time when those who had been wronged by the living could return and haunt them. Christianity, unable to suppress the belief, adopted it, 1 November became All Hallows Day or All Souls' Day and the evening before, 'Hallowe'en."
Source: "The Ancient World of the Celts" by Peter Berresford Ellis.
"I just want to know why I should buy candy for other peoples' children."
Bah HUMBUG!....;)
It's the only time of the year your kids can go from door to door begging so we parents can pick out all the BEST candy for ourselves. And if destruction and destroying private property is your thing, you can toilet paper a house and say...TRICK. :-)
ah, we did one of those almost 20 years ago. but i still find that in totally different taste. did i mention that when they did the columbine thing it was in 99? only 6 months after the incident.
A dentist in our neighborhood gives out mini toothpaste. The kids actually like it.
"I just want to know why I should buy candy for other peoples' children."
You're not if you do it right. Buy a couple of large bags of Snickers and put them in the freezer. Then buy a couple bags of cheap corn candy and tell yourself that as soon as the corn candy goes you will start handing out the Snickers. History says you won't finish the corn candy and all the cool good stuff is yours.
Another time I turned a car into a cornfield! The beers made it easy!
Is it still wrong if you dress up like the Holy Ghost? Sorry...that's so wrong. It's from one of the Simpson's Tree House of Horror Halloween books...you know, the one where Cletus uses old bathroom rugs to dress up like Chewbacca.
We never went all out for Halloween like some of our friends did. We were usually pulling some sort of costume together a couple of days before.
If folks don't want to celebrate it, then don't, but don't make a fuss and spoil everyone else's fun, for heaven's sake!
LEAVE THE KIDS AT HOME AND GO OUT FOR OKTOBERFEST INSTEAD!
Noah had trouble getting folks to join him on the ark. Don't worry.
We don't celebrate Halloween either. Our children get plenty of candy, and they have plenty of time for make-believe/dress up.
Last Halloween, we were doing our annual Christmas shopping, and we stopped at a local city park parking lot to take care of our newborn baby. We quickly noticed an out-of-the-ordinary gathering. There was a Wiccan ritual event taking place at the park. I had never seen such. It was bizarre. To say the least. Grown-ups all dressed up in black robes, marching up the hill to the highest point in the city. (non-building) Bizarre. Halloween's not just for kids going door-to-door and saying, "Trick or treat!"
I have been taught that rule since I was tiny, and have taught my four children, as well.
Who wants to knock on the door of a grumpy person, anyway? : )
> There was a Wiccan ritual event taking place at the park. I had never seen such. It was bizarre. To say the least.
Consider *any* religious excercise form *any* religion. To an outsider, it's bizarre. Dressing up in a robe and going toa hilltop to commune with Nature or whatever is objectively no weirder that putting on yer Sunday Best, going to an inefficiently designed stone building and being lectured at about a book you're perfectly capable of reading yourself.
God forbid people pratice religion their own way... That pesky Freedom of Religion... I don't like Wicca, but who am I to tell people in how they should live..
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