| |
| | | Posts: 2806 | Location: Basement of a NNY Library | Registered: 07 April 2005 | 
IP
|
|
| quote: Originally posted by Nard Kordell:
Doug Spaulding:
We are on the very dawn of a great and amazing beginning of communicating to each other that goes beyond books and the printed page. It is the masses having in their hands the power to speak to the world at large. It began with the printing press, continues with the internet in a large way, and will evolve into things we cannot imagine because of not only new information man will acquire, but the methods and means to communicate it. Will the printed page be out of print? Never. But we will see it like never before ...and stand back in awe.
"Jesus in the desert alone with temptation was a single divine presence. We, this year, with the Millennium commencing, are multitudinous lemmings driven by wireless voices to hurl ourselves into Internet seas where tides of mediocrity surge, pretending at wit and will but signify nothing." -RB As long as the new type of book is still truely a book, and not some extension of the "blog" or some other such invention.
Email: ordinis@gmail.com
|
| | | Posts: 344 | Location: Redmond, Washington USA | Registered: 18 April 2007 |
IP
|
|
| |
| | | Posts: 3954 | Location: South Orange County, CA USA | Registered: 28 June 2002 |
IP
|
|
| |
| | | Posts: 7305 | Location: Dayton, Washington, USA | Registered: 03 December 2001 |
IP
|
|
| quote: Originally posted by fjp451:
Dandy, what an article!
Quite. I think I won't be seeing Mr Pullman's story come to life on the screen, nor will I open his books. Anyone who says the following about Jack Lewis is not worthy of my further consideration - I may not embrace Lewis's conservative Christian views, but you cannot argue his merits as a writer. Pullman, writing in The Guardian on the occasion of Lewis's centenary in 1998, said the Narnia books are "one of the most ugly and poisonous things I have ever read," with "no shortage of nauseating drivel." To the contrary Mr Pullman, the Narnia books are seven of the most beautiful and atoxic things I have ever read. So there.
"Live Forever!"
|
| | | Posts: 6909 | Location: 11 South Saint James Street, Green Town, Illinois | Registered: 02 October 2002 |
IP
|
|
| |
| | | Posts: 3954 | Location: South Orange County, CA USA | Registered: 28 June 2002 |
IP
|
|
| quote: Originally posted by dandelion: quote: Originally posted by fjp451:
Golden Compass is no kids' movie and carries a very sinister theme (and agenda).
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/december/12.36.html
Although the article has several valid points, such a magazine is obviously paranoid and biased.
Email: ordinis@gmail.com
|
| | | Posts: 344 | Location: Redmond, Washington USA | Registered: 18 April 2007 |
IP
|
|
| quote: Originally posted by Nico:
Although the article has several valid points, such a magazine is obviously paranoid and biased.
Clearly it's biased toward Christianity from its very title.
"Live Forever!"
|
| | | Posts: 6909 | Location: 11 South Saint James Street, Green Town, Illinois | Registered: 02 October 2002 |
IP
|
|
| NICO" Christianity TODAY" is biased and paranoid? Really? Well, then, let me ask you a question: What do you think of Muhammad the Prophet?
|
| | | Posts: 624 | Location: San Francisco | Registered: 27 October 2006 |
IP
|
|
| quote: Originally posted by Phil Knox:
NICO
"Christianity TODAY" is biased and paranoid? Really?
Well, then, let me ask you a question:
What do you think of Muhammad the Prophet?
I think he was a merchant who started a religion. It was going along great, until he died and the cultural taboos and practices of the people a few hundred miles north of his deathbed were added (I.E. required dress, stigma against educating women) to his religious texts (both the Quaran, which was meant to remain unaltered, and the hadiths.)My guess is that the original version of the Quaran was almost as different from today's version as the Bible was from it's common versions today. But what do I THINK of him? I never met him, so I cannot say.
Email: ordinis@gmail.com
|
| | | Posts: 344 | Location: Redmond, Washington USA | Registered: 18 April 2007 |
IP
|
|
