Boo! Happy Halloween! (large image)

by **James S** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 2:55am

AHHH! BOO!

by **TechMage** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 4:28am

by **James S** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 4:51am

by **(TSC)Bender** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 1:18pm

by **refractor** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 4:18pm

by **James S** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 5:29pm

Halloween isn't pagan, is it?

But who cares... Halloween is the BESTEST!

by **refractor** » Oct 28, 2002 @ 5:56pm

Yeah, it's pagan. It looks like one of those things that the Church "adopted" so that they have a festival the same day as everybody else. In the dictionaries it's "All Saints' Even".

http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/hh/halloween.html

The funky lanterns were designed to scare away evil spirits.

I've been so busy with work recently that without your post I wouldn't have know it was Halloween this week. :cry:

(Though all-saints day is a day off here... but I'll be working :cry:

).

by **TechMage** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 3:40am

by **TechMage** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 3:56am

Here is a good website on the history of Halloween:

Here is another good one, with a summary of the Jack story:

And here is one version of the Jack story:

by **James S** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 4:18am

Thanks TechMage, but not everything requires your extensive knowledge of every religion ever known to man. Again, however, thanks.

by **sandmann** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 5:30am

He'll keep that in mind, Jesus. I mean Multi-Lingual Man. I mean pimpster. I mean Moose.

by **James S** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 6:40am

Good... I'll be watching you TechMage...

by **another guest** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 8:02am

Moose makes baby jesus cry.

by **TechMage** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 8:24am

Thanks for the smart ass comment, Moose.

Yeah, I really like studying religion, mythology, and folklore. It's a hobby and a passion of mine.

by **James S** » Oct 29, 2002 @ 4:55pm

We know... now comment on my cool pumpkin some more

Boo! Happy Halloween! (large image)

Boo! Happy Halloween! (large image)

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