[Orange thread] Do you celebrate Halloween?
Do you celebrate Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
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by Geo Lover 7Do you celebrate Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
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Not really no, but I do seem to have a more genuine interest for Halloween than Christmas (even before I became The Grinch) despite actually celebrating Christmas unlike Halloween.
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Do you celebrate Halloween? In Israel it is not very popular but it becomes more and more popular with time. I'm celebrating the parade.
If so, what traditions do you have? Just a Zombie Parade in Tel Aviv. Lest year there was no parade or at least I didn't go because of the war... This year it should be.
If so, what traditions do you have? Just a Zombie Parade in Tel Aviv. Lest year there was no parade or at least I didn't go because of the war... This year it should be.
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by Geo Lover 7Do you celebrate Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
yes Yessss I love Halloween and my sisters birthday is close to Halloween (oct 22) so she makes us celebrate it anyway
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by Mohammed_2000nope I'm Christian so...
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by Geo Lover 7Do you celebrate Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
My family only started celebrating halloween (well technically not celebrating, like only going out for trick or treating) a year ago as halloween wasn't really a thing in (Hong Kong) China where I'm from.
For trick or treating, my sister's friend sometimes comes with us as there isn't much trick or treating where she lives, and she and my sister dress up like those aesthetic pinterest halloween costumes while I wear some ridiculous funny costume.
Last year I dressed up as a minion
and they were angel/demonReply 7
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by anxious¶noidMy family only started celebrating halloween (well technically not celebrating, like only going out for trick or treating) a year ago as halloween wasn't really a thing in (Hong Kong) China where I'm from.
For trick or treating, my sister's friend sometimes comes with us as there isn't much trick or treating where she lives, and she and my sister dress up like those aesthetic pinterest halloween costumes while I wear some ridiculous funny costume.
Last year I dressed up as a minion and they were angel/demon
For trick or treating, my sister's friend sometimes comes with us as there isn't much trick or treating where she lives, and she and my sister dress up like those aesthetic pinterest halloween costumes while I wear some ridiculous funny costume.
Last year I dressed up as a minion
and they were angel/demonhow old are you?
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by LittleMissPidgehow old are you?
I'm 17 almost 18, why?
oh hey you joined tsr yesterday, welcome!!
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my best friend is Christian and she still celebrates Halloween
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by Geo Lover 7Do you celebrate Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
If so, what traditions do you have?
My family celebrates a birthday on Halloween and we also have the usual costumes, pumpkins telling scary stories and halloween music. Do you do anything for Halloween?
I watch a horror film, that is it - and give sweets to children.
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by LittleMissPidgenope I'm Christian so...
So... what?
I'm not sure 'celebrate' is the right word, but I like Halloween. I enjoy horror movies anyway, so never really need an excuse to watch a few in the run up to Halloween. I'm more likely to reach for scary video games and books nearer Halloween as well. We're often away because it falls during half term, but when we are here we put some decorations up and go trick or treating with the kids. It's fun.
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by LittleMissPidgenope I'm Christian so...
So you are celebrating the Reformation Day.
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by ilovekuromimy best friend is Christian and she still celebrates Halloween
Being Christian is not a hindrance for halloween, especially it is a traditional and religious custom from Ireland.
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I go out with mates dressed up to Halloween parties but nothing ott
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by SMEGGGYI go out with mates dressed up to Halloween parties but nothing ott
Dang ur acc is a year younger than me
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by Crazy JamieSo... what?
I'm not sure 'celebrate' is the right word, but I like Halloween. I enjoy horror movies anyway, so never really need an excuse to watch a few in the run up to Halloween. I'm more likely to reach for scary video games and books nearer Halloween as well. We're often away because it falls during half term, but when we are here we put some decorations up and go trick or treating with the kids. It's fun.
I'm not sure 'celebrate' is the right word, but I like Halloween. I enjoy horror movies anyway, so never really need an excuse to watch a few in the run up to Halloween. I'm more likely to reach for scary video games and books nearer Halloween as well. We're often away because it falls during half term, but when we are here we put some decorations up and go trick or treating with the kids. It's fun.
Its because my parents believe that Halloween is the devil and anything that you participate relating to Halloween is bad. I fully agree however I don't judge people that celebrate Halloween I just wont do it
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by anxious¶noidI'm 17 almost 18, why?
oh hey you joined tsr yesterday, welcome!!
oh hey you joined tsr yesterday, welcome!!
no reason. thanks!
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by LittleMissPidgeIts because my parents believe that Halloween is the devil and anything that you participate relating to Halloween is bad. I fully agree however I don't judge people that celebrate Halloween I just wont do it
Fair enough. I asked about the Christian comment because I don't think that's a mainstream Christian view at all. I think a comfortable majority of Christians recognise Halloween as a secular event even if they don't want to participate in it themselves. America, to give the obvious example, is a much more fundamentalist Christian country than the UK is and they go absolutely nuts for Halloween. But if your parents take a different view and you agree with them, that's fine.
Reply 18
Wasn’t it the Christian’s who created halloween in the first place?
As I understand it, the pre Christian end of year festival Samhain was reframed and adapted by the early Church and turned into all hallows eve - hallow’een to help blend the old beliefs with the new. It is followed by All Saints’ Day on the 1st and All Souls’ Day on the 2nd.
Whatever you call it, I love it. It’s my favourite time of year. Toffee apples, sweets, homemade treacle toffee, carved pumpkins and turnips and stories around a fire in the garden. I’m quite rural so we have always had fun at home as not much trick or treating goes on here.
As I understand it, the pre Christian end of year festival Samhain was reframed and adapted by the early Church and turned into all hallows eve - hallow’een to help blend the old beliefs with the new. It is followed by All Saints’ Day on the 1st and All Souls’ Day on the 2nd.
Whatever you call it, I love it. It’s my favourite time of year. Toffee apples, sweets, homemade treacle toffee, carved pumpkins and turnips and stories around a fire in the garden. I’m quite rural so we have always had fun at home as not much trick or treating goes on here.
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by RandomOneOhOneWasn’t it the Christian’s who created halloween in the first place?
As I understand it, the pre Christian end of year festival Samhain was reframed and adapted by the early Church and turned into all hallows eve - hallow’een to help blend the old beliefs with the new. It is followed by All Saints’ Day on the 1st and All Souls’ Day on the 2nd.
As I understand it, the pre Christian end of year festival Samhain was reframed and adapted by the early Church and turned into all hallows eve - hallow’een to help blend the old beliefs with the new. It is followed by All Saints’ Day on the 1st and All Souls’ Day on the 2nd.
I think it depends on your interpretation really. The day itself, Samhain, was Celtic as you say and is still marked in Ireland now as the beginning of winter. I listened to a podcast on that last year and it's really interesting to hear about those specific traditions, which have some similarities to Halloween but are distinct. It became Halloween because it was All Hallows Eve, being the day before the two Christian days that you've highlighted. So created? Not really. Heavily influenced is probably the more accurate interpretation. But you can take your own view. Christians were definitely involved whichever way you care to spin it.
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