11 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h \ on: Happy Diwali and Happy Halloween Cowboys!! alter_native
Most of our holidays have degenerated to where any original meaning has been replaced by celebrations of greed and gluttony.
Halloween is just a fun day to dress up in costumes surrounded by spooky decorations and eat lots of candy.
Seems like fun and no alignment to mythology or religion. Is that so?
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It has some sort of origin (from Ireland I think), but that connection isn't really part of the modern celebration.
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I think Halloween is there to let people loose free and enjoy as much as possible.
Hindu festivals are getting modernised but they still hold steady to religion and mythological texts.
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In Venezuela, Halloween practically doesn't exist, at least not when I was a child. I never went out to ask for candy and only dressed up a couple of times... Now, with the issue of social media, people there do dress up their children and in the residences, the children go out to ask for candy.
In Peru I was surprised to find that Halloween is celebrated, and the streets are filled with children in costumes asking for candy. I find it funny. Every year I go out with my daughter. She brings her pumpkin and costume. Her face is so happy that it is priceless. On the other hand, there are Christians, evangelicals, and Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't celebrate Halloween. They say that it is a pagan holiday and that it is a sin. "God doesn't like this," two women told me yesterday. I answered them: "Don't worry, God is with us. He also forgives criminals and drug addicts. He will forgive us." Haha, it was funny. The women were outraged. It was a very respectful conversation, but it seems illogical to me that in their churches they admit and forgive people who have committed serious crimes, but not people who celebrate Halloween.
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My daughter's so excited to get candy every year, but she often doesn't even like eating it. I suppose that's the best of both worlds, in a way.
The church her preschool is in does a Halloween party for the kids, so that's a pretty big cultural difference from where you are.
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Children get very excited, they have fun because they dress up as their favorite characters and because in a certain way adults also have fun and behave like children, in the sense that some also dress up and are kind when handing out candy, it is a holiday to have fun and stop being "serious and boring" for a day. In public schools here they do not celebrate Halloween, coincidentally today they also celebrate "criolla music" so they give priority to this holiday. How great your daughter's school, regarding candy, our daughters have something in common, in the end they do not eat all the candy, and it can last up to a month on the table.
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They say that it is a pagan holiday and that it is a sin. "God doesn't like this," two women told me yesterday.
You answered it well.
If I were in your place I'd argue by asking them who actually created GOD? Did God even know that he's having so many names that it's almost impossible to remember them all. Did God existed pre language era? I'm not atheist but I believe it's God who created the world and us but it can't be God who filled it with do's and don'ts, this or that, sects, religion, racism, festivals, propoganda, wars, nukes .... Fuckin' creativity of man has led to a discrimination with someone who created the Universe.
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