Opinions on Halloween

[SarahUmbreon]

Since it’s coming up (Well at least to the grocery stories, gotta love that commercialized holiday stuff being out 2 months ahead, can’t wait to see Christmas stuff as soon as Thanksgiving ends, lol ), lets talk about Halloween.

So, I really don’t care for Halloween. As a kid, I used to dress up and go trick-or-treating, but since scary customers scared me, I stopped when I wanna say I was 12 or 13, possibly even 10. My family has always decorated the house and given out candy, but I think that’s about it. The most celebrating I do is usually making sure to watch some “spooky anime” and that’s honestly it.

I was actually researching it and it turns out to be very complicated overall, and kind of interesting in its complicated-ness, lol, but luckily I had my mom and one of my mom’s friends to help expand on what I was reading. So basically, we celebrate it for fun (Or at least used to, we still decorate, but being out in the middle of nowhere, we don’t get trick-or-treaters, lol) and that’s it.

Here are the articles I found:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

https://www.gotquestions.org/Halloween-origin.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/Christians-celebrate-Halloween.html

 

[SarahUmbreon]

I meant stores, and costumes, that’s what I get for not checking and typing too fast, lol I fail 😅

 

[tourist]

This is the start of the annual pagan holiday threads which are a CC tradition.

Growing up in Detroit I loved Halloween night. The houses were close together and thousands of kids doing the trick or treating almost until midnight unaccompanied by parents. Not even sure if my area has Halloween anymore as no kids have announced their presence in the 6 years I have lived in Clearwater, Florida. Also, I am sure that the kids will be with adult supervision.

I was 11 for my last night of trick or treat. Very good memories. This was also the one that the local lumber yard burned to the ground with flames over 100 feet high lighting the sky. I lost count of the number of fire trucks rushing to the fire with the lights flashing and sirens wailing away. You could hear the paint cans exploding inside the main store and also see the power lines sizzling and sparkling. Three days later the fire was still burning. Awesome.

 

[Runningman]

It was years ago, but I recall making collecting candy a competition. We used to take pillowcases out and collect candy well past sunset.

I hauled in a few pounds of sugar on a good year. One year I literally ate about a pound and a half of candy before going to bed. I know this because I would weigh the bag at the end of the night.

Not a Halloween person anymore. I don't think anyone in my area even observes it. I am actually opposed to it as far as going as far as celebrating it as a day of the dead, but I'm not opposed to it as far as giving out candy goes. If people showed interest I would give out candy, at least; no one even stops by.

 

[Going_Nowhere]

I don't celebrate Halloween....at least not when it comes to decorations, dressing up, Halloween parties or anything like that. I don't do any of that. But I do like scary stuff and horror movies. So Halloween is definitely something I can appreciate in my own way. Certainly appreciate it more than any other holiday, that's for sure.


P.S. Long live Michael Myers!

 

[Subhumanoidal]

Since it’s coming up (Well at least to the grocery stories, gotta love that commercialized holiday stuff being out 2 months ahead, can’t wait to see Christmas stuff as soon as Thanksgiving ends, lol ), lets talk about Halloween.

So, I really don’t care for Halloween. As a kid, I used to dress up and go trick-or-treating, but since scary customers scared me, I stopped when I wanna say I was 12 or 13, possibly even 10. My family has always decorated the house and given out candy, but I think that’s about it. The most celebrating I do is usually making sure to watch some “spooky anime” and that’s honestly it.

I was actually researching it and it turns out to be very complicated overall, and kind of interesting in its complicated-ness, lol, but luckily I had my mom and one of my mom’s friends to help expand on what I was reading. So basically, we celebrate it for fun (Or at least used to, we still decorate, but being out in the middle of nowhere, we don’t get trick-or-treaters, lol) and that’s it.

Here are the articles I found:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

https://www.gotquestions.org/Halloween-origin.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/Christians-celebrate-Halloween.html

This comes up every year. Along with the same discussion on Xmas and Easter.

Other things with pagan origins:
Wedding rings
Most everything in modern wedding ceremonies
Names of days of the week
Names of the planets
The constellations
And more.
I always find it funny that anti-holiday people will speak against holidays so adamantly, yet have no issue at all with the every day things with pagan origins. Yet when called out on it they never have an answer.

