Halloween or for Christian folks Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival isn't the same as Halloween around here - that tends to vary with the locality. And our church does the whole trick-or-treating thing with gusto, but in keeping with the fact that it's preceding a Catholic feast day, a lot try to dress as a particular saint... one redhead teen dressed up as Saint Dymphna - pre-decapitation, of course.

I WOULD BE JOSAPHAT.

BECAUSE HE IS THE SHAKYAMUNI.

Maybe to be creative maybe I should go as the female Judge Debra from the book of Judges.I know I would have to be creative on what exactly to wear and what people in that time of the bible wore.

Xena eat your heart out!And she looks like a butterfly and stings like a bee as matter of fact her name means Bee.

While we're on the subject of costumes, can I gripe about commercially available Halloween costumes? Why do women's costumes always have to be "sexy?" Unless, of course, the lady in question is plus-sized, in which case she has her choice of nun, sorceress in long robe, or medieval lady in long gown, and that's about it. It doesn't affect me directly since I make all my costumes, but it's still annoying to see every time I visit Party City.

I have no fucking clue and have been bitching about it for years. AND I STILL HAVE NO ANSWER.

Oh well. More reason to make costumes?

I'm pissed - my first Halloween being 21 and I can't do shit for it. I'm gonna be being yelled at by a guy in a Smokey the Bear hat all damn day. By that I mean drill sergeant, as I'll be in basic training.

So no booze, no treats, no hot chicks in slutty costumes. Worthwhile trade? Oh yeah.

edited 8th Sep '11 9:11:54 PM by MarkVonLewis

I stopped caring about Halloween around 5th grade. (I didn't participate in the school's Halloween walk, which got me in trouble...)

Let others have fun, thats alright, but its not for me.

Also I get tired of all the commercials for the haunted houses.

edited 8th Sep '11 9:18:09 PM by Thorn14

Halloween is something that never really caught on in Australia. I kinda resist people celebrating it here now because it seems like just another irritating American import.

Anyway, nobody does trick-or-treating here. There are the occasional parties, but those are mainly thrown by people who take any excuse for parties.

Savage:If you guys do dress up you had better get some pics. :P

However, NEXT Halloween I'm so gonna be Max Rockatansky for Halloween.

Just need to make a prop sawn-off shotgun.

I should probably get off my ass and get those fictional unit patches done up so I can get 'em sewn on an old BDU I've had for about six months.

I cheat. Every costume I've had for the past five or six years has all been of various characters of mine.

...I think I need a better sword, as well. And an airsoft rifle or ...wait, I already have the sniper. Just need a pistol, then.

Isn't Thanksgiving the American Harvest Festival?

And don't the cultures in the highly agragrian states just have plain old Harvest Festivals? A day when people from Iowa eat a lot of corn or something?

Anyway, I will mark the autumn season as generations have done before me in my country- by pretending to set a Catholic on fire.

As a Christian, it pisses me off that some of my people condemn Halloween for being a pagan ritual. Right, because ancient pagans wore costumes and went door to door asking for sweets. I like to point out to those people that most of our modern Christmas rituals are ALSO of pagan origin. It just keeps kids from having fun. X( (Admittedly, rising crime rates don't allow trick-or-treating to be safe anymore.)

Oh, and around here, Thanksgiving has virtually disappeared. It used to be we would decorate for it after Halloween, but now we go straight for the Xmas decorations (!) At least we still have the traditional dinner, though for all purposes it is "Turkey Day" and not a true Holiday. Oh, the irony.

Btw if I could cosplay, I'd totally be Auron from Final Fantasy X.

Piffle. Violent crime has been in decline for decades. Rising paranoia rates are what keep kids from trick-or-treating.

In L.A. at least, the trick-or-treating hasn't slowed down so much as it has moved—parents will actually drive their kids to a nice neighborhood known for great decorations and higher-end handouts and let them go nuts there. I don't even carve a jack-o-lantern anymore because although there are several children in my apartment complex, they go elsewhere for candy.

Oh, well. More bite-sized Milky Way Dark for me.

I didn't used to be very interested in Halloween—if I went out trick-or-treating, I usually did so in a costume I'd thought up at the last minute, and if I stayed home and answered the door, all the fat little kids didn't bother climbing the hill to get to my house and get treats. It's only recently that I realized just how average my face is, and how many different characters I can convincingly mimic. (Next up: Luigi.)

I can't go out and get candy due to there being a law here that no one over 13 can go out trick-or-treating. This year I'm handing out candy, while my sister goes trick-or-treating as Nepeta Leijon.

edited 9th Sep '11 2:45:20 PM by strawberryflavored

I want to dress up as Slender Man this Halloween.

I just need to figure out how to walk smoothly on stilts...

Might as well start practicing.

Well, I'm not going to bother going full-out 12 feet tall. I'm only 5'10, so I wouldn't have a chance at coordination. I'll probably just use some mini-stilts for about 6 inches of height. Good enough to freak people out who are used to little old me, anyhow.

Is 17 years old

still plans to get free candy

I dunno, I felt like talking about Halloween weird huh?

edited 17th Mar '12 9:02:40 PM by Joesolo

Necromancery all day everyday, am I right?

I just searched halloween. It was boredom really.

No I want to be someone from journey, all night. Every night, for that manner.

I find myself disliking Halloween. Not because of religious issues — the Pagan roots of the Befana are far more evident, and I like the traditional way of celebrating Epiphany Eve — but because back home it is an imported celebration. It just feels artificial and pointless to do it just because "it's something they do in the US."

edited 18th Mar '12 2:52:48 AM by Carciofus

Yeah Halloween is fun, living near a Catholic Church and they always gave us candy when I went Trick or Treating. Hell Christmas is just Saturnalia without the orgies (which is a real pity for this 20 year old lol)

Over here (Finland) Halloween isn't really done, other than a birthday party might be halloween -themed if it's at that time.

For the going door-to-door dressed up getting chocolate eggs and sweets thing we have virvonta. It's done on Palm Sunday. Permission to is usually asked, and instead of saying trick or treat a little rhyme is said wishing good health and then a decorated willow twig is given in exchange for the chocolate or whatever.

Vid:

edited 18th Apr '12 10:13:14 AM by Qeise