Even Elmer Fudd?
Especially Elmer Fudd.
"I have a vewwy gweat fwiend in Wome." / "You wascally wabbit!"
COINCIDENCE ????!!!!!!!
Posted on 11/19/2001 3:13:11 PM PST by PJ-Comix
What are kids saying about Harry Potter? Here are some samples:
| "I want to go to wizard school and learn magic. I'd like to learn to use a wand to cast spells." Dylan, age 10. "If I could go to wizard school, I might be able to do spells and potions and fly a broomstick." Mara, age 12. "It would be great to be a wizard because you could control situations and things like teachers." Jeffrey, age 11. "I'd like to go to wizard school and learn magic and put spells on people. I'd make up an ugly spell and then it's pay-back time." Catherine, age 9. "I feel like I'm inside Harry's world. If I went to wizard school I'd study everything: spells, counterspells, and defense against the dark arts." Carolyn, age 10. "I liked it when the bad guys killed the unicorn and Voldemort drank its blood." Julie, age 13. "The books are very clever. I couldn't put them down. When I was scared I made myself believe that it was supposed to be funny so I wasn't so scared." Nuray age 11. |
These are the comments of young readers of the Harry Potter wizard books quoted on a new video by Jeremiah Films. On the video, called Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged, Making Evil Look Innocent, author Robert S. McGee explains: "Children as young as kindergarten are being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals, and possession by spirit beings."
Courts have banned the teaching of Christianity in public schools but Wicca, which is recognized by the U.S. courts as a religion and given tax-exempt status by the IRS, is taught freely. Harry Potter has become the method of introduction of Wicca to the very young.
Harry Potter materials have become much more than a hand full of children's fantasy books. Warner Brothers, Coca Cola, Minutemaid, and Mattel have used the Potter materials to launch games, puzzles, toys, backpacks, and every possible merchandizing product.
Scholastic, Inc., a major supplier of public school teaching aids has added the Potter literature to its line of curriculum materials. When the name "Harry Potter" is keyed into the Scholastic.com web site search engine, it returns 268 matches. "Jesus" returned only 23.
And now, a major movie is about to break on the scene called "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Millions of dollars are being spent on pre-release hype.
Once introduced to the world of wizards, spells, and dark arts, readers of Harry Potter can advance their knowledge and skills in witchcraft and paganism by visiting the hundreds of web sites available on the internet.
Or, they can purchase more books on the subject from the well stocked Wiccan sections in local book super stores. Or, they can find over a thousand volumes on witchcraft available at Amazon.com.
Harry Potter books have taken the world of children's fantasy literature by storm. Over 200 million have been sold in 40 languages. One study shows that over half of the children in the western world have read at least one of the Potter books. Many reported rereading each book several times.
But is it just fantasy literature like Snow White and Cinderella? In the Harry Potter video, cult expert Caryl Matrisciana points out that in the older stories, evil never prevails.
There are no absolutes in his world. What is right depends on the situation.
Witchcraft now has a complete package. Starting in kindergarten with Harry Potter and TV witch shows, children are led on to the horror movies and hundreds of Wicca and pagan web sites. When they thirst for more power, high school and college Wicca covens are available. In the adult world, corporations are hiring New Age practitioners to provide seminars in sensitivity training, stress relief, and self improvement for employees.
Former Satanist William Schnoebelen points out in his book, Wicca, Satan's Little White Lie, that, "I finally learned in the most graphic fashion imaginable that the difference between witchcraft or Wicca and Satanism is actually non-existent."
Before he was saved he found himself cruising the streets looking for a lone female to assault, not for sex, but to drink her blood.1
The bottom line is a hunger for power. Harry Potter and the rest of witchcraft promises that power. But in the end they discover that Satan is really in charge of the power and only uses it like cheese in a mouse trap.
Harry Potter provides a basic initiation into witchcraft for a whole new generation. Imagine what the world will be like when they grow up.
"Harry Potter," like "Star Wars," ISN'T Subtle! The "essence" of both stories is a CLEAR, uncluttered, examination of our Traditional Western concepts of "Good vs. Evil!"
Neither story promotes "Evil,"--BOTH stories show that EVIL (Traditional, Biblical, Western concepts of Evil) is destructive & a concept to be avoided!
THAT is the "Philosophical Point" of BOTH Stories!
ANY attempt to find "deeper meanings" in these "fairytails" is Pure Sophistry!
"Harry Potter" & "Star Wars" are--as ALL literature of their "ilk,"--"Morality Plays,"---No more or less!!