 

[SarahUmbreon]

This is the start of the annual pagan holiday threads which are a CC tradition.

Growing up in Detroit I loved Halloween night. The houses were close together and thousands of kids doing the trick or treating almost until midnight unaccompanied by parents. Not even sure if my area has Halloween anymore as no kids have announced their presence in the 6 years I have lived in Clearwater, Florida. Also, I am sure that the kids will be with adult supervision.

I was 11 for my last night of trick or treat. Very good memories. This was also the one that the local lumber yard burned to the ground with flames over 100 feet high lighting the sky. I lost count of the number of fire trucks rushing to the fire with the lights flashing and sirens wailing away. You could hear the paint cans exploding inside the main store and also see the power lines sizzling and sparkling. Three days later the fire was still burning. Awesome.

Well I’m glad to know I got to start one of the CC Traditions, lol

That sounds like quite the story with the fire, lol.

Yeah, I just grew out of it, I mostly just dressed up as Angels or Cats. When I learned about Cosplay, there was a small part of me that wanted to dress up as Luigi from Super Mario series on Halloween during my High School years, cause he’s my favorite Mario series character ^_^, lol

But yeah nowadays, as long as people aren’t doing anything bad, then I think it’s fine to celebrate Halloween.

 

[SarahUmbreon]

This comes up every year. Along with the same discussion on Xmas and Easter.

Other things with pagan origins:
Wedding rings
Most everything in modern wedding ceremonies
Names of days of the week
Names of the planets
The constellations
And more.
I always find it funny that anti-holiday people will speak against holidays so adamantly, yet have no issue at all with the every day things with pagan origins. Yet when called out on it they never have an answer.

That is true, and interesting.

Honestly if that’s the case, they would hate the way my family has celebrated Christmas. I make sure to watch all of the classic Christmas specials, it started I wanna say 4 years ago, but I make sure to buy gifts for my family, I listen to nothing but Christmas music, and my family has a tradition of picking out a real Christmas tree. We don’t do it anymore because everyone is older and don’t want to clean up the mess, plus at my dad’s house they have 3 cats and 2 dogs so yeah, real tree would be bad, lol. If I ever have my own children, I will pass down getting a real tree to them, it’s just a really fun experience overall.

But I know the main reason of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but I still enjoy my Christmas traditions. But even saying that, there might be people still wanting to say I’m wrong.

I was talking to a cashier at work, and she said is Christian, and that she actually doesn’t celebrate Christmas because Jesus was not actually born on Christmas Eve, weirdest thing I’ve ever heard a Christian say honestly.

 

[Bartholomew]

Since it’s coming up (Well at least to the grocery stories, gotta love that commercialized holiday stuff being out 2 months ahead, can’t wait to see Christmas stuff as soon as Thanksgiving ends, lol ), lets talk about Halloween.

So, I really don’t care for Halloween. As a kid, I used to dress up and go trick-or-treating, but since scary customers scared me, I stopped when I wanna say I was 12 or 13, possibly even 10. My family has always decorated the house and given out candy, but I think that’s about it. The most celebrating I do is usually making sure to watch some “spooky anime” and that’s honestly it.

I was actually researching it and it turns out to be very complicated overall, and kind of interesting in its complicated-ness, lol, but luckily I had my mom and one of my mom’s friends to help expand on what I was reading. So basically, we celebrate it for fun (Or at least used to, we still decorate, but being out in the middle of nowhere, we don’t get trick-or-treaters, lol) and that’s it.

Here are the articles I found:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

https://www.gotquestions.org/Halloween-origin.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/Christians-celebrate-Halloween.html

I dont think its a huge deal unless you are actually worshipping satan or something ... I love to carve jack o lanterns and make lots of cool designs..and they look kinda neat in the dark.

 

[Genipher]

That is true, and interesting.

Honestly if that’s the case, they would hate the way my family has celebrated Christmas. I make sure to watch all of the classic Christmas specials, it started I wanna say 4 years ago, but I make sure to buy gifts for my family, I listen to nothing but Christmas music, and my family has a tradition of picking out a real Christmas tree. We don’t do it anymore because everyone is older and don’t want to clean up the mess, plus at my dad’s house they have 3 cats and 2 dogs so yeah, real tree would be bad, lol. If I ever have my own children, I will pass down getting a real tree to them, it’s just a really fun experience overall.

