Beggar's Night

Personally, I love Halloween. In fact, Halloween is my favorite holiday or celebration or whatever. So, I guess it always amazes me that there is a growing number of people who not only dislike the holiday but actually campaign to end it. Scrooges. Oh, I understand their backward and faux raputuresqe bible thumping reasons. Well, as much as one can understand babbling in tongues... and by the way isn't that the way the demons talked during the exorcist?

Anyway I digress.

Halloween is a fun holiday. Come on... seriously you get to dress up and eat bite sized snickers and milky ways until you burst while slurping down hot apple cider or cocoa and don't forget running around the neighborhood with your friends. Maybe people don't like having to shell out the money for the candy. I think I just read that now there are more people with out children than with children in the United States. Maybe we as a society are becoming less tolerant of childish fun. And for those who are going to jump in with the "Devil's Holiday" bull, I say to you "pppbbbppt" I have not seen a six year old sacrificing goats on Halloween... ever. In fact Halloween at this point and for the general public is no more symbolic of a ritual anymore than the wedding march is associated with a rape in an opera. Yes, the traditional wedding march was from an opera and the score for a rape. So if everyone is going to take everything literally from it's origins then we all better buckle up for a bumpy ride.

Adults make things difficult. The kids do not care nor do they link Halloween to a growing interest in necromancy. They care about how much candy they can get minus the yucky peanut butter chews in a few hours. I love Halloween but this state has figured out a way to squash my love a bit. The moved trick or treating to a Beggar's Night. No trick or treating on Halloween is allowed. Nope, you have to trick or treat between 6pm-9pm on the night before Halloween. I've lived here for seven years and I still do not understand the rational or logic behind the rule. Eh, whatever. This year I'm dressing up on Beggars Night and Halloween more fun for me! And guess what? I'm not dressing up as a hero or athlete nope!

I'm dressing up as a witch; I bought $40 worth of the good kind of candy; I'm giving out handfuls of it instead of one piece to make up for all the self-rightous stick in the muds that are hiding behind their darkened doors muttering gibberish about satan worshipers and hellbound toddlers in superman outfits. Then when I'm done handing out all this wonderful stuff I may go in my back yard and dance around under the moon and sacrifice a goat.

Really, adults need to get a sense of humor and pull their pious little pin-heads out of their sanctimonious asses and realize they are killing the innocence much faster than anything they oppose.