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The lore of 'Harry Potter'{Not Another Harry Potter Thd}Babylonia and Mesopotamia
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| 11/16/2001 - Updated 09:29 AM ET
| By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
Posted on 11/16/2001 4:33:05 PM PST by It'salmosttolate
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:38:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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I just saw the movie Megeddo put out by TBN and in it a Sorcerer slits his hand and drops the blood from it on a child forehead in the form of a cross. This child grows up to be the head of the one world government and guess what his name is.
To: Thinkin' Gal
Where do they think ancient Babylon was?
To: Silly; FreeAtlanta; testforecho; Khepera
BUMP FYI
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To: Cernunnos
If it means that little to you, why even comment?
To: It'salmosttolate
There is just something about Jesus Christ that makes you feel that anything is possible.
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posted on
11/16/2001 4:42:45 PM PST
by
Khepera
To: It'salmosttolate
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posted on
11/16/2001 4:47:15 PM PST
by
gcruse
To: It'salmosttolate
"these are actually from European folklore. Some of them are from very, very obscure folklore."
OMG FOLKLORE!!! We are all gonna burn in HELL! Run for your lives!!!!
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posted on
11/16/2001 4:49:53 PM PST
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Theresa
To: Khepera
"There is just something about Jesus Christ that makes you feel that anything is possible."
Matthew 19:25-27
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
To: Cernunnos
That's what I wanted to know!
Seriously if he's saying that because the book is called "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" it's evil, he's wrong... because the book was called "Philosopher's Stone" until it got to America and publishers were afraid everyone would think it was a dull book about philosophers!
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posted on
11/16/2001 4:53:06 PM PST
by
JenB
To: Theresa
This has been a heckuva week. And we top it off with Harry Potter.
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To: Cernunnos
Thanks for the BUMP. ;>)
To: Theresa
! Run for your lives!!!! Yea .. but where do we run to????
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posted on
11/16/2001 5:06:02 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: It'salmosttolate
Alberic Grunion: Harry and his pal Ron Weasley (and most of the other students) collect Famous Witches and Wizards trading cards. Grunion is on one such card. Alberich is a powerful wizard in a German epic poem that has been the basis of many modern works, most importantly the 19th century Wagnerian opera The Ring Cycle. One of the heroes in the poem is given an invisibility cloak by Alberich. Harry also is given an invisibility cloak by Dumbledore. Interesting. Not in a good way.
Another little item. A person named Vlabatsky is mentioned in the book as the author of a book on witchcraft. It's an anagram for H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of the occultic theosophical movement.
Also interesting that Hagrid's pet dog is the gatekeeper of hell in Greek mythology.
There is more to this wildly popular series of books than meets the eye.
To: It'salmosttolate; Cernunnos
With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible...Uh-hmm....
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... Or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a lookng glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways in which He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious fanatic, it's all on purpose.
---Stephen King
Cernunnos, it's significant, if your mode of dress includes "tin foil hat."
Heh heh heh...
To: It'salmosttolate
Yes thats it!!! Youre a genius!
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posted on
11/16/2001 5:17:55 PM PST
by
Khepera
To: Capitalist Eric
Render to Stephen King those things that are Stephen Kings'
Render to God those things that are Gods'
To: Capitalist Eric
Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. Uh, OK. Let's say the world is completely material. Just matter in motion, right? Nothing else. I mean, really, nothing else.
Then there can there be no pure accident because everything is determined.
In the real world where God exists, absolute accidents cannot exist. However, "relative" accidents, or events that appear accidental to people, can exist.
To: It'salmosttolate
Ha ha ha !!!!
I guess it's fair to say, you wear a tin-foil hat shaped like a cross!!!
My, but doesn't that observation by King hit uncomfortably close to home??? Hmmmmmmmmm?
Heh heh heh...
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