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jaytex1969

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Jun 6, 2017
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Used to do Halloween, but I've rolled it back to what it traditionally was. That being All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.

I think that's actually the other way around. The fledgeling Christianity superimposed their holidays and traditions over the existing "pagan" holidays to convert and dissuade people into the new fangled mythology.

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Kobold

Lifer
Feb 2, 2022
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I like the idea of Halloween. I don’t like participating in it. Walking my kids around in the dark all night just so they’ll be up all night hyper on candy isn’t fun to me. I do like stealing their snickers though.
 

stearmandriver

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Mar 13, 2018
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I think that's actually the other way around. The fledgeling Christianity superimposed their holidays and traditions over the existing "pagan" holidays to convert and dissuade people into the new fangled mythology.
Exactly this. If you want to go back to what Halloween traditionally was, you've got to go back to Samhain and other pagan festivals. Similar to Easter, Christmas etc... The newer cultures all borrow from the older.
 
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Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 18, 2023
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My wife does up the house inside and out.....for all holidays.
Im forced to grow and turn pumkins all summer because she commands it.
If you've never grown a perfectly round pumpkin, you have no idea how time consuming it is. :)
Of course we live WAY out, so no halloweeners come.
But, I insist we have a HUGE bag of candy "just in case".
Its the one time a year I eat sugar like its my daily sustainance.
Candy for dessert with all meals for about a week. :)
 

Chasing Embers

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Nov 12, 2014
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Save watching horror movies throughout October, no. I haven't seen many kids out for several years now and many of the holidays are slowly going away.

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Chasing Embers

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Nov 12, 2014
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So? It doesn't follow that just because a thing is older it doesn't mean that is more true, or pure, or whatever. That's just a logical fallacy.
The tradition of carving turnip lanterns, bonfires, and dressing up to frighten away spirits, Samhain, predates the modern religion's appropriations by centuries.turnip-jack-olantern.jpg
 

BingBong

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Apr 26, 2024
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The tradition of carving turnip lanterns, bonfires, and dressing up to frighten away spirits, Samhain, predates the modern religion's appropriations by centuries.View attachment 336361
It's the third harvest festival, the first being of wheat at Lammas and the second at Equinox, still celebrated. Lammas, 1st August, is the cross-quarter day when daylight hours start to rapidly dwindle, Samhain, 1st November, is the cross-quarter day when that decline slows to a crawl, although technically it's more like 7th August to 5th November.

*northern hemisphere, ofc.
 
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