23rd December 2003, 10:47 PM
Yeah Weltall, to be honest I gotta agree that taking part in a holiday doesn't mean one's celebrating everything the holiday stands for. After all, the whole holiday's meaning was completely changed to what it is now thanks to people celebrating it in other ways long ago to avoid persecution. Same with Halloween, which I DO celebrate myself, because I love costumes and candy. I love doing the thing with the black silk over one's face and a dark hood to give one the ol' wraith appearence, and it's such a cheap yet completely effective optical illusion that ya scare pretty much everyone. It's fun to see some grown man come out of their house saying "ooh scary" to your little sibs and then seeing you suddenly and ACTUALLY freaking out for a sec, or when some poor individual thinks you have to be some sort of life size doll someone dragged along and tries looking "into" the hood to see if it's really empty in there. Who couldn't enjoy that kind of fun?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)