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The History of Halloween

A little background on the origins of Halloween:

“2,000 years ago, the Celts lived in what is now Ireland, Scotland, the United Kingdom and France. Their new year began on November 1, which for them marked the end of summer and the onset of winter. They believed that the barrier between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred on the night of October 31 as their calendar changed. Spirits of the dead were believed to roam the earth, causing havoc. The Celts also believed that the presence of these spirits enabled the Druids, their priestly class, to predict the future.

October 31 was called Samhain (pronounced sowen) meaning ?summer?s end,? after the god of the same name, whom the Celts believed imprisoned the sun god for the winter. To commemorate the day, the Druids built bonfires and the people dressed in costumes made of animal heads and skins.

The Romans had conquered the Celts by 43 CE. They ruled for 400 years and combined two of their own holidays with Samhain. One was Feralia, a holiday commemorating the dead. The other was the holiday honoring Pomona, the goddess of fruit and trees. (Pomona?s symbol was an apple and this is part of the origin of the custom to ?bob for apples? on Halloween.)

By the 800s, Christianity had spread into the Celtic lands. The Church was having some trouble getting people to stop celebrating their old pagan holidays, so they decided to assign Christian holidays to coincide with them. November 1 was designated ?All Saints Day,? honoring martyrs and saints. October 31 was the eve of All Saints Day, ?All Hallows Eve? (from which came the name Halloween). In 1000 CE, November 2 was designated All Souls Day, honoring the dead. Collectively, the three day festival from October 31 through November 2 was called ?Hallowmas.?

All Souls Day in England featured parades. During these festivities, the poor would beg for ?soul cakes,? which they received in exchange for promises to pray for the donor?s dead relatives. The Church encouraged the practice of soliciting soul cakes to replace the practice of leaving food out to appease wandering spirits. This, of course, is the source of the modern ?Trick or Treat.?

Dressing in costume comes from the Celtic tradition of dressing up in animal skins (as described above) and from a European custom. People were afraid that they would encounter ghosts if they went out on Halloween. They dressed up and wore masks to disguise themselves so that the spirits would mistake them for other ghosts.

Halloween traditions were popularized in America in the latter half of the 19^th century by Irish immigrants fleeing the great potato famine of 1846. By the middle of the 20^th century, ?trick or treating? had become associated with vandalism. Harmless mischief perpetrated on those who refused gifts of food or money had grown into acts of property defacement and felonious assault. It continues to be that way in many places today.

It?s ironic that many Fundamentalist Christian groups object to Halloween because of its pagan origins. The same superimposition of Christian holidays over existing pagan holidays was accomplished with Lupercalia (St. Valentine?s Day), Eostre (Easter) and Yule (Christmas).

So what is the origin of Halloween? It?s a combination of Celtic, Roman and Christian holidays. … No matter how you look at it, Halloween is not a secular holiday. - ou.org

Halloween Fun

Hi People, How are your costume parties this year? Check out the great Halloween features on Retrocrush.com including the 100 coolest monsters!

And while you’re at it, check out people’s Halloween Costumes on YouTube.

If you are in Sacramento, come say hello to me at the TFO ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ on Halloween Night at the Crest.

Global warming will devastate economy: report

Global warming could devastate the world economy on a scale we haven’t seen since the world wars and the Great Depression, a major report by a British economist says.

Sir Nicholas Stern, the report’s author and a senior government economist, said unchecked global warming could shrink the global economy by 20 per cent — and cost a whopping $7 trillion in lost output. However, taking action now would cost just one per cent of global gross domestic product, Sterns says in his 700-page study.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who introduced the report today, called for “bold and decisive action” to cut carbon emissions and stem the worst of temperature rise. He said the Stern Review showed scientific evidence that global warming was “overwhelming” and its consequences “disastrous.” - more

Ah, what do the British know anyway? Just trust Bush. Believe Inhofe:

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee … has called global warming a hoax perpetrated by environmentalists on the American public. - cbs

This video explains Bush’s view on the Global Warmings:

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Terror Storm: An video about False Flag operations and 9/11

History of false terrorism trickery by governments. 1 hr 50 minutes. Alex Jones uses documented facts to show that governments sometimes kill their own people and use false blame to gain control, to invade other countries, etc. Includes info on the London bombings (7/7) and much more.

