i work with a super religious lady and today at work i was telling her how much i love halloween and that my mother and i stayed up the other night until 4 a.m. talking to ghosts and she told me it was devil worship....argh! this lady preaches all day long anyway and i just want to choke her!
Don't ya just luv them bible thumpers.......maybe you should make a book-of-the-dead latex prop book & leave it on your desk...........
sorry i just couldn't help the thought,i MUST be abnormal
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Ah, the devil-worship angle. I tell people that to believe in their devil I'd have to believe in their god. It doesn't comfort them much. Heh, heh...
On the other hand, one great thing about atheism is that you don't have to worry about pissing off any deities with your halloween decorations. So they can be, shall we say, a bit unsettling--to the less-open-minded? Makes it more fun when the fun is eeeeeevil... :-)
My family already thinks I'm weird so I don't talk halloween to them much. The sad part is that my brother passed away in feb and at his funeral were tons of photos of all the good times HE had at halloween. I never new this about him and missed it all
i went to Michael last saturday and i was going there to check on something that has nothing to do with Halloween but the minute i enter with my Roommate she went right away ask the lady at the cash register and came back next to me and said it's in the second alley and i said what in the second alley she reply your damn Halloween stuff ............ and she is the first one to think i am nuts working on Halloween stuff 2 or 3 months before oct 31 lollllllllll. Sometimes they are so tire of hearing about it they just join in so it's less painful for their ears . So like the rest of the people in this forum i love to be different and weird and unique and they will have to accept me like that or try to find more normal boring friends .
I could n't agree more with all the people here I live a breathe Halloween.. while i was in the Hospital my Family Care Doctor came in to intro the surgeon any why here is the Intro.
"She is the Lady I told you about that makes all the animatronic Halloween Props." I want to ROTFL..
the other Doctor goes cool have to look at your website and have you make something for me..
Scottish Scarer, it's 0514 in the morning here, and I've had some time to think of what it is that makes people get antsy about all of this.
When you come right down to it, the herd instinct doesn't need a LOT to go into overdrive..Gramma, (as I never get tired of telling) was the town scandal for going to horror movies after WWI WITHOUT an escort. And I see a DIRECT relationship betweent that and her BARELY being able to have a job and driving a car or voting..all were just tolerated.
But keep at it. The whole deal tests our tolerance...and even modest confrontations like this keep us moving forward. Without challenges to convention, we would still be required to wear bowler hats and white collars in public, and rock and roll would still be banned..
and that's not getting into bigger areas that have fallen since..my dad can still remember the 60's..screw the folks who say it was this great time of sudden change....as a woman you could be fired for gaining weight or getting pregnant, and some banks would not allow wives to open accounts without a husbands signature..(this was as late as '69 folks..)
You can't imagine how proud I was when my daughter was laughing in glee when she introduced me to her boyfriend and told him I had my own handmade coffin and said she thought I was waiting for Halloween to be a paid holiday. Non conformity has it's rewards.
Ah, the devil-worship angle. I tell people that to believe in their devil I'd have to believe in their god. It doesn't comfort them much. Heh, heh...
On the other hand, one great thing about atheism is that you don't have to worry about pissing off any deities with your halloween decorations. So they can be, shall we say, a bit unsettling--to the less-open-minded? Makes it more fun when the fun is eeeeeevil... :-)
Scotty:
Sorry to hear about your less-than-understanding wife and friend, but get over it. Some posters here have noted the "herd instinct" as it applies to grazing animals. Another analogy can be made regarding predatory beasts.
Back in the 1960;s Animal Researcher Hans Kruuk conducted an experiment with various herd animals in Africa. His team would net a prey animal, such as an Impala or Gazelle or Wildebeest. After taking samples and weighing the captured animal, they painted an "X" on it's flank, and release it back into the herd. They then noted that other members of the herd tended to avoid the marked animal, sometimes even attacking it. But, more intriguing, prey animals (Think Cheetah, Hyena, Leopard, Lion) would focus right in on the marked animals. The X on the flank was a virtual Death Sentence, they soon stopped doing that. It would seem that the Natural Order of things is for us to "Blend In". Who needs that?
Don't get me wrong, the whole "your a weirdo" thing does not bother me in the slightest. My wife does actually get all excited about 7 days before Halloween, with the "I'm glad you made they props".
I guess it's just that I sleep and breath Halloween it's weird (there's that word again) that no-one else I know has the same passion for it, except for all you guys.
Although young SS junior is very exciteable when I talk Halloween, there's a future in that young guy. ( once he gets of that damn dinosaur phase ROAR!!)
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