Do you celebrate Halloween? Give a reason for why you do or don't, and tell what you do during Halloween.
P. S. The poll is public.
P. S. The poll is public.
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Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat.
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Is that a fire-breathing dragon in the sky?Alas, Halloween is near.
That ancient serpent... I did not know he was a pumpkin eater
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joefizz
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never understood the smell my feet part of the Halloween song,honestly who actually smell's people's feet and like it???
strange,the rest about the origin of Halloween is giving the dead food and drink to eat and blending in with the dead by dressing as the dead,ultimately a holiday based on fear,but the candy idea nowadays is a nice addition but kind of creeps me out thinking how many kids could get lost on Halloween,though I've trick or treated before later on I found it more creepy than fun.
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Stranger36147
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I like October and Halloween because of all the horror movies. Other than that, I don't really celebrate it. We don't even bother getting candy because we never have any trick-or-treaters.
As for the age old debate of whether or not Halloween is promoting evil and Satan, yeah...no comment.
As for the age old debate of whether or not Halloween is promoting evil and Satan, yeah...no comment.
Halloween started out as all saints day from what I understand. But then pagans went and messed it up with their warding off evil spirits and other superstions.
There is still some occult and pagan symbolism in Halloween, but that symbolism has lost it's meaning.
What I see Halloween as is just time for carving pumpkins, decorating the house, and scaring children as much as possible. Lol.
I like October and Halloween because of all the horror movies. Other than that, I don't really celebrate it. We don't even bother getting candy because we never have any trick-or-treaters.
As for the age old debate of whether or not Halloween is promoting evil and Satan, yeah...no comment.
We don't get but a few trick or treaters. There's two churches in the area that do hay rides, but they think trailer parks are evil so they don't let the kids come, they don't mind parking in driveway though.
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Miri
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No, never. Each to their own but for me I don’t feel right celebrating a
night of evil.
The other thing is that I get it’s a big celebration thingy in the US but over
here in the UK, it’s an absolute nuisance. It’s a day and night of nuisance, wanton
vandalism, little kids going around knocking on strangers doors begging and holding
people to ranson if they don’t get anything. Will not quite a ransom but being a
nuisance.
Its dangerous as well for young kids to go around on their own knocking on strangers
doors. The little kids usually start early evening, but by late evening it’s often the
case that gangs of older kids, teens start roaming around which can be very intimidating.
Up the road from us is a police station and on Halloween, you see the
police cars zooming up and down all night, far more than usual.
Its also really bad for people like my elderly aunt, she’s been in hospital since the end
of August and is hopefully coming out on Thurs next week. At the moment she’s very
confused due to hosp delirium. But she’s gonna have to go through the ritual of a non
stop stream of gangs of kids knocking on the food scaring the living daylights out
of her.
Something people never stop and consider, how intimidating gangs of kids can be
knocking at your door all evening, to an elderly person.
Ive tried everything from tying up the garden gate (they just climb over), to putting up
polite signs (which just get pulled down) it’s no use. Soooo as you can see I’m really
against it and hate it.
Its a little worse over in to Uk as on 5.11.17 we have bonfire more with fires, fireworks etc.
But on 4.11.17 we have an evening called mischievous night, where people supposedly
cause mild mischief like knocking on doors and running away. Only some use it as an
excuse for mindless criminal activities. Over the years Halloween and mischievous
night have overlapped.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Watch out... it is Mischief Night
I won’t tell you what I think about a Christian watching horror movies, you won’t
like it. Lol
night of evil.
The other thing is that I get it’s a big celebration thingy in the US but over
here in the UK, it’s an absolute nuisance. It’s a day and night of nuisance, wanton
vandalism, little kids going around knocking on strangers doors begging and holding
people to ranson if they don’t get anything. Will not quite a ransom but being a
nuisance.
Its dangerous as well for young kids to go around on their own knocking on strangers
doors. The little kids usually start early evening, but by late evening it’s often the
case that gangs of older kids, teens start roaming around which can be very intimidating.
Up the road from us is a police station and on Halloween, you see the
police cars zooming up and down all night, far more than usual.
Its also really bad for people like my elderly aunt, she’s been in hospital since the end
of August and is hopefully coming out on Thurs next week. At the moment she’s very
confused due to hosp delirium. But she’s gonna have to go through the ritual of a non
stop stream of gangs of kids knocking on the food scaring the living daylights out
of her.
Something people never stop and consider, how intimidating gangs of kids can be
knocking at your door all evening, to an elderly person.
Ive tried everything from tying up the garden gate (they just climb over), to putting up
polite signs (which just get pulled down) it’s no use. Soooo as you can see I’m really
against it and hate it.
Its a little worse over in to Uk as on 5.11.17 we have bonfire more with fires, fireworks etc.
But on 4.11.17 we have an evening called mischievous night, where people supposedly
cause mild mischief like knocking on doors and running away. Only some use it as an
excuse for mindless criminal activities. Over the years Halloween and mischievous
night have overlapped.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Watch out... it is Mischief Night
I won’t tell you what I think about a Christian watching horror movies, you won’t
like it. Lol
We have mischief night in the US also, some states are worse than others, but here in Mississippi kids go around and throw toilet paper in the trees and bushes in peoples yards. People who aren't giving out candy just turn off thier porch lights and no one bothers them. But I think trick or treating will be a thing of the past soon. We might not have any here in my town this year because of an accident with a pickup truck hitting the back of a hay ride.
Now when I was a kid in Florida years ago the kids would knock on the door and spray people with silly string, and teenagers would vandalize cars or break in to stores and what not, I'm sure it's even worse now.
Here Halloween is one of the few holidays we don't do fireworks.
I don't now, but I used to. Back in Hong Kong, I would go Trick o' Treating with the other neighbourhood kids, whose parents sometimes even set up Halloween stalls within the residence, lol.
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joefizz
Guest
On one of my first trick or treat nights ever I and some of my cousins dressed up as....
Ninjas,absolutely serious it was so cool,ninja stars and everything except a disappearance powder lol!
The celebration of Halloween was largely unknown in the UK during my childhood and remained that way until around the 70s when the commercial aspect of it began to be realized. The main driving force of it is not Satan but greed. Here our traditional celebration was Guy Fawkes day on 5 November when Fireworks were lit and Bomb fires built. Children made Guys which were effigy's of Guy Fawkes and were given pennies by passers by. This practice no longer exists for obvious reasons. it is also considered a form of begging by police which essentially it was. The whole point was to commemorate the capture and execution of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up Parliament. Firework parties were very popular in my childhood. Now they still happen but public displays are more popular.
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Tinuviel
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What does "celebrate" mean? We have fun, do a trunk or treat. And have a pumpkin carving contest. No blood or gore. During NONE of this time do we sit around and worship Satan!
We celebrate Christmas on the 25th too, even though that date was merged with Pagan idol worship, and Easter!!! ??? You better check out what that name means.
Whatever we do we try and bring glory to God through the love of Christ, especially to children.
We celebrate Christmas on the 25th too, even though that date was merged with Pagan idol worship, and Easter!!! ??? You better check out what that name means.
Whatever we do we try and bring glory to God through the love of Christ, especially to children.
ever wonder what God's thoughts are on the people observing 'pagan observances/rituals',
as opposed to abiding by His Holy Ones?!?!?
as opposed to abiding by His Holy Ones?!?!?
