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The Holidays are upon us
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10-29-2003, 06:43 PM
Fine. Oh, and this sucks. Silly people, ruining goodtimes. Foolishness.
Hey I'm dressing up as the guys from Clockwork Orange for halloween. anyone got a bowler hat? :smurf:
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great costume can I be a coffee table?
what is everyone going to do for Halloween? 
10-29-2003, 07:28 PM
Halloween. My whole family is goin to N Carolina for a cousin wedding and I'm staying home. Its a early dismissal from school also ( what were the board thinkin?!?!) So a friend is comin over and I told friends that can drive that they could come over and we will prolly just chill and play some xbox. After that head over to a friends house and shoot paintballs at people from bushes:DBut overall not a very exciting Halloween. And we are supposed to hand out the candy my mom bought..hmm we might be handin it out to ourselves and eating it all:D
10-29-2003, 09:26 PM
Nebraska home of football fanatics....they are actually making kids go out early (tomorrow) in some towns and Saturday in another town so as not to interfere with HS football...:wacko:
10-29-2003, 09:37 PM
This year they scheduled Trick or Treat a week before Halloween so they could get around all the sports. It kind of makes you upset when you find out sports are more important then little kids.
10-29-2003, 10:15 PM
I'm not doing anything, but what I normally do everyday. I'm not a fan of holidays anymore, haven't been for many years. Heck I don't even do anything for my birthday, like the holidays its just another day.
I might dig out my paintball gun just for anyone that might get the bad idea of trying to egg my place. I have 400 paintballs handy, and i'm very willing to shoot people trying to do stuff to my place.
10-29-2003, 10:32 PM
Some kids in our town smashed over 50 pumpkins in one night. All around 1 block also. Kids here are really disrespectful of other people's stuff. The kids are also going out smashing pumpkins again and corning.
10-29-2003, 10:35 PM
Turtle,Oct 29 2003, 08:32 PM Wrote:Some kids in our town smashed over 50 pumpkins in one night. All around 1 block also. Kids here are really disrespectful of other people's stuff. The kids are also going out smashing pumpkins again and corning.There has been a group doing that around my neighborhood area...but this year they should get nailed by the paintball guns:D Its a pain in the ass also..cause sometimes they junk in the middle of the street..so then you have to clean it up. Or in our case they just kicked in our carving:( 
10-29-2003, 11:44 PM
Not really doing anything... our dorm is having some dumb activities, not really interested.
10-29-2003, 11:54 PM
Wow guyz come on its a holiday you have to do something:D Even though I'm just chilin at my house I got people comin over and for sure Joe and I are playing dod on the two comps and some Xbox when other friends come...wahoo fun stuff :D
Man if I'm this excited about Halloween...image me at Christmas:DPlus my bday is 3 days after Christmas so its like double wamy wahoo:D 
10-30-2003, 12:07 AM
I plan on being David Hasselhoff from Baywatch for Halloween. I also plan on getting sent home from school that same day.
10-30-2003, 09:04 AM
Proud of my costume, being sent home is just a side benefit of it.
10-30-2003, 12:03 PM
A little history of a great festival called Halloween.
Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual? The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year. One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living. Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess. Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach. Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth. The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first century AD, Samhain was assimilated into celebrations of some of the other Roman traditions that took place in October, such as their day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, which might explain the origin of our modern tradition of bobbing for apples on Halloween. The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role. The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates. The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven. The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree. According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer. The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember. So, although some cults may have adopted Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids. After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it. © 1995-2002 by Jerry Wilson Halloween is by all means a mostly 'adult' event and one of my favorite. I remember a couple years ago when it fell on a Sunday, and all the churches in the city barked and pushed it to be done on Saturday instead. Made me mad but not much I could do cept get a letter to the editor in the newspaper. 
Joshua and I are working at "the haunted Mine" this year, it is a mine shaft that the collage uses for teaching and the neighbor is the head of the department so he ask if we would like to haunt with him and we said hell yes, well I did, cus if josh would have said that I would have to smack him, but anyway we did this last year too and it was a blast.
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10-30-2003, 02:12 PM
I think most of the non "denominational holidays" are actually Catholic celebrations....St. Valentine's Day, St Patrick's Day, All Hallows eve
10-30-2003, 06:01 PM
i've been invited to a few parties this halloween, and the trouble is which one to pick? booze and some kickass DJs or booze and some close friends?
since parents are getting to be an issue in my life, maybe i'll skip halloween parties and end up going to a Modest Mouse concert on Saturday instead. we'll see, but either way is okie dokie with me. ;)
10-30-2003, 07:07 PM
Wha, smartass and I are going to SA's place for a lan party, for those who dont know, smartass is our forth member in cake.
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