When I was a kid, plenty of people had these by their front step, but you don't see them very often now.
Halloween
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Lawn jockey right? That's a southern thing, I think stuff like that is cute and fun....harmless.
I grew up fairly far north, and I remember seeing a number of them when walking to school or doing my paper route.
My mother is addicted to those silly geese.
Every holiday/season/day of the week, she has a new outfit for it. We make fun of her for it, but it makes her happy so who cares
Probably an empty nester fulfillment.
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Eating candy in excessive amounts isn’t wrong? Cavities diabetes and obesity isn’t wrong? Costumes (which adults imitate in sexual indecent manner) isn’t wrong?
Certainly, all three of those scenarios are wrong, but they're also pointing out extremes. Any celebration taken to the maximum is wrong, including those that decorate their homes with expensive Christmas decorations and lights. If you don't live in North America, it's almost impossible to understand this innocent children's celebration, and I don't expect those around the world to get it anyway.
My mother is addicted to those silly geese.
Every holiday/season/day of the week, she has a new outfit for it. We make fun of her for it, but it makes her happy so who cares
Probably an empty nester fulfillment.
Don't worry everyone makes fun my goose too, I think it's hilarious....the 6'1 230lb former collegiate wrestler with his porch goose which is why the girl got it for me haha. I love animals, I actually used to have geese when i lived on my farm after college and they would terrorize and terrify everyone but would come running up to me top speed and put their wings out for a group hug whenever they saw me come outside. They actually made really good flock protectors, they were big, mean and aggressive to anything and anyone that didn't belong there.
I agree, you can find bad in anything if you really want to but why not instead see it as something joyous? It's what you make of it....especially for kids, it can be innocent and wholesome if that's what you make of it just like most things in life.
Last year I was out around the middle of October, and I went into a bar for a drink. I had already had drinks at another bar, and decided to stop at this bar for a nightcap. I had gone to this bar many times for years.
I walked into the bar and there was a demon behind the bar. In fact it was a young woman with makeup and horns and an outfit which made for a very realistic demon costume. I immediately decided this wasn't a place where I should be, and left. I left a bad review and haven't been back since.
I miss that bar, but I had a very strong sense I shouldn't be in a place with a demon behind the bar. I know it was only a costume, but I figure someone who creates a super realistic demon costume is very likely to be infested. A lot of costumes have some kind of occult connotations, such as witch costumes, but it's rare to see a highly realistic demon.
It's this kind of thing that gives Halloween a bad vibe for me nowadays.
I walked into the bar and there was a demon behind the bar. In fact it was a young woman with makeup and horns and an outfit which made for a very realistic demon costume. I immediately decided this wasn't a place where I should be, and left. I left a bad review and haven't been back since.
I miss that bar, but I had a very strong sense I shouldn't be in a place with a demon behind the bar. I know it was only a costume, but I figure someone who creates a super realistic demon costume is very likely to be infested. A lot of costumes have some kind of occult connotations, such as witch costumes, but it's rare to see a highly realistic demon.
It's this kind of thing that gives Halloween a bad vibe for me nowadays.
Pictures like this remind me of why I like Halloween and still celebrate it in spite of my orthodox faith.
If you think about it Halloween, especially in New England and the Upper Midwest (hi) where scenes like this are common is kind of a piece of Americana. It’s really a traditional American holiday. It’s like one of the few traditions that those who want to dismantle America and replace it aren’t after. Europeans probably find it odd we’re dressing up like monsters and eating candy, and hitting the bars if you’re of age, but it is a tradition that does bring a community together.
What I find interesting is the rise of trunk or treats. Kids don’t go door to door anymore like they did when I was a child.
I’m with Hank Hill on this one… TRICK OR TREAT
That is interesting. The hyper realism. Well we both know that’s not what demons actually look like haha, but I get your point, some serious effort was put into it. Most Halloween costumes look excessively cartoony and stereotypical or excessively sexy. But the amount of work, time, and effort needed to make a demon that could go on a Hollywood set for just one night is interesting. Maybe she was some kind of effects artist?
I don't know. I was picturing her as I wrote my post. I was a bit buzzed already when I arrived, and it was like a hologram of a Hollywood movie demon standing right there behind the bar. She had blue-green makeup on her face and hands, shaded to highlight the contours of her face, and she had horns sticking out from her hair. I would have said it was extremely well done if she was something other than a demon.
Halloween shouldn't be participated in by Christians, at least by us Catholics, because its function is to shift attention from celebrating the saints and faithful departed, to the evil spirits that would prevent us from joining the Church Triumphant. Those who excuse it by calling it, "harmless fun", need to sit down and think about it more critically. It's a light hearted celebration of forces and practices that the saints and martyrs struggled so heroically against and whose Hallowed day is being eclipsed by.
I wrote elsewhere that I believe the subversive movie E. T. was responsible for popularising Halloween in the UK. SoS's Spielberg was particularly adept at such propaganda and subversion.
I wrote elsewhere that I believe the subversive movie E. T. was responsible for popularising Halloween in the UK. SoS's Spielberg was particularly adept at such propaganda and subversion.
Maybe she was just good with make-up, but I avoid any place with some evidence like that and a demonic vibe. Be sure to bless your food and drinks.
One of the movie posters for E.T. was a variation of the detail of the painting by Michelangelo in the Vatican Sistine Chapel where God gives life to Adam at the moment of creation.
I pray for my meals with some occasional lapses. I should start praying for my drinks too!
I refuse to drink if the server is a man dressing up as and pretending to be a woman. I don't want to get roofied and will have my drink somewhere else.