Halloween is the most overrated fake thing ever.

DrSpongeBobz

Time for bed buddy.

Purple Mountain

DrSpongeBobz wrote: »

Time for bed buddy.

Ye

Mulbert

None.

bassy

good job i had stacked up on banshee bones

Airyfairy12

AMKC wrote: »

But Jesus did really happen lol so that means Christmas and Easter are real. Someones imagination more like is where it happened.

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.
Halloween is traditionally a harvest festival marking the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter and a celebration of the dead. Traditionally it was celebrated by lighting bonfires which were believed to create a spiritual cleansing. They believed on Samhain the vail between the mortal and spiritual realm was thinned, spirits and fairies could easily pass through into the mortal realm. People would dress up in costumes so as to confuse the fairies and spirits and protecting themselves from harm.
I think its quite special that we still hold onto traditions and festivals which originated in Ireland thousands of years ago.

It goes back so far that some Neolithic tombs are aligned with the Sunrise on October 31st.

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

DrSpongeBobz

All that came after Jesus.FAKE NEWS

bazz26

OP, if it weren't for Halloween then there would be no opportunity to start a thread complaining about it.

Graces7

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.

Is very much to do with Jesus

Christmas is marked as the official birthday of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. All royalty have official birthdays

So we can unite in our deep thankfulness.

Easter too is totally valid as being full of Jesus. At the right season.

Also right and good to place these on other past festivals.

Del2005

DrSpongeBobz wrote: »

All that came after Jesus.FAKE NEWS

Halloween came before Jesus, it's just his religion hasn't stolen this celebration yet.

gimli2112

fathers day, mothers day and black friday, whatever they call the monday are far more atrocious. holidays literally made up so you can spend your hard earned cash on shyte

whiskeyman

I missed all the slutty, sexy outfits.






Giggidy!

Airyfairy12

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.
Halloween is traditionally a harvest festival marking the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter and a celebration of the dead. Traditionally it was celebrated by lighting bonfires which were believed to create a spiritual cleansing. They believed on Samhain the vail between the mortal and spiritual realm was thinned, spirits and fairies could easily pass through into the mortal realm. People would dress up in costumes so as to confuse the fairies and spirits and protecting themselves from harm.
I think its quite special that we still hold onto traditions and festivals which originated in Ireland thousands of years ago.

It goes back so far that some Neolithic tombs are aligned with the Sunrise on October 31st.

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

Fascinating, thank you.

joeguevara

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.
Halloween is traditionally a harvest festival marking the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter and a celebration of the dead. Traditionally it was celebrated by lighting bonfires which were believed to create a spiritual cleansing. They believed on Samhain the vail between the mortal and spiritual realm was thinned, spirits and fairies could easily pass through into the mortal realm. People would dress up in costumes so as to confuse the fairies and spirits and protecting themselves from harm.
I think its quite special that we still hold onto traditions and festivals which originated in Ireland thousands of years ago.

It goes back so far that some Neolithic tombs are aligned with the Sunrise on October 31st.

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

When the Roman Empire conquered the Celts they amalgamated the Samhain festival with two of their own ones. Feralia I think was to remember the dead and the other was to worship Pomona which is depicted by an apple. This probably is the reason my memories of Halloween as a kid is trying to bite an apple out of a basin full of water or from an apple dangling from a string in the door way.

Not something I researched but was bet in to me by a crazy 4/5 class teacher who spent more time on Norman's, Celts, pagans, motte and baileys and vikings than irrelevant things like spelling, maths, comprehension and measurements.

Airyfairy12

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

Why?..Are they not all kind of as significant as each other, marking the cycle through the year/seasons?..

My least favourite night of the year. Just had beers with my brother and avoided the messiness of it all.

First Up

Giving kids an excuse to dress up is a good thing but I feel sorry for the cats and dogs

Quantum Erasure

Most overrated, fake thing, ever? I thought that was democracy

IAMAMORON

I like it. I like the way it indicates the start of the dark nights and the spookiness. Last night was a proper scary one with big winds and bits and bobs of rain. Samhain is a great and ancient time, it is physically older than Christmas, so as a festival it technically deserves more respect.

I missed the bonfires last night, I like the concept of a community descending around a massive fire erected to cast away evil spirits. It is soothing.

2lazytogetup

haloween is my faviourite festival. it has that darkness to it. great horror books and movies.

people dressing up, funny costumes.

and when in college, goign to parties to see the ladies dressed up in slutty costumes.

Mad_maxx

the one thing i like about Halloween is that its much shorter than christmas

Airyfairy12

Graces7 wrote: »

Is very much to do with Jesus

Christmas is marked as the official birthday of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. All royalty have official birthdays

So we can unite in our deep thankfulness.

Easter too is totally valid as being full of Jesus. At the right season.

Also right and good to place these on other past festivals.

