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What happened to Halloween?

I may be opening up a can of worms, but it would not be the first time! (((What a Tangled Web We Weave!)))

Our schools (may be your schools too) have changed the Halloween Party to a “Harvest Festival”.

You know that all those years growing up “Halloween” has really just corrupted me for life!

I understand that this is a “politically correct” (or in-correct) thing to do (is it really a Church and State issue?). We have to be sensitive to others…yada yada yada…

How many people know the origins of Halloween?

Well, I did not know the origins so I looked it up. Here is a link, it is very interesting.

The History of Halloween

So are there really that many people that even know the “All Saints Day” has anything to do with Halloween?

I say let our kids be kids and have some fun.

Next thing they will be changing the “Valentines Day” to “Friendship Afternoon” and ok, now I am getting ridiculous!

Oh, wait, they are going after Valentines Day too…. St. Valentine… But that is a different story!

HARVEST FESTIVAL vs HALLOWEEN…GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

What happened to Halloween?

Charles McDonald

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Posted by Charlottesville Real Estate - Your Trusted Broker Charles McDonald on 09/30/2009 04:51 PM

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Charles, Everything is changing from when we were kids. The government at whichever level you choose decides now what is Politically Correct! Heck with these corrupt a#@-Holes we have running things I wouldn't want anything to be "Politically" correct. It would give the action a bad name.

I'd bet that even the youngest kids understand how stupid this is, too. Many now-secular things have religious origins, and to eliminate all of them, no matter how ancient and buried the linkage is, would be both impossible and authoritarian.

I hate what happened to Halloween. I remember trick or treating from the minute it became dusk all the way until midnight in my California neighborhood. I'd haul my bounty home draggin' that pillow case behind me and dump it out on the livingroom floor, and go back out again in another direction, 'til my legs were fallin' off. Some years that pile was two feet high and four feet in diameter. My sister's pile was next to mine and just as beautiful.

Every house gave candy in those days.

I haven't had a trick-or-treater in YEARS and YEARS.

BRING TRICK OR TREATING BACK!!!

I want wax bottles with that sticky syrup in them, and wax goofy teeth, and harmonicas made of wax, and Uno Bars and Abba Zabbas, and Bottle Caps and Dum Dums and I want them all for freeeeeeee!

Charles,

It's not you, but this is the stupidest of the generally dumb things I've heard that schools are doing to be even more politically correct.

Thank God my kids are grown and out. I am allowed to say that, aren't I?

Rich

Rich - you can say anything you like!

I do enjoy Halloween I have dressed up nearly every year and always get a good scream or two from the goblins that show up for free candy. Leave it alone.

Charles, I agree with the first comment; who would want to be "politically corect anyway"? By association it gives us all a bad name!

OCT

I also feel that this Fall Festival is just that mumbo jumbo Halloween as we celebrated it when we were young is not any more pagan than Christmas Trees which can be traced back to the old ways too. I say let the kids have fun. It is not their intention tocelebrate pagan religions but to enjoy a special day of fun

Charles, it seems as if they are making all holidays politically correct now a days. I wonder what holiday will be next...

Helping you live your American dream...

Charles,

I think you may be on to something with the friendship day....too much about love on SAINT Valentines day....

Ann

ToulaRosebrock,com Hi Charles:

It's ridiculous...

We'll still call it Halloween!

Charles What happened to lots of things that changed because some "activist" complained Karen

I Completely agree! PC has gone overboard. One grammar school in Mandeville has a storybook character dress-up day- happens to correspond with the Fall party. Halloween should be a fun day to dress up, get lots of treats and enjoy family/ friends.

Charles - Friendship afternoon .... not nearly as ridiculous as you think

OCT

Hi Charles...Thanks for the Link to the History on Halloween..I though my Mum invented Halloween..she Dressed me up(when I was w widdle kid) in her cloths, or as old man with Dads Clothes and send me out Trick or Treating. I would bring my loot home and head out for more...what i did not realize she was handing it out as fast as I was bring the Candy home. She Loved Making Candy Apples for all the neighbors kids a week in advance..my Dad and her would have the time of their lives greeting all the kids at the Door while little Freddy was out getting more Supplies...she used to have 200 kids show up.

Now go Trick or Treating and Put up SOLD signs all over town :O)

OCT

Charles, it is still Halloween here too,thank goodness! Some people are just too sensitive!!

One of the reasons we moved to the country.....they still celebrate Halloween and Christmas!

Tina in Virginia

It's crazy isn't it? I am going to reblog this!

It is nuts. We wouldn't want to offend anyone. Wait... I don't mind offending people.

OCT

Charles, We celebrate Halloween with enthusiam in my family. From costumes and trick or treating to candy apples and jack-o-lanterns. I wonder what they will come up with next!?

OCT

Halloween was destroy for me way back in 1974 when I was a sophomore at Texas A&M University. Ronald O'Bryan gave cyanide-laced Pixie Stix to his son Timothy and three other children. Timothy died. Halloween parties and trick or treating didn't have the same meaning after that, and trick or treating was abandoned in favor of neighborhood, school, and church Halloween parties.

By the way, when I see Christmas trees, lights, ornaments, and such go up in the stores on July 5, I wonder what happened to Labor Day, Halloween, and Thanksgiving.

Everything changes, eventually, Charles. Things are definitely different now and they were different when my kid was trick or treating, and that was only about 15 years ago.

Things were more innocent way back when ... people are more safety-conscious these days, and that alone, makes it 'feel' totally different.

OCT

Charles: No Halloween?! This is getting ridiculous. I'm with you. What's wrong with letting kids dress and up and trick or treat. It's one of my favorite days of the year.

Charles- You have got to be kidding! I just can not get over this Political Correctness obsession! What a joke! Pretty soon they will change the English dictionary and then we will be given a list of words we are allowed to say and not allowed to say. Talk about freedom of speech going extinct! I am SO NOT Politically correct nor will I ever be- it is all too phony for me. Katerina

OCT

I'm not a fan of Halloween whatsoever. But government involvement in everything we do is a bit ridiculous.

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