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I'm not going to do a history lesson, but... Isaac Send a noteboard - 01/11/2011 09:22:59 PM
That's why Halloween is the best holiday. All other holidays have a "reason." You're always celebrating because of the new year, or flags, or jesuses.


1) "Jesuses" is not an acceptable plural or possessive form of the Lord's name, much as Jeez-its is not an acceptable way to refer to communion wafers.

2) Halloween is actually a Christian Holiday, All Saints/ All Hallow dates way, way back as official holiday of the church 13-1400 year ago, that it's got a lot of connections to various harvest festival and local pagan traditions is kind of irrelevant except insofar as it influenced local practices. The Eve or 'een for Halloween is a touch more recent, though has reliable dating to the Middle Ages.

Trick or treating as a major regular US event is basically post WWII and has since become a 6 billion dollar industry. Essentially it is best summed up to various uncivilized foreign devils as a chance for children under a monstrous costume's veil of threatening anonymity to engage in extortion to support their sugar addictions on threat of vandalism, as well as an opportunity for young women to dress as scantily as possible and get drunk without fear of social disapproval.
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It's so weird trying to explain Halloween to people who didn't grow up with it - 01/11/2011 02:26:52 PM 793 Views
For a sec I was gonna go into the specifics for you... - 01/11/2011 04:32:18 PM 416 Views
But its always just been an excuse to make a fire on the top of a hill. - 01/11/2011 05:32:57 PM 405 Views
Yup. I know there are various pagan origins, but honestly, fuck'em - 01/11/2011 08:17:12 PM 414 Views
I'm not going to do a history lesson, but... - 01/11/2011 09:22:59 PM 438 Views
What would you say is the proper plural form of Jesus? - 01/11/2011 09:51:31 PM 448 Views
Claudii is an established plural, actually. - 01/11/2011 10:02:52 PM 524 Views
I want to reread Lamb: The story of Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal now - 01/11/2011 11:38:26 PM 523 Views
Jesī *NM* - 01/11/2011 10:06:29 PM 229 Views
Minor addendum: it seems to be a defective fourth declension. The plural should still be Iesūs. - 01/11/2011 10:44:08 PM 404 Views
Ah, interesting. - 02/11/2011 10:22:37 AM 385 Views
The source? Any good Latin grammar should do. *NM* - 02/11/2011 05:06:31 PM 167 Views
Also, a massive number of names follow 3rd declension. - 02/11/2011 05:30:16 PM 335 Views
He is singular in nature - 01/11/2011 10:08:43 PM 436 Views
Ha. - 01/11/2011 10:14:25 PM 361 Views
Re: Ha. - 02/11/2011 01:12:22 AM 428 Views
Lots of Mexican guys in one room could still be "Jesuses". *NM* - 01/11/2011 10:47:03 PM 142 Views
So is it Jesūs, Jesii, or Jesuses then? - 02/11/2011 01:04:58 AM 355 Views
maybe his name is a plural anyway *NM* - 01/11/2011 11:13:03 PM 168 Views
Halloween isn't a Christian holiday, at least not originally. - 01/11/2011 10:26:58 PM 432 Views
I was giving the abrigded version - 02/11/2011 01:01:07 AM 343 Views
Oh, well of course not. - 02/11/2011 01:08:33 AM 376 Views
I know all of this, and care not. - 01/11/2011 11:37:12 PM 339 Views
Again halloween is a world thing, not US property - 02/11/2011 12:01:25 AM 367 Views
I honestly wasn't making it a US thing - 02/11/2011 02:43:59 PM 421 Views
Thanks, Isaac - 02/11/2011 03:08:14 AM 373 Views
- 02/11/2011 03:34:26 PM 339 Views
LMAO! That's great! *NM* - 03/11/2011 01:24:09 PM 144 Views
Pet Peeve: Halloween isn't a holiday...its a celebration *NM* - 01/11/2011 10:00:35 PM 164 Views
US Halloween is neither... - 01/11/2011 10:08:10 PM 409 Views
It seems internationally understood from what I can tell. - 01/11/2011 10:48:02 PM 396 Views
Aren't morbid celebrations to ward away spirits pretty common throughout the world? *NM* - 01/11/2011 11:20:45 PM 167 Views
That's not what Halloween is in the US, though. Not anymore. *NM* - 01/11/2011 11:34:27 PM 151 Views
But Halloween isn't the property of you guys. - 02/11/2011 12:00:11 AM 362 Views
I honestly wasn't making it a US thing - 02/11/2011 02:50:08 PM 399 Views

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