Comments on: Who is The Great Pumpkin? http://rushingaround.com/2009/01/19/who-is-the-great-pumpkin/ Because no one is in as much of a hurry as a man who doesn't know why he's Rushing Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Steven http://rushingaround.com/2009/01/19/who-is-the-great-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Steven Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:47:26 +0000 http://rushingaround.com/?p=1012#comment-824 I am far from an "Obama kool-aid drinker" although I do wish him the best and pray for him if only because him doing well means the country is doing well... or something like that. In any case, I find the idea that you can either be on the Obama train, or be a conservative Judeo-Christian - one and not the other - well that is crazy. I can't write or think, just got home and the kids are crazy. =) I am far from an “Obama kool-aid drinker” although I do wish him the best and pray for him if only because him doing well means the country is doing well… or something like that. In any case, I find the idea that you can either be on the Obama train, or be a conservative Judeo-Christian – one and not the other – well that is crazy. I can’t write or think, just got home and the kids are crazy. =)

]]> By: Jason Rushing http://rushingaround.com/2009/01/19/who-is-the-great-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Jason Rushing Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:38:48 +0000 http://rushingaround.com/?p=1012#comment-818 I have been toting that piece of knowledge for years now, IT MUST BE TRUE. (I either read it in that peanuts book, or I made it up and have convinced myself it is true) so... lesson's to be learned: 1. Never doubt anything i say, it is the gospel truth... unless it's not. 2. Don't tell my wife I'm wrong... She'll start thinking I'm wrong ALL the time. ooh Pandora's Box... ((On a complete side note, I need to know something. Do we have any Obama kool-aid drinkers? Or are all our readers conservative Judea-Christians?)) I have been toting that piece of knowledge for years now, IT MUST BE TRUE. (I either read it in that peanuts book, or I made it up and have convinced myself it is true)

so… lesson’s to be learned:

1. Never doubt anything i say, it is the gospel truth… unless it’s not.
2. Don’t tell my wife I’m wrong… She’ll start thinking I’m wrong ALL the time. ooh Pandora’s Box…

((On a complete side note, I need to know something. Do we have any Obama kool-aid drinkers? Or are all our readers conservative Judea-Christians?))

]]> By: Patricia http://rushingaround.com/2009/01/19/who-is-the-great-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-817 Patricia Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:59:38 +0000 http://rushingaround.com/?p=1012#comment-817 It was created by Peanuts. Linus would wait every year for the Great Pumpkin, even tho it never appeared. The next year his faith was just as strong that this would be the year. I don't think it had to do with an alternative to Halloween but it made for a continuing story line for the character. It was created by Peanuts. Linus would wait every year for the Great Pumpkin, even tho it never appeared. The next year his faith was just as strong that this would be the year. I don’t think it had to do with an alternative to Halloween but it made for a continuing story line for the character.

]]> By: Steven http://rushingaround.com/2009/01/19/who-is-the-great-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-816 Steven Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:56:24 +0000 http://rushingaround.com/?p=1012#comment-816 I don't know that it had anything whatsoever to do with trying to "co-opt" or create an alternative to Halloween... At least I never interpreted it that way. Linus was so faithful though, and the pumpkin never showed up. It was kinda sad. I watched both Charlie Brown Christmas Specials this last Christmas, and appreciated that the actual Christmas story was read, in part, in both of them. Then I went on to watch some other Christmas Specials, and even in the HeMan - Masters of the Universe Christmas Special, they tell about the real Christmas story. It really is a new world today. I don’t know that it had anything whatsoever to do with trying to “co-opt” or create an alternative to Halloween… At least I never interpreted it that way. Linus was so faithful though, and the pumpkin never showed up. It was kinda sad.

I watched both Charlie Brown Christmas Specials this last Christmas, and appreciated that the actual Christmas story was read, in part, in both of them.

Then I went on to watch some other Christmas Specials, and even in the HeMan – Masters of the Universe Christmas Special, they tell about the real Christmas story. It really is a new world today.

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