what are you doing on halloween?
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happy halloween!
what are you guys doing today?
party? or just rotting at home?
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night safari, and prolly zouk . . . .
night safari part. . . sian raining now. . . -
read social studies textbook
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slacking at home
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Just came back from karaoke. Now rotting at home.
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Hide at home.
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now, it sounds like this year's halloween sucks. -
I don't give a flying fuck about halloween.
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and, noone does give one about you too (:
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Studying ar.. sigh...
4 years in a row i costume up.. but haiz...
sux...
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Originally posted by brainerror:
and, noone does give one about you too (:
Your family celebrates halloween?
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too old to party liao. stay at home and play with pencils and ink.
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Halloween, Western pagan holiday
http://english.pravda.ru/topic/holidays-699/
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.
http://www.history.com/content/halloween/real-story-of-halloween
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nothing. this is not even asian's festival for a start. its getting commercialised these days. probably another excuse to party for people these days. even for chinese new year and mooncake festival i also dun celebrate.
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i dun know why i got sent halloween ecards
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stay home and watch "the simpsons" halloween marathon!
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Say ‘no’to pagan holiday
It’s that time of year again: Halloween. And, again, there are many who have no idea what it’s all about and what they are getting themselves and their children into.
Each year, people are confronted with the social pressure of “Halloween,” This includes those who profess to be Christians.
Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtic peoples, who were once found all over Europe, divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to Nov. 1 on our present-day calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were a rural people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and livestock had to be secured for the winter. Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle.
The festival observed Samhain. It was the most significant holiday of the Celtic year. The Celts believed that at the time of Samhain, more so than any other time of the year, the ghosts of the dead were able to mingle with the living, because at Samhain the souls of those who had died during the year traveled into the otherworld. People gathered to sacrifice animals and the produce of the land. They also lit bonfires in honor of the dead to aid them on their journey and to keep them away from the living. On that day, all manner of beings were gathered: ghosts, fairies and demons – all part of the dark and dread “otherworld.”
Samhain became the Halloween we are familiar with when missionaries attempted to change the religious practices of the Celtic people. As a result of their efforts to wipe out pagan holidays, the missionaries succeeded in effecting major transformations in it. Rather than try to eliminate their customs and beliefs, the pope instructed his missionaries to use them – if a group of people worshipped a tree, rather than cut it down and burn it, he advised to “consecrate” it to Christ and allow its continued worship (blasphemy!).
In terms of spreading (false) Christianity, this was a brilliant concept, and it became the basic approach in Roman Catholic missionary work. Church holy days were set to coincide with native holy days. Christmas, for instance, was assigned an arbitrary date of Dec. 25 because it corresponded with the mid-winter celebration of many pagan people.
The predominately Catholic feast of All Saints was assigned to Nov. 1. The day honored every “Christian” so-called saint, especially those who did not otherwise have a special day already. That feast day was meant to substitute for Samhain, to draw the devotion of the Celtic peoples, and, finally, to replace it forever.
Virtually all present Halloween traditions can be traced to the ancient Celtic day of the dead. Halloween is a “holiday” of many mysterious customs, but each one has a history, or at least a story behind it.
Today, Halloween is becoming once again an adult holiday or masquerade, something like Mardi Gras. Their masked antics challenge, mock, tease and appease the dread forces of the night, of the soul, and of the “otherworld” that becomes our world on this night of irreversible possibilities, inverted roles and transcendence.
In so doing, they are reaffirming death and its place as a part of life in an exhilarating celebration of an unholy, demonic and magic evening.
No one, especially true Christian believers, should have anything to do with the celebration of Halloween. No caring mother or father, Christian or otherwise, should subject their child to the unknown forces that are present on this evening of the celebration of the dead. Halloween is pagan, and its emphasis and glorification of Satan, demons and death can only do harm, and is a far cry from what true Christian believers should celebrate.
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/258110/group/Opinion/
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Americans embrace alternatives to 'pagan' Halloween
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDIKcMaxfChpUjdBbmB_nNlw_7Ig
It is strange that there are people in Singapore celebrating Halloween.
I don't think this holiday is part of local culture.
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watching football
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if only my parents would celebrate.
comeon, we're out for fun. -
Originally posted by brainerror:
if only my parents would celebrate.
comeon, we're out for fun.exactly, brainy! i don't understand the need to begrudge other ppl their chance to have some fun. what does one gain from stopping others?!?!
i wonder if there is a holiday for anal-retentive stick-in-the-muds with no sense of fun?
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You want fun, just go and have fun.
No need to involve foreign alien pagan festivals.
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looking for cat woman cosplay
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Was at friend's Halloween party followed by Zouk.
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i never celebrate halloween.
i only celebrate 7th mth