Take me with yooooouuuuuu!

SilverEagle wrote:

I'm going to go as Smaug and rob chocolate coins from little kids. :3

jk. I still don't know what I'll be…

Maybe I'll make one of those creepy hockey masks and stand outside the entrance to the haunted forest and scare people

With a chainsaw

Sounds like fun!

For anyone who wants it, here's a costume idea- go as Pantskat Vantas.
Although where could you get such a big pair of pants anyway?

Flamekebab wrote:

followers wrote:

I'm Jewish.

Please don't take offence, it's a genuine question - why does your faith affect whether Halloween is celebrated or not? It's a non-denominational thing, isn't it?

I think Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate Halloween, but I don't know why.

Someone once dressed up as a cardboard with the US national debt on it and went around saying “If this doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.”

^^thats actually not a bad idea…

mitchboy wrote:

Flamekebab wrote:

followers wrote:

I'm Jewish.

Please don't take offence, it's a genuine question - why does your faith affect whether Halloween is celebrated or not? It's a non-denominational thing, isn't it?

I think Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate Halloween, but I don't know why.

it has to do with the paganism and occult stuff behind halloween like ghosts and witches - jehovah's witnesses are really strict about that kind of thing so they don't celebrate.

luiysia wrote:

mitchboy wrote:

Flamekebab wrote:

followers wrote:

I'm Jewish.

Please don't take offence, it's a genuine question - why does your faith affect whether Halloween is celebrated or not? It's a non-denominational thing, isn't it?

I think Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate Halloween, but I don't know why.

it has to do with the paganism and occult stuff behind halloween like ghosts and witches - jehovah's witnesses are really strict about that kind of thing so they don't celebrate.

That's right. They also don't celebrate Christmas or Easter or birthdays (as well as various other celebrations) because of their pagan origins.

firedrake969_test wrote:

Take me with yooooouuuuuu!

SilverEagle wrote:

I'm going to go as Smaug and rob chocolate coins from little kids. :3

jk. I still don't know what I'll be…

Just watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Anyone have an idea for me to rig up a knife/knives to my arms so they slide in and out? xD

well the three musketeers idea didnt work out lol (not that anyone cares)
So i'm going as little red riding hood because I love the cape and costume

Flamekebab wrote:

Ean173 wrote:

I'm not going to do Halloween this year, I aged out.

I'd barely celebrated Halloween until I got to university. I don't think age factors into it.

I imagine the appropriate wording for Ean would be that he aged out of trick or treating.

And since he just got too old for that, he's probably not old enough to have started going to Halloween parties, and so has no real reason to dress up.

honesty wrote:

Flamekebab wrote:

Ean173 wrote:

I'm not going to do Halloween this year, I aged out.

I'd barely celebrated Halloween until I got to university. I don't think age factors into it.

I imagine the appropriate wording for Ean would be that he aged out of trick or treating.

And since he just got too old for that, he's probably not old enough to have started going to Halloween parties, and so has no real reason to dress up.

Fair enough on that point, honesty.

I was making the point because I've heard of people feeling like when they get a little older it's not cool to celebrate Halloween. It makes me sad that I've met these people first hand and they've decided that doing anything that isn't serious isn't appropriate any longer. A flatmate's sister was visiting, for example. My other flatmate and I were headed out clubbing and invited her along - she told us she was too old and was going to bed (~2215). She was six months older than I was (around 22). Sure, it's a bit older than most Scratchers but the principal is the same. Teenagers often give up doing stuff like Halloween costumes and parties because it's some how beneath them, being all grown up now.

Life shouldn't be taken too seriously. There's so much fun stuff to do.

In some places, it's illegal to go trick-or-treating if you're over a certain age.

I watched Charlie Brown Halloween tonight

I don't celebrate Halloween. It origionally was started by the druids in ancient Ireland as a day to celebrate ghosts supposedly coming to earth. They would tell fortunes, and sacrifice things. It has changed a lot since, but it still seems weird to dress up as witches and devils and act like ghosts and death. So no thank you, I would rather stay out of creepy things such as Halloween.

ChadtheBuilder wrote:

act like ghosts and death

Clearly they celebrate Halloween very differently where you are! Most places that celebrate it treat it as a bit of light-hearted fun, not some sort of voyage through the macabre!

ChadtheBuilder wrote:

So no thank you, I would rather stay out of creepy things such as Halloween.

Do you celebrate things which aren't creepy?

I'm curious what you'd make of Lucia, given its origins…

Flamekebab wrote:

ChadtheBuilder wrote:

act like ghosts and death

Clearly they celebrate Halloween very differently where you are! Most places that celebrate it treat it as a bit of light-hearted fun, not some sort of voyage through the macabre!

ChadtheBuilder wrote:

So no thank you, I would rather stay out of creepy things such as Halloween.

Do you celebrate things which aren't creepy?

I'm curious what you'd make of Lucia, given its origins…

Ew, that St. Lucia thing sounds pretty gross. But anyway, I don't know where you come from, but where I am, Halloween is advertised as being mysterious, dark, and creepy (yes, I live in the US). I just don't see the point of dressing up as ghosts, zombies, and witches just to celebrate a day that was one a day of human sacrifice and devilish activity.

ChadtheBuilder wrote:

Ew, that St. Lucia thing sounds pretty gross.But anyway, I don't know where you come from, but where I am, Halloween is advertised as being mysterious, dark, and creepy (yes, I live in the US). I just don't see the point of dressing up as ghosts, zombies, and witches just to celebrate a day that was one a day of human sacrifice and devilish activity.

But yet any time I attend Lucia it's so beautiful and moving it makes me cry. Perhaps not the manliest reaction but there's something about the old songs in the depths of winter, the candles, the people. When I was little it would make my mother cry and I didn't understand, as an adult I get all choked up when I hear it. Yet what it's based on isn't exactly savoury stuff!

The point being that what the day is based on is not necessarily what it is today. Hell, here in the UK the notion of “devilish activity” is literally meaningless. Perhaps I don't understand what it's like to be raised in a culture where religion still holds a large place in society, my apologies if I'm offending you.

I would have thought you'd have said “I don't celebrate Halloween because it's tacky.” The plastic dross is out in force in the shops near me. I am planning on carving some pumpkins though - it's one of the few things that put my sculpting skills to any real use!

Animeboy975 wrote:

I watched Charlie Brown Halloween tonight

Darn it, that was on last night?

Oh well

CN12 wrote:

Animeboy975 wrote:

I watched Charlie Brown Halloween tonight

Darn it, that was on last night?

Oh well

It is pretty much on every day of October anyway so you didn't miss it.

CN12 wrote:

Animeboy975 wrote:

I watched Charlie Brown Halloween tonight

Darn it, that was on last night?

Oh well

No, we have the DVD.