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In your opinion, what's the age limit for Trick r Treating? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My sister is 23 and still dresses up and goes out knocking doors for candy... and I find it weird but I let her do her. It got me thinking, at what age do you think someone should stop Trick r Treating at? Just curious.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  • C.S. Lewis

Good on your sister for not losing track of what makes her happy. Not doing things just because they are "childish" is the most childish trait an adult can display.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

THATS the rest of the quote!!?! Ha. Man I’ve always just heard it stop at β€œ childish things”. Makes more sense now

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Actually no, Lewis is parodying the Bible: https://www.biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-11.htm

The Bible quote does say that, but he's poking fun at it by saying "why so serious?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You heard it that way because that's because that's the end of 1 Corinthians 13:11:

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

C.S. Lewis is playing off of a Bible quote and that became its own thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because quotes get cut wherever they benefit the person repeating them. You were shown the quote from people who don't enjoy life and want others to suffer the same way.