I can imagine the person who wrote this talking like Beth Grant’s character in Donnie Darko.
Halloween or Hallowe’en[7][8] (less commonly known as Allhalloween,[9] All Hallows’ Eve,[10] or All Saints’ Eve)[11] is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day
lol.
The wikipedia entry also has some cool historical pictures showing trick or treaters over a hundred years ago.
I guess they aren’t aware that Big Lots starts putting up Christmas stuff at the beginning of October.
It is distressing to see such a horrendous disregard for the English language. It’s bad enough without battering it this much.
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We will be GLAD to return when Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil!
what
“God fearing” has always struck me as a ridiculous statement. It’s supposed to be a positive, like, that person respected God. No. Jesus preached of a loving God. He was delusional, apocalyptic, and a product of his time and circumstances, but he said his god loved everyone. Throw that tired shit away.
You’re thinking New Testament God.
Old Testament God is a big mean motherfucker and he will fuck you up unless you follow his very strict rules. In fact, he won’t just fuck you up, he will fuck up your entire tribe collectively because you didn’t follow the rules.
Largely because he wasn’t the only God kicking around. Jehovah was originally just another local deity, but he beat up the others. You really were supposed to be afraid of the awesome power your god wielded. Ties back to the language of “you shall have no other gods before Me” - they were around, and they were real, but Jehovah was the baddest of them all.
Moses didn’t try to convince the Egyptians to worship Jehovah, he tried to make them scared of Jehovah.
I like how the Egyptians considered the Israelite god to be an evil spiteful desert war God that lied about how his people were treated.
There’s zero evidence that they were enslaved by the Egyptians and then revolted. But thanks to one king and centuries of retoric, here we are.
The super power of Jeovah is propaganda.
The funny thing is that they were enslaved by the Babylonians. And they did wander through the desert back to their homeland once they were freed. A much bigger desert.
Because if it took them 40 years to cross the Sinai, something was seriously wrong.
So my guess is that at some point, some Hebrew King was like, “you know what? I like the Persians. They run Babylon now. And FUCK THOSE EGYPTIAN MOTHERFUCKERS! We’re changing the story!” And since the King was the voice of Yaweh on Earth, now they were freed from Egypt.
Occams razor applies here too, your theory sounds spot on
I propose a new cinematic universe, and/or game series of wrestling matches between the gods.
have you heard of ‘hinduism’? pretty sure this is just, like, cannon.
now if you really want to go nuts with it, find a hindu community in mexico.
I think the greeks may have also had something like this but it was kinda cringe if it happened.
I feel like, the modern approach, if one reads the bible, believes it, and isn’t a sick perv or completely nuts, is misotheism.
“God fearing” is generally used in the context of Christianity and the New Testament God. If you believe in Hell, fear makes perfect sense.
He’ll also spontaneously change the rules at anytime and then kill your family.
“God fearing” is a train of thought for a reason.
okay but without fear isn’t there no morality? and, like, if nobody’s suffering, is there really such a thing as justice? if there’s not at least one child in a basement being tortured and treated like dirt, can you even call it a society? I mean, obviously the optimal number of people being horrible tortured in society is “everyone but me, in the sickest ways I can imagine”, but, y’know, progress is progress
-every fascist
Real Christians understand.
Aneurysms work in mysterious ways
Trying to interpret grammar/meaning for what is obviously a real-world schizo post is where u made your first mistake
I feel like those should be reversed? Or something…?
When you learn how to nest lists in your favourite word processor
Markdown !
Uh, Big Lots is closing all of their stores in October. Guess they won.
The news I’m reading says they are only closing some stores.
What am I supposed to do now, buy couches at normal prices???
Ask JD Vance. I’m sure he knows where all the best deals on couches are.
He probably gets those fake high class sofas. I wouldn’t trust him
Their furniture prices have gone way up, at least here. Not really all that different from a regular furniture store. You can easily spend over $1000 on a sofa there.
Know what else is in October? HALLOWEEN and all the wickedness!
Have the courage to stand by your convictions and print a return address.
There’s not enough room for the addresses of all the citizens of Tulsa
Halloween is my favorite holiday. All the WICKEDNESS !
My only problem with Halloween is that it’s only one day and then everyone stops with the skeletons and the spiders and stuff and their houses get boring again until Christmas.
Halloween and then Thanksgiving my friend.
Most people don’t decorate their house for Thanksgiving.
You’ve never lived in a neighborhood with money. Leaves and turkeys are all over the place for thanksgiving
I actually live in a fairly affluent neighborhood (in one of the less affluent houses) and yeah, some people do decorate for Thanksgiving, but nothing even close to either Halloween or Christmas.
Decorating for thanksgiving is decorating for thanksgiving. So you have seen it.
Personally I just do a fall decoration thing after summer. Nothing much, but it feels like I’m in the neighborhood I guess.
Many people put up generic Fall decor, like pumpkins and scarecrows and hay bales, stuff like that.
Unless you have the giant skeleton from Home Depot and dress it for each following holiday.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/huge-home-depot-skeleton-haunts-thanksgiving-christmas-displays/
There’s actually someone who lives relatively near my mother with a giant skeleton in their yard that they put a Santa hat on in the winter. And big props to them. I drive to the town where my mom lives once or twice a month, so I see it fairly regularly.
I mean. The actuall complaint is to early and Ill agree with that part. I don’t like holidays starting up more than a month before. october for holloween, november for thanksgiving, december for christmass, march for saint pats, febuary for valentines and whenever for easter if it can get its act together. Ill give that an exception as mardi gras is its own thing. Oh but if its fireworks can we keep those to just the day of and maybe before and after but we don’t need a week of it. blah blah. man yells at cloud.
You can bet they don’t mind Christmas decoration is up 4 months before Christmas though.
and xmass is the worst culprit. It really annoys me as I like the simple fall type stuff before thankgiving. I totally hate anything xmass wise before the day after thanksgiving. instead it tries to tread on holloween which is nuts.
Easter is always on the Sunday after the first full moon of spring. Blame the moon for being not in tune with the year.
I have a problem when stores decorate for holidays so early, but I think in this case they were just selling their Halloween stuff. Lots of people like to get their decorations lined up early, and craft stuff can take time, so I have no issue with them selling stuff whenever.
Halloween is an exception cause its the coolest one.
for me the more I like it the less I want it going early as it spoils the actual day. im sick of it by the time I should be most hyped.
febuary for valentines
That one isn’t at the end of the month tho?
yeah but they need the two weeks to clearance all the unsold candy and crap.
Was this written by Obvious Plant
No, but they have the brains of a vegetable.
This screams dear frozen yogurt, you are the celery of desserts, be ice-cream or be nothing. Zero stars
Except, when you believe in something you sign your name to it.
I like how people like this think that a business will somehow be upset that they and their crazy friends/family won’t be coming to their store. Threatening them with a good time!
Lol I used to live in Owasso! And halloween was my favorite holiday. My grandma was an over-decorator and would go over the top with decorations for every holiday. I know for a fact she bought Halloween decorations at this very store because I helped her pick them out. So that lady can get bent. She definitely doesn’t speak for everyone in Tulsa.
I just love the idea that their almighty god can be defeated with cheap chinese plastic decorations at the dollar store.
It’s amazing how many things hurt the omnipotent being they worship. The words “happy holidays,” red cups, plastic Halloween decorations in July…
