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Well, it's that time of year, everyone; when everyone gets into the spirit.

No, not Christmas. Not even Thanksgiving. I'm talking, of course (as judged by the title) about Halloween.

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A wonderfully pagan holiday, it focuses on getting children scared out their wits as they brave the night with their friends and family for candy. But Halloween is more than that to we adults (assuming you, the reader, are an adult).

I know this is a Philosophy forum. Halloween is an idea applied to a specific date set to a calendar set by the motion of the earth, sun, and moon. Yet, we celebrate it for fun. In the spirit of fun, I would like a casual conversation. I may get into enjoyable arguments with some of you in other topics, but here, let's have some fun. Wink

I've had my fill of philosophical discussion, so I thought I'd open this up. What will you be doing this Halloween? Are you dressing up?

EDIT: Mods/Admins, feel free to delete this, since the holiday is over.

@invulnerable23,

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@invulnerable23,

why do we love celebrating things with people. why does it feel good to be a part of something big. i suppose the largest world wide celebration is the new year. when the earth spins around the sun. one year has passed. why do we celebrate that!?? its amazing. think about it. one big ball spinning around another. one is really bright and made of fire. it gives us light and life. the other is green blue and squishy. oh and it has things that have evolved into thinking creatures to realize that the sun moves around it every 365 days. after this realization, all these mysterious creatures jump up and down, count down, kiss eachother, and celebrate every time this squishy green and blue ball circles around this bright fiery one.

halloween is good too. I am going to be a vampire. I decided to go traditional this year.

i vant to suck yur blawwd.

@withawhy,

I love your post, withawhy! It reminds me of a quote from Douglas Adams: "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

I'd dress up tonight, but I am a poor college student, so I'm just going to go to a free Haunted House or something. Time with friends driving around aimlessly ftw!

@invulnerable23,

I am going to a couple of parties at local bars as Martin Heidegger.

@jgweed,

Well usually I'd go out trick or treating. But this year I didn't go, I didn't feel like it.

@invulnerable23,

We took the baby out trick or treating tonight. He's 7 months old and was dressed up in a little jack-o-lantern costume. My wife and I got to eat all the candy, but we got some fantastic pictures of the baby and we met a bunch of neighbors who all melted when they saw our baby (who is just the most mild mannered little kid and loves to meet people). So maybe the experience was more for us than for him, but you know it's fun to do "little kid" things.

@Holiday20310401,

Holiday20310401 wrote:

Well usually I'd go out trick or treating. But this year I didn't go, I didn't feel like it.

Ok, this is just wrong. Everybody here are like in university or well educated adults. Halloween provokes violence. What did you do, egg somebody's house or something?!

@invulnerable23,

Well, that was a good Halloween. But, like all good things, it comes to an end.

@invulnerable23,

It might be because I live in a country winhout halloween, but if little kids came to my door the whole night asking for candy I would place a big and menacing "Get Lost" sign in my front gate Smile

@manored,

manored wrote:

It might be because I live in a country winhout halloween, but if little kids came to my door the whole night asking for candy I would place a big and menacing "Get Lost" sign in my front gate

Firstly, It is only a couple of hours. Secondly, they're little kids enjoying a culture that stimulates the mind in ways that will never be experienced again for the rest of their lives, why take that health away from them? And thirdly, do you live in a mansion with the front gate and the username manored.

@Holiday20310401,

Holiday20310401 wrote:

Firstly, It is only a couple of hours. Secondly, they're little kids enjoying a culture that stimulates the mind in ways that will never be experienced again for the rest of their lives, why take that health away from them? And thirdly, do you live in a mansion with the front gate and the username manored.

No but my house has big walls with big gates anyway. Smile

I dont have anything against people giving candy to children, I just have something against the idea of "trick or treat". That is, having to give candy if you dont want your house saboted. I dont want to give candy Smile

I am personally not very apreciative of culture, demanding (In a social manner) that people do stuff, usually winhout any good reason.

For example Christimas: If you dont comemorate it while surrounded by people who do you and fell irritated with their constant askings that you do will be considered a world-hater Smile

@manored,

True, but don't you like the concept of giving? It doesn't have to be within the context of culture and consumerism and commercialism.

@invulnerable23,

I have nothing against giving, tough I suck at guessing what other people want/are thinking, so I usually dont give anything unless people ask me. Then they ask im usually quite generous.

I think that then we want to present someone we should focus on giving then something they cant get thenselves.

@manored,

My wife and I actually tried to get into the spirit this year. We carved up some pumpkins, bought some candy and got all ready to have some fun with the trick-or-treaters. Alas, not a single one came. Yay! All Hail the Culture of Fear!

Heck, we even resurrected the idea of dressing up and running around ourselves (given my long hair, beard and physical appearance I was || close to dressing up as jesus). But I think we'd have been alone.... no one around here seems to be interested.

... so we had a few drinks and had ourselves a jolly old time.

@socrato,

socrato wrote:

Ok, this is just wrong. Everybody here are like in university or well educated adults. Halloween provokes violence. What did you do, egg somebody's house or something?!

Halloween doesnt provoke violence, it provokes the worshiping of satan and other evil spirits. Often the non-educated and non-university folks will throw unfertilized demon eggs at their neighbors houses as a sacrafice to the prince of darkness. It is recommended the eggs be thrown at a house that gives out tootsy rolls, because noone likes tootsy rolls.

@invulnerable23,

Halloween descends from a date wich name I forgot from a people wich name I forgot that believed that the spirits of the dead came back during this date, so they would give pie for wandering monks in exchange for prayers to their dead to avoid being haunted.

@socrato,

socrato wrote:

Ok, this is just wrong. Everybody here are like in university or well educated adults. Halloween provokes violence. What did you do, egg somebody's house or something?!

You can never be too old to celebrate.

@invulnerable23,

What if you get so old you can hardly remember who you are, let alone what day is it, like my grand grand father did before dying? Smile

@manored,

Yes.... yes you have a point there.:rolleyes:

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