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Is Halloween evil or just fun?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by PussyKatty
    :rolleyes:

    Nice comeback.

    I suggested that the JW's are maybe not the most reliable of sources about paganism, and you suggest I'm racist?

    Errrr....right. :confused:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh for goodness sake I wasn't being 100% serious, hence the :eek: and the :lol:

    Don't worry, no one has ever suggested you are even a teeny bit racist.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Halloween is thought to be the Celtic new year (although the Celts were prehistoric... so who knows?) and is still celebrated these days by Neo Pagan movements. Will I celebrate?

    I'm working.. Bummer....
    I suggested that the JW's are maybe not the most reliable of sources about paganism, and you suggest I'm racist?

    Jehova's Witnesses on Paganism? Why the hell do Pagans get so much shit? They're talked down to by atheists and agnostics who say it's bullshit (most of whom have never in their life read up on it), there's the kneejerk reaction coming from people who say it's fashion and then anything spouting from Judeo texts (which are a rip off of Pagan religion in the first place) say it's evil... :(

    But as for Halloween... nah, it ain't associated with dark forces or anything... And if you wanna believe that then fine... but without darkness there ain't no light... aye?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I've never been a fan of trick or treating it constitutes begging to me. However apart from that I don't mind haloween, and now I am at uni it is an excuse for a piss up :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by girl with sharp teeth
    Samhain festivals are muchly fun. I vastly prefer them to the commercialised crap that is Halloween.

    Yeah :( So sad I'm workin....
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by MoonRat


    Jehova's Witnesses on Paganism? Why the hell do Pagans get so much shit? They're talked down to by atheists and agnostics who say it's bullshit.

    I know a lot of atheists and I can honestly say I've not heard one conversation about Paganism. I've never even heard anyone giving Pagans 'shit'. You must live somewhere where people haven't got much else to talk about.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by PussyKatty
    What a pointless reply.

    hehe... well done.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    it's all just another way of taking your money off you ...and you all being convinced you need to part with it to have a good time.
    i'm gobsmacked by the ammount of paper and plastic crap on sale in the shops which a lot of you are going to be spending money on ...convinced you have to to have a good time ...then it all ends up in the groaning busting at the seams ladfill site.
    suckers!
    as for trick and treating ...it's min terrorism.
    old folks who don't answer the door or tell them to sling their hooks ...gets eggs al pover the windows or the garden gate nicked.
    any who chuck eggs at my house or vehicles will be caught and sacrificed ...and eaten for breakfast.
    have they gone as far as happy halloween greetings cards yet?
    if so ...how many of you have been dumb enough to buy them?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    mr,
    Especially for you :p

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by PussyKatty
    Oh for goodness sake I wasn't being 100% serious, hence the :eek: and the :lol:

    Yes, I know. Did it not occur to you that I wasn't being serious either?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Fiend_85
    hehe... well done.

    Thing is, it wasn't. "Evil" as a concept is not really a very helpful one when talking about anything really.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Disillusioned
    mr,
    Especially for you :p

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    why thankyou ...does it say becky on the other side of that thong?spooky.gif
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Blagsta
    Thing is, it wasn't. "Evil" as a concept is not really a very helpful one when talking about anything really.

    I thought I'd indicated my enjoyment of her response. It is a habit of yours to respond in an unhelpful and throughly unconstructive manner. I liked the way it was pointed out.

    It would have been quicker for you just to ask the question 'what is evil?'.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Why be quick when I can be patronising?

    That would be boring :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Blagsta


    That would be boring :p

    Very :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Blagsta
    Why be quick when I can be patronising?

    That would be boring :p

    ;) The response was in a similar vein though, you got patronised back.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by BumbleBee
    I know a lot of atheists and I can honestly say I've not heard one conversation about Paganism. I've never even heard anyone giving Pagans 'shit'. You must live somewhere where people haven't got much else to talk about.

    Yup, for example attitudes on threads on here... Maybe my town is small minded tho... Have heard conversations about it before (apparently Pagans are killing animals near us)... seen articles in newspapers complaining of 'witchcraft'...

    Had people stop me in the street once or twice 'concerned' about my pentacle, trying to convert me to this or that (although in Wrexham, some people have been like "you're fucking jew!"... durrrr)... Then there's the "omg you're only Pagan because it's fashionable and you watched Buffy." Attitude...

    But saying that, if you met a lot of Pagans... the ones who like to stand out and appear on TV, you'd see why we ain't very well represented...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    for me it was a chance to make up a weird costime, and go to a fancy dress party

    virtually no change in my spending habits however
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