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Philosopher: Potter is a lefty (Magic a resistance vs. triumphant middle class)
News 24 (South Africa) ^ | October 26, 2007

Posted on 10/26/2007 8:00:03 AM PDT by Stoat

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To: Stoat

A “French philosopher said on Friday”..........

That tells you enough.


41 posted on 10/26/2007 9:57:24 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli
A “French philosopher said on Friday”..........

That tells you enough.

LMAO

Few things of French origin have commanded my focused attention based upon their intellectual merits

 

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42 posted on 10/26/2007 10:03:23 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: dragonblustar

Again. Her comments were AFTER the book.

As for you quoting Wikipedia? Please, you’re embarrassing yourself.


43 posted on 10/26/2007 10:07:33 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: dragonblustar

And C.S. Lewis was an aetheist and a brilliant scholar of English literature. I guess we should ignore everything of his prior to his cionversion.

BTW: Potter has seven books. The Chronicles of Narnia has seven books. Coincidence or an evil Rowling plot to undermind Lewis?


44 posted on 10/26/2007 10:07:49 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: dragonblustar; Hoodlum91
Yeah, you'd think that it would be Clinton, however with the talk of terrible hurricanes, that makes it Bush.

Okay, now you're just being ignorant.

Believe what you will. The heck with facts.

45 posted on 10/26/2007 10:08:32 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: Corin Stormhands

You are ‘right on’. Harry Potter’s birthday was 07/31/1980. At the time of the story in question he is 16 years old, that would make it 1996. If she was talking about the US president at all(which she wasn’t), it would have to have been Clinton!


46 posted on 10/26/2007 10:18:39 AM PDT by oldoverholt
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To: Corin Stormhands
What facts have you shown?
47 posted on 10/26/2007 10:20:25 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: oldoverholt

I’m sorry, you’re confusing our hysteria with facts.


48 posted on 10/26/2007 10:20:42 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: dragonblustar
What facts have you shown?

Apparently none that are readily available at your level of understanding.

Sorry to have bothered you. Foam on.

49 posted on 10/26/2007 10:21:44 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: Stoat

J K Rowling copied the ARISTOCRATIC bording school structures for the priviledged class. (ironic given Rowlings recent comments and some of the sexual deviants that came out of the british boarding school system)


50 posted on 10/26/2007 10:25:03 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: dragonblustar

“The Brits made fun of Clinton but they hated George more than anything”

That may be true, but it’s also fairly true from your posts that you haven’t read the books and really don’t know what you’re talking about.

Keep talking anyway. It’s amusing.


51 posted on 10/26/2007 10:25:12 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: oldoverholt

Tsk, tsk. No more facts. Must have ignorant rantings from now on. ;-)


52 posted on 10/26/2007 10:27:02 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: Stoat
Well, having read the books, and seen the movies, I can state that the person who wrote this article is clearly a complete whack job... Saying that this analysis is completely ridiculous is an incredible understatement.

Mark

53 posted on 10/26/2007 10:34:56 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: Stoat

sorry did you say something?

what was this thread about again?

:-)


54 posted on 10/26/2007 10:37:37 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Stoat
Asked whether the final Potter book with lots of killings made it suitable for young children, she replied: "I know what you mean, and it filled me with unease to hear that Harry Potter is read aloud to 5-year-olds. They should be at least seven."

http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/10/26/i-wont-allow-a-harry-potter-sequel-author-jk-rowling-says/

"I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion,” she added.

"The truth is that, like Graham Greene, my faith is sometimes that my faith will return. It's something I struggle with a lot," Rowling admitted. "On any given moment if you asked me [if] I believe in life after death, I think if you polled me regularly through the week, I think I would come down on the side of yes — that I do believe in life after death. [But] it's something that I wrestle with a lot. It preoccupies me a lot, and I think that's very obvious within the books.”

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/harry.potter.author.reveals.books.christian.allegory.her.struggling.faith/14052-2.htm

"My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay," said Rowling, whose comments were posted on the Potter fan website

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=578de009-03fd-46df-8722-cef9de657d32&&Headline=Harry+Potter+author+'outs'+Dumbledore

55 posted on 10/26/2007 10:38:55 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Hate to break your Potter idol.


56 posted on 10/26/2007 10:40:51 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Hoodlum91

How so?


57 posted on 10/26/2007 10:41:47 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: dragonblustar
She once belonged to Amnesty International,

I once belonged to AI too. I had written to them, asking for a list of "prisoners of conscience," and a list of government officials to whom I could write. When I never received either, I wrote again. I finally received a letter stating that THEY were supposed to take care of putting pressure on governments, while us peons were to just cough up the cash.

Mark

58 posted on 10/26/2007 10:42:45 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: dragonblustar

Begone before someone drops a house on you like they did your sister.


59 posted on 10/26/2007 10:44:12 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: MarkL
She marked that as one of her accomplishments. That says a lot. If she didn’t want anything to do with them, she would not have listed them.
60 posted on 10/26/2007 10:45:58 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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