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Post by msguide on Mar 29, 2009 12:59:25 GMT -8
Me, Lobster and JON are the only ones with the sense to have voted for the right guy back in Novemeber. You voted for Chuck Baldwin?
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Post by joeyd on Mar 29, 2009 13:07:25 GMT -8
Me, Lobster and JON are the only ones with the sense to have voted for the right guy back in Novemeber. You voted for Chuck Baldwin? One of the Baldwin brothers was running for Prez last November? Joe
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Post by msguide on Mar 29, 2009 13:24:42 GMT -8
You voted for Chuck Baldwin? One of the Baldwin brothers was running for Prez last November? Joe Didn't you hear?
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Post by joeyd on Mar 29, 2009 15:30:49 GMT -8
Well, Alec didn't say anything about it. Joe
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Post by msguide on Mar 29, 2009 15:33:07 GMT -8
Well, Alec didn't say anything about it. Joe What does he know?
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Post by duckman on Mar 30, 2009 10:20:54 GMT -8
I use those words to "play to the crowd" in here. Me, Lobster and JON are the only ones with the sense to have voted for the right guy back in Novemeber.
That would explain your level of discourse.
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Post by joeyd on Apr 2, 2009 12:09:16 GMT -8
I use those words to "play to the crowd" in here. Me, Lobster and JON are the only ones with the sense to have voted for the right guy back in Novemeber. That would explain your level of discourse. I dunno. If you are an American of Polish Descent and someone called you a "polock" after you made a minor mistake at work or put anti-freeze in your crankcase, would you want to beat him up? Joe
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Post by joeyd on May 28, 2009 11:23:43 GMT -8
OK, this is not a banned book, but this is the best place for this: I have read these Harry Potter books in this order: Deathly Hallows, Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince. Quite frankly, I think the writing is horrible. The only author I dread reading more then Rowling is Hemmingway. It seems Rowling makes things up as she goes along to fill in pieces from the last plot/subplot. I’ve seen all of the movies and find that unless you have just read the book before seeing the movies, it is hard to understand and follow. Then why did you buy the second book after you realized the first book you read sucked? Joe
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Post by duckman on May 28, 2009 13:17:32 GMT -8
OK, this is not a banned book, but this is the best place for this: I have read these Harry Potter books in this order: Deathly Hallows, Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince. Quite frankly, I think the writing is horrible. The only author I dread reading more then Rowling is Hemmingway. It seems Rowling makes things up as she goes along to fill in pieces from the last plot/subplot. I’ve seen all of the movies and find that unless you have just read the book before seeing the movies, it is hard to understand and follow. Then why did you buy the second book after you realized the first book you read sucked? Joe Are you high or stupid? Where did I say I bought any books?
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Post by joeyd on May 28, 2009 14:25:56 GMT -8
Then why did you buy the second book after you realized the first book you read sucked? Joe Are you high or stupid? Where did I say I bought any books? Ah- haaaa, it comes out. You patronized a lie-bary, the very hearth of Communism and Socialism. All kinds of different books for everyone to read for free at The Cost Of The State. ;D Joe
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Post by justinofterrytown on Aug 11, 2010 6:45:08 GMT -8
One thing I always laugh at is when "Various religious conservatives have claimed that the books promote witchcraft and are therefore unsuitable for children (quote from wikipedia.com)".
I am thinking, or at least hoping, that children in today's society understand that Harry Potter books are fiction. When I was a child, I grew up reading R.L. Stine Goosebumbs books and I understood is was fiction. I did not go around thinking there was monsters everywhere just becuase I read it in a fiction book. I guess I was smart enough to understand that fiction is when some, if not all, events in a book are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s)
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Post by amyinpa on Aug 11, 2010 9:19:02 GMT -8
My step-daughter's mom bought her all the Goosebumps books. She is now 26 and just got back from a weekend at Gettysburg taking a ghost-hunting tour.
Her husband felt a ghost pull the hem of his shirt and my step-daughter smelled the ghost's perfume (they were told this could happen). They got a picture of a ghost in the window of a house. The tour guide read their auras and told her husband he was especially good at drawing ghosts so they took him on another ghost walk for free.
I personally wouldn't open the door to any demon activity. It says in my bible to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Soldiers killed on the battlefield are either in heaven or hell and not spending eternity peering out a window to make the ghost tour a cash cow for these people.
Her interest all started with Goosebumps.
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Post by dctim on Aug 11, 2010 9:48:20 GMT -8
I have read the entire Potter series. It was not exactly written for an adult audience, so I only enjoyed parts.
In regard to "christians" who have poo-pooed the series or, worse yet, repeated what some other "christian" has said when poo-pooing the series, I would like those people to wake up and be adults.
Any main-line Protestant church drums into its members how they *must* learn the Bible and learn how to read and apply it consistantly.
Why, then, would it be "sinful" to read something non-christian, like Potter? These are the same people who read and watch the news, soap operas, Oprah and other such drivel and have NO problem with it.
These are the same people who have ZERO difference from non-christians in regard to their divorace rate.
Get the plank out of your own eye, people.
In regard to Goosebumps, ghosts, wizards and Barak Obama - people will believe most anything. Some of them are wise enough to continue looking for facts and giving themselves permission to change their minds. Some of them never do and never will.
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Post by msguide on Aug 11, 2010 10:02:16 GMT -8
I think parents have the right to guide those choices in their own homes.
Our daughter was ahead of the HP books. She probably read one or two after she was married. My husband has read one or two. They are not something that holds a lot of interest for me, so I have not read them. I don't think I am any worse off for not having done so.
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