We have known this holiday known has Thanksgiving since we were small. The holidays of pilgrims and Indians and turkey and pumpkin pie. This celebration is supposed to commemorate the gathering of the people into a celebration. But is this truly a holiday or the commemoration of a tragic event.
Have you ever thought of all that happened when we came to this land? We fought for land and killed many people-- Indians. We stole from people and claimed it as our own and we make a grrrreat celebration out of it. This holiday is made to be all about the pilgrims and how everything was peaceful with the Indians back in the day but it wasn't. Not just about Thanksgiving, Indians were killed in many different battles and for no specific reason really as to steal their land and call it our own. I don't know about you but it doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
In this sense, is Thanksgiving also not considered to be a ritual sacrifice within itself? We get a turkey, although most do not kill it themselves, and eat it in the commemoration of a past event. I thoroughly enjoy turkey as much as the next person don't get me wrong, but certain holidays with specific animal products set to them seem to be like a set ritual. I guess it would seem different if Thanksgiving wasn't set to the traditional turkey or Christmas to the ham. It's like the Gods or God are saying "On this day of every year we would enjoy a turkey/ham/whatever" and we go along with it to please them. Much like a ritual sacrifice.
P.S. I will be enjoying the traditional turkey but not actually consider myself celebrating Thanksgiving. In my opinion it is all in the mindset and turkey is delicious. Sorry.
Tuesday, November 20
Tuesday, October 30
one rule for living in a college dorm::
So last night this girl comes into my room, shes like my neighbor er something, right?
She continuously goes off on how we're being SOOOOO loud and we're ALWAYS yelling down the hallway and saying how she has early classes. The best part is when she said "its nice that you guys have fun and have TIME to have fun but I dont and I need to sleep so keep it down." She threatened to get the RA involved (yeh thats a Resident Advisor if you dont know). She made it sound like she was always coming into my room and telling us to shut our noise holes er something.
I have seen her like once or twice before when I was in Caitlins room and there were other people there with us. Those two times were also quite distant from each other.
ANYways.
Point of this boring story?
Yeah what kind of person going to college has the nerve to complain about noise?! I understand the whole being reasonable thing. Which we are. I mean I guess my roommate was yelling down the hallway at me because she thought I was right outside. But we will laugh, not even that loud, and she'll be like "you guys are being really loud".
My guess:
She is an only child back home and her parents raised her to be all "perfect" and get good grades or be severely punished.
Thats why you live OFF campus if you're just so tightly wound.
She continuously goes off on how we're being SOOOOO loud and we're ALWAYS yelling down the hallway and saying how she has early classes. The best part is when she said "its nice that you guys have fun and have TIME to have fun but I dont and I need to sleep so keep it down." She threatened to get the RA involved (yeh thats a Resident Advisor if you dont know). She made it sound like she was always coming into my room and telling us to shut our noise holes er something.
I have seen her like once or twice before when I was in Caitlins room and there were other people there with us. Those two times were also quite distant from each other.
ANYways.
Point of this boring story?
Yeah what kind of person going to college has the nerve to complain about noise?! I understand the whole being reasonable thing. Which we are. I mean I guess my roommate was yelling down the hallway at me because she thought I was right outside. But we will laugh, not even that loud, and she'll be like "you guys are being really loud".
My guess:
She is an only child back home and her parents raised her to be all "perfect" and get good grades or be severely punished.
Thats why you live OFF campus if you're just so tightly wound.
Monday, October 29
This Is Halloween
Halloween is, to me, a great time of year.
I mean its like "come as you aren't night". You get to dress up, no matter how old you are, and everyone gets tricks and treats of all sorts. Everywhere its like a ghoulish creepy setting in a safe lil' neighborhood. No monsters or goblins be found here, they must hate how marketable the whole evening-- no season-- has become.
It's hard for me to imagine that some families deny this holiday as a rule. Not because of some personal distaste for the holiday itself because I can except that some don't enjoy it, but because of religiousness. They see it as a satanic holiday. Satanism, if you are too stupid to know, is the worshiping of the devil. What satan-worshiping do we do on this holiday? Nobody really knows I think.
Do Satans followers in hell really dress up in costumes and go door to door and ask for candy?
This scenario seems a little unlikely but isn't it adorable to imagine?
Also it must be taken into account that alot of so called "satan worshipers" dont really do anything. They are just Atheists who enjoy the darker side of life. They don't actually go "Oh my god the devil is like my best friend" and such. The dont sacrifice animals to anyone. I heard somewhere someone said something like "satanism was like partially created just to piss off Christians".
So yeah.
It's not evil for your child to dress up in a harmless costume and ask for candy. It's a holiday. And Halloween isn't one of those holidays reserved for certain religions. It's free of charge. Well for the most part.
I mean its like "come as you aren't night". You get to dress up, no matter how old you are, and everyone gets tricks and treats of all sorts. Everywhere its like a ghoulish creepy setting in a safe lil' neighborhood. No monsters or goblins be found here, they must hate how marketable the whole evening-- no season-- has become.
It's hard for me to imagine that some families deny this holiday as a rule. Not because of some personal distaste for the holiday itself because I can except that some don't enjoy it, but because of religiousness. They see it as a satanic holiday. Satanism, if you are too stupid to know, is the worshiping of the devil. What satan-worshiping do we do on this holiday? Nobody really knows I think.
Do Satans followers in hell really dress up in costumes and go door to door and ask for candy?
This scenario seems a little unlikely but isn't it adorable to imagine?
Also it must be taken into account that alot of so called "satan worshipers" dont really do anything. They are just Atheists who enjoy the darker side of life. They don't actually go "Oh my god the devil is like my best friend" and such. The dont sacrifice animals to anyone. I heard somewhere someone said something like "satanism was like partially created just to piss off Christians".
So yeah.
It's not evil for your child to dress up in a harmless costume and ask for candy. It's a holiday. And Halloween isn't one of those holidays reserved for certain religions. It's free of charge. Well for the most part.
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