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Halloweenie

triadboy

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Thought you might find this interesting:

I got an email today about a school party on Oct 31 - it is called a Harvest Party. It is not politically correct to say 'Halloween' anymore.

This is obviously an xian edict.

Weren't they the ones bitching about 'Christmas Parties' being changed to 'Holiday Parties'?

Perhaps this is their way of getting back at you satanic bastards! "Well, we'll just screw up your holiday then!"
 
triadboy said:
I got an email today about a school party on Oct 31 - it is called a Harvest Party. It is not politically correct to say 'Halloween' anymore.
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That is interesting. Harvest Party sounds almost pegan to me.

Strange bedfellows.
 
I prefer "Harvest Party" to what it really is: "Candy-Eating Orgy."
 
Of course, we all know xian children who aren't allowed to participate in Halloween, because of the satanic implications. Now that it's called a Harvest Party, they can play. They ARE allowed to dress up too, but only as Jan Crouch.
 
"Harvest Party"?

If this isnt a joke, its obviously the work of the same group of idiots who refuse to let their kids Trick or Treat on Sundays.

In any case, I'll be dressing in a pair of black pants, black hood, and put on a pair of KITTY EARS! Because that's what us heathens do....
 
Actually, I don't think the kids would care whether the holiday was called "Halloween" or "Harvest Fest" or "Costume Day" or "Trick or Treat Night" or anything else; they just like to carve pumpkins, dress up, eat candy and have fun.

To my knowledge, the "having fun" aspect has never included worship of any evil beings of any kind.
 
To my knowledge, the "having fun" aspect has never included worship of any evil beings of any kind.
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I'm not so sure. The peanut m&m in those commercials always seemed to have a sinister edge to me.
 
Brown said:
Actually, I don't think the kids would care whether the holiday was called "Halloween" or "Harvest Fest" or "Costume Day" or "Trick or Treat Night" or anything else; they just like to carve pumpkins, dress up, eat candy and have fun.

To my knowledge, the "having fun" aspect has never included worship of any evil beings of any kind.
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I don't remember who was supposed to have said it, but I remember hearing a quote defining purtianism as "the paralyzing fear that someone, somewhere may be having a good time"
 
Hey, our school & church had Harvest Festivities. I was one of the lucky kids that actually got to trick-or-treat and wear costume. Some of the other kids in my class weren't as lucky.

Disgusting, isn't it?
 
I trick or treated throughout the 60's and I don't ever remember kids forbidden to T or T because of satan. Is this a new thing?
 
triadboy said:
I trick or treated throughout the 60's and I don't ever remember kids forbidden to T or T because of satan. Is this a new thing?
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I grew up in a very confining church. Seventh-day Adventistism was just plagerised (word for word is some places) from the Mormans. So it was wacky. That's the way it had always been for Halloween.
 
Candy eatin' orgy?

Isn't that Christmas & Easter, too?

At least for Halloween, you have to walk for it. Though some kids are ferried around in cars.
 
evildave said:
Candy eatin' orgy?

Isn't that Christmas & Easter, too?

At least for Halloween, you have to walk for it. Though some kids are ferried around in cars.
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"Motorized Divisions"

My father steadfastly refuses to participate in any celebration of any sort. Even his birthday can go by unoticed, and if nobody calls, nobody notices until several wees later.

His intake of sugar is like that of a wolf, i.e. none at all. I've never seen him buy anything sweet, unless it was sweet coinicidentally, like apples. He seems to live, left to his own devices on a diet of stew and clili, with some tacos and other random stuff thrown in.

He's essentially managed to turn "bah, humbug" into a philosophy, as well as a way of life. Perhaps this is why he's as much of an influence on me as he is.

I had a teacher once who said halloween was her favorite holiday, because it is pagan. Halloween parties were elaborate and intoxicating. Turns out sugar is plenty potent before you ferment it, especially when mixed with general hysteria.
 
evildave said:
Candy eatin' orgy?

Isn't that Christmas & Easter, too?

At least for Halloween, you have to walk for it. Though some kids are ferried around in cars.
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It sounds better if you call them Easter, Halloween, and Christmas. Candy eating orgy I, II, and III don't have quite the same ring to them.
 
the reason we have the modern holiday is that in our protestant society halloween was the 'devil's night', all those chrsitian ejoyed being evil so much that they thought it might harm war production during WWII. So they hauled out the best part of new years and added candy.

I like the day the of the dead
 
Agammamon said:
It sounds better if you call them Easter, Halloween, and Christmas. Candy eating orgy I, II, and III don't have quite the same ring to them.
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As mentioned earlier:

A school Halloween party is now called a Harvest Party

A school Christmas party is now called a Holiday Party

What should we call a school Easter party?

Hanging party?
Holy Pinata party?
Lynchin' party?
Jesus-on-a-stick party?
"We know not what we do" party?
"Let's all get nailed" party?


It's going to have to change to something.
 
triadboy said:

I got an email today about a school party on Oct 31 - it is called a Harvest Party. It is not politically correct to say 'Halloween' anymore.

This is obviously an xian edict.
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I don't see anything obvious in that since "Halloween" is a contraction of "All Hallows Eve" and "Hallow" is an old word meaning "Saint". The OED puts earliest written use of "hallow" in his sense to 885. This predates the word "Halloween" by roughly 500 years.

I would say that "Harvest Party" is much more pagan than "Halloween".
 
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