BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:23 PM

Halloween is for kids and adults who enjoy the costumes.

Kids love it. Don't you remember how you loved that scary feeling when you were seven to ten years old? They LOVE scary things. The idea of monsters and ghosts and anything that moves in the night delights them. They really like the candy part! Kids from other countries can hardly believe that on one night of the year, all you have to do is walk up to someone's door and you will be given candy for free.

Its not as if you have to partake in the festivities. Just go out and play music with your friends or something.

Let the kids have their fun.

Vandals on the other hand...

d

Subject: RE: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:46 PM

I celebrate Hallowe'en because it is a part of my tradition and custom. My childhood (and pretty much what there's been of my adult life) in Northern Ireland involved special customs and festivities on the 31st October. I still bake apple tart (with money and a ring in it), light bonfires and carve turnip lanterns (although I've been moving over to pumpkins as turnips are so bloody hard to carve, but I miss that singed turnip smell - and I'd like to start the N. Ireland no-such-thing-as-a-swede-it's-a-turnip argument if anyone wants to join in).

I love Hallowe'en, and I'll continue to celebrate it, even though I live in England at the minute where it loses out to some poxy effigy-burning on Nov 5th. Bring on the apples on a string, bobbing for apples, monkey nuts, sparklers, bonfires, dark clothes and an underlying hint of old traditions. It's my favourite time of the year, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
From: Once Famous
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:39 PM

I'm speaking for you, also, Guest Buber or bubbie.

I'm Jewish, also. It's mot my holiday either.

I'm sick of it.

Keep in mind, that it is not the least bit marketed as a Christian event.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:37 PM

I dislike Hallowe'en. I do not participate, and that's that. Another commercial venture with stupid plastic faces of Freddy Kruger and some damned ghost face from some stoopid movie. It has become an evening on which we will get three or four fire calls to extinguish campfires that idiots have left burning, or dumpster fires that idiots have lit on purpose. Bloody waste of time. Last year, while responding to a dumpster fire, we received a second page for a structure fire (house). Took an extra few minutes to turn vehicles around and get trucks and manpower rerouted and reassigned. The house fire was a tough one, and further delay could have resulted in a second building getting engulfed.

No, I don't at all care for hollowe'en.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
From: GUEST,Buber
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:29 PM

Speak for yourself when you say "we."

Being Jewish, the "we" that I come from does not celebrate Halloween, a Pagan holiday later appropriated by Christians as a prelude to All Saints Day.

Subject: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
From: Once Famous
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:21 PM

Over the years, I have lost my childhood love for Halloween. I still like the candy, though!

Halloween has become the second most commercialized holiday behind Christmas. What is so cool about such things as death, graveyards, skeletins (face it , we're talking human remains here), monsters that smile and are happy, ghosts that seem happy to be dead, witches (had dates with a few who could be), and how wonderful and fun it is to be scared?

I don't see why it is fun to be frightened. If you have ever been in a seriously frightening situation, you understand what I mean.

Why do we "celebrate" this absolute morbid stuff?