where is the annual "halloween is evil" thread?

[Ghostdog]

where is it? i looked high and low for it but i cant find it so i decided to start it myself

so lets talk about how evil halloween is

[other one]

It is whatever you make out of it.  Considering my walk with the dark side in the late 70s, I personally could do without it.

But with my retired kindergarten teacher wife; she enjoys interfacing with the kids, so seeings she's not a witch, I suffer with it for her sake.

But it does bother me when people completely trivialize it as meaningless.

[Starise]

I dread the season and the holiday. When I was 10 it was about going trick or treating. I had no idea about any of it.

Now that I'm older and wiser I stay as far away as possible. We put up FALL decorations. Not HALLOWEEN decorations. 

Wouldn't it be interesting if the Lord decided to return on halloween? 

Be like- Knock yourselves out there, here's the real thing. You like dark? We have dark. You like scary? We have scary. You like demons ghosts and goblins? No more need for costumes. Hell is literally coming from the pit to your nearest neighborhood.

Dead people? Why pretend? Blood and gore? Witches, I mean real witches? Now you will see how they really are.

No thanks. You can keep halloween.

[Ghostdog]

when i was younger i use to love halloween even as a young christian cause i didnt know better but ive learned that its not a good thing to be celebrating

[ladypeartree]

we just didnt do it at all here in the UK then the Americans exported it here  but it is still just a few people that put up decorations and mainly kids only go to friends or relatives to con them out of sweets . A few years ago the police really cracked down on it and anyone could  get a notice to put in a window to say NO ,,, if kids called at those houses the parents would receive a hefty fine . .I normally leave the lights off and ignore it all especially as I live on a very busy main road and there are not many children that live around here 

[tim_from_pa]

Halloween is a hokey kind of holiday and most of us are too big to be putting up "decorations" of silly things like walking skeletons, witches, carved pumpkins and the like.  Besides, it gets tiring because we see a witch fly out on her broom all the time after she is done being speaker of the House for the day.

[Starise]

I take you don't mean the house of parliament. The US one.

Ouch, but seen as pretty accurate.

[Henry_iain]

10 hours ago, Ghostdog said:

where is it? i looked high and low for it but i cant find it so i decided to start it myself

so lets talk about how evil halloween is

In South Africa it hardly features at all. Only those few who like to copy American culture. I rather like dress up but on the whole I could live without it. I eonder if we will see some fresh arguments this year. Should be interesting. 

[Starise]

Some will wave it all off. 

Some will see a devil around every corner.

Some will try to balance a view that agrees with everything.

If only looking at the superficial, it all just looks like retailers selling Halloween stuff to people dressing up for fun, and to a large degree that's what it probably is. Like everything else there is a deeper more dark place where people take the holiday deadly serious in ways I prefer not to talk about because it is so very dark.

[other one]

I would say that I have seen some really funny memes though.