Halloween

[MKJ]

All Hallow's day is November 1st. I don't understand concept of observing a day for saint's who have died since they are already in heaven. They are saints who are merely men just like us. The purpose of All Hallow's day was to remember the dead which including saints and all the faithful departed believers. However, All Hallows' Eve which is October 31st was a feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals but with pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain.

I think what people sometimes miss is that when we neglect remembering the saints formally in a religious setting, we also tend to neglect remembering them as individuals. And not just, or most importantly, remembering them as individuals, but the idea of the communion of saints.

And when we forget that, we tend to forget about other things, like the interconnectedness of creation, the way we are meant to run the race and become saints ourselves, the way the saints are really an active part of the Church.

And then we may begin to introduce wrong teachings: individualism; the idea that we can do nothing toward becoming better Christians so we simply live as we did before and pray for forgiveness after we do bad things; we begin to imagine that whatever people think right now is what the Church thinks - and so on.

We really can begin to lose an important sense of perspective as Christians.

As for pagans - pagans used to do pagan things every day. The fact that they had a sense of seasons and times should be no surprise - they lived in nature like we all do, and it's a nature God created.

 

[Rhamiel]

if people do not wish to celebrate the holidays on the liturgical calendar, ok, that is their concern

but the criticism at others who do have a liturgical sense of the year seems misplaced

 

[Hieros Gamos]

I'm gonna be a cop, and my husband is gonna be a gorilla.

Just sayin'.

I'm going to be a taco. My wife is going to be a bottle of Frank's hot sauce.

 

[GoingByzantine]

Rham is right. If you want to celebrate a secular holiday that involves dressing up like a ghoul and "trick or treating" people, go for it. That has literally nothing to do with Christian faith.

If you instead want to honor Christ and all his followers through the ages, go to Church. Or just do something wholesome, like celebrate "Hallelujah Night" as iluvtheSims mentioned.

 

[MKJ]

I'm going to be a taco. My wife is going to be a bottle of Frank's hot sauce.

Sounds a little risque to me.

 

[Hieros Gamos]

Don't worry everything will be left to the imagination.

 

[Rhamiel]

i do no think I will be dressing up as anything .....

I know, I know, I am lame :/

 

[seashale76]

i do no think I will be dressing up as anything .....

I know, I know, I am lame :/

Me neither. I don't even give out candy, mostly because in years past we hardly got any trick-or-treaters. However, last year, our doorbell rang and we didn't answer it. We heard one kid tell another that we were vampires. So, apparently there is no costume necessary on my part.

 

[MKJ]

i do no think I will be dressing up as anything .....

I know, I know, I am lame :/

I love to dress up, but I just can't do it for answering the door, it seems too lame. I know the kids are like "look at that old fogy". And I haven't been to a Halloween party in years.

I live vicariously through my kids at the moment. They are going to be a punk vampire, a zombi chicken, and the Incredible Hulk.

 

[Defensor Christi]

I love Halloween and look forward to scaring the brakes off the neighborhood kids every year...

 

[Douggg]

All Hallow's day is November 1st. I don't understand concept of observing a day for saint's who have died since they are already in heaven. They are saints who are merely men just like us. The purpose of All Hallow's day was to remember the dead which including saints and all the faithful departed believers. However, All Hallows' Eve which is October 31st was a feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals but with pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain.

This year for halloween, I am making a sign to place in the walk to my door blocking the way - "No treat, no trick, here" " No halloween".

And take the money used to buy candy and pay down my credit card.

Halloween needs to be destroyed. It is a vehicle which is commercialized to make money, by merchants and candy companies, in a very unethical way.

If enough people start putting "no halloween" signs out. It can be destroyed in a few years. It is time for the public to say "enough already".

 

[Douggg]

This year for halloween, I am making a sign to place in the walk to my door blocking the way - "No treat, no trick, here" " No halloween".

And take the money used to buy candy and pay down my credit card.

Halloween needs to be destroyed. It is a vehicle which is commercialized to make money, by merchants and candy companies, in a very unethical way.

If enough people start putting "no halloween" signs out. It can be destroyed in a few years. It is time for the public to say "enough already".

