Happy Halloween!

[Garamonde]

No Torch most people only spend it dressing up and giving/eating candy and is a "holiday" catered more towards children having fun...
Some really religious people think of it like that but it's not like you're actually spending the day doing that...

[NICKtendo DS]

If anything, isn't Halloween mocking the devil rather than worshipping it?

[Candel]

yea, now it does, but before when it was still called Hallow's Eve... Its origins are actually made from worshipping....

Now I guess as Nicktendo said, we are making fun of it

[OverlordNext]

We never go collect candy here

[Tellis]

yea, now it does, but before when it was still called Hallow's Eve... Its origins are actually made from worshipping....

Now I guess as Nicktendo said, we are making fun of it

What. No.

What we know as Halloween has its origins in the Celtic tradition of Samhain (pronounced Sah-win... yeah), which was a harvest festival that, according to Celtic belief, was when the barrier between our world and the world of spirits was thinnest. Our dressing up in costumes and trick or treating can be tied back to pretty similar rituals and practices from Samhain When Christianity started spreading around, instead of just entirely ridding them of the traditions, they were embraced instead and became intertwined with Christian customs. So yeah! Little to nothing to do with devil worshiping. Any sort of claim of that sort is more than likely a recent development than anything with deep roots.

EDIT: Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go stab a gourd repeatedly until it resembles the face of two people I admire. Nothing creepy or ritualistic about that!

[puggsoy]

No Halloween for me. Not only have we never celebrated it, but here in Egypt we've got Eid al-Adha going on here and Halloween is passing along unnoticed.

I've got Scream Fortress to dress up in and collect candies in though

[StarSock64]

I'm hiding out in the basement, ignoring all the knocks at the door and doing homework. My parents aren't home

The only parts about Halloween I care about are the horror specials on TV. I'm not a huge candy fan (plus we got our own chocolate in the basement anyway) and I don't like dressing up. I helped my older brother put temporary tattoos on his face for his girlfriend's party though...

[Helmo]

[StrikeForcer]

I amassed alot of candy as well as released a demo of Mysterious Islandz on another message board is what I did today this year Halloween.

[Tellis]

Hey, I'm pump

I'm not so pump

And we're the Gourd Grumps.

[Koopaul]

I love seeing the cute little kids in their cute costumes. I saw a two-year-old in a little doggy costume, yaaaaaaa! It was so adorable!

[Hoeloe]

What we know as Halloween has its origins in the Celtic tradition of Samhain (pronounced Sah-win... yeah)

Also people often forget that there's a twinned holiday of similar meaning and origin on the other side of the year called Walpurgis Night, but apparently people largely ignore that one.

[Previous]

I love seeing the cute little kids in their cute costumes. I saw a two-year-old in a little doggy costume, yaaaaaaa! It was so adorable!

Uh-oh.

[PatientZero]

Also people often forget that there's a twinned holiday of similar meaning and origin on the other side of the year called Walpurgis Night, but apparently people largely ignore that one.

Walpurgisnacht fist bump.

It's kind of different to Halloween though, aside from the obvious bits about it being the spring festival and being half a year apart, at least in the german tradition it's the night that witches and warlocks are supposed to meet.

As you can imagine it's popular in occult circles, aside from any spooky or devil-worshipy implications people might give it it's a good excuse for people to get together and socialise.

It doesn't get celebrated much in most countries because it isn't commercial, and of course there's the culture gap, essentially because it isn't a christian holiday and can't be retconned into one it doesn't have widespread appeal in the states.
But to be honest I don't think that's exactly a bad thing.

[Helmo]