Defending Harry Potter

WorldNetDaily ^ | 6/21/03 | Joel Miller

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Isn't the wristwatch in Spartacus?

[discostu]

There's legendary wristwatches everywhere. I haven't seen a real one in any place it shouldn't be.

[Treebeard]

The fact that you seem to look forward to that moment when others meet God, with your implied hope of their damnation at that time leads one to believe that you are judgemental, small minded, and unforgiving. Not very Christlike.

[ColdSteelTalon]

And do you avoid all the other litle Pagan rights, or do you join in celebrating them?

Yes I avoid them all.

The Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs are part of the Pagan rights of Eastrus, Goddess of Fertility. Do you let the little kiddies worship her by hunting Easter Eggs?

I worship Christ on Easter Sunday. I do not observe any of the above...

Santa Claus is the old Northern European Winter Solistice Demi-urge. Do you let the kiddies worship the passing of Winter by giving and receiving presents?

I exchange gifts to celbrate the birth of Christ. I do not teach kids to believe in Santa Clause it is a form of lying.

Do you go along with the custom of eating Beans or Peas on New Years for "Good Luck"? It's good luck, cause the guy who got the black bean or the stone was the human sacrifice of the Winter Solistice and you weren't.

never heard of this one...

Do you have Holly and Mistletoe in your house at Christmas? A Druid way of Worship.

No

Harry potter is different, you are making a straw man argument. Harry Potter goes under the premise that witchcraft and sorcery are OK as "long as you use them for good" purposes.../p>

[Lady Jag]

In reading Imdb.com, you find the chariot race has a 263-to-1 cutting ratio (263 feet of film for every one foot kept), probably the highest for any 65mm sequence ever filmed AND one of the very few (and very expensive) 65mm cameras in the world was wrecked during the filming of the chariot race.

But I still can't find anything about the car.

[Lady Jag]

Correctomundo, in Spartacus, slave extras are seen wearing wristwatches and sandshoes.

[zx2dragon]

And she needs to get cracking on writing it.

According to an interview I read somewhere last week, she's already started.

[Richard Kimball]

It's a myth. Not there. Same with the wristwatch (which is acredited to both 10 Commandments and Ben Hur).

I've always believed the wristwatch myth came from the old Peter Sellers movie, "The Party", in which he played an inept extra on a movie set. There's a scene where he's supposed to attack someone and ruins the scene because his wristwatch is clearly visible.

[ActionNewsBill]

According to an interview I read somewhere last week, she's already started.

Yep...she's in a trance and communicating with her familiar spirit at this very moment.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Found an interesting archive at slipups.com

[discostu]

That was it 263. The car seems to have lost a lot of popularity in urban legend country, had a hard time finding it.

[Lady Jag]

Most cool, thanks! Slipups.com says that car was in Spartacus: "If you watch carefully during the big chariot scene...someone forgot to move their red sports car."

[discostu]

That could be.

[The Bard]

Doesn't say a "whale" (whose gullet is the size of a softball, and is designed for eating plankton.) It says "a great fish." (Also, the "apple" is never mentioned as the "Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.) ;)

Actually it does say a whale:

Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

[Lady Jag]

See post #90. Could that be the car?

[The Bard]

I guess, the Christians who bash this book only the read the bible with all of It's true stories

was jonah really swallowed by a whale?

YES

[Lady Jag]

Correction, #92.

[discostu]

I hit the site but there's no kind of substantiation. I've never seen the car, Mr. Heston has never seen, he even points out in the commentary various places the legend says it can be seen but you can't.

[Aquinasfan]

Is it that the Wiccan's (Spelled teachers) are so good promoting the witch as a reality or is it that the Christain leaders are bad at addressing contempary issues?

Children latch on to witchcraft/wicca for various reasons. It's reasonable to assume that those who do so generally lack a firm Christian foundation. Regardless of the secondary causes, the fact remains that the books, at least on one level, amount to a lengthy infomercial for the occult, as can be seen from the correspondence between the Potter phenomenon and children's interest in the occult. As such, the books represent a danger to children.

[Allegra]

Thanks to repeated viewings of The Ten Commandments, I'm trying to figure out if Moses did indeed wear a wristwatch.

Yes, and in the Cleopatra movie, I was fascinated that Cleopatra had a vaccination mark on her arm. I hadn't known until then that those vaccinations were avaialabe in those days. Makes you wonder how the Black Plague was able to spread so far centuries later.