Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:27 pm
Besides if Nick wants candy, he just has to ask me.
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Speaking of candy... can I have some skittles today...Royal_Foxx wrote:Besides if Nick wants candy, he just has to ask me.
Me and my big mouth.Nickswitz wrote:Speaking of candy... can I have some skittles today...Royal_Foxx wrote:Besides if Nick wants candy, he just has to ask me.
Mikey wrote:Isn't that enough?Tyyr wrote:I f***ing hate Halloween. It's only use is a predominance of low priced slutty fetish outfits for women.
Anyway, I like Halloween. Harvesting the mistletoe, filling the bronze cauldron with enemies' blood, invoking the spirit of Samhain...
Is that not a reason for it's existence on it's own?Tyyr wrote:I f***ing hate Halloween. It's only use is a predominance of low priced slutty fetish outfits for women.
Hello, have you met the DITL forum?Royal_Foxx wrote:Besides if Nick wants candy, he just has to ask me.
Well I would have to say it's human in nature, but that's another issue, and perhaps the same thingNickswitz wrote:I have the same feelings on the matter as Tyyr does, hate it, besides the slutty outfits, all it's roots are demonic in nature... Just saying.
No they're not. The earliest roots of Halloween that we know of are a Celtic harvest/seasonal festival known as Samhain, one of the four major seasonal holidays of the Celts (the others being Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnassadh.) While Samhain did acheive some connotation as a festival of the dead, it was primarily to celebrate the harvest and the end of summer. Even with the other aspect it had, it was no more demonic or diabolic than Dia de la Muerte. The "evil" aspect was more than likely falsely ascribed to it by Catholic missionaries in an attempt to discredit preexisting pagan faiths.Nickswitz wrote:I have the same feelings on the matter as Tyyr does, hate it, besides the slutty outfits, all it's roots are demonic in nature... Just saying.
Yeah sureMark wrote:Thanks Mikey
Can I have some candy too, little girl?
If that was the extent of it, yes. Hell I'd advocate the sale of such outfits at all times.IanKennedy wrote:Is that not a reason for it's existence on it's own?
There are shopsTyyr wrote:If that was the extent of it, yes. Hell I'd advocate the sale of such outfits at all times.IanKennedy wrote:Is that not a reason for it's existence on it's own?
This is the part that I was mainly talking about... Which has been linked to the creation of the Halloween celebrationMikey wrote:In modern times, certain elements have been merged with Halloween which are more closely related to Walpurgisnacht, which was an Eastern European tradition of a night in which the undead and the evil spirits were free to roam the earth (and which incidentally was the inspiration for Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.)