Where does Valentines Day come from?
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Check out www.wikipedia.org.  Search for Valentines Day.  It give you a big long history and details from how it is celebrated around the world.  I would put it here, but it is much too long.
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Yes.\n\nHolidays are days to celebrate special things and/or people.  But a valentine need not be a significant other.  It can be a child, a close friend or a family member who needs a smile. \n\nBeing single myself - I try to make it a special day for those that I care about - I will do something special with my son or for my elderly grandfather or my close friends, etc...  I don't let the day go to waste just because I don't have a significant other to dote upon.
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The meaning of Valentine's day has basically been the same over the years...sending a message of love.  However, the history (see site below) would seem to indicate it is a message of love that says good-bye.\n\nThe Greeks have 3 words for love. 1) Eros, which is a physical, sensual love from which we get the word erotic. 2) Philos, which is a platonic, brotherly type love, from where Philadelphia (city of brotherly love) gets its name, and 3) Agape, which is the sacrificial love that Christian's use to describe God's love for the world.
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During the Roman Empire, St. Valentine (one of the first Catholic saints) would marry couples under the Christian rites (forbidden at that time, reason for which he was martirized). That's why he's considered the saint associated with love. Feb. 14 is the date associated to him by the R.C.C.
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http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=need+valentine
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Yes, Indian literature is full of references to the 'Sharada Sashi' [Spring's moon], and the 14-day long festival of LOVE which ends on the 'Sharada Poornima' [Full moon of Spring] day.\nIt is also recorded that young men and women [both married, and un !] used to come out in groups - and enjoy themselves quite publicly - along the banks of rivers, or on the seas' shores !\nThanks to 'western' influences, we have forgotten all that - and imagine that we need a Valentine's Day to express our hearts' desires !\nAnd worse, all those self-appointed 'guardians' of our Indian subcontinent's 'culture' go about bashing-up and terrorising harmless young lovers [in typical 'western' style !] - conveniently forgetting that it was India who first initiated a healthy intermingling of boys and girls, to neutralise the frustrations that such 'isolationist tendencies' can generate !\n...Hey guys 'n gals, how about getting the whole wide world to celebrate the Spring Moon festival ?! Unlike St Valentine's Day, it will last an entire fortnight !
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Everyday is a good day to show Love, so a simple gesture like a heart shaped candy/chocolate, and a note/card...maybe dinner...in or out it depends on what would be more appreciated by your partner.  Happy Valentines Day Everyone!
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Your past questions have been about Arabs and Muslims.  The celebration of Valentines is against the practices of Islam.\n\nBut to answer your question.  As a general rule, never give a woman anything that plugs into a wall socket.  A gift must require thought.  Flowers and a card ARE expected.  The little something extra must be something that you know she wants and that she has hinted about over the past month.    Good luck with it man.
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We buy valentines day cards and flowers for our valentines (the commercial aspect) and we take them out or stay home for a romantic dinner (the romantic aspect).\n\nPS Did I forget to mention CHOCOLATE!!! :)
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Cause it had became a marketing tool of the retail business.  Valentines day won't suck if you could express your love to those you should love.  Not limited to lovers!  Could be your parents, friends, and the poor.  Expensive presents is just a show off of wealth rather than show off of love :)
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If it's midnight or later on the 14th, it's Valentine's Day. \n\n(I suggest you invest in a clock and a calendar.)
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It origin dates back to the ancient games in Greece and the goddess Hera. The flame is lit in Greece and then carried along its path to the final destination of the games. See the links below for more info.
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Depends which one. There were at least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, and are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century . In the Middle Ages what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing is known so far. \n\nAs for St. Valentine's Day, it had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair.  For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. So basically, it was a custom that coincided with St Valentine's Day, and out of ignorance associate it with the Feast Day, when all it is is a coincidence.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day#History_of_Valentine.27s_Day
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There are varying opinions as to the origin of Valentine's Day.  Some experts state that it originated from St. Valentine, a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity.  He died on February 14, 269 A.D., the same day that had been devoted to love lotteries.  Legend also says that St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, who had become his friend, and signed it "From Your Valentine".  Other aspects of the story say that Saint Valentine served as a priest at the temple during the reign of Emperor Claudius.  Claudius then had Valentine jailed for defying him.  In 496 A.D.  Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honour St. Valentine.
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Happy Valentine's day
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Please tell me what this has to do with Valentine's Day. You posted the question under that topic, and I don't see the relationship between a holiday and the end of the world.