Halloween

[ruthandsam]

That awkward moment when my 6 year old daughter's friends turn up at the door with an invitation to a Halloween Party. It is against everything I stand for but what to do?

[Smowball]

We love halloween in our house - its just a fun night to dress up and decorate the house.

[naomi24]

//what do you stand for? Everyone else here seems to know except me! //

And me.

[sandyRoe]

There is a school of thought that holds there's a path you can start out on by trick-or-treating, making lanterns from pumpkins, or ducking for apples, which ends with you Sky-Clad under the Autumn moon sacrificing an innocent to appease The Great Horned One.

[ludwig]

^ that's like what happened with me. I started on the Harry Potter books - peer pressure that's all it was. I wanted to fit in and be cool.

It was a slippery slope to full on devil worship. I'm in recovery now and it's been 4 months since my last human sacrifice.

[mikey4444]

Just ignore it altogether. Its a commercial American import, purely to put yet more profits into supermarket coffers.

Wait a few days and celebrate Firework Night ! Its British and lots of fun !

[woofgang]

and bloody noisy, dangerous and terrifying to animals....oh yes its loadsafun....NOT

[woofgang]

I don't know either Naomi, I am assuming that the OP has some in principle objection to halloween parties.....

[DSJ]

Further to my earlier post, Halloween is actually the eve of All Hallows Day, a Christian festival celebrated on 1st November. I am a devout practising Christian and I love Halloween, my birthday, and I always enjoy watching my grandchildren dressing up and having fun.

[modeller]

I wonder if ruthandsam is a JW or a Quaker etc. They put their weird archaic views before the welfare of their children .
I have seen such children upset after being deneid the simple pleasures of Christmas. I remember some Children not being allowed to watch TV for some personal adult belief. As you would expect children suffer socially and educationally.

[birdie1971]

DSJ - “... Halloween is actually the eve of All Hallows Day, a Christian festival celebrated on 1st November...”

By sheer coincidence this Christian festival also happens to fall on the exact same day as a couple of other non-Christian festivals. The first of November being the Roman festival of Lemuria and the Celtic holiday of Samhain.

It's uncanny how many Christian festivals land on precisely the same day as pagan ones.

[NOX]

LMCPFC -Laugh my Celtic Pagan fecking arse off birdie ;-)

[EDDIE51]

Halloween
An excuse for kids to go door to door demanding money and theatening criminal damage if they don't get what they want.

[LazyGun]

It would appear that Halloween can certainly be extremely hazardous for your health :)

http://www.wptv.com/d...township-pennsylvania

[mibn2cweus]

LazyGun
It would appear that Halloween can certainly be extremely hazardous for your health :)

http://www.wptv.com/d...township-pennsylvania
14:18 Mon 22nd Oct 2012

Yikes!

Nix that terrorist costume idea . . .

"Trick or treat?" > http://farm1.staticfl...869158_9547e81708.jpg

That could well be, erm . . . suicide. :o/

[LazyGun]

@Mibn - LoL, anyone wearing that halloween costume is certainly taking their life in their hands :)

[mibn2cweus]

So much for goin' for the 'Best Costume' award. :o/

[Le Chat]

//what do you stand for? Everyone else here seems to know except me! //

And me.

[magsmay]

well said NOX! PLB
We celebrate Samhain -I hate the American Trick or treat thing -total American twaddle and I refuse to let my children basically bang on peoples doors and demand confectionary. The Devil was invented by Christians to frighten them into submission -so don't blame us Pagans lol!

[Kiki-frog]

Ditto, magsmay - oh bugger, I've just outed myself

[magsmay]

@kiki-frog maybe its time to start a AB Coven ;-)