OK, now we're getting somewhere! Combining the Potterosophy mythos with Bewitched and Sabrina the Teen Witch would be a hoot! Particularly if Samantha's Uncle Arthur and Dr. Bombay were in the script.
Posted on 07/18/2005 9:57:30 PM PDT by Eurotwit
That she did.
And it never made any economic sense, as they used it to buy things like "self-sealing stembolts", which also therefore presumably could not be made by a replicator, otherwise you wouldn't need to buy them with gold-pressed latinum. The Ferengi were capitalists as conceived by writers who didn't understand capitalism -- if they were real capitalists, they'd have advertising crawls on their ship-to-ship communications, sponsor logos on their starships, and "this message brought to you by..." splash screen at every hail.
OK, now we're getting somewhere! Combining the Potterosophy mythos with Bewitched and Sabrina the Teen Witch would be a hoot! Particularly if Samantha's Uncle Arthur and Dr. Bombay were in the script.
Exactly.
I "discovered" ERB even earlier. My mother used to read from the Tarzan books every night. When I was old enough to begin learning to read, she and I would read together. Eventually, she had me read to her. I went through the Tarzan, Pellucider (sp?), and Mars series... I just bought "A Princess of Mars" and hope to begin reading it again soon. I hope that I won't be disappointed: But then, I wasn't the least bit disappointed when I re-read the Heinlein books a few years ago.
Mark
No religion? Why then, do they celebrate Christmas? Why do they talk of God? Why all the talk about "tearing the soul?"
Also, remember, there may be a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry somewhere in the U.S. I'm thinking somewhere near Salem, Mass.
"Star Trek is pure Marxism."
Nonsense! When you have replicators what do you need money for?
Like the ones in New Haven, Washington, D.C., and Hollyweird? Or...uh...New Orleans?
Oh, I don't know. HP has lessons on loyalty (such as Neville in the first book), and perserverance in the face of overwhelming evil.
I was always liked Witchy-Poo from the Banana Splits.
Oh, I've reread, as an adult,some books that I loved as a kid and still loved them. Others, I found a terrible disappointment. I wish you well with your new Burroughs book.
The Veronica Lake film is a riot! Too bad though - her tragic decline, that is.
I guarrantee.
Picard's statement "We have eliminated the need for money, we seek to better ourselves", and the idea of global government is marxism.
Star Trek is Marxist utopia.
First off, the "federation" does not control those sort of things. It's a confederation of planets. Each planet is independantly governed. They aren't forced to be members, but they can join if they want.
As far as property, in the form of land, given in the ST universe, there's practically an unlimited number of inhabitable planets, and the ability to get there via warp drive, the concept is more along the lines of the old homestead acts. Sort of like one of `ol Lazarus Long's rule, about leaving a planet once the government gets to a certain point of development. If you don't agree with the politics of the planet, then get your own, and do it the way you like!
Will that lead to marxism? Not really. At least not in the same sense as we see marxism. The main difference is that in the real world, with marxism, you force people to produce for others, while denying the individual the fruits of their labors. In the ST universe, nobody actually has to produce. They have everything they need provided without actually having to work. The comment by Picard, about seeking to better themselves would be more about avoiding boredom than anything else.
Sure, it's utopian, but then it's fiction. They aren't constrained to reality.
Mark
What more defense does it need? Whay more defense does Peter Pan or Snow White need? They both contain magic. What's the big deal with HP?
It's a kids book indeed and kids are reading and are understanding that it's fiction. Training then to understand fiction will help the with the New York Times and CBS later in life.
Creepy flick. Louis Cipher ...
Fairy tales are the direct descendants of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. They were ORIGINALLY stories for adults and often filled with sex; or at the least, sexual overtones. Horrible violence as well, which has only lately been sanitized/Disneyed out.
And in fairy tales, there are good and bad witches and faries and imps and all sorts of other types of "magical" creatures. None of whom have decimated "WESTERN CULTURE" !
You really should read Bruno Bettleheim's books about the wonderful good that fairy tales does FOR children, as well as some of the Opies' books about the origins of and original tales themselves.
Tell me, what exactly does the magical powers either given to, or used to help the girls, in such fairy tales as Cinderella, THE PINK, THE TOCKABBIES, and such, does to teach children how to strive for themselves? :-)
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