Pagan Holiday Thread

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Lynx

Lynx

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Back in the day we could count on a good crop of pagan holiday threads. Halloween is pagan, Christmas is pagan, Easter is pagan, even Thanksgiving... From 2014 to 2019 or so we had lots of them to enjoy. We would have a grand old time every year arguing about this or that holiday once again, in multiple threads.

Things have changed though... These days you can't even get one pagan Christmas thread running for more than a page or two.

So this thread is for all the holidays at once. The holidays as a group are upon us again, and this thread is for any arguing we want to do about any holiday being pagan. We can come back to this thread for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, whichever holiday is coming up next.

Right now the thread is for Halloween. It will be here before you know it. Do you have your demonic costumes and possessed candy yet?
 
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Lynx said:
Right now the thread is for Halloween. It will be here before you know it. Do you have your demonic costumes and possessed candy yet?
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I already went on a "possessed" Ghost Walk through my city, where the ghosts were outlaws, murderers, and women of the night.

On Halloween night, I like to go on a "demonic" picnic in the graveyard.

I'll be sure to cook up something like Elvira did in the movie Elvira: Mistress of the Dark so that a demonic beastie can pop outta the cooking pot and give all the boils and ghouls a good fright. "The children of the night, what music they make!" :devilish:
 
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The children around here wait all year for Halloween. It would break their hearts if one of there regulars suddenly stopped givin. I just put on a scarf every year like my mother but others think I'm a gypsy so that... yeah. But no I don't celebrate Halloween and I don't watch Halloween movies.
 
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daisyseesthesun said:
The children around here wait all year for Halloween. It would break their hearts if one of there regulars suddenly stopped givin. I just put on a scarf every year like my mother but others think I'm a gypsy so that... yeah. But no I don't celebrate Halloween and I don't watch Halloween movies.
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If you accept it and "play along" with it - are you not effectively/essentially "celebrating" it?

Don't get me wrong - I think it is great that you avoid Halloween movies and other such similar things - just wanted to provoke the thoughts of those who may think they are "being harmless" by only "partially" being involved with the holiday.
 
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ResidentAlien said:
Churchianity would do well to consider the paganism in its very midst.
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GaryA said:
If you accept it and "play along" with it - are you not effectively/essentially "celebrating" it?

Don't get me wrong - I think it is great that you avoid Halloween movies and other such similar things - just wanted to provoke the thoughts of those who may think they are "being harmless" by only "partially" being involved with the holiday.
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Yay! This pagan holiday thread is off to a smashing start!
 
Lynx said:
Yay! This pagan holiday thread is off to a smashing start!
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Ugh, no emojis, I'm handicapped here. I'm gonna have to wait till Christmas and the tree is an idol dealy. I got my chestnuts roasted on that one. Let's see who climbs down my throat this year. Oh the anticipation is real. :D (Singing to myself) Oh tannenbaum, oh tannenbaum, how evil are your branches?
 
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Ugh, no emojis, I'm handicapped here. I'm gonna have to wait till Christmas and the tree is an idol dealy. I got my chestnuts roasted on that one. Let's see who climbs down my throat this year. Oh the anticipation is real. :D (Singing to myself) Oh tannenbaum, oh tannenbaum, how evil are your branches?
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yes.

it is tree. as long as you don't worship the tree and give glory to the tree, than having on is fine...
 
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ThereRoseaLamb said:
Ugh, no emojis, I'm handicapped here. I'm gonna have to wait till Christmas and the tree is an idol dealy. I got my chestnuts roasted on that one. Let's see who climbs down my throat this year. Oh the anticipation is real. :D (Singing to myself) Oh tannenbaum, oh tannenbaum, how evil are your branches?
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Now now, not so fast! We still have Thanksgiving to criticize. Let's not be skipping ahead here.

Next thing we know, you'll be picking Easter apart before Valentine's Day has even got here. We have to find something wrong with each one in order. No jumping the gun.
 
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Now now, not so fast! We still have Thanksgiving to criticize. Let's not be skipping ahead here.

Next thing we know, you'll be picking Easter apart before Valentine's Day has even got here. We have to find something wrong with each one in order. No jumping the gun.
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o k. i do not have any possessed candy, but i did find some kit kat bars that i got last year at halloween time.

so, not possessed, just a bit stale....
 
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Now now, not so fast! We still have Thanksgiving to criticize. Let's not be skipping ahead here.

Next thing we know, you'll be picking Easter apart before Valentine's Day has even got here. We have to find something wrong with each one in order. No jumping the gun.
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Oh, I'm just doing like they do in the stores. I expect to see Valentines any day now. But I will keep the rules and patiently wait.

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Lynx said:
Back in the day we could count on a good crop of pagan holiday threads. Halloween is pagan, Christmas is pagan, Easter is pagan, even Thanksgiving... From 2014 to 2019 or so we had lots of them to enjoy. We would have a grand old time every year arguing about this or that holiday once again, in multiple threads.

Things have changed though... These days you can't even get one pagan Christmas thread running for more than a page or two.

So this thread is for all the holidays at once. The holidays as a group are upon us again, and this thread is for any arguing we want to do about any holiday being pagan. We can come back to this thread for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, whichever holiday is coming up next.

Right now the thread is for Halloween. It will be here before you know it. Do you have your demonic costumes and possessed candy yet?
Click to expand...
 
ThereRoseaLamb said:
Ugh, no emojis, I'm handicapped here. I'm gonna have to wait till Christmas and the tree is an idol dealy. I got my chestnuts roasted on that one. Let's see who climbs down my throat this year. Oh the anticipation is real. :D (Singing to myself) Oh tannenbaum, oh tannenbaum, how evil are your branches?
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Just don't kneel down to put the presents under the tree or you will forever be under its power.
 
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o k. i do not have any possessed candy, but i did find some kit kat bars that i got last year at halloween time.

so, not possessed, just a bit stale....
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Yeah, about that...

Once upon a time I had a co-worker who sold candy bars to his comrades, three for a dollar. One time he had cases of dark mint chocolate kit Kats. Not the kit Kat Duo junk they have out right now, real dark chocolate with mint. They were incredible. I bought three whole cases.

Turns out kit Kats age. Even if you don't open them, they get old after about 2/3 of a year or so. I was somewhat ticked.
 
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I haven't purchased my required 50 pounds of candy for fattening kids up for the potion pot yet. Since I enjoyed collecting lots of sweet loot when I was a child dressed as a bum (every year) I now enjoy handing sweets out to today's youth. I'm not a fan of the holiday, just a fan of distributing the sweets. I don't go to Halloween parties or costume myself. I just sit on the porch with my jacket on and wait for the kids to come by. Some houses in my neighborhood get around 500 kids. Due to a non-optimal location for loot gathering I get maybe a couple hundred. Interestingly, I almost never see any of these kids playing outside during the day... life sure is different now than when I was a kid.
 
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