Hallowen

No.

So when it's done in other countries than Costa Rica, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, and Vatican (all constitutionally "Catholic countries"), then you don't mind?

Yes - since my kids are now a little too old for trick or treat - I dressed by little dog up - he has an ewok costume.

We greeted the kids at the door - most of them loved the little doggie. And the pup loved all the attention.

The one thing I love about our neighborhood - we border on a wealthy neighborhood - so the older kids go to that neighborhood figuring bigger and better candy - so we get all the little ones which I love.

It's very hit and miss over here. Some areas do it, others don't. We've not had any for the last 5 or 6 years although in some parts it's popular.

It's just a prelude to the main event anyway.



When I was a kid we didn't have pumpkins, my mum used to carve a swede which I hated. Then as a "treat" we could go apple bobbing. Basically filling a bowl with water then floating apples in it.

You had to eat the apple with your hands behind your back.

Trick or treat didn't emerge over here until much later, the late 80s early 90s.

Yes I mind where there is the same religion but at least it s not happening infront of me in my country . So yes I m against this feast every where there is christians living . This must to be obvious.

Well, not for me since you spoke of "catholic country" (And there are only those few which I mentioned above).

There is a part Halloween that is joyfully subversive. It is a time when social norms become a little less rigid. The witches and devils that are common are in part a push back on religion.

Halloween is the only time that some people feel comfortable cross-dreaaaing or wearing fiahnets or whatever personal boundary they want to cross.

This challenge to conformity is the real reason people find it objectionable. And to me it is the best part of Halloween.

That wouldn't be us.



"Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics."

So it is spirit week at my daughter's Christian school. Yesterday they had the option of either dressing as a character from a 1994-1995 movie (the year the school first opened) or wear their usual uniform.

My daughter dressed as the American President - wore my suit jacket and slacks and my husband's tie. So I guess she crossed - dressed.

And I remember attending a Halloween party at youth group when I was young - a bit more liberal church so they did have a Halloween party (who knows maybe they called it Harvest Feast - and we just said Halloween as kids) - yeah there was a teen boy that dressed as a very sexy girl with the fishnet stockings - we all found it a hoot.

No one takes this seriously (at least most of us) - it is all in fun.

Did you go to see Rocky Horror Picture Show when it was still cool and edgy?

My daughter discovered it recently.... but now it just seems quaint. There is a need for subversion.

Yeah I did a couple of times. They showed it once on our college campus - with the price of the ticket, it included all the props you needed to participate.

And then again I went into the city to see the movie.

It was fun at the time - but we all grow and sometimes those things we find were fun, do not seem worth the time. But I can understand someone in their 20s enjoying it.

Nothing wrong with it -

My point is that society has changed to the point that this movie, one subversive and shocking, is now tame to the point of being quaint. The way I enjoyed that movie is quite different than my daughter's experience.

Society certainly has changed.


Church of San Bernardino, Milan, a small chapel used as an ossuary, 13th century.




A so-called Enclosed Garden (Bentlage Abbey,Germany, 200 preciously decorated relics), altar from around 1500.

I don't remember the show being shocking when I was in college....I am over 50. I just remember it being crazy and fun.

It s not obvoius for you that chatolic country should ban hallowen ?

Not as obvious as the spelling of Catholic.

A Catholic deanery close to where I live is celebrating just now a holy mass in a cemetery chapel, completely "Mexican style" (besides a line on the poster )

Would your parents have taken teenaged you to go see Rocky Horror? Mine neither.

I don't know what point you're making. My parents didn't take me to lots of things when I was a teenager, it didn't stop me going.

I don't know what the fuss is about Rocky Horror, last time I went to see it on a staff outing I stayed in the bar.

Once there I remembered how **** it was and that I'd rather get pissed.

I was on my own for the first half but not the second.

No my parents wouldn't be interested in it - they would have dropped me off to see it - but they probably wouldn't want to watch it.

Same now - I am not interested in seeing it now.

The fun part was acting like a bohemian and throwing stuff at the screen and singing, dancing and yelling at the movie.

It wasn't really the content of the movie.