Halloween: The Only Holiday Without A Point

[Road Runner]

You've Just Disclosed the Democrats' Campaign Slogan

Isn't that free Fentanyl?

 

[Quasar44]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

Well it does have a huge pagan history to it

 

[hjmick]

Really I thought that it was a Mexican holiday.

It is, but primarily only in one place. Where the battle the day commemorates took place.

 

[Thunk]

You've Just Disclosed the Democrats' Campaign Slogan

Well...there's free candy and there's FREE CANDY!

Go to an office party disguised as the "blind man"...reach out as if feeling your way around and squeeze a few boobies.

Now THAT'S what I call FREE CANDY

 

[hjmick]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

History of Halloween

Halloween is among the oldest traditions in the world as it touches on an essential element of the human condition: the relationship between the living and the dead. The observance evolved from ancient...

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Halloween is among the oldest traditions in the world as it touches on an essential element of the human condition: the relationship between the living and the dead. The observance evolved from ancient rituals marking the transition from summer to winter, thereby associating it with transformation, which is still a central theme of the holiday.

Every recorded civilization has created some form of ritual observance focused on what happens to people when they die, where they go, and how the living should best honor those who have passed or respond to the dead who seem unwilling or unable to move on. Countries around the world today celebrate Halloween in one form or another, from Mexico's Day of the Dead to China's Tomb Sweeping Day. The modern-day observance of Halloween in countries such as the United States and Canada – where this tradition is most popular – share in this ancient tradition, even though some aspects of the holiday are relatively recent developments and can be traced back to the Celtic festival of Samhain...

 

[Thunk]

Actually I don't do halloween any more. It makes me sad.

I had the greatest dog in the world (Lady) and I told her Halloween was her birthday & EVERYBODY was knocking on the door to give her birthday kisses.

She would get so excited and go nuts every time the doorbell rang & she'd be right there to dole out kisses to all the kids.

But Lady is long gone now...I can't take the reminder of that so I usually hit the casino on halloween night.

 

[Road Runner]

Actually I don't do halloween any more. It makes me sad.

I had the greatest dog in the world (Lady) and I told her Halloween was her birthday & EVERYBODY was knocking on the door to give her birthday kisses.

She would get so excited and go nuts every time the doorbell rang & she'd be right there to dole out kisses to all the kids.

But Lady is long gone now...I can't take the reminder of that so I usually hit the casino on halloween night.

Sorry to hear about your doggie.

 

[Thunk]

Sorry to hear about your doggie.

Thanks.

She was my 3rd dog but the best by far!

People would actually line up at my fence to pet her (I'm not exaggerating).

When my sis moved into the neighborhood she was talking to her next door neighbor...she said "my brother lives a block away in the white & green house".

Her neighbor said "YOU MEAN LADYS HOUSE"???

 

[evenflow1969]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

It use to be a celebration of the last harvest.

 

[Thunk]

It use to be a celebration of the last harvest.

And now people don't even understand the word "harvest".

The thunk the grocery store creates the food.

 

[Foxfyre]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

When we were kids we loved Halloween, getting dressed up, trick or treating and it was fun when our kids were little too. I used to sew a lot and made us some pretty exotic Halloween outfits of my own design.

And when Roseanne was still a popular sitcom, Halloween was always her favorite holiday and I looked forward to that particular show every year.

Now we don't participate much any more. There are few little kids in our neighborhood and most of those go to Trunk and Treat in church parking lots and other such events that are much safer for them than going door to door these days. I have a personal prejudice against teenagers trick or treating door to door which is what we mostly get. So we just turn out the lights, lock the security gate and watch movies on Halloween these days.

 

[Road Runner]

And now people don't even understand the word "harvest".

Isn't it when you harvest things for the harvesting?

 

[Woodznutz]

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but your neighbors were cheapskates. Unless you grew up in a time where that would be like a hundred dollars today or something.

$3 in 1948 is worth about $37 today. Not a bad haul for an 8-year-old. Candy bars and soda cost 5 cents, comic books were 10 cents, movies were 15 cents, bus fare was 5 cents with free transfers.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The Feast of Samhain predates Christianity.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Isn't that free Fentanyl?

Poisoned Candy From the Graduates of the Poison Ivy Colleges

 

[whitehall]

A recent visit to Lowes revealed that they have a 7 ft. electronic mummy for sale. Just the thing you need in your garage but it ain't cheap.