Its that time of year again when people of all ages dress up in costume and find a way to indulge in treats and experience the company of family and friends. The church tends to hold no opinion or direct malice for Halloween itself, and some local wards and stakes hold "Trunk-Or-Treat's" for the children under 12. Halloween is of no religious significance to Mormon's, as opposed to Easter or Christmas. Halloween tends to also be one of those times of year where people find excuse to drink a little more, engage in sex a little more, and some even feel that as teenage tradition calls for, a little more destruction and chaos. Halloween is more about being and succumbing to temptations than it is simply about candy, and creative costuming.Like the Internet, there is good and bad that comes with Halloween. As a Latter-Day Saint, I hope to engender in my children the responsibilities that we should embrace to set a high standard, but to also remember that having fun, the right kind of fun, is a great and encouraged thing.
When I see stores selling costumes that turn young women into a billboard for child predators (such as this one) I wonder if there is safety in trick-or-treating at all. As a father of four (soon to be five) girls, perhaps I am more sensitive and protective about this. Hormones run high in the pervert "community" on a night like Halloween. And with Internet pornography perpetuating role playing fetishes, rape, and other immoral conduct is as fertilized in uncontrollable minds as it can be.
To me, there is something to be said when gays and sluts embrace a holiday with such vigor, that speaks to something evil and immoral, rather than something fun and positive. Can Halloween be what it used to be, safe and for the kids? Or has Halloween become a lost cause?
Ignorant attack about gays. Lots of people on all sides get caught up in the naughty celibration. I don't think it is the gay community that is pushing for your daughters to wear immodest costumes. Get a life!
ReplyDeleteYou are such an idiot Javelin~ At what point did I say that the gay community was responsible for pushing anyone's daughters into immodest costumes? Do you know how to read? I can tell you don't know how to think, that is obvious.
ReplyDeleteAnd what attack on gays? Do gays consider themselves moral? Did I miss the memo when homosexuality became morally acceptable? I never said that other people didn't caught up in naughty celebration (your horrible misspelling of celebration being an obvious sign that you are hopelessly under educated).
I feels so good to get under your skin. You brought up gays in your post. Own it! BTW, I am a school teacher which shows how ignorant you are about being educated. I would never critisize you for mispelling a word (done on purpose) but I will attack your ideas.
ReplyDeleteAre you well? What do you mean "own it!?" I said gays enjoyed and embraced Halloween. That went from it being an attack, to somehow I was claiming that gays were at fault for pushing daughters into immodest costumes? There is nothing there for me to own, it is all in your ignorant head.
ReplyDeleteYou are a school teacher but you are unwilling to correct misspelling (by the way, you misspelled 'mispelled', along with criticize, and you started your comment with 'I feels so good' as if that is good english)? What kind of teacher are you? Where do you teach? The School for the Perpetually Uneducated? Also, what kind of teacher will attack ideas but not proper english?
Javelin, you sadden me. You deeply, deeply sadden me.
It's sad that you cannot see common sense. Any 4th grader would know that I misspelled those two words on purpose because I made it very clear to the reader. That's where my "done on purpose" comes in. James, you are so clueless. You need to own the comment you made about gays being immoral by their vigor of celebrating halloween. Own it! You made the comment. So own it!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of teacher am I? A good one.
Javelin-
ReplyDeleteYou make me laugh. Actually, as an English major and an intelligent human being, your use of "done on purpose" only applies to the previous misspelling. Had you added "all" to the beginning of your statement it would have covered any other typos or misspellings. What you presented is known as a "dangling participle."
Also using my basic knowledge of the English language, James did not ever say that gays made his daughters wear slutty costumes. His statement was that gays and sluts embrace the evil and immoral sides of the holiday. The jump you made is known as Irrelevant conclusion or non sequitur: Two statements are made in sequence, as if one followed from the other, or the two were directly connected; but there is no relation or connection between them, logical or otherwise.
Examples: 'Tens of thousands of Americans have seen lights in the night sky which they could not identify. The existence of life on other planets is fast becoming certainty!' 'Science can't explain everything. We have to take ghost stories very seriously.' or even Argumentum ad hominem: This is a special kind of non sequitur in which it is concluded that a person's ideas need not be considered because of some personal characteristic which in fact is irrelevant to the ideas under discussion.
Examples: 'Von Daniken's books about ancient astronauts are worthless because he is a convicted forger and embezzler.' 'The contributions of Oscar Wilde to literature cannot be taken seriously. He was, after all, a skeptic, a cynic and a blatant homosexual.'
Have a happy day Javelin!!!
@ Crayon Face, I think you used too many big words for Javelin.
ReplyDelete@ Javelin - Here is what I own, and I think that most third graders would be able to understand what I wrote originally. I think that gays like Halloween, and that being gay is immoral. I have not made apology for it. I have said it three times already - there is nothing left to own - so drop it!
So childish. You should have the integrity to stand up and own the garbage you are selling. Even by the church standards being gay is not immoral.
ReplyDeleteCR, my day was great! My comment to James applies to you as well.