But I know the main reason of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but I still enjoy my Christmas traditions. But even saying that, there might be people still wanting to say I’m wrong.

I was talking to a cashier at work, and she said is Christian, and that she actually doesn’t celebrate Christmas because Jesus was not actually born on Christmas Eve, weirdest thing I’ve ever heard a Christian say honestly.

Yup. Jesus was born closer to the Feast of Tabernacles (September).

 

[Mii]

I'll be out camping. It's a full moon on the 31st and the second in the month. The fall moons are much larger in appearance than other seasons.

Excellent time to plan for moonrise and have a telescope set up. Also the 1st is a full moon as well.

Beach or mountain I haven't decided.


I'll spare you my opinions on the holiday origins/alignment. I lot of it I just came to know and I do think there is something to it, but best left alone. If you like carved pumpkins and a bit of clean cosplay I don't see any problem with it except limiting yourself to just one day. Anything that glorifies the occult isn't biblical though and the prepackaged crap is full of that. Avoiding the appearance of evil is a scripture. Obviously you don't want to take this to a pharisaical level (like the pharisees) and have a form of Godliness but in reality serve the devil with being "against halloween" but pursuing holiness and righteousness I know the Holy Spirit will lead you appropriately in time.

For me it is heartbreaking and sad.

Innocuous stuff like a decorated tree? I'm on the fence about that right now. I don't particularly want to kill a tree just to put some lights around it but people do put them on the curb every year. One year I picked up 3 and had a little forest on the back porch...eventually they become quite a spectacular fire item (about 3 months when they are brown).

So if it's already being thrown out I like the smell quite a bit and I like to burn them so I get them. Fir and balsam Cedar (and pine) make for lovely aroma therapy.

 

[Lynx]

Am I late?

*Lynx checks the calendar...

No I'm not late. You're EARLY! We usually don't start the "Should Christians Participate In Halloween" thread until October.

But since it is already started... I will register my yearly opinion that I hate Halloween. They never make any GOOD candy for Halloween. Valentine's Day you can find a little good chocolate, Easter has the cadbury creme eggs (but they even changed how they make those and they are not really good any more...) Christmas is when the really good stuff comes out, but Halloween? All you get at Halloween is the junk candy in the checkout stand, repackaged.

And why is that? Because we're giving all the candy away... to kids! Nobody wants to spend money on GOOD candy just to give away to random kids who won't truly appreciate it anyway.

Bah humbug. Keep your skittles and mars bars and (ugh!) h*rsh*y junk and those weird caramels with peanut butter in the center. I'm giving Halloween a hard pass.

Wake me when it's Christmas time. At least we have eggnog at Christmas. And those Royal Dansk butter cookies made with real butter, not vegetable oil.... yum!




(Disclaimer: Any part of this post has a 73% chance of being facetious... except the part about the eggnog and Royal Dansk butter cookies. That was legit serious. Those are awesome!)

 

[Lanolin]

seems an american thing.
Its not really big in nz, though the stores try to cash in on it.
I never did it as a child.

Guy Fawkes Night on November 5 is the one we do.

 

[Lynx]

Well shoot... Now we have to find a reason we can claim Guy Fawkes Night is pagan. Don't want anybody to feel left out.

 

[SarahUmbreon]

Am I late?

*Lynx checks the calendar...

No I'm not late. You're EARLY! We usually don't start the "Should Christians Participate In Halloween" thread until October.

But since it is already started... I will register my yearly opinion that I hate Halloween. They never make any GOOD candy for Halloween. Valentine's Day you can find a little good chocolate, Easter has the cadbury creme eggs (but they even changed how they make those and they are not really good any more...) Christmas is when the really good stuff comes out, but Halloween? All you get at Halloween is the junk candy in the checkout stand, repackaged.

And why is that? Because we're giving all the candy away... to kids! Nobody wants to spend money on GOOD candy just to give away to random kids who won't truly appreciate it anyway.

