Re: Halloween
From Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com>
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· 5 Nov 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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Matthew Thomas wrote: > As I read it, VK was rejecting Halloween primarily not because it was > foreign, but because it involves blackmail. And I think she's perfectly > entitled to have such an opinion. Just being entrenched in a particular > country or society doesn't make a tradition morally acceptable. Oh, and that's not even taking into account that in order to get room for this "new tradition" an old, and very serious tradition has been thrown out (yes, I say "thrown out", because, AFAIK, people *still* can't be in several places at once!). I guess selling grave candles doesn't give as big profits as selling candy and ghost costumes. I guess it doesn't matter to these shop owners that "some religious nuts" (read: that majority of the population who is A: Christian and B: old enough to have known somebody who is now dead) are offended by kids dressed up in Carnival clothes knocking on their doors when they are actively mourning dead friends and relatives... [And now that it's all over for this time, yes, I saw two trick-or-treaters. No I didn't give them a lecture. The weather yesterday was so lousy that I felt sorry for them! I didn't give them any candy, I just said "no thanks" and closed the door.] -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
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