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Goblins, royalty, witches, vermin, candy.... How can it go wrong? And all the Haunted Houses! OOOOooooo! I get excited just thinking about it. They should make Halloween three times a year. Who needs that Valentine shit? If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Clap Clap. |
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My roomies have decided that we are having a party on Halloween, and that I being the (and i quote) "Computer & Music Guru" should be the sound guy. Well I figure what the hell, I'll put my BIG ASS speakers by the door, turn the volume on my Amp up to about 5 and set WinAmp to cycle through my 300 some songs randomly,(Of course I'll remove anything that would prompt someone to actually venture to my room.) I figure that on Volume level 3 on the amp the walls in my house shake, I figure that 4 should be just enough for a good party. And I can sit back, drink beer, smoke a few ciggs, and relax. |
when i'm tired of it all, i can go downstairs to my room and read dead man poems. |
land of group costumes, which is new for me. So i may be one of the 7 Duffs (i'm hoping for Queasy or Remorsful). Or Slash. hee hee...Slash. Where will i get a hat that big. i'm a sucker for halloween. It becomes my world for all of Oct. |
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It's been my dream for a while now to be the coolest Halloween candy giver on my block. I wonder what's popular these days.... |
I loved going out as a kid. I did it up until I was 18. By then it was just one place to stop. The Glauber's house. Where they made the candy for their stores. YUM!!!! Now, I get to greet all the little hob goblins that come around. At least after I get home from work. My poor wife misses most of the fun with her MS. She just cann't keep getting up to answer the door. |
i think it would be neat to dress up as a window or be a karaoke machine. the karaoke machine would be a good excuse to sing bad songs all night. |
One could go as a computer, or a bbs (imagine: post its all over you from some of the more interesting threads).... |
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And it's the thinning of the veil. I am twenty days into a yearly meditation (from Oct 10 to Jan 26 each year) when the holiday rolls around. Any body in the Great Mid Waste can come to my New Years' Party... It appears I am posting on every available thread. Seems I close em. Was it something I said? |
"on the day of the dead, when the year too dies, must the youngest open the oldest hills through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks. there fire shall fly from the raven boy, and the silver eyes that see the wind, and the light shall have the harp of gold. "by the pleasant lake the sleepers lie, on cadfan's way where the kestrels call; though grim from the grey king shadows fall, yet singing the golden harp shall guide to break their sleep and bid them ride. "when light from the lost land shall return, six sleepers shall ride, six signs shall burn, and where the midsummer tree grows tall by pendragon's sword the dark shall fall. "y maent yr mynyddoedd yn canu, ac y mae'r arglwyddes yn dod." from "the grey king" number four in "the dark is rising sequence" by susan cooper. watched "the craft" last night. good movie, but propagandic and creepy. |
Lugh was a samildanich. |
the tuatha d danan are the "people of danu" an irish river goddess if i'm not mistaken. they arrived in ireland long long ago when it was home to the fomors. to keep relations cordial, one formor married the daughter of the tuatha's king. when the king's hand was severed and replaced by a silver one, he was forced to step down from the throne because a disfigured king could not rule. so there was a fomor on the throne, and he wasn't a particularly good king. he made man enemies, because he favored his own people over those he ruled. eventually a sorcerer regenerated the former king's hand so he was no longer disfigured, he went back to the throne. don't remember the names. the formors were people of the sea, and the tuatha d danan eventually became what we call faery folk. * * * what is a samildanich? i've never heard that term before. |
one of my friends was an oven for halloween once. another was a toxic waste spill. |
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I want that dress!! It is begging for me to own it! Anyone want to buy it for me? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
i'm like to be a natural healer if i can. faith in combination with practical treatments (both medical and natural) can be highly effective. |
That's a samildanich. It's quite a bit more than our concept of renaissance man (or woman). Cowan has written extensively of Fomorian energies. As myth or history, take your pick, the Fomorians are not exactly evil, and the Tuatha are not exactly their opposite, as many scholars propose. Fomorian energies are chaotic, though, and disruptive and destructive. The Tuatha, on the other hand, are the people of the Light, the ones who simply disappeared into the hollow hills and are said to be the fairyfolk. One of the ways we can begin to understand these forces today is the allegedly fictional historical novels by Morgan Llewellyn. Bard in particular speaks of these things. Both are illusive and ancient, and yet certainly very much alive today. Neither have much to do with Samhaim, the Celtic new year, Halloween, or the thinning of the veils...though some feel that at this time of year, Fomorian influences are most likely the most obvious, and the Tuatha are the most active, at least in our limited perspective. Both are obvious and active all year if you know what you're looking at and can interpret events properly. We westerners have a bankrupt and dismissing attitude toward ritual; as a culture we are ritualistically poverty stricken. Perhaps we had a little more ritual in our daily lives, we might not be so neurotic. Ritual conceptualizes and makes concrete what we cannot begin to understand the mystery of. |