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halloween

  1. The Kilted Heathen

    What is Samhain?

    So as not to spoil festivities, I thought to post this here. I recently answered an objection to "The Origins of Halloween Are Pagan" that relied on several misconceptions. So, to clear that up: The Irish tale Tochmarc Emire lists Samhain as one of four quarterly Fire Festivals, marking the...
  2. Gargovic Malkav

    I've been saving this one for Halloween

    Home. My home. My territory. My sacred old sanctuary. Some say it's haunted. That's why I like it here. Because people tend to avoid haunted places. I am afraid of people. Because I am different. This makes me hard to understand. Young people like to play with things they don't understand...
  3. shunyadragon

    Interesting scary photo of the sun

    From: NASA posts photo of the sun looking like a giant flaming jack-o'-lantern If you thought the super blood wolf moon was scary, you haven't seen what the sun is capable of. © NASA/SDO Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern's face on Oct. 8, 2014. The...
  4. Woberts

    Halloween

    I've been waiting for this for a long time. A new entry in John Carpenter's esteemed Halloween franchise. It's been about 10 years since the last one. Anyway, here's the trailer which was just released yesterday: Weirdly, it releases on October 19, not Halloween. Missed opportunity there...
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  5. Tonstad39

    Ancestors to commemorate

    While in the east, Buddhists commemorate their ansestors in the late summer: Sanghas here in the west have their ghost ceremony in line with when westerners celebrate death by reveling in the horrifying. My sangha is holding its Hungry ghosts ceremony this November 1st and I have some ideas of...
  6. Tonstad39

    What did Pali become?

    looking at the wikipedia page for Pali language among other resources, one thing is apparant. Pali is a dead language not spoken by any ethnic group and seems to only be used in sanghas and Buddhist teachers to understand texts written twenty-three hundred years ago. Why did people stop speaking...
  7. Ana.J

    How do you celebrate Halloween?

    If you do celebrate it, of course :) In my country we do not go "trick or treating". Some nightclubs just organize thematic parties... Please include your country if possible ;)
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