hasn't ever researched the meaning of that day. Some of you are too young to possibly know, so I am telling you it is evil. I hope you don't brainwash your kids any further. Someone, can you help me tell them?
2006-10-09 15:05:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It is not evil.Now if you leave your house ready to worship the devil it just means you are evil.Millions of Gods children go out every year on that night and get candy.
2006-10-09 15:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by darlene100568 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uhm, yeah. Halloween is evil. That candy is nothing more than the transmogrified souls of the damned, so chew carefully. That jack-o-lantern on the porch? Plotted Kennedy's assasination. Those paper skeltons taped to the windows? Designed by Hitler on his deathbed. So go prance around in your little princess and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle outfits, you minions of Satan. The Eye of HELL is upon you and your whole DAMNED FAMILY!
God....you sound like a real fun person to get stuck in an elevator with. What's your next targeted holiday, KillJoy? Ground Hog Day? Lighten up.
2006-10-09 22:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know what you're saying. Women love to dress up provocatively on Halloween just as us guys like to dress up like retro 80s characters.
I've been to Halloween parties where the girls dress like hookers, or stripper cops, or Madames and to be honest.....let the women have fun. Just be careful of the drunks and all the other **** you're going to get from us men when we're buzzed.
Play responsibly.
2006-10-09 22:08:34 · answer #3 · answered by axelf57 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is only evil if you make it evil. Just b/c there are some that may have done evil things that day doesn't mean that is everyone's approach.
2006-10-09 22:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by Becsteroni Magl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We all have the right to do as we see fit ! so as long as we are not bothering you , why would you try to push your beliefs onto anyone else ?
I would newer presume to tell you how to live your life . Really I think you are wrong to do this !
2006-10-09 22:22:07 · answer #5 · answered by Geedebb 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
okee dokee you asked for it...
Halloween is a Christian Holiday that started with the Celtic Samhien (sow-in) (saween) and is steeped in the colture of these people to this day.
Origin: Celtic observation of Samhain
According to what can be reconstructed of the beliefs of the ancient Celts, the bright half of the year ended around November 1 or on a Moon-phase near that date, a day referred to in modern Gaelic as Samhain ("Sow-in" or alternatively "Sa-ven", meaning: End of the Summer). After the adoption of the Roman calendar with its fixed months, the date began to be celebrated independently of the Moon's phases.
As October 31st is the last day of the bright half of the year, the next day also meant the beginning of Winter, which the Celts often associated with human death. The Celts also believed that on October 31, the boundary separating the dead from the living became blurred. (There is a rich and unusual myth system at work here; the spirit world, the residence of the "Sidhe," as well as of the dead, was accessible through burial mounds. These mounds opened at two times during the year, making the beginning and end of Summer highly spiritually resonant.)
The Celts' survival during the cold harsh winters, depended on the prophecies of their priests or Druids. They believed that the presence of spirits would aid in the priests' abilities to make future predictions.
The exact customs observed in each Celtic region differ, but they generally involved the lighting of bonfires and the reinforcement of boundaries, across which malicious spirits might cross and threaten the community.
Like most observances around this season, warmth and comfort were emphasized, indulgence was not. Stores of preserved food were needed to last through the winter, not for parties.
Halloween is most popular in Ireland, where it originated, also known in Irish Gaelic as "OÃche Shamhna" or "Samhain Night". The Celts celebrated Halloween as Samhain, "End of Summer," a pastoral and agricultural festival of fire, when the dead revisited the mortal world, and large communal bonfires would be lit to ward off evil spirits. (See Origin: Celtic observation of Samhain below.) In Ireland they continued to practice their deep-rooted, ancient pagan rites well after the arrival of Christianity in the middle of the sixth century.
Trick or Treat?Pope Gregory IV standardized the date of All Saints' Day, or All Hallows' Day, on November 1 to the entire Western Church in 835. There is no primary documentation that Gregory was aware of or reacting to Samhain among the Celts in the selection of this date. See Christian festival below. (Eastern Christianity continued its celebration of the holiday on the first Sunday after Pentecost.) Because Samhain had traditionally fallen the night before All Hallows', it eventually became known as All Hallows' Even' or Hallowe'en. While Celts were happy to move their All Saints' Day from its earlier date of the 20th of April, ("...the Felire of Oengus and the Martyrology of Tallaght prove that the early medieval churches celebrated the feast of All Saints upon 20 April.")[2] they were unwilling to give up their existing festival of the dead and continued to celebrate Samhain.
Unfortunately, there is frustratingly little primary documentation of how Halloween was celebrated in preindustrial Ireland. Historian Nicholas Rogers has written,
It is not always easy to track the development of Halloween in Ireland and Scotland from the mid-seventeenth century, largely because one has to trace ritual practices from [modern] folkloric evidence that do not necessarily reflect how the holiday might have changed; these rituals may not be "authentic" or "timeless" examples of preindustrial times.[3]
On Halloween night in present-day Ireland, adults and children dress up as creatures from the underworld (ghosts, ghouls, zombies, witches, goblins - see thumbnail), light bonfires, and (especially in Derry and Dublin) enjoy spectacular fireworks displays. The children walk around knocking on the doors of neighbours, in order to gather fruit, nuts, and sweets for the Halloween festival. Salt was once sprinkled in the hair of the children to protect against evil spirits.
The houses are decorated by carving pumpkins or turnips into scary faces and other decorations. The traditional Halloween cake in Ireland is the barnbrack which is a fruit bread. Each member of the family gets a slice. Great interest is taken in the outcome as there is a piece of rag, a coin and a ring in each cake. If you get the rag then your financial future is doubtful. If you get the coin then you can look forward to a prosperous year. Getting the ring is a sure sign of impending romance or continued happiness.
sure sounds EVIL to me......
THE FREAKIGN POPE STARTED THIS HOLIDAY IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD...LIGHTEN UP PEOPLE.
2006-10-09 22:20:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
i believe that you are possesed by the devil
your answers in the gay section prove that every time
2006-10-10 01:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by ☺Everybody still loves Chris!♥▼© 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