I just finished my sign. Fluorescent yellow background with black letters. "NO TRICK OR TREAT - HERE"

It looks great. About 30 inches wide x 18 inches. Hopefully it will provide a negative experience to youngsters (and oldsters) who see it, who have been duped by their parents into Halloween.... that the cycle can be broken.

Halloween is just one more way that you are being controlled. Don't let them continue. If you make a sign and set it out on Halloween, and take the $20 or so normally spent on candy and instead pay down on your credit card with $20 extra to your payments - make a post, in reply to this one. We need to acknowledge one another's achievements.

I can hardly wait till Monday to make that extra payment.

 

[bbbbbbb]

This year I am in China and very glad to be in a culture which has no concept of Halloween.

I live in a neighborhood in my city which is inundated with children. The cars are parked bumper-to-bumper and the kids are literally lined up in a long parade from house to house. I moved there eleven years ago and avoided being at home on that night every year. At first, my house was the only dark one, but now several of my neighbors are also avoiding the mob of children.

 

[Dkh587]

Halloween is wicked and satanic. No matter how fun and harmless it seems for kids, it has evil origins

It blows my mind that Christians celebrate and/or think there's no problem with celebrating it

 

[Douggg]

This year I am in China and very glad to be in a culture which has no concept of Halloween.

I live in a neighborhood in my city which is inundated with children. The cars are parked bumper-to-bumper and the kids are literally lined up in a long parade from house to house. I moved there eleven years ago and avoided being at home on that night every year. At first, my house was the only dark one, but now several of my neighbors are also avoiding the mob of children.

In China, I think the government can make it against the law for trick or treat. Anyway, the merchants and candy makers are forcing everyone to purchase their product by pushing halloween. The media also wants to push halloween because of the advertising money. We need to take our freedom back from the people trying to control us, including the banksters.

Look at what they've done - they forced you not to stay at your own home.

 

[bbbbbbb]

In China, I think the government can make it against the law for trick or treat. Anyway, the merchants and candy makers are forcing everyone to purchase their product by pushing halloween. The media also wants to push halloween because of the advertising money. We need to take our freedom back from the people trying to control us, including the banksters.

Look at what they've done - they forced you not to stay at your own home.

Nobody has taken my freedom from me yet. I am free to stay at home or leave home. I am free to travel abroad to most countries. I am free to give out candy to children one night a year or not to do that. Nobody is forcing me either way. I have chosen not to observe Halloween for many reasons and I respect my neighbors who do.

 

[Douggg]

Nobody has taken my freedom from me yet. I am free to stay at home or leave home. I am free to travel abroad to most countries. I am free to give out candy to children one night a year or not to do that. Nobody is forcing me either way. I have chosen not to observe Halloween for many reasons and I respect my neighbors who do.

ha! you wrote that you don't stay at home halloween night to avoid the trick or treaters..... yeah, the commercial interests of halloween have taken your freedom, but you don't even realize it. You are making choices yes, - forced to, as a result of them taking your freedom.

I am saying do something about it. One thing a person can do, the most important thing, is to pray to God that halloween be destroyed. I can assure you that God is not in favor of children dressing up as witches, goblins, ghosts. Halloween needs to erased from human existence. God can change things.

 

[Armoured]

This year for halloween, I am making a sign to place in the walk to my door blocking the way - "No treat, no trick, here" " No halloween".

And take the money used to buy candy and pay down my credit card.

Halloween needs to be destroyed. It is a vehicle which is commercialized to make money, by merchants and candy companies, in a very unethical way.

If enough people start putting "no halloween" signs out. It can be destroyed in a few years. It is time for the public to say "enough already".

...why? One of the few (if not only) secular holidays where neighbours interact with any sense of community and fun? Yeah! Better destroy that!

 

[Douggg]

...why? One of the few (if not only) secular holidays where neighbours interact with any sense of community and fun? Yeah! Better destroy that!

why don't you just celebrate idol worship while your at it?

Witches, ghosts, globlins - God says don't have anything to do with that stuff. It is to be condemned. There is no exemption clause about in the name of fun (by them who have been brainwashed).

The evilday - not holiday - exists because the commercial interests are pushing it.

 

[Inkfingers]

Re-animating a dead thread for Halloween.

A touch ironic if nothing else.