Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays since I was a kid. I used to enjoy decorating our house with all sorts of spook things. I would put flashing or strobe lights in the windows as well as hang skeletons, ghosts and other spooky things in them. Basically I made sure our house stood out from the rest of the houses on the block.

I also love Halloween because it’s a spooky time of year that invokes images of ghosts, goblins and the boogieman. Many people believe Halloween is satanic in origin. This belief, while widely accepted, is incorrect. While the holiday is pagan in origin, Satan is a completely Christian belief and not part of pagan religions. The holiday actually has its origins with ancient farming communities. Halloween was the time of the year when the last of the crops were harvested and a long, cold and dead (nothing grows) fall/winter commenced. It could be a time of uncertainty for them based on how well they did with their crops, and thus death was always a possibility.

I like Halloween for the scariness of it though. I’m trying to pull together a Halloween party/get together for my friends. I’ve actually stated my intentions to do this for the past three years, but never have. This year I’m trying my best to throw the party, which will consist of watching only the scariest of movies and then taking a trip through a corn maze in the pitch black of night (after my guests have consumed alcohol!) The corn maze is across the street, so we don’t have far to travel to get to it (ie no driving drunk).

If I can pull it off, it should be a blast 🙂

Dustin