Happy Halloween!

[DeltaDawn]

Halloween is a widely accepted Pagan holiday. Although through the years we have toned it down, at one time it was full of (costumes) witches, ghouls, ghosts and Satan.

Most RA victims, (especially those tortured as children) will tell you this time of year is horrendous, and hell EVery year to get through. Demons most certainly still reign at this time of year....The only good thing is, the nightmares come and it's the best time for putting together the horror some of us call childhood.

No insult meant to anyone here...only a much needed reminder to myself....For The Lord has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love, power and a SOUND mind!!!!

[Cordelia]

I hate Halloween. It sucks. I keep all my animals inside.

Tomorrow it'll be over.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

Boo...

[whipstitch]

[annie aronburg]

C'mon, it's just another excuse to have to buy a lot of shit.

I'm broke this year, but I've got two kids. So let's see, there were the two costumes that they had to have, one of them for the school party where you had to wear your costume, then there were the pumpkins that were grown for the sole purpose of being cut up and destroyed (instead of eaten for food).

Whatever happened to the old tried and true ghost and hobo costumes? The pirate, the gypsy or the zombie can be fashioned out of stuff raided from a grown-ups closet. Making a costume and putting on make-up is half the fun!

I grew three big pumpkins quite by accident this year, we carved them last night with our aussie neighbour for his first Halloween.

I know someone who did their trick or treating in the Park Ridge-Upper Saddle River area of Northern New Jersey with fond memories of the GIANT-sized Hershey bars that Richard Nixon's household gave out.

[vince]

THere was, in one of "The Simpsons" commentaries, a tale one of the writers told about one Halloween, when he & his brother TP'ed the Bush house. This must've been many years ago, 'coz the Bush kids, W & Jeb, were hiding in the bushes, and pelted the writer & his brother with eggs, and they ran!

[justdrew]

any evil forces hijacking the good spirit of Halloween need to be brought to justice. Let me set eye on them.

note that into that basket I'd throw the violent horror movies, that as far as I'm concerned are just sick, like the eponymous movie. slasher flicks aren't horror movies, they're faux-snuff.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

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[IanEye]

[barracuda]

My daughter's been looking forward to Halloween for months.



She loves scary stuff, but I suspect it's all about the candy.

[vince]

Well I live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the night
'Cuz to me everyday is Halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight
Well any time, any place, anywhere that I go
all the people seem to stop and stare
they say 'Why are you dressed like it's Halloween?
you look so absurd, you look so obscene'
Oh, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world
well I let their teeny minds think
that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink
and I dress this way just to keep them at bay
'Cuz Halloween is everyday
it's everyday
Oh, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world
Oh, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
i'm not the one that's so absurd
why hide it?
why fight it?
hurt feelings
best to stop feeling hurt
from denials, reprisals
it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world

[Searcher08]

I remember a friend saying the veil between this world and the next is very thin right now, so I wish love to those who have gone one both my own friends and loved ones from RI.

Merry We Meet, Merry We Part

[sw]

Happy Halloween All!!

Triplett Update: The tripletts next door (who are in first grade) and their little sister just came by trick or treating. One of the tripletts did not have a trick or treating container, he said he'd just take the candy in his hand. I noticed that he then immediately opened the Kit Kat bar and ate it. They they went upstairs and I saw him eating that piece of candy as he ran off with his parents.

Can you imagine how sick he is going to be in about one block. OMG only a kid could pull that off:(

[barracuda]

This rousing pagan holiday is currently in such full candy-giving swing at my front door that I can hardly even focus on the pressing issues at hand on the forum. I just ritually presented three tootsie pops to a thirty-two inch tall bumblebee, who said "twika", and left. Boo-yah.

[FugitiveInitiate]

Over 50 years old now and yes the triggers are still powerful and the memories still invade.

with help and support, you eventually learn to say of childhood/ritual abuse "it's in the past, it's not happening now."

but on THIS day, this night.... the most horrible part is the reality and certainty that it IS happening now - somewhere, to someone. to innocent people and helpless animals. and you know too well how it all goes down, on this night.

there's a confusing mix of relief and guilt that you got out and lived your life, knowing others were not, or won't be, as fortunate.