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Harry Potter
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bigsierra said:
That was the strangest movie I've ever seen. A scam, if you ask me. Frightening? No. But it's a head-scratcher.
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Blair Witch was an entirely fictional movie, the premise of which was that a low-budget scary movie that looked more like people actually filming stuff, and less Hollywood, would be scarier. Worked well for many people.
One of my favorite parodies ever is a Family Circus cartoon, with the traditional "dashed line shows where the kids are going", using the plot of Blair Witch. Very funny.
One of my favorite parodies ever is a Family Circus cartoon, with the traditional "dashed line shows where the kids are going", using the plot of Blair Witch. Very funny.
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I'm a confirmed HP fan. The hullabaloo over the books strikes me as just one of those issues for people with too much time on their hands to put themselves in the middle of a controversy.
The books so laughably explode (exploit) the typical witch/craft stereotypes ('flying broomsticks' turned school sport, 'school uniforms' of flowing robes and pointy hats, a class in 'potions') and adolescent fantasies ('invisibility cloaks,' a 'maurader's map' where a kid can sneak around and know where everyone else is, an entire town that is one large toystore) that I can't imagine how one sees this as pernicious.
I'll grant, the idea that weird things and powers were possible was fascinating for me and my friends around adolescence. We heard that you could actually make a person levitate. So we tried it. It didn't work. That was about the end of it. That's probably the extent of it for most kids, too.
Others that seek escape in the occult despite the lack of any empirical evidence of the validity of these 'powers' are likely to be distracted from Truth in some wrong-headed direction: the books just become the first available direction seized upon.
Though the Bible (the Witch of Endor contacting Samuel, Satan and angels operating in men's lives) gives more credence to the occult by putting it in a more 'sober' context than does the humorously tongue-in-cheek Harry Potter series.
The books so laughably explode (exploit) the typical witch/craft stereotypes ('flying broomsticks' turned school sport, 'school uniforms' of flowing robes and pointy hats, a class in 'potions') and adolescent fantasies ('invisibility cloaks,' a 'maurader's map' where a kid can sneak around and know where everyone else is, an entire town that is one large toystore) that I can't imagine how one sees this as pernicious.
I'll grant, the idea that weird things and powers were possible was fascinating for me and my friends around adolescence. We heard that you could actually make a person levitate. So we tried it. It didn't work. That was about the end of it. That's probably the extent of it for most kids, too.
Others that seek escape in the occult despite the lack of any empirical evidence of the validity of these 'powers' are likely to be distracted from Truth in some wrong-headed direction: the books just become the first available direction seized upon.
Though the Bible (the Witch of Endor contacting Samuel, Satan and angels operating in men's lives) gives more credence to the occult by putting it in a more 'sober' context than does the humorously tongue-in-cheek Harry Potter series.
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'Christ's desolate heart is in need of comfort'
In regards to the original post, I don't know of any Catholic literature off hand, but I know from my own personal experiences from watching the movie that something isn't right with it, so much so that I was convicted into prayer after seeing it.
Perhaps the most obvious disturbing aspect was the character of the little gremlim guy (forgot his name); he presented much darker and posessed traits than Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
Perhaps the most obvious disturbing aspect was the character of the little gremlim guy (forgot his name); he presented much darker and posessed traits than Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
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