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Halloween. Another Uniquely American Holiday

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  1. Moi621

    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Hey, ferigners !
    How do you feel about :flagus: Halloween?
    Some may claim it is from this or that ancient holiday.
    Moi says it's just :flagus: prompted by no nation's culture.
    I always liked this :flagus: interpretation too.

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    Thoughts.
    Domestic or ferign.

    There was a Babylon 5 episode that had an alien holiday of the spirit and material world intersection and those on the alien side had quite a holiday. Anyone remember it?
    As close to :flagus: Halloween as Dia de muertos.

    God Bless America and keep our Halloween and Santa Claus sacred
    for which we have a Thanksgiving, another glutinous holiday.


    Moi :oldman:

    r > g


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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Moi :oldman:
     
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    Chester_Murphy Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "I got a rock". lol
     
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    crank Well-Known Member

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    Isn't it 'all hallow's eve', an ancient pagan thingy?
     
    crank, Oct 24, 2017
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    Halloween is the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).

    a catholic holy day

    http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/months/10_2.cfm
     
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  6. Moi621

    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Some say it was an ancient Roman Holiday the Christians applied to their purposes.

    http://romae.org/blog/2008/10/22/the-roman-origins-of-halloween/

    Roman. Celt. Older than ancient
    Yet :flagus: gives a different spin on Halloween making it
    second only to Christmas as the spendingest Holiday in :flagus:

    Similar to Santa Claus and Thanksgiving
    Halloween is a uniquely :flagus: holiday.

    Any observations from ferigners?
    Domestic observations good too.


    Moi :oldman:

    r > g

    :nana: :flagcanada:​
     
    Moi621, Oct 25, 2017
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    Texas Republican Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We used to have "mischief night" on October 30 every year when I was growing up in NY. It involved mild, friendly vandalism. No permanent damage.

    We were thugs.
     
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    Thanks for that. I should have been clearer. It's 'all hallow's eve' (or all hallows day) which I understood to be pre-Christian.
     
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    Ferigner here. We don't do much Halloween here. There is merchandise about, but it's strictly for kids. And of course some do try it on, trick or treating, but we and many others Grinch them. No door answering on the night, between the hours of 5pm and midnight :p
     
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    Halloween or all hallows eve or all saints day is celebrated in many countries.. Where have you been that you don't know that?

    Some Americans are so dumb. You voted for Trump, didn't you?
     
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    Guno Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As a second generation American I can attest that to many Americans i have come across are ignorant of others cultures an religions
     
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    No, samhain is the ancient Holliday. It was the celebration of the end of harvest. A hallow is a saint. November first is all saints day.
     
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    When I was living in the city, I used to love Halloween & dress up as Bacchus complete with 2 wine filled wineskins that way you didn't have to wait for the bartender & didn't get thirsty while walking from bar to bar.
    Also, since I am a blacksmith, I would make full sized skeletons, steel skulls, steel pumpkins painted pumpkin colored, torch holders all of which the kids loved; especially the full sized steel skeletons.
     
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    Trick or Treat is about
    Give them a treat or your property is pranked, the trick.
    Hope the kids in ferignland learn. :lol:

    What ferign place you reside?

    Moi :oldman:
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It ain't Halloween.
    It is something else.
    Like a version of Santa Claus that goes around and whips bad children.

    No one does Halloween like :flagus:
    Thanksgiving and Santa Claus too.
     
    Moi621, Oct 25, 2017
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    Cause they don't matter. The mantel of being the world leader. For now. ;^)
     
    Hoosier8, Oct 25, 2017
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    Maybe a correct spelling of ""foreigners" would help..rather than the ignorant version
     
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    The night before All Saint's Day (All Hallows Eve, abbreviated to Halloween) is celebrated throughout the Christian world on October 31.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Day
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes DEAR :blowkiss: <sigh>
    And Mexicans have theirs too.

    But, America has a unique Holiday that is not recognized as a day off work or school.
    And no claim that it represents them or those, Romans, Celts, Christians just does not match
    :flagus: Trick or Treat and a time of enjoying ghosts, witches and such forbidden concepts to good Christians.
    Yet America celebrates it with spending second only to Christmas, a gov't & school holiday.

    :flagus: Halloween is :flagus:
    Some neighbors, Conservative Jewish deny their children Santa Claus but Halloween is okay.
    Go figure. I can't. We did discuss it at one time.

    And I would sure like to know what then feigners on Board observe. Envious?
    I communicate with some bourgeois Russians in Moscow. Over the years they shared that office parties and children trick or treat activities might occur within a building. But, not on the streets. And those efforts have been abandoned.

    Maybe I should go as a :flagcanada:
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    Moi :oldman:

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    Canada.jpg
    Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
    regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
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    http://pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/halloweenglobal.php
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And Moi denies it. Yes I did look at the link but none really matches :flagus: Halloween.
    And your link fails to include ancient Rome links. See above.
    Similar to Santa Claus, one may come close - but no cigar
    for the success and interpretation :flagus: gives to Halloween. And Santa Claus too.
    Creating the spendingest Holidays.
    And :flagus: did it, Halloween, without a gov't holiday.
    "We" just did it!

    BTW does anyone remember the Babylon 5 episode that was sort of
    Day of the Dead in a part of the space station?

    Moi :oldman:




    God Bless Santa Claus and Halloween too​
     
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    In Ireland, which is considered to be where Halloween began, the day is still celebrated much like it is in the United States. In rural areas, bonfires are lit as they were centuries ago, and all over the country, children get dressed up in costumes and spend the evening "trick-or-treating" in their neighborhoods.
    Read more at http://pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/halloweenglobal.php#J0MB0TBK3pgmYik2.99

    Read more at http://pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/halloweenglobal.php#YqhVWHQGEEcZx5qG.99
     
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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They make a Jack O Lantern out of a turnip.
    Or some such not a pumpkin thingie.
     
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    I'll waste no more time arguing about Halloween with a conservative.
     
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    I always just assumed it was a social response to the inquisition- desensitize people to the scary things associated with demons and witchcraft so we dont get so revved up when someone yells 'witch!' that we let folks get burned at the stake.
     
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