Sunday, October 30, 2005
Boo Halloween
I like my candy egg or bunny shaped. If I want a prank or a joke, there is always April Fools. Celebrate a holiday that is based on pagan ritual? I'll pass. I do like dressing in costumes. Any time of the year. Dressing up like a witch or a mass murderer never has appealed to me. I just wonder why it ok to decorate schools and public places with black cats and demons, symbols to some, while it is incorrect to display a cross? The difference is?
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Good Lord....you're me again. Read my post.
You're scaring me. Next time I'm in Minnesota wanna have coffee?
Munkay, Munkay! It’s the macabre aspect of celebrating death! Not Satan! (Though here in SF it’s a wee bit hard to tell some times) And all those witches and ghouls and half dead zombies with worms crawlin’ outta their skulls are just an extension of our need to look: like at train wrecks and serial killers and televised executions and the war in Iraq and suicide bombers and Bush’s face and hurricane victims and…
If we celebrate death then maybe life won’t have that fear-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow theme to it.
...the Roman Catholic Church has parades down my street (with police escort) so I think us pagans should be allowed a little bit of slack one day a year...
So, if you don't celebrate holidays based on pagan rituals, do you also not celebrate Christmas? :) The reason December 25 was decided upon as the day to celebrate Christmas is based on the winter solstice, a (gasp!) pagan ritual. The Catholic Church was, as always, looking to increase its membership. Halloween, incidentally, is based partially off of pagan rituals and Catholic tradition. (In other words, your mama was right about Catholics--I know cause I was raised one)
I do appreciate the comments about dressing up though. I think its a good outlet, but why do people feel the need to dress up like "Little Red Riding Ho'" and cult leaders? Maybe its just our chance to temporarily exorcise our fear of scary things.
Fromage, lots of cultures celibrate a death day. I want people to celibrate when I die, lots of happy music, food, noisemakers..
Batty, ok catholics scare me also but good that your town allows both parades. nHopefully just not on the same day.
Sweet Spontaneous: Heck ya I cellibrate Christmas! Not because of the calendar date it was chosen to be remembered on. That time of the year, back when our culture revolved around the farming season, was slow time for alot of the populace, and there were many different celibrations. Same with spring and Easter. I just wanted to know it is ok to call and celibrate halloween but Christmas is now taboo? My kids sing patriotic songs (what the hell?) songs during their hollidaze concert at school.
Excellent point.
But I do love the candy.
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