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I don’t share Alex Jones’ generalized view of Governments being evil. My estimation is that most people in the CIA, FBI, NSA and so on are working to protect America, support the Constitution, maintain civil liberties, etc. Still, in the name of doing those things, lines are crossed. I think this crap does happen and with compartmentalization “need to know” information control it isn’t terribly difficult for a small powerful group to pull off state sponsored terrorism from the inside. Change has to happen from the inside out. It does, and it will eventually.

Mysterious Gelatinous Ball

A mysterious gelatinous ball has puzzled and fascinated researchers after undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen spotted it while diving at the mouth of the Matre fjord in Hordaland, western Norway.

On Oct. 1 Rudolf and his brother Erling were diving when he spotted the unusual object.

“It was 50-70 centimeters (19.5-27.5 inches) in diameter and looked like a huge beach ball. It was transparent but had a kind of thick, red cord in the middle. It was a bit science-fiction,” Svensen told newspaper Bergens Tidende’s web site.

… A zoology professor and squid expert in New Zealand corroborated by email - the peculiar gelatinous ball was a large squid egg sack.

“The gelatinous lump contains several fertilized eggs. This is not at all a common sight, because squids are some of the most inaccessible animals known,” Fjellheim told iBergen.no. - aftenposten

New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil

Like a black light poster come to life, a group of bioluminescent fungi collected from Ribeira Valley Tourist State Park near S?o Paulo, Brazil, emanates a soft green glow when the lights go out.

The mushrooms are part of the genus Mycena, a group that includes about 500 species worldwide. Of these only 33 are known to be bioluminescent?capable of producing light through a chemical reaction. - natgeo

Diver deaths spawn rumors of underground waterway

About 120 miles east of Albuquerque, on the eastern edge of the town of Santa Rosa, N.M., lies a tiny oval of blue water - a spring-fed sinkhole about 80 feet wide and 81 feet deep - known as the Blue Hole.

Sometime ago a group of scuba divers dove into the Blue Hole, eager to explore every nook and fissure of the smooth-walled sinkhole. After climbing out, they realized one of their divers had disappeared.

Six months later, the body of that diver finally surfaced, but not in Santa Rosa. It was discovered, the story claims, in Lake Michigan - more than a thousand miles away - naked, waterlogged and with much of its skin scuffed off, as if it had been pushed and scraped through miles of rocky tunnels.

If the story is true, one of the longest underground waterways in the world could lie directly beneath us. Perhaps the direct water route across the continent searched for by the explorers Lewis and Clark actually exists - underground. Andrea Sachs, in a Dec. 19, 2004, Washington Post article, wrote that there is a protective metal grate covering a spring that produces about 3,000 gallons of fresh water per minute on the Blue Hole’s limestone floor. And, she wrote, that grate also seals off an elaborate network of caves that twists southward 200 miles, down to Texas. …

There are reportedly some rooms below the sink, and it goes to 250 feet with a going passage beyond,” said Mike Poucher, cartographer for the National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section. “How far does it go? No one knows.”

Poucher said the grate blocking the cave system was installed in the early 1980s, after at least four divers died in the caves during the previous decade. - dailylobo

This is not the only Blue Hole. There are others.

Painting town red? No, pink

THE crime-infested city of Aurangabad in eastern India is being painted pink in the hope that an image makeover will lift the sagging morale of residents who are fed up with the decline in law and order, officials said.

The city of two million people is a hotbed of killing, inter-caste wars, extortion and abduction. - scots

This will really be a story if it actually reduces crime.