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08-12-2004, 02:27 PM
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What do you think of the Harry Potter books. A lot of religious people say that they're bad because of the magic. I'm just curious of what you have to say.
Personally i think there is nothing wrong with it. I thought the whole thing is about how good always wins in time.
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08-12-2004, 03:35 PM
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I have read them all. 4 or 5 times each. I will read the rest of them when they come out. I have seen the movies. 20 - 30 times each (except the last one, have only seen it 7 times so far.) Will see the rest of them when they come out.
I think that those who say they are bad are reaching. Any book has to have a background, a context, a setting. The plots are basically good vs. evil. So, who cares where they are set. They are not teaching the kids (or adults) who read them magic, they are demonstrating that evil exists and must be fought. They (the witches and wizards) even celebrate Christmas (I saw it myself in the movie and read it in the book.) I'd sooner lauch a nasty campaign against shows on TV like The Fairly Odd Parents because of the violence it condones.
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08-12-2004, 06:28 PM
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It's just some fad that a religious leader decided to start up, and now it's turned into this big ol flame that's spreading to other religious leaders. Most of them are even claiming it to be like Dungeons and Dragons demonicish. That's where they get all of their revilings from.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954 It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. ~Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Script
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08-12-2004, 07:08 PM
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I love the Harry Potter series. It is good reading, despit what some say. All I have to say is that if Hogwarts was for real...I'd hope that one of my kids was a witch or wizard! That would be soooooooo cool.
Okay, I will quit sounding 10 now. The books are great. It's elements of what being human is, put into extraordinary circumstances. I don't know what else to say, except that we've read the series as a family twice and I'm sure we'll go through it again! My 2-year-old loves the movies..it's fun to watch her watch them.
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08-13-2004, 03:50 PM
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They sell Harry Potter books at Deseret Book. 'nuf said! lol.
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08-13-2004, 07:36 PM
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954 It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. ~Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Script
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08-23-2004, 02:47 AM
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I think the HP book series is great. My kids turned me on to them just in time for the movies to start. Orson Scott Card wrote the Hill Cumorah Pagent, so I think a little fantasy/Sci Fi or other genres of the type are OK.
Incidentally, Iamalighthouse, is your screen name based on the song by Nickel Creek? My daughter and I are doing a set for our Ward garden party this Friday and we will be doing "the Hand Song" by them. It's a very beautiful piece of work about sacrifice.
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08-28-2004, 10:53 AM
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Yes it is. I love their songs. Especially the hand song.
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08-28-2004, 12:05 PM
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The Harry Potter books are awesome, and they actually get kids to read!
They are about as demonic or satanic as "The Wizard of Oz", or any other work of children's fiction.
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08-29-2004, 12:09 AM
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954 It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. ~Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Script
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