How about Iowa?...
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
"Deer" is a religion of peace...
Ours left after we put on the vinyl siding...
How about Iowa?...
Not that I would want to forget though!!! NEVER!!! But it was something I will reach for everytime I am asked by my daughter why we are fighting.
Only trouble is is she keeps asking 'why do they hate us?'...how can you explain to an 8 yr old just how ugly the world can be? And how so much has led up to this.
The best I could manage was to make sure that Clinton's legacy is never forgotten. I told her...This was Clinton's fault.
Anyway...not to change the subject, but I came in here to announce two LOTR websites I have been working on:
Midgewater Marsh Tolkien Society
and
A Day in the Life of the Dark Lordess
The second one is still very much in development, but cant help but show it off. I am really excited about both of them. Our 'Tolkien Society' is not a 'real' one. We dont know any actual members...and its a bit TOO scholarly for our tastes. My friends and I have some rather warped senses of humor, so we would probably tick off the 'real' society-mavens.
Best regards,
Alkhin
Thanks, AM
ARGH!
are dimwits like that really worth it? He said it was miscast! Is he the same one who said that Aragorn should have been played by Roger Dalton of James Bond fame??? People with that poor sense of talent will never understand it when they see it, so what's the use.
We know Peter Jackson did a brilliant job. He'll be left behind when all the elves and hobbits AND dwarves have gone away.
*sheesh* what a maroon.
ARGH!
are dimwits like that really worth it? He said it was miscast! Is he the same one who said that Aragorn should have been played by Roger Dalton of James Bond fame??? People with that poor sense of talent will never understand it when they see it, so what's the use.
We know Peter Jackson did a brilliant job. He'll be left behind when all the elves and hobbits AND dwarves have gone away.
*sheesh* what a maroon.
ARGH!
are dimwits like that really worth it? He said it was miscast! Is he the same one who said that Aragorn should have been played by Roger Dalton of James Bond fame??? People with that poor sense of talent will never understand it when they see it, so what's the use.
We know Peter Jackson did a brilliant job. He'll be left behind when all the elves and hobbits AND dwarves have gone away.
*sheesh* what a maroon.
and my links were denied by FR's server so here they are without the html:
www.geocities.com/midgewatermarsh/index.html
www.geocities.com/myswtbaraddur/index.html
I wasn't plugging it for that reason, Corin, but because it is my bounden duty as a citizen of the state. If you must know, I wouldn't vote for entmoot here in winter myself. Bring on Orlando, baby! But summer? That's another story....
(FYI: I am a native Californian, but I have lived here more than half my life now, so I have adopted many of the native customs/affectations, the primary one of which is a massive inferiority complex about Minnesota. We are all afraid that no one else likes or respects us or our state and we feel compelled to talk about how great it is at every possible opportunity and brag about how tough we are in the winters, how well the Twins are doing, trading insults with Wisconsinites, etc., etc.)
So if you catch me falling into that mode, just smile, nod your head, and say to yourself, "there he goes again", but know that underneath we are just Americans like you (and there are a lot of fine ones here). See, there I go again....
Boy, did I ever learn THAT the hard way...
I am soooo sorry! I didn't know that the capability to switch pictures like that even existed...g'nad didn't upset me, but THAT sure did...I pinged the moderator and they're gone now, but still...
I'll just crawl back under my rock for awhile...my hands are shaking so it's hard to type, anyway.
They are just adventure stories for kids, harmless IMO. Any child that is old enough to read them will know they are fiction, not fact.
Yes, they are very lightweight compared to Tolkien and probably Lewis (I haven't read Narnia), but they are still good and lots of fun. They do, actually, champion good in a struggle against evil.
IMHO, also, the folks who are horrified at the magic are the same ones who were horrified with Galileo. If kids can't handle stories with magic in them, they just haven't been brought up right. These thoughts would get me crucified on some threads.
It's not too much trouble to read one if you want to check.
You could ask JenB, for sure.
Are you trying to replace 2JM? :)
I've read all four Potter books. We own the movie. I also re-read the Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings this summer (and listed to The Hobbit). I would compare Rowling to Lewis in Tolkien only far enough to say that the "magic" is make believe. There's no depth to Harry Potter it's entertainment. And it's also harmless.
But the above statement is just wrong. There is a clear distinction between good and evil in the books. Granted, in some cases those that turn out to be good, once gave the appearance of evil, and vice versa. And there are those who strive to be good who are drawn to evil. Sounds like real life to me.
Harmful deeds are committed to bring about positive results...
Oh the horrors! Bad things happen that turn out to be for the good.
You know. Like the crucifixion...
That's not to spiritualize Potter, because you can't and because I don't believe Rowling intended to. She wrote fantasy stories to tell her daughter and ended up making big bucks. That's all.
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