← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Happy Hacker
Thread ID: 10863 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-11-01
2003-11-01 00:45 | User Profile
Being a conservative Christian, I have a lot of neocon friends. Very popular among them is boycotting Halloween.
Halloween is, of course, totally harmless. But, neocons are more concerned with the symbols than the substance. That's why they love to wave the flag. And, Halloween is a bad symbol for them.
Neocons do their best to organize kiddy parties to give children an alternative to Halloween. They hope Halloween dies. I think this is a great shame as well as stupid. Halloween is the one day in the year where whole neighborhoods get together and meet each other. Instead of trying to make the one community activity go away, they should promote community relations and if they're afraid of witches they can use the opportunity to promote something other than witches. They can put up autumn decorations rather than hanging skeletons.
They should worry more about preserving the substance of their heritage rather than blathering about Halloween being satanic, as if those Zionist politicians they vote for or those pro-homosexual movies they pay to watch are not satanic.
2003-11-01 01:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker] Halloween is, of course, totally harmless. But, neocons are more concerned with the symbols than the substance. That's why they love to wave the flag. And, Halloween is a bad symbol for them. [/QUOTE]
Yes Holloween is totally harmless, unless your kid decides to imitate this little boy.
[img]http://www.ziplink.net/~sven77/CartmanHitler.gif[/img]
** Principal Victoria: Watch the video Eric. Narrator: Adolph Hitler was a very, very naughty man. Hitler: Schnell ach. Lovental bros lieben. And I menschen vergen broder. Doktor Schtella, alarm, menschen… Cartman: Lieben est verboten, a es scriben uts, ka liederhosen, …God damnit! Puffy the Bear: So remember kids, dressing up like Hitler in school, isn't cool. Principal Victoria: Now, do you have any questions? Cartman: Could I see that again, that was kewl. --From South Park Episode 107 **
[url]http://www.ziplink.net/~sven77/AdolfCostume1.wav[/url]
:lol:
2003-11-01 03:23 | User Profile
I went through a "haunted house" the other day, actually a sort of blow-up tent with meandering hallways and ten "fright stations". . Holloween's fright images have been changing from spooky to horror. Whereas before the images where gothic now they are devolving into criminally insane motifs like Jason and assorted axe and chainsaw murderers. The transition from ugly witch with a broomstick to mass murderer characters is not an improvement, although it is sure to scare the kids more.
2003-11-01 03:47 | User Profile
They should worry more about preserving the substance of their heritage rather than blathering about Halloween being satanic, as if those Zionist politicians they vote for or those pro-homosexual movies they pay to watch are not satanic.
Well-said. There's enough real evil in the world that there's no reason for anyone to waste time worrying about children (and the young-at-heart) having fun by dressing up in costumes and eating candy.
The sanctimonious types who worry about Halloween ought to worry about poverty, oppression, murder, war, and all forms of human suffering first. Then, when all those horrors have been eradicated once and for all, they can move on to lower-priority "problems" such as Halloween, Harry Potter, etc. My guess is that God's priorities lie along those lines as well.