Its been documented that Jesus was actually born sometime in the Spring.
If you research any religion majority have celebrations on similar dates as nearly all religions originate from paganism. In most religions the worshipped god was born in or around the 25th of December. Pagan god Saturn was celebrated by the romans for a week with the final day of celebrations and the main winter solstice celebration on the 25th of December.
When different religions began to grow popular, traditional Pagan festivals where incorporated into the new religion with their meanings changed.
Why do you think we put trees in our homes at Christmas, or why we hang Holly? Why do you think we eat and give eggs at Easter? This represents fertility and new life which has always been associated with Spring.
Similarly nearly all religious texts focus on the number 12, either 12 brothers or 12 apostles or 12 Roman gods. This comes from the seasons and numerology dating back to Paganism.
Even religious symbols that we would consider evil are originally positive pagan symbols that new religions adapted the meanings of to turn people away from Paganism. The devil was a pagan god that had nothing to do with evil.
Halloween is the only festival which for the most part is untouched by Christianity as we celebrate it similarly to how early Celtic Pagans did.

Graces7

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Its been documented that Jesus was actually born sometime in the Spring.
If you research any religion majority have celebrations on similar dates as nearly all religions originate from paganism. In most religions the worshipped god was born in or around the 25th of December. Pagan god Saturn was celebrated by the romans for a week with the final day of celebrations and the main winter solstice celebration on the 25th of December.
When different religions began to grow popular, traditional Pagan festivals where incorporated into the new religion with their meanings changed.
Why do you think we put trees in our homes at Christmas, or why we hang Holly? Why do you think we eat and give eggs at Easter? This represents fertility and new life which has always been associated with Spring.
Similarly nearly all religious texts focus on the number 12, either 12 brothers or 12 apostles or 12 Roman gods. This comes from the seasons and numerology dating back to Paganism.
Even religious symbols that we would consider evil are originally positive pagan symbols that new religions adapted the meanings of to turn people away from Paganism. The devil was a pagan god that had nothing to do with evil.
Halloween is the only festival which for the most part is untouched by Christianity as we celebrate it similarly to how early Celtic Pagans did.

Oh my dear, . dear child ! You just don't get it do you? Not sure why? So sorry about that. Maybe one day? signing off on this.

Blessings and peace and prayers. And fare thee well.

Osborne

Graces7 wrote: »

Oh my dear, . dear child ! You just don't get it do you? Not sure why? So sorry about that. Maybe one day?

Blessings and peace and prayers.

Weird enough.

440Hertz

It’s an absolutely ancient Irish festival that has roots in references to timing of the arrival of autumn, harvest, spiders coming into houses, shortening daylight hours, the leaves falling from the trees, the first storms of the year and the coming of winter.

It marks a dramatic change of season, it’s a way of dealing with it, mentally processing it and it’s buried deeply in culture and, more importantly, it’s a bit of fun and craic at an otherwise dull time of year.

The Americans gave it a the Hollywood treatment, jumbled in a few other similar festivals and commercialised it and what’s wrong with that?

As I see it Halloween is basically bolted to the seasons in the northern hemisphere and it’s really important to be able to connect with those changes every year, even if it’s just a big tacky festival to some, it’s a bit of magic and it’s open to everyone and anyone who wants to partake as it’s not owned by any one religion or culture.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Yep I despise it. It’s absolutely horrendous the Shiite and tat that is sold for it nowadays and the run up the fcuking thing starts in early September!! When I was younger Halloween didn’t get a mention till a week or two before it and there was none of this nonsense of decorating entire bloody houses! I don’t think we ever had a single decoration of any sort for it.

Everything was better in the 70’s/80’s.

gogo

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Could be worse, you could have been living in mountmellick ...

One major Celtic place that celebrates Halloween nearly all year round is Galicia in north-west Spain. Wind-up witches with broomsticks are among the most common souvenirs on sale there, black cats feature in restaurant names.

https://www.thelocal.es/20201029/how-spain-usually-celebrates-halloween-a-festival-invented-in-galicia

Personally I was very disappointed in the lack of sexy schoolgirls and cheerleaders.











And as for the adults.......

jam_mac_jam

I like it. It's nice that we have kept something on from our past. I like the idea that the start of winter connects us with death and reminds us of the past when the weather had a much more important influence on our lives.

You don't have to have the crap plastic crap decorations if you don't want to.

I also like that it's only a day. While Christmas has now expanded to the whole of December.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

One major Celtic place that celebrates Halloween nearly all year round is Galicia in north-west Spain. Wind-up witches with broomsticks are among the most common souvenirs on sale there, black cats feature in restaurant names.

https://www.thelocal.es/20201029/how-spain-usually-celebrates-halloween-a-festival-invented-in-galicia

They did on their hole create it. Never heard a celtic Spaniard make that claim before.