Doc
Even Elmer Fudd?
Even Elmer Fudd?
Especially Elmer Fudd.
"I have a vewwy gweat fwiend in Wome." / "You wascally wabbit!"
COINCIDENCE ????!!!!!!!
Uhhhhh, I don't have the long or short of that one.
Probably he wasn't in the study.
Perhaps you are closer to him than I am. You could ask him!
. . . sometimes I shouldn't even think these things, much less write them and push the reply button. . .
In Taiwan 30 years ago--before our grand U.S. cultural "nonsensibilities" had smothered some of their sensibilities, very heterosexual men would walk down the street hand in hand, maybe arm in arm.
At least 14 years ago, even more of the same was standard in Mainland China. It was common for men of all ages to be affectionate. . . whether on the street, at a concert, sports meet, wherever. . . and they were NOT gay.
I was told such was especially more common after the Cultural Revolution.
I was brave enough to "do as the Chinese in China" and found relationships could be much more quickly closer, more authentic, more communicative, caring etc.
I've always had a curiosity that I've never seen any research on and suspect if there is any that it's highly classified in such countries. We know that fathers (contrary to conventional assumptions) who are NOT affectionate produce more homosexual sons and those who ARE AFFECTIONATE produce, as a group, far fewer homosexual sons.
So I've always wondered, if homosexuality went up when U.S. cultural "nonsensitivities" flooded such a country. If anyone has any data on such, I'd be interested.
It has also often amused me that Christian men are often supposedly eager to obey the Bible except when it comes to "greet the brethren with a HOLY kiss."
I always thought that was the coolest thing. They should bring back those commercials! Manly, yes, but I like it too!
Ashly Montagu (sp?) in his massive TOUCHING treatise notes that most western men are rather desperately starving in a skin hunger sort of way for lack of touching. Many postulate that a lot of men's sexual acting out is their intense isolation in our culture and their trained equating of sex as the only sanctioned way to decrease the deep angst from that isolation. I think there's a lot to that idea.
That would also partially explain why sex is so conflicted for so many men--desperate need on many levels of at least a few origins--yet little to no robust training in minimizing emotional distance and using fluently emotional languages. . . so what they have or have access to they still mangle to destruction too often. And, sadly, many are genuinely often mystified about how and why they destroyed what they most loved and most needed.
Heart to heart emotional intimacy can be greater than that of most sexual partners. And when combined with the physical in a long term sensitive marriage--who can top that? But too few know anything about that.
I think this touches also on the fact that people who have 3-4 close same sex friends for several years before marriage, as a group, have far fewer divorces than those that didn't have such close same sex friends. Evidently they learned SOMETHING ABOUT EMOTIONAL INTIMACY that was priceless apart from the sexual component complicating it.
Like you, I can't wait for The Lord of the Rings to come out. Reading The Fellowship of The Ring to my seven year old now (read the Trilogy to his older brothers and sister). I've seen some trailers and it looks like they got it right.
I suspect there are a lot of parents who will, out of fear, end up banning the books when, in their particular case, they'd have been wiser to have read at least portions of the books WITH their kids and discussing why they are destructive. Blanket, mindless, rigid "write-offs" seldom work in our era with kids more than ever willing, eager and able to think and act for themselves.
Of course, the best strategy is to teach and train kids BY EXAMPLE step by step from the earliest age. Kids will always learn most by what parents DO instead of what parents say. And when what parents DO is authentic, Loving, responsible, kind, spiritually wise, then the kids will learn those qualities and traits and not depart from them. Not only is it good psychology and spirituality, God backs it up with His Spirit wholesale.
Now regarding media and children-- my kids know they don't watch television or go to movies until they're eleven or older. I don't care whether it's Disney, Sesame Street, Ninja Turtles, or Harry Potter. The last thing developing brains need is to be set in front of an object that alters their brain waves.
Personally, I believe we'd have a lot fewer Ritalin kids if our children were disconnected from the single greatest drug in this culture (television).
I have 2 teenage sons who are articulate straight A students. The oldest has lettered in 3 sports, is co-captain of his football team, won the league championship in wrestling the past two years, and was the Homecoming King at this year's Homecoming Game.
My fifteen year old is the president of his class, is the quarterback on the freshman team, was 17-2 in wrestling last year, plays in a garage band, and is one of the best young baseball players in the area.
Neither of these terrific kids grew up with movies or television. 'Nuff said.
My Univ Library job boss didn't have a TV all his kids' growing up. They are bilingual in German and English and certainly well read.
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