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Green Halloween

wsucougzwsucougz
edited October 2007 in Seattle Culture
http://www.greenhalloween.org/

I'm speechless about how ridiculous this is. Where are all the damned lumberjacks anymore?

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  • perplexdperplexd
    Why do you care? I think it's nice when people take a tradition and make it their own. It infuses meaning into forgotten holidays and brings them back to life while banishing practices that don't make sense anymore.

    Buy-nothing day came from the same spirit.
  • rose-colored-coolaidrose-colored-coolaid
    I would be more interested in a green 4th of July. Ever go to a beach afterwards? The litter is awful. Ugh!

    Oh yeah, Green Halloween is a lame name. It's better to either go more obscure - like No Taints Day instead of All Saints Day - or lamer like Hallogreen. Outside of that, anyone who wants to clean things up is fine in my book. So long as they improve things rather than just making a bunch of noise with no results.
  • Lake Hills RenterLake Hills Renter
    I think we should go back to the original celebration.
    Ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, where the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
  • carlislematthewcarlislematthew
    Lake Hills Renter wrote:
    I think we should go back to the original celebration.
    Ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, where the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

    "The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, where the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. "

    Mmmmm, ribs...
  • wsucougzwsucougz
    perplexd wrote:
    Why do you care? ...It infuses meaning into forgotten holidays...

    Not sure. Probably because I'm cantankerous and people annoy me. If you want to start a tradition to not eat sugary sweets on Halloween, be my guest. Why does everything have to be a movement these days? Plus, the whole "green" thing is already being diluted to the hilt by the marketing machine. It's pretty much the next "extreme." Not to mention, this is only green in the loosest sense of the idea.

    I know Halloween isn't as hot as the Autumn Equinox these days, but I wouldn't quite say forgotten.
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