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Haloween versus All Saints Day - which day do you prefer?

Halloween or All Saints Day - which is my favorite? single choice
	I love Halloween, so much fun for kids and everybody else... what is All Saints Day? Does anybody ever celebrate it?
	I love both - Halloween is nice for kids, All Saints' Day gives some extra flavor to it
	I do not like any of these two feasts, I prefer Thanksgiving and Christmas
	I was raised in a tradition of solemn All Saints Day and I have a hard time to get used to funny sceletons of Halloween
	I have a different opinion, please explain
Votes accepted starting: 10/27/05 12:00 PM
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Halloween contest at work. This is my pumpkin I am entering. I just finished it.I wanted it to smoke out of the chimney but my smoker would not cooperate. Tell me what you think. Im entering it in the Creative Catagory.

http://community.webshots.com/user/rdywenur

I could not see your pumpkin, but I would love to see it!

Is there any way to see it without logining? for instance I can see Nancy's album with pictures:

http://community.webshots.com/user/nancyjmblake

Jaga. Of course I had to have a different opinion. In the tradition I remember: All Souls Day (Haloween) was set aside as a day of prayer for the Souls of those who had passed away. All Saints Day was a day to commerate all those who are in the presence of God. Halloween night was a night reserved for children Costumes were homemade and anyone who wore a "store-bought" costume was roundly scoffed at. There were very few masks and you decorated your face with items that could be found around the home. It was a very poor night if a child only collected one grocery bag full of goodies. We not only received candy, but, also got cookies and fruit as well. We never worried about poisened apples because perverts were not running loose as they are today. Yes, children enjoyed themselves that night and when you were 11 years old, you considered yourself too old to go trick or treating.

Boy Im having a hard time in picking the url that will allow everyone to view my photos. I chose another one and hope it works. I replaced the above one. When I test it in preview they all work for me so I am assuming everyone can see them too. Now to find out how to be able to find the correct url to allow just an imgage on forum and I'll be all set. <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

rdy......
I found and viewed your Webshots pumpkin images no problem. Excellemt, and I hope you win the competition. I do like the face at the window.
Leslie

rdy,

for some strange reasons I could access the same link with no problem today, thanks! Nice pumpkin!

Bob,

it almost looks that your opinion could be classified as:
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I love both - Halloween is nice for kids, All Saints' Day gives some extra flavor to it +++

Is there anything remaining after All Saints Day in the USA? Do protestants also remember this day or only catholics? I will see tomorrow since Ela has a religion class just in a Haloween day.

Beautiful pumpkin! Good luck in the contest.

I voted for option #1, but with a slight modification: I liked Halloween (when I was an older child), however, I don't think Halloween is fun for all kids. It was kind of a scary holiday for me til I was at least 7-8 years old. Some people really turn it into a gruesome holiday.