Do you Like or Dislike Halloween?? (Poll)

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Do you like or dislike halloween? (click all that apply)

  • Love it

    Votes: 1 4.8%
  • Like it

    Votes: 6 28.6%
  • Dislike it

    Votes: 7 33.3%
  • Hate it

    Votes: 4 19.0%
  • I want candy!!

    Votes: 3 14.3%
  • Other (esplain below)

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • Total voters
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#2
I used to like halloween before when it was cute and fun and all the kids would show up in their costumes. Some of them were really good and the little ones were always so adorable. But now they all go to the malls. No one at all showed up the last 2 years and before that, there were only 2 or 3 who showed up at the door. I understand the allure and safety of trick or treating in the mall, but now it's just one more thing that is gone from the past. Also not a fan of the really gorey realistic makeup that some folks do. So I voted 'dislike'.
 

Deade

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#3
I voted other, as I just do not participate anymore. Before coming back to Christ I bought into all the hype but now I bring everything into subjection to Christ.

If we just back away from it without judgment, I think is the right position to take. 17no.gif
 

cinder

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I have fond memories of trick or treating as a kid (and one of being too sick to go out and another vague one of being really little and one of the adults passing out candy had a really scary costume (vague meaning I kind of remember a big scary figure in front of me and then being scared and aways down the road and nothing in between). It's a shame people are afraid to do that now. On that note this song seems particularly appropriate:

 

Lynx

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#5
Cute.

But cinder, providing appropriate songs is my domain. You are totally ripping my act!
 

Lanolin

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Can I ask someone to explain halloween to me as it seems to be mostly an american thing.

Let me get this straight, children dress up in scary costumes, go round to peoples houses and beg or threaten people for lollies. If they arent given any they are meant to play a trick on the person who doesnt have any lollies to give?

Isnt that asking for trouble? What if you give out healthy food, like what if I gave them an apple.
What kind of tricks would they play on you? It sounds a bit suss to me. Like extortion.
 

Lynx

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If you don't want visitors, you turn off the porch light. If you do want visitors, you turn on the porch light. Any kids who are unhappy with what they do or do not get and try to cause mischief, you blast them with a water hose. :cool:

But Lanolin will never see this reply.
 

cinder

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#8
Cute.

But cinder, providing appropriate songs is my domain. You are totally ripping my act!
Were you going to post that song? If not then I haven't prevented you from doing anything you normally do. If so then you need to be faster. Besides you know way more songs than I do so even if I stole your first choice you probably have a second to post.
 

Lynx

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#9
As for whether I like or dislike Halloween: Neither. It's just a day to me. I don't really care either way. I can't even get excited about candy, because it's all cheap junk. You don't buy good chocolate to give away to strangers.

My wallet though... it gets excited about Halloween. See there's this mysterious illness that always sweeps through and decimates our staff on this day. For some reason a lot of people call in "sick" on Halloween. So I get to stay over, which makes my wallet very happy.

The longer you stay out though, the weirder it gets. By 8pm all the trick-or-treaters have gotten their candy and the adults are settling in for some serious drinking. From there on the night just gets more and more bizarre. It's like living through the movie about invasion of the body snatchers. Almost every customer is more loopy than the last.
 

Lynx

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Were you going to post that song? If not then I haven't prevented you from doing anything you normally do. If so then you need to be faster. Besides you know way more songs than I do so even if I stole your first choice you probably have a second to post.
Details, details. You are preempting my duty to provide relevant songs. And now you are trying to weasel-word your way around taking responsibility for it. :p

(I did not in fact have a song on tap for this topic. But I'm not about to let that stop me from complaining about somebody else trying to steal MY job.)
 

cinder

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#11
Details, details. You are preempting my duty to provide relevant songs. And now you are trying to weasel-word your way around taking responsibility for it. :p

(I did not in fact have a song on tap for this topic. But I'm not about to let that stop me from complaining about somebody else trying to steal MY job.)
Your job? You mean you get paid to post songs?! That's it I'm not going to post any more songs until they pay me for them too. :p
 

Lynx

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#12
Paycheck? Yes please.

If I got paid for that I wouldn't have to go to w*rk in a few hours. But I don't, so I do. Bleh.
 

Lynx

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I like Halloween because by that time of year bugs have died by the truck load and the grass is not growing for me to be mowing.

I hate Halloween because the only available candy is junk. You can't even find good chocolate in October. You have to wait for the Christmas displays.
 

Deade

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I like Halloween because by that time of year bugs have died by the truck load and the grass is not growing for me to be mowing.

