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Anonymous
| After reading his weird and lengthy thread i just keep thinking...man, I really like raisins. I would totally send my kid back to a house that gave out raisins. |
Anonymous
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PP - LOL. I'll have to go buy raisins to hand out this weekend. The image of all the raisin boxes on the lawn is pretty funny though.
All the dorothys, minnie mouses and buzz lightyears I saw at Boo at the Zoo last night are clearly going straight to hell. Or does it not count since it really wasn't on Halloween? What if we just called it "dress up and get candy day at the zoo"? OP, please lighten up and keep it to yourself. Head off to whatever revery you Church is clearly going to have to keep your kids minds off the fact you are excluding them from pure secular fun. |
Anonymous
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Puh-leeze. Whatever Halloween WAS, it is now just another American Hallmark Holiday. Consumerism at its finest. The lucky industries being candy and costumes decoration makers. My kids will be a cat and Eyore.
It's like telling scary stories around the campfire or watching a scary movie, although even more "sanitized". The kids get to enjoy some of the spookiness and the thrill and there's no real danger... or devil worship for that matter. Now on Friday night I will be attending a Samhain ritual at my CHURCH, OP. A night when we honor the spirits and memories of our ancestors who have gone before. Then we sit down for a potluck dinner. Alas, no blood spilling on the altar (and no altar for that matter). |
Anonymous
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Wow. People can even snark about Halloween on this board? Oh, well. More for us. Halloween is the only holiday with no family baggage, mandatory travel, or expensive gift giving and food buying. The leaves have turned, the weather is crisp, the kids are ecstatic, and I get a couple or seven Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and a trip to the pumpkin patch.
The White House was built by slaves, the Pilgrims stole corn from the Indians, and Jesus was born in June. And there is no tooth fairy. And we're vacationing in Detroit this summer because the kids were bad. Hallowing is a rare perfect thing. Let it be fun and get yourself a funny hat and a fist full of chocolates. |
Anonymous
LOL! |
Anonymous
| ugh. I feel I am an open-minded, accepting person with a strong moral compass but OP's post and last year's Christmas bashing thread set me on edge. I can safely say that when my DC puts on the adorable costume and trots excitedly into the evening to find some candy, I will not be celebrating evil, I will be celebrating my DC's childhood. |
Anonymous
| 10:02 and 11:53. Perfect! |
Anonymous
| OP, if I eat candy corn, will I go to hell? |
Anonymous
I hope you're my wife. Although I never got the memo about the vacation to Detroit . . . did we make that final? |
Anonymous
| I'd like to see a little more diversity in the holidays we celebrate. I'm mean, I know the Muslims have a holiday where you wear your nice clothes and give treats to the kids (is that Eid?), Hindus have a lot of holidays. What about the Zoroastrians? There have got to be some good ones like Halloween that we should start celebrating, too. What good stuff are we missing out on? |
Anonymous
| What about the Drewish holidays? |
Anonymous
Drewish? What's that? Do tell! |
Anonymous
Didn't they invent the sundial? I thought they were worshipers of the light who started Halloween when their revered leader, Hal, invented not only Weenies but cooking them over a huge bonfire, a ritual held each fall to celebrate the straw festival. (They couldn't figure out what else to do with all that straw.) |