Posted on 11/27/2010 7:20:50 PM PST by TheHawksNest
Here we are at the beginning of the Holiday season. All parents know that these breaks bring with them pleas from children for some extra time in front of what my priest refers to as the magic lantern and my husband calls the devil box. There is truth in each of these labels, but most Moms call it an hour and a half of peace and quiet to get a few things done.
Yes, I am speaking of the television. While it can be argued that watching TV is an inferior way to spend time, it does play a role in the lives of most OK, pretty much all families. I would argue that not all TV viewing is the same. Movies, because of the absence of commercials, are far superior to anything that you can find channel surfing. Commercial free-PBS is not much better. While it does not show many product commercials, it is often worse than network or cable television due to the obnoxious amount of politically correct messages and indoctrination into the leftist agenda by puppets and cartoon characters. Movies, if they are any good, have the ability to hold a childs uninterrupted attention and convey a message in tact.
So, what children watch does make a difference. For example, does anyone want their daughters learning teen morality from Hannah Montana or her evil twin Miley Cyrus? Since we will sit our kids in front of the TV at some point, I have compiled a list of the top ten kids movies with hidden conservative messages.
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No, you learn to use YOUR mind and think. You also need to do research on the author and the books she has read which inspired this series. Yes, its boogeyman, and the author shows kids how to reject parental authority and gain power for themselves through this school of wizardry. Interesting isn’t it, that the school teaches spells, etc.?
Its apparent that you are ignorant of the spiritual warfare we engaged in on a daily basis. Satan wants people to think and believe its harmless fiction.
How easily it is to deceive so many!
C.S. Lewis’s books aren’t the point of our discussion, are they? I think not!
Never heard of either of them, are they on the Net?
Interesting data about the thunderbolt! What I was thinking about in reference to HP was the teacher (can’t recall his name) who showed the flip sides of good and evil. I remember thinking that was pretty well done.
As A young lad it convinced me of two things:
1) Enviromental wackos were indeed mental
2) They would kill us all if they got the chance over a plant.
Nanny McPhee, the first one, is a nice movie. Importance of family and good manners and all.
Hardly any of that is correct. Did this guy even watch the movie?
I used to avoid HP books and movies, but after a while I came around. There's a reason C.S. Lewis used fable, witches, etc., to tell the Good story. It appeals to children (and other ages too). While Rowling didn't mean to tell the Gospel, nevertheless she unintendedly tells a conservative story.
What do you think of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s ‘Dr Strange’ comics in the 1960s?
Spiderman 1 and 2.
The whole theme is about taking responsibilty for ones actions (”with great power comes great reasponisbility”). Spidey sacrifices his own happiness for the sake of those he loves, as his Aunt May does for him. He sacrifices his chance for love with Mary Jane because it would endanger her, until she refuses and sacrifices her safety for their love. On a more mundane level, he struggles to put himself through school as a freelance photographer (no student aid!). What’s more conservative than family and personal responsibility?
I wholeheartedly agree!
What are your opinions concerning Narnia or The Lord of the Rings?
A Tale of Two Cities (MGM-1935) (Anti-Jacobin)
David Copperfield (MGM-1935)
The Big Parade (MGM-1925) (Anti-Wilsonian)
Penny Serenade (1941) (Pro-Adoption)
Spite Marriage (1929) (Man Must Prove Worthiness to Marry)
I always liked what I thought the theme of “the Incredibles” is - “When everyone’s special. . . then no one is.”
Squashes the pass-everyone spread-the-misery non-exceptionalism philosophy of the left well. They don’t want anyone to excel. They think one kid running the fastest will hurt the slower ones.
Key Largo (Redistributionist murderers get theirs.)
Dark Passage (Anti-newspaper, pro-jury-nullification, anti-sexual revolution [trampy woman falls out window])
It Happened One Night (pro-abstinence [Walls of Jericho])
Conrack (Anti-government-school [Message is only implicit, unfortunately])
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (Millionaires invest in a good idea, become billionaires, all of society benefits)
Here’s what I think, with my mind.
1) You’ve never read the books, you are simply relying on something someone else told you, probably your pastor or sunday school teacher.
2) I’m certain your pastor and/or sunday school teacher tell you to think independently and to critically think on your own.
3) Lord of the Rings uses the same good versus evil (and spells) and yet Tolkien used it for an analogy for christianity.
Feel the same about him???
Sometimes...a book is just that...a book.
The Lion of Judah was what it said to me and resurrection...
Steve Ditko, is a name I didn’t hear of until long after he’d already been sitting in my head for 20 years.
Now I know why I think and act the way I do because I loved reading about Peter Parker.
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