I took a walk with my little brother...
Jul. 14th, 2005 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ishyfaceLittle brother, singing: The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round and round, aaaaall through the ARMY!
Me, shocked: You're nine years old and you're already fantasizing about running the Army over with a bus?
Little brother, evidently quite pleased with himself: YES.
And then I told him stories about the French Revolution and Joan of Arc.
We got a new cat today, a ginger one with mad eyes who purrs like a jar full of marbles. He's in that very leggy wide-eyed stage of kittenhood. He also seems to like the Cars. Had a bit of trouble deciding on names, so he's now been christened Sloane Azrael Robespierre Biff. (Yes, we named a kitten after an online comic character, a demon, a revolutionary, and Jesus' best friend. Our dog's middle name is Phillip, so it could definitely be worse.)
Say hello, Sloane!
Sloane: u,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,hmkfggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
Pope quoted as fearing Harry Potter blurs line between good and evil.
"It is good that you shed light and inform us on the Harry Potter matter, for these are subtle seductions that are barely noticeable and precisely because of that deeply affect (children) and corrupt the Christian faith in souls even before it could properly grow and mature."
*cracks up* "The Harry Potter Matter." That makes me think of the Pope sitting at the head of a dimly lit table surrounded by ominous hooded men. "So, Ratzinger. What shall we do about... the Harry Potter matter?"
(I really wish someone would alert the Church to His Dark Materials. Now that's proper subtle seduction that is barely noticeable and precisely because of that deeply affects children and corrupts the Christian faith even before it can properly grow and mature.)
Okay, anyone remember that movie with Michael Pitt and Asia Argento that isn't about Kurt Cobain, certainly not, how dare you sir? The one that I had a brief epileptic fit over last summer when I heard about it?
I finally found a trailer for it. And it looks good.
*flails very quietly*
Me, shocked: You're nine years old and you're already fantasizing about running the Army over with a bus?
Little brother, evidently quite pleased with himself: YES.
And then I told him stories about the French Revolution and Joan of Arc.
We got a new cat today, a ginger one with mad eyes who purrs like a jar full of marbles. He's in that very leggy wide-eyed stage of kittenhood. He also seems to like the Cars. Had a bit of trouble deciding on names, so he's now been christened Sloane Azrael Robespierre Biff. (Yes, we named a kitten after an online comic character, a demon, a revolutionary, and Jesus' best friend. Our dog's middle name is Phillip, so it could definitely be worse.)
Say hello, Sloane!
Sloane: u,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,hmkfggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
Pope quoted as fearing Harry Potter blurs line between good and evil.
"It is good that you shed light and inform us on the Harry Potter matter, for these are subtle seductions that are barely noticeable and precisely because of that deeply affect (children) and corrupt the Christian faith in souls even before it could properly grow and mature."
*cracks up* "The Harry Potter Matter." That makes me think of the Pope sitting at the head of a dimly lit table surrounded by ominous hooded men. "So, Ratzinger. What shall we do about... the Harry Potter matter?"
(I really wish someone would alert the Church to His Dark Materials. Now that's proper subtle seduction that is barely noticeable and precisely because of that deeply affects children and corrupts the Christian faith even before it can properly grow and mature.)
Okay, anyone remember that movie with Michael Pitt and Asia Argento that isn't about Kurt Cobain, certainly not, how dare you sir? The one that I had a brief epileptic fit over last summer when I heard about it?
I finally found a trailer for it. And it looks good.
*flails very quietly*
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on 2005-07-15 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2005-07-15 02:48 am (UTC)... Now I just have to figure out how to stop calling the main character Tommy.
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on 2005-07-15 09:06 pm (UTC)That sounds like a freaken awesome cat!
As for the Pope, I saw that on the news sometime this week (plus a few local weirdos denoucing the books as TEH EVAL and some other xtian groups saying how you can teach the Bible with Harry Potter... what?), and thought, my god how batshit insane can you be? Um... does anyone remember the Prydain Chronicles or Madeline L'Engle or the Teen Magic stories about that girl who could do magic by pulling on her left earlobe? This is hardly the first series to have children mixed with sorcery.
It's just the first one people have gotten sand in their vagina over. XP
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on 2005-07-15 11:50 pm (UTC)And I think the official position when it comes to books like the Prydain Chronicles or Lord of the Rings or "otherworldly" books is that since they take place in other worlds they aren't held to the same standard. With Harry Potter kids might start thinking that there's real magic (OH NOES). And everyone knows that we can't have our children thinking about stuff that isn't real.
... Wow. The Church is a lot like the Dursleys.
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on 2005-07-16 01:24 am (UTC)THE HORROR!