Bah humbug. Keep your skittles and mars bars and (ugh!) h*rsh*y junk and those weird caramels with peanut butter in the center. I'm giving Halloween a hard pass.

Wake me when it's Christmas time. At least we have eggnog at Christmas. And those Royal Dansk butter cookies made with real butter, not vegetable oil.... yum!




(Disclaimer: Any part of this post has a 73% chance of being facetious... except the part about the eggnog and Royal Dansk butter cookies. That was legit serious. Those are awesome!)

Lol, post made me laugh a bit.

But yeah, I decided since the grocery store has Halloween decorations/pumpkins for sale, then I might as well be early and make this thread, lol.

But yeah, best candy in my opinion will always be 3Musketeers, I like other stuff too (Milky Way, Hersey candy in general, M&Ms, etc.), but 3Musketeers will always be my favorite ^_^

I don’t like Resses, Butterfinger, Snickers, or whoopers, or anything that has stuff in it or is sour. The only candy I like with stuff in it is Twix.

 

[Billyd]

Just fill my sack with M&Ms. The peanut kind.

I grew up on a farm. The only candy that we got was penny candy from the Rolling Store. I was grown before I witnessed my first Halloween. I sure missed out on a lot of free candy.

 

[oldethennew]

anyone who wants to 'hallow', honor the dead', go right ahead, and teach your children also,
don't break the demonic cycle, just KEEP ON, KEEPING ON!!!:
hopefully True Christians have already been convicted of this demonic celebration,
and if they have not, then we are for sure 'praying for them' to come and act upon The Truth...
we say this from our very own past experiences and convictions...

 

[tourist]

It was years ago, but I recall making collecting candy a competition. We used to take pillowcases out and collect candy well past sunset.

I hauled in a few pounds of sugar on a good year. One year I literally ate about a pound and a half of candy before going to bed. I know this because I would weigh the bag at the end of the night.

Not a Halloween person anymore. I don't think anyone in my area even observes it. I am actually opposed to it as far as going as far as celebrating it as a day of the dead, but I'm not opposed to it as far as giving out candy goes. If people showed interest I would give out candy, at least; no one even stops by.

We used pillowcases too and stayed out until almost midnight. I'm not a Halloween person any more either but do look forward to eating Easter candy.

 

[oldethennew]

tour,
this sounds like an oxymoron, kind of like 'straddling'?
nother words, with God, it always has to be yay or nay...

 

[SarahUmbreon]

I'll be out camping. It's a full moon on the 31st and the second in the month. The fall moons are much larger in appearance than other seasons.

Excellent time to plan for moonrise and have a telescope set up. Also the 1st is a full moon as well.

Beach or mountain I haven't decided.


I'll spare you my opinions on the holiday origins/alignment. I lot of it I just came to know and I do think there is something to it, but best left alone. If you like carved pumpkins and a bit of clean cosplay I don't see any problem with it except limiting yourself to just one day. Anything that glorifies the occult isn't biblical though and the prepackaged crap is full of that. Avoiding the appearance of evil is a scripture. Obviously you don't want to take this to a pharisaical level (like the pharisees) and have a form of Godliness but in reality serve the devil with being "against halloween" but pursuing holiness and righteousness I know the Holy Spirit will lead you appropriately in time.

For me it is heartbreaking and sad.

Innocuous stuff like a decorated tree? I'm on the fence about that right now. I don't particularly want to kill a tree just to put some lights around it but people do put them on the curb every year. One year I picked up 3 and had a little forest on the back porch...eventually they become quite a spectacular fire item (about 3 months when they are brown).

So if it's already being thrown out I like the smell quite a bit and I like to burn them so I get them. Fir and balsam Cedar (and pine) make for lovely aroma therapy.

We haven’t gotten a real tree in I wanna say 10 years, but it was a big part of my childhood and when I was living on my own, I would make sure to buy a tiny real tree, my mom did finally convince me to get a small fake tree, but it’s just not the same. I’ll keep my fake tree, but then maybe get a real tree as well when I have my own place, it all just depends on how much money and effort on cleaning up I’m willing to do, lol

It’s more fun to go as a family to a tree lot/farm to pick one out, than it is going to a grocery store picking one up by yourself to be honest.