Halloween

[lindseykale]

So just out of curiosity, what are everyone's thoughts on Halloween? For or against? Please explain your answer. Any plans for Halloween?

 

[seavessel44]

Halloween is fine cuz when I was little I had funny costumes.
Like when I was 7 years old, I was a carwash for Halloween, I wore a cardboard box with feathers and rolls in it..how funny.
Then when I was 8 years old, I was a road map for Halloween. I wore a big long t-shirt with road maps on it by marker. I still have the t-shirt and never even washed fearing the marker would run, it even has chocolate stain on it from back then..lol
So yeah Halloween was always funny costumes to me..never any gory stuff

 

[Miss Spaulding]

I kind of celebrate Halloween in my own little way; staying up extra late with coffee and a marathon of classic horrors films, like Frankenstein, The Body Snatcher, Wait Until Dark, The Haunting, ect...No costumes for me. Lol. I was always too self-conscience to wear costumes, but maybe I just haven't found/thought of the right one to wear.

I'm very anti-Halloween towards today's idea of the holiday. All Halloween is about today is death, murder, slayings and slaughter...all of it is nasty and disgusting. It's nothing but blood and gore. You can't enjoy it anymore, and I mean enjoy it as in dressing up and going out places. And frankly, what society has turned it into attracts many strange and disturbed people.

I'm not against any innocent and harmlessly fun way of celebrating the holiday. You can dress up and make the day...err, should I say night, spooky and creepy and VERY fun without the over-the-top gruesomeness.

 

[princess_nerd]

I'm of mixed feelings on Halloween. I don't mind celebrating it in the way that Miss Spaulding does, with watching scary movies and stuff, and sometimes I even dress up in costume. I'm not a huge fan of the pranks and stuff that happen, though, and... I dunno, I'm just not into Halloween like I used to be when I was a kid.

 

[ponderingnwandering]

I agree with Miss Spaulding although I tend to be neutral towards it in general. The origins of Halloween are disturbing but i really treat it as little more than a day to dress up as a costume and get candy.

I really don't even celebrate Halloween anymore to be honest. Its just another day to me.

 

[explodingboy]

The origins of Halloween are disturbing

How? origins of Halloween are harvest festivals, and honouring dead saints/relatives depending on country/culture.

as to Halloween, I'm against, it's a waste of time, and generaly gets on my nerves, I'm actually really glad to be back in the UK where we do nothing to celebrate except some college kids using it as a chance to get drunker than they are every other day of the year.

 

[WiredSpirit]

How can you really be for or against a holiday? Are you guys against Ramadan because you're not Muslims?

 

[SionDS]

It's a cool holiday. I've always enjoyed it.

 

[mahlalie]

Never celebrated it the way most people do, like trick-or-treating. We did the whole cute church fall festival type thing. It was pretty rock n roll. Now I'm basically like, "Screw the costume; it's all about the candy!" On another note, I work nights so going out isn't really an option. A co-worker demanded I dress up this past year at work, so I wore a tux. But the main thing was that I jacked my co-workers' candy!

 

[Sketcher]

It's costumes and candy. That can't be called pagan any more than a gift exchange can be called Christian. There's a difference between trick-or-treating and celebrating the occult.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

Halloween is one of my favourite holidays. I've worked a few years at a haunted house scaring people. This year we're dressing up and going to a concert. Should be good fun, though not sure as to what at this point we're dressing up as.

They are doing trick-or-treating a few days before this year so we'll probably walk around town in costume and hand out candy. Will be fun.

 

[explodingboy]

How can you really be for or against a holiday? Are you guys against Ramadan because you're not Muslims?

I don't mind Ramadan, would hardly even call it much of a holiday, now Diwali can be annoying if your a light sleeper, but personally I like the extra days of fireworks.

Halloween, is easy to be against because it's A- as a Western Eropean I'm expected to care about it, but mainly B- It's about as sacred as Valantines day yet somehow worse because were all expected to act like fools rather than just the ones with significant others.

 

[SwissMiss]

I don't celebrate Halloween. I know Lindsey wanted some further details on why, etc. but after reading everyone else's opinions, I hesitate to share my own because mine are quite different and there's bound to be arguments. Just like on the drinking thread, the minute I state my opinion, people jump on me....so I'll just say I don't celebrate it or acknowledge it in any way. Lindsey if you really want details, you may PM me

 

[charmaineisnt]

I couldn't care less about it usually. There's a small mountain near where I live where witches and pagans are known to meet and hold rituals on Halloween night. I've always been a little tempted to go sometime (just out of curiosity,not to participate!)

 

[StephanieP]

I used to be big into Halloween when I was younger, as I got in my teens I more just ate candy and watched movies, and now that I'm with my husband and delving deeper into my Christian path, I do not celebrate it or let my daughter dress up (she is 10 months old and was born in December so this year will be her first Halloween). I always used to like it but for a while now I haven't really been doing anything for it, so when my husband told me he was against it, it wasn't really much to give up. I think we can make our own tradition, go out to dinner, eat candy, whatever, it doesn't have to be a bad thing. We don't have to be missing anything. Just our beliefs.

 

[MyEverything]

I don't celebrate Halloween. I know Lindsey wanted some further details on why, etc. but after reading everyone else's opinions, I hesitate to share my own because mine are quite different and there's bound to be arguments. Just like on the drinking thread, the minute I state my opinion, people jump on me....so I'll just say I don't celebrate it or acknowledge it in any way. Lindsey if you really want details, you may PM me

Yeah, same here. I used to celebrate it before I became a Christian, but now I'd rather not. That's all I choose to say about that though because I'd rather not upset/offend anyone.

 

[StephanieP]

Yeah, same here. I used to celebrate it before I became a Christian, but now I'd rather not. That's all I choose to say about that though because I'd rather not upset/offend anyone.

that's what happened to me, I used to celebrate but became firm in my Christian beliefs and so I don't be celebrating from now on.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

I LOVE Halloween! I won't have my daughter this year, but I'll be handing out candy and watching horror movies all day with my fiance'. And just for the record, I've always been pretty firm in what I believe.

 

[StephanieP]

I just agree with my husband, if something as small as Halloween was something that could damn my daughter to hell, I'd rather give up that 1 day a year to ensure that doesn't happen.

I'm not judging anyone for their decision.

 

[Qyöt27]

Nope, don't have any problems with a consumerized version of an ancient Christian festival. Just like I don't have any problems with Christmas or Easter.

I simply don't buy into the objection to them by some groups because they're basing it on inflated and sensationalized media accounts that do an abysmal job of actually explaining the Christian usage (which is actually the only one that has survived for hundreds of years), and that then gives them fuel for their already hyperspiritually paranoid worldview. Not to mention it tramples all over what history itself records. As I was never part of such cultural pressures and extremely disagree with said groups' worldview and theology, of course I don't agree with them.