I hate Halloween because the only available candy is junk. You can't even find good chocolate in October. You have to wait for the Christmas displays.
You need to move to the United States. You can find anything you want, anytime, down here. :D
 

Lanolin

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I thought the day of the dead originated in mexico. They also eat a lot of sugar.

Chinese culture also has a cemetery cleaning day where everyone goes to graveyards and has a family picnic and cleans up the headstones. Its called ching ming festival.

At funerals, lollies are always given, as well as hankies. Everyone wheres white. Not sure why, but maybe its to look like ghosts.

In france the day after halloween is called Toussaint. All saints day.

But not sure about the american halloween thing. From what I know was from watching Garfield cartoons where children dressed up and asked for lollies door to door. Garfield and Odie dressed up as pirates and got chased by ghosts.
I dont know if the KKK white pillowcase look has anything at all to do with halloween, but that would be scary if they came to your door. It might be better if they just asked for lollies instead of trying to burn peoples houses down.
 

Lanolin

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Not sure if I like the way its celebrated in america. I think they glorrify the horror aspect of it way too much. For people not desensitised to horror movies, its not fun.

Dressing up in costumes can be fun, but not sure why it has to be scary. The cosplay aspect of it is fun but you can do that any day of the week if you really wanted to.

Am sure the dentists are loving the regular visits they receive from the children. Its halloween everyday for them when they open their mouths.
 

cinder

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I thought the day of the dead originated in mexico. They also eat a lot of sugar.

Chinese culture also has a cemetery cleaning day where everyone goes to graveyards and has a family picnic and cleans up the headstones. Its called ching ming festival.

At funerals, lollies are always given, as well as hankies. Everyone wheres white. Not sure why, but maybe its to look like ghosts.

In france the day after halloween is called Toussaint. All saints day.

But not sure about the american halloween thing. From what I know was from watching Garfield cartoons where children dressed up and asked for lollies door to door. Garfield and Odie dressed up as pirates and got chased by ghosts.
I dont know if the KKK white pillowcase look has anything at all to do with halloween, but that would be scary if they came to your door. It might be better if they just asked for lollies instead of trying to burn peoples houses down.
The very brief, I"m too lazy to google it version:


Short version is that it all goes back to the catholic church. In their designation of various saint's days they had marked Nov 1 as all saints day and Nov 2 as all souls day. When England became non-catholic they tried getting rid of all the catholic trappings (like saints) so all saints day became All Hallows day which made Oct 31 all hallows eve which morphed into halloween.

Somewhere along the way the belief that souls , spirits, ghosts, whatever could return to earth at that time became popular and people started dressing up like them thinking they would be less likely to harm one of their own kind than a human, and they also left gifts to try to bribe the spirits to leave them alone and not do them harm so that's the early origins of what morphed into trick or treating which yeah is basically an excuse for the whole community to buy and give candy to kids these days. Except for evil occult practitioners who do view it as a spiritually significant time of year.

And I remember that garfield special, I can still sing some of the songs from it.
 

Lanolin

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The very brief, I"m too lazy to google it version:


Short version is that it all goes back to the catholic church. In their designation of various saint's days they had marked Nov 1 as all saints day and Nov 2 as all souls day. When England became non-catholic they tried getting rid of all the catholic trappings (like saints) so all saints day became All Hallows day which made Oct 31 all hallows eve which morphed into halloween.

Somewhere along the way the belief that souls , spirits, ghosts, whatever could return to earth at that time became popular and people started dressing up like them thinking they would be less likely to harm one of their own kind than a human, and they also left gifts to try to bribe the spirits to leave them alone and not do them harm so that's the early origins of what morphed into trick or treating which yeah is basically an excuse for the whole community to buy and give candy to kids these days. Except for evil occult practitioners who do view it as a spiritually significant time of year.

And I remember that garfield special, I can still sing some of the songs from it.
Interesting.

Dont we pray in the Lords prayer our Father who art in heaven, HALLOWED be they name
(Thats kjv) so isnt hallowed meaning, HOLY?
 

Lanolin

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Of course we dont say Gods name is Hallowed. Literally.

We mean Gods name is Holy.

I read about halloween that it had to do with a solstice or a samhain occult thing? Or was that something else. Maybe it was chrsitmas that was the winter solstice. Or equinox. Am confused now, it doesnt seemt o fall on any full moon like easter or ramadan does. Which is kinda weird to celebrate something scary and at night time, when the moon is not out.
 

Lanolin

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Is it only children though. Haha like the way you said bribe. I thought christmas was the main holiday where bribery and corruption amongst children can be rife.