Halloween: The Only Holiday Without A Point

[Road Runner]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

 

[marvin martian]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

I like the next day better:

Day of the Dead - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Road Runner]

I like the next day better:

Day of the Dead - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Are you legal? I mean Mexican? (It's a small joke please don't take offense to it but if I know you correctly you won't. )

 

[marvin martian]

Are you legal? I mean Mexican? (It's a small joke please don't take offense to it but if I know you correctly you won't. )

I'm not Mexican, but I live in a place where Mexican culture is strong, and I've come to love a lot of it.

 

[Thunk]

It has a point...FREE CANDY!!!

 

[Lemmi]

Halloween has become a day celebrated only amongst close friends. Because you can't trust strangers not to lace holiday treats with rat poison or LSD. Come to think of it LSD might be just what I need right now.

 

[Road Runner]

It has a point...FREE CANDY!!!

Yeah and to the group of uptight religious people on here we get hosed with holy water. It happens every single freaking year. I can handle witches, zombies, and ghosts... But send a Jehovah witness to my door, vegan, or anti-Halloween Christian then I have nightmares for weeks.

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[mudwhistle]

Yet I still love it and I can't wait for spooky season 2023 as we are currently only a few days away until mudwhistle and I start Spooktember.


I mean Thanksgiving has a point, as we're celebrating being thankful for what we have. Christmas is a little about that too but it's more about the birth of Christ and helping the less fortunate. Easter is celebrating Christ's resurrection, The Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from Britain New Year's is obvious,... Yet the only thing that Halloween celebrates (at least anymore) is just having fun. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either.


I realize that it has a dark past and it comes from All Hallows' Day or something, but all it's known for these days is getting scared, getting candy, carving pumpkins, and having festivals and parties. I'm finally getting a chance to go to my very first Halloween party this October. I'm not sure what costume I'll go for, but I know that I'm going as Pennywise and I really want this mask.

That's scary.

 

[Road Runner]

That's scary.

Yeah but I'm rethinking it now because I know how to REALLY scare a LOT of people. (I still really want to be Pennywise, but hey, it would still make a lot people have nightmares. )

 

[mudwhistle]

I'm not Mexican, but I live in a place where Mexican culture is strong, and I've come to love a lot of it.

When I was living in San Diego they often had loud May 5th celebrations into the late hours of the night.

Mariachi bands blasting till after Midnight.

 

[mudwhistle]

Yeah but I'm rethinking it now because I know how to REALLY scare a LOT of people. (I still really want to be Pennywise, but hey, it would still make a lot people have nightmares. )


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If you want to scare a bunch of people....wear a N95 mask and start coughing.

 

[marvin martian]

When I was living in San Diego they often had loud May 5th celebrations into the late hours of the night.

Mariachi bands blasting till after Midnight.

Yeah, Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday, though. It's not really celebrated in Mexico, except in tourist spots where Americans want to get drunk.

 

[Road Runner]

If you want to scare a bunch of people....wear a N95 mask and start coughing.

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Didn't people already try that a few years ago and get arrested?

Yeah, Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday, though. It's not really celebrated in Mexico, except in tourist spots where Americans want to get drunk.

Really I thought that it was a Mexican holiday.

 

[1srelluc]

It makes more sense than Juneteenth.....By a mile.

Come to that did you ever notice blacks avoid Halloween like the plague?

Must be all those white kids in sheets n shit.

 

[Woodznutz]

Halloween was my favorite growing up. No need for chaperones, no razor blades in the candy. More candy than we could possibly eat, but lots of nickels and dimes in my bag as well.

 

[Road Runner]

but lots of nickels and dimes in my bag as well.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but your neighbors were cheapskates. Unless you grew up in a time where that would be like a hundred dollars today or something.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Halloween began as the pagan holiday of Samhain. The end of harvest. Spirits would haunt the new harvest. The were granted one night, All Hallow's Eve, to walk the earth. The dawn would bring All Saint's Day when the saints of heaven would drive the spirits away.

This has nothing to do with the Mexican day of the dead which is a kind of memorial day to remember those that have passed.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[Road Runner]

Great magician, but he seems totally beside himself. He should pull himself together because he keeps falling apart.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It has a point...FREE CANDY!!!

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