What Do You All Think Of Halloween?

[Daniel]

Sure, why not ban Purim too while we're at it?

[Wayne Jude]

Why?

[Daniel]

Uh huh, and today it means silly costume, laughs with friends, and the phone number of that cute girl in the Xena the Warrior Princess costume.

I'm starting to sense sour grapes from our party poopers.

This is a religious forum and we don't condone those things on here.

But on a religious forum, it's appropriate to entertain the idea of banning holidays that have nothing to do with us and have absolutely no bearing on our qualities of life?

[Wayne Jude]

More Christians than ever do not celebrate halloween.

[Daniel]

Sure, why not ban Purim too while we're at it?

That is a self-hating comment. The two holidays have nothing in common. Dressing up isn't even the main part of Purim if that's why you compare them. Dressing up is not one of the 4 mitzvot of Purim and I don't dress up for Purim and think it's silly although I did when I was a little kid. I dressed as people from The Megillah. I think it's silly the way people dress up as all these different things like people do on Halloween.

This is not a self-hating comment. I was being sarcastic and was phrasing this from the perspective of a non-Jew saying this to you to see how you would like it, and was trying to point out how much of an "other-hating" and intolerant comment you are exhibiting by posting this type of question.

If you don't like the holiday, then just don't celebrate it. But don't try to impose your beliefs on other people by trying to institute a ban on it. That's just bigoted!

[Daniel]

Uh huh, and today it means silly costume, laughs with friends, and the phone number of that cute girl in the Xena the Warrior Princess costume.

I'm starting to sense sour grapes from our party poopers.

This is a religious forum and we don't condone those things on here.

But on a religious forum, it's appropriate to entertain the idea of banning holidays that have nothing to do with us and have absolutely no bearing on our qualities of life?

No one's banning anything. Do you actually think a fun poll on the forum will actually succeed in banning a holiday? It wouldn't even if it was unanimous.

Oh, okay, so you're just doing this for fun? I'm sorry if I missed the intention behind this. I was taking you seriously. If this is just for the purpose of being silly and having fun, then that's okay. But if you're being serious, then there's something seriously wrong with that.

[Ultra Requete]

Sure, why not ban Purim too while we're at it?

That is a self-hating comment. The two holidays have nothing in common. Dressing up isn't even the main part of Purim if that's why you compare them. Dressing up is not one of the 4 mitzvot of Purim and I don't dress up for Purim and think it's silly although I did when I was a little kid. I dressed as people from The Megillah. I think it's silly the way people dress up as all these different things like people do on Halloween.

This is not a self-hating comment. I was being sarcastic and was phrasing this from the perspective of a non-Jew saying this to you to see how you would like it, and was trying to point out how much of an "other-hating" and intolerant comment you are exhibiting by posting this type of question.

If you don't like the holiday, then just don't celebrate it. But don't try to impose your beliefs on other people by trying to institute a ban on it. That's just bigoted!

I'm not Jewish and have the same opinion as Yacov atleast on this issue; and please Daniel don't try to teach us  "tolerance"; you start to sound like one of this liberal selfhating selthrigteus hipocrites of "mosaic persuasion" from UCLA or ADL. They're things more importent that PC idol of  "tolerance" the Law of G-d is one of them; if the  this holyday is indeed heathen it must be banned from every christian and jewish country.

[Wayne Jude]

Agreed.

[New Yorker]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

[kellymaureen]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

Im in it for the chocolate

[New Yorker]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

Im in it for the chocolate

Heading out for Godivas right now 

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

[New Yorker]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown? 

lou, we are varied people here, and adults, and nothing overt is being discussed, simply light banter, this thread is about something as silly as Halloween after all. Are you so easily shocked? You should get out more. 

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown? 

There is a difference between dating and just hitting on women. Dating involves building a relationship whereas hitting on random women is wrong.

[Wayne Jude]

Hey I liked the puritons!

[New Yorker]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown? 

There is a difference between dating and just hitting on women. Dating involves building a relationship whereas hitting on random women is wrong.

Well hitting on them, or the girls hitting on you, is how you get the first date! Lol, if you're lucky then there's a second and then a third, then you are dating, how do you do it if you don't hit on each other to begin with? 

Oh and there's nothing random about it, only the attractive interesting ones get hit on! 

[New Yorker]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown? 

lou, we are varied people here, and adults, and nothing overt is being discussed, simply light banter, this thread is about something as silly as Halloween after all. Are you so easily shocked? You should get out more. 

Dating is to find a wife, not recreation. All other dating is prohibited by Torah Law. Pre-marital kissing and especially pre-marital sex are absolutely forbidden. I don't even hug women. If a woman is really attractive, it's even better not to shake her hand because it is bad for my Evil Inclination.

Hey, I'm 40 kiddo, get back to me in 20 years and let me know if you feel the same way. Best of luck to you though. 

[Dr. Dan]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown? 

There is a difference between dating and just hitting on women. Dating involves building a relationship whereas hitting on random women is wrong.

there is nothign wrong with hitting on women..if you don't like doing it, then don't do it...some of us here like to talk to pretty women.

[kellymaureen]

set up with women for marriage

Do you mean as in an arranged marriage?

[kellymaureen]

That sounds reasonable, but the arranged marriage where someone is told "hey heres your future wife, enjoy" is not cool, imagine marrying somone you just met, its ridiculous.

[Wayne Jude]

Arranged inst the worst thing in the world.

[New Yorker]

I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes. 

In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....

You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown? 

lou, we are varied people here, and adults, and nothing overt is being discussed, simply light banter, this thread is about something as silly as Halloween after all. Are you so easily shocked? You should get out more. 

Dating is to find a wife, not recreation. All other dating is prohibited by Torah Law. Pre-marital kissing and especially pre-marital sex are absolutely forbidden. I don't even hug women. If a woman is really attractive, it's even better not to shake her hand because it is bad for my Evil Inclination.

Hey, I'm 40 kiddo, get back to me in 20 years and let me know if you feel the same way. Best of luck to you though. 

Well obviously your life style of finding women didn't work. If you would have been set up with women for marriage, you would have been married by now.

Well that's simply circumstancial. I, like a lot a of people, are on their own on this particular aspect of their lives. Out there meeting people, getting into relationships, and they either blossom or not. Some even get married and it doesn't work out (some do), and there you are out there dating again, or you're married forever, but in the modern world, nothing is garunteed.

I for one have been in and out of relationships, some of them lasting for a very long time, but none of them resulting in getting married, and even if so, hey those could have succeeded or failed as well. That's life, no garuntees. I hope you really "luck out" and avoid needing these kinds of reality lessons in the years to come and you meet someone as idealogical as yourself, and she makes sure things stay together. But if you don't luck out, you can't be ridged in your thinking, there's many ways of life that can be quite happy that don't fit into a rigid script of boy meets girl, gets married and makes a family. Sometimes you have what you are dealt, and you make the best of it. Hey, I'm chillin' and loving life, actually, it's a lot of fun not having the traditional responsibilities, and I'm cognizant enough to recognize it.   

[Wayne Jude]

People can learn to love each other.Its not what we want  but its doable through the pain.

[kellymaureen]

Arranged inst the worst thing in the world

Depends on who with

[Dr. Dan]

People can learn to love each other.Its not what we want  but its doable through the pain.

iagree