Re: The WORST thing you ever got in your Trick or Treat Bag
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:17 pm
Hallowerd, every October, as it gets closer to Halloween, the media is rife with all kinds of horror stories about kids bring hime apples and the like with neadles or razor blades in them. Most of these stories are pure milarky, but they allways make a big deal of it just the same. It's also the time when they constantly beat the proverbial drum about child molestors and other predators that use Trick or Treat as a means to do their dastardly deads. The facs suggest that most of these perverts would not operate on such an obvious day liek Halloween.
As for my remarks about "New Fangled" or "Modern," I suppose you can chalk that up to the fact that I am almost 50, and a bot set in my ways, but recently there has been some situations in my family, which I will not bore everyone here with, that I do not like in regards to changes being made, and traditions falling by the way side because of those changes. I am not condemning anyone for liking modern things. I love computers, tv, stereo equipment, digital photography, and all the other conveniences that everyone else likes, but I am also very tired of hearing how some tradition that I loved for all of my life, is no longer "apropriate," or "fits the modern spirit." Trick or Treat, in my town, is restricted to a 4 hour time period, and the reasoning behind it is "It's safer this way," or "It's what everyone else is doing," or "It's the modern way of doing things, and traditional TOTing is not in touch with today's world." And while it's still being clung to by many people, it seems that more and more, tradition in general is being shoved aside to make way for changes that I don't want. In s imple terms, when I talk about "modern" or "new fangled" in a negative way, I am refering to unwanted and unnecessry change. Those Christian Fundamentalists you mentioned, for instance. That is something that I would consider a "new fangled " idea. I don't know how long it dates back, but I didn't hear of Halloween being "satan's holiday" until I heard it on tv in the 80s or 90s. Everyone I knew, Catholic or Protestant all celebrated Halloween.
Mike
As for my remarks about "New Fangled" or "Modern," I suppose you can chalk that up to the fact that I am almost 50, and a bot set in my ways, but recently there has been some situations in my family, which I will not bore everyone here with, that I do not like in regards to changes being made, and traditions falling by the way side because of those changes. I am not condemning anyone for liking modern things. I love computers, tv, stereo equipment, digital photography, and all the other conveniences that everyone else likes, but I am also very tired of hearing how some tradition that I loved for all of my life, is no longer "apropriate," or "fits the modern spirit." Trick or Treat, in my town, is restricted to a 4 hour time period, and the reasoning behind it is "It's safer this way," or "It's what everyone else is doing," or "It's the modern way of doing things, and traditional TOTing is not in touch with today's world." And while it's still being clung to by many people, it seems that more and more, tradition in general is being shoved aside to make way for changes that I don't want. In s imple terms, when I talk about "modern" or "new fangled" in a negative way, I am refering to unwanted and unnecessry change. Those Christian Fundamentalists you mentioned, for instance. That is something that I would consider a "new fangled " idea. I don't know how long it dates back, but I didn't hear of Halloween being "satan's holiday" until I heard it on tv in the 80s or 90s. Everyone I knew, Catholic or Protestant all celebrated Halloween.
Mike
