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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I need a job, too. although it’s hurricane season, so we have to be careful.
They’re very popular in some circles. Think the Catholic version of “Left Behind”, though I admit I’ve never read Left Behind. End of the world kinds of stuff.
I read them because my brother works for the publisher, and I wanted to like ‘em...but the characters were so unbelievable that I just couldn’t. For one, all the women seem to be either Calamity Jane types or June Cleaver.
No, the main characters in Harry Potter pretty deliberately do not seek power - actually a key plot point in the final book was Harry choosing not to try to acquire powerful items that might enable him to overpower his opponent, but rather to do as his mentor had suggested and pursue Voldemort’s weakness. A key difference...
Harry never seeks to become more powerful. He does learn new spells, but what he is learning is to apply the power he already has. To use what he’s been given. That’s an idea that should resonate with Christians...
Comparing the magical systems in Harry Potter to those in LotR is silly, they’re not parallel at all. People who criticize Potter’s magic obviously don’t write themselves. They don’t understand that when writing a story, you’re inventing a whole different world. Sometimes it looks a lot like ours, but the rules are different. In Harry Potter, the “rule” is that magic works and is not forbidden. In our world, magic neither works nor is licit. But Potter does not take place in our world. If I wrote a science fiction novel in which entropy did not exist, would I be trying to tell children that they can ignore entropy like my heroes? Of course not.
Ah... it all becomes clear.
My l’il brother is now experiencing Florida heat - he starts orientation at Ave Maria in Naples today...arrived yesterday. If’n I have the schedule right.
Meanwhile, on another thread (a Mary Kate Olson one, strangely), there’s a guy who claims that the Bible tells us to smoke marijuana, but avoid alcohol, and any Christians who say marijuana isn’t necessarily a wonderful thing for all aren’t true Bible Christians.
Where’s muh popcorn....
and brownies...
Ha! Right. ;-)
Mmmmm...brownies...
Does that mean Harry Potter would be ok if he was a teenage drug dealer?
Only if he was a good drug dealer battling the bad drug dealers using acid trips as a dynamic part of telling the story.
Or something like that.
We were somewhere around Barstow on
the edge of the desert when the
drugs began to take hold.
I remember saying something like:
“I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe
you should drive...”
Suddenly there was a terrible roar
all around us and the sky was full
of what looked like huge bats, all
swooping and screeching and diving
around the car...
But one of my early criticisms of the series, and a topic that doesn't ever get discussed on HPITD threads, is a recurring theme that 'HP can get away with bloody murder; break any rule and face no consequences because he's ~special~'. JKR did a good job of exploring the impact of that on HP's relationships with friends and family as the series progressed. It was the source of a lot of conflict, and towards the end, self-searching and growth - which I applaud. However, I was really bothered at the beginning with her gratuitous treatment of the ultimate child fantasy: "I'm so special that I can do whatever I want and no one can tell me what to do." Those kinds of notions do far more to undermine parental authority than make-believe magic ever could.
Oh that's interesting. Since I haven't seen the last five episodes of LAST season, I'll have to get up to speed on what transpired. We have them on DVR just haven't watched them. "Heroes" was much more interesting last season.
I'll tell Clare to keep a look out for him!! She just shipped our two metal Dance Dance Revolution pads to the school. A friend of hers wanted to do an 'Arcade Night' as a fundraiser to assist the kids who'd like to go to World Youth Day in Australia. She's also going to hang a sign-up sheet next to it, to try to get enough signatures to petition the Student Activities Council to buy a real arcade DDR machine for the Student Center. That would be a fun, wholesome activity for the kids!
Did your brother bring his guitar down? I sure hope so!
*snort* Yeah, I'm sure that would have been much nicer. But we wouldn't have been able to see the beach with all the rain, anyway! I'm sure VA Beach a lovely place; we might come back some time, when we have more time just to lollygag on the beach!
WooHoo! That will be a nice time of year to be there!
You NEED to read the HP books. They are just a dang good read! As long as you don’t get hung up on kids learning magic, they’re just fun stories of the forces of good fighting the forces of evil; a story as old as time, as they say.
Heroes was very good! I can’t wait for this upcoming season. TV has been really crummy lately.
Ah, but a story that old must be pagan, ergo HP is the devil.
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