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lol the marketing ploys worked! Interesting fact: The origin of VDay can be traced back to early Rome, when teenage boys and girls would gather and choose a mate for the following year. When Christianity began to spread, the Church adapted Valentines Day as a Christian holiday in an attempt to encourage chasity in teenagers.
maybe so....but they "celebrate" it in the most commercial/weird way.....outfits, pumpkins...and a shit load of lollies to buy so they can send their kids out to knock on strangers doors. Glad we dont "celebrate" it as over the top here
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isnt that like a "war of flowers" thing? Battle of Flowers http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=29645 the Kushiel's Legacy series is a fantasy/ alternate history (loosely based on world map and religions) and she depicts a flower war, (probably based on the above event) where the men lay siege to a castle and try to climb the walls, and the women inside the castle try to defend against them with flour/ confetti filled egg bombs and flowers being thrown from the battlements. that would be a good time! of course, courtship is mostly comatose nowadays.
going door to door begging for candy/gifts during holidays has been around since roman times.... same with the carvings... and costumes... PS: in the 1500's there wasn't such a thing as "commercialism"
..see....i realize that if next year i have a gf..or even a friend with benefits...i would likely acknowledge the day in some way....and could eat these words lol...and this site has enough 'feel good' threads...i like to shake things up a bit:devil:
I'd be willing to bet...(without googling) it was the Americans that commercialised it and NOT the Romans. and I thought we were talking about today....not 600 odd years ago.
I always thought the whole giving of treats and celebrating came from the mexican(?) holiday for the dead.
Samhain marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter for the Celts. Like most of the holidays we celebrate today it was adapted from a pagan celebration that marked the change in season
and i think they dressed up to confuse angry spirits that might be looking for them (night when the veil is thin) and i think you leave food out so that spirits dont screw with your house.