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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: P J C on October 31, 2008, 06:29:48 AM
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I am wishing a Happy Halloween to my fellow JTFers who celebrate it. Happy Halloween.
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Happy Sam Hain.. Wear your masks to ward off the demons and foul spirits. :fright:
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Thanks PJC but i really hate halloween, it use to be really fun, now its straight up evil. :yuck:
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I will be celebrating Shabbat and having Shabbat dinner tonight. This is what I ask of all Jews to do.
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P.S. Also don't believe in the pagan holiday of halloween.
Although I know in America it is more of a celebration of the one day where you can indulge in lots of junk food and feel good about yourself. Its celtic and roman pagan roots are not really known by the average American person. Although I have relatives that live in small pagan hippy town and the people have a real creepy halloween festival where they do seances and other types of funny activities, including witchcraft and magic. When I was younger I attended one; I did not know what I was attending and also left because it just creeped me out. THe people form big circles and do strange chants in gaelic and other weird languages. I do not know what they are doing, but everyone is wearing masks and performing strange rituals. I never seen halloween as such a big celebration; I think these people were bringing back the truth behind the holiday. I remember when I went to the ritual, everyone was chanting Happy Sam Hain. I believe many Catholics in olden times considered it to be a holiday honoring their saints, perhaps this was to counter the more paganized version that was celebrated in Europe before the Catholic church became predominant.
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I am wishing a Happy Halloween to my fellow JTFers who celebrate it. Happy Halloween.
Thanks!
Thanks PJC but i really hate halloween, it use to be really fun, now its straight up evil. :yuck:
I only do fun Halloween.
P.S. Also don't believe in the pagan holiday of halloween.
Although I know in America it is more of a celebration of the one day where you can indulge in lots of junk food and feel good about yourself. Its celtic and roman pagan roots are not really known by the average American person. Although I have relatives that live in small pagan hippy town and the people have a real creepy halloween festival where they do seances and other types of funny activities, including witchcraft and magic. When I was younger I attended one; I did not know what I was attending and also left because it just creeped me out. THe people form big circles and do strange chants in gaelic and other weird languages. I do not know what they are doing, but everyone is wearing masks and performing strange rituals. I never seen halloween as such a big celebration; I think these people were bringing back the truth behind the holiday. I remember when I went to the ritual, everyone was chanting Happy Sam Hain. I believe many Catholics in olden times considered it to be a holiday honoring their saints, perhaps this was to counter the more paganized version that was celebrated in Europe before the Catholic church became predominant.
That's scary! There is definitely an evil side to this holiday.