Posted on 11/24/2017 10:21:11 AM PST by mairdie
Not into Harry? How about a Kaleidescope to "Lo How a Rose is Blooming" by the Trail Band? Items in the kaleidescope from the late Steve Grimes' machine shop. Steve made the videotapeable device.
I’ll take Frosty the Snowman. . .but Harry Potter??? Straight from the pits of hell.
LOVE Harry Potter! The only reason he’d go down there would be to do some good magic and get somebody out. A hero, if there ever was one. A good and brave boy who becomes a good man.
Isn’t Harry Potter a Democrat?
My contemporary favorite: Mary Did You Know? By Pentonix
Dittos, MAUDEEN.
HARRY POTTER is turning countless thousands into future witches and warlocks. FREEFORM plays the series nonstop.
J.K. ROLLING excerpt:
J.K. Rowling claims that the idea for the Harry Potter books suddenly came to her one day in 1990 while riding on a train. So she just started writing, and everything came to mind as she wrote. At least, that is what she says.
“The character of Harry just strolled into my head . . I really did feel he was someone who walked up and introduced himself to my mind’s eye.”—Rowling, quoted in Reuters, July 17, 2000.
Believing her, readers think that, while she never had any prior knowledge of witchcraft, everything in the books just popped into her imagination. But, as we will discover, the reality is far different.
Whether or not Rowling is a practicing witch, she has, for years, studied deeply into the blackest of witchcraft training manuals. And she is pouring it all into her seven books. The Harry Potter books teach every lurid aspect of witchcraft!
Joanne Kathleen Rowling grew up in Scotland. What she doesn’t tell you is that, since childhood, she has tried to learn everything she can about witchcraft.
According to Ian Potter (a childhood friend, whose last name she used in her book titles), Rowling used to dress up as a witch all the time. Ian’s younger sister, Vikki, also remembers those days when they were growing up together.
“Our favorite thing was to dress up as witches. We used to dress up and play witch all the time. My brother would dress up as a wizard. Joanne was always reading witchcraft stories to us . . We would make secret potions for her. She would always send us off to get twigs for the potions.”—Ian Potter and Vikki Potter, quoted in Danielle Demetriou, “Harry Potter and the Source of Inspiration,” Electronic Telegraph, July 1, 2000.
Trying to hide her years of witchcraft involvement, Rowling falsely claims that she knows little about witchcraft and really has no interest in it.
“I truly am bemused that anyone who has read the books could think that I am a proponent of the occult in any serious way. I don’t believe in witchcraft, in the sense that they’re talking about, at all . . I don’t believe in magic in the way I describe it in my books.”—“Success Stuns Harry Potter Author,” Associated Press, July 6, 2000.
But, during a 1999 interview, Rowling admitted that, in the process of writing the books, she had studied mythology, witchcraft, and the exact words used in witches’ spells.
“I do a certain amount of research, and folklore is quite important in books. So where I’m mentioning a creature or a spell that people used to believe genuinely would work—of course, it didn’t . . then, I will find out exactly what the words were, and I will find out exactly what the characteristics of that creature or ghost were supposed to be . . [Much of sorcery material in the books] are things that people genuinely used to believe in Britain.”—J.K.R. interview on National Public Radio, October 20, 1999.
The truth is that she earlier graduated from a course in mythological studies at Exeter University in England, and during her entire adult life has been a thorough researcher into the subject.
“[She has] an extremely well-developed and sophisticated knowledge of the occult world, its legends, history and nuances.”—Richard Abanes, Harry Potter and the Bible, p. 24.
In an interview on a radio program, she admitted that fully one-third of her material is based on actual occultism (Rowling interview on The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, October 20, 1999). That is also probably an understatement.
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So funny.
I think I’ve got that by the priest at La Sallette. I’ll have to look. Always love suggestions for good music.
Let’s sincerely hope not. But Voldemort must be. He wants to dominate the world and it’s his way or the snake’s way. I see Harry as a Trump populist.
[So funny]
Not so funny when you see Christian children you know turn to the occult. When you laugh at evil, the battle is for good is lost.
That’s wonderful! My only problem is that I can’t appreciate the video star. Now make that a young Leonard Nimoy or Bill Shatner or Lewis Collins or David Soul or David McCallum, then I’d really enjoy it. I do hope, though, that that was really his girlfriend. It would be nice to think that romance isn’t dead yet.
We don’t laugh at evil. We have different views of evil. I find Harry Potter absolutely good. I find people who want to hurt other people absolutely bad. I think people into the occult are simply stupid.
[We have different views of evil.]
PROVERBS 14:14
Do not enter the path of the wicked And do not proceed in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on
THE OCCULT—What does the Bible say about it?
https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-occult.html
I care what I say about good and evil. I want to surround myself with people who will help me be a better person. I’m a conservative. I see individuals making their own decisions and not letting some group tell them what to do, no matter how right they think they are. But goodness, to me, is caring about other people and not hurting them. Not insulting them. Not telling them what to do. Simply being kind and considerate of others and hoping for their happiness and well being.
I do enjoy surrealism. And Dali. Not the Disney I was expecting. Is he part of the Walt Disney family? Enjoyed that very much. You have the neatest links!
They entered into a collaboration and never completed the project due to WWII as I understand the situation, then it was picked up again in the late 90’s and seen to completion. “Destine” was considered for inclusion in Fantasia at one point, not sure why it didn’t make the cut. I think it’s awesome.
I don’t think Fantasia has entered my mind for decades. What a wonderful movie! So good that these things that we remember from childhood are now available to watch whenever we want.
Destine was brilliant!
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