24 November 2007, 07:00 PM
Braling IIRuled Paper II- A Miscellany Of Topics.
Given the increasing illiteracy, lack of intellectual depth, and inarticulateness of the last two generations, I am not so sanguine.
25 November 2007, 08:44 AM
fjp451...ah, then this:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches." -RB
On a lighter note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyjRj3UMRM&feature=related25 November 2007, 09:39 AM
Nicoquote:
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.
25 November 2007, 11:13 AM
dandelionIt's been said that enough monkeys wielding enough typewriters would eventually reproduce all the world's classics. The internet has proven this untrue.
25 November 2007, 12:54 PM
Nard KordellNico:
Ray needs to re-open that Bible of his. The temptations Jesus suffered were not his own, but all of mankind. Christ had it leaps and bounds beyond the tides of voices of the internet.
26 November 2007, 12:56 PM
Nard KordellWas I on some sort of vacation or something when this came out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HicaK7NTHQI28 November 2007, 01:16 AM
dandelionquote:
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.html28 November 2007, 07:46 AM
fjp451Dandy, what an article!
$o what i$ Nicole Kidman'$ motivation, ultimately. Maybe, $he i$ $imply comfortable with the fact the movie "It i$n't ALL anti-Catholic."
28 November 2007, 09:40 AM
Doug Spauldingquote:
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.
28 November 2007, 10:04 AM
Nard KordellMaybe someone can convince Pullman to do a book about Muhammad along the same lines.
http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2007/11/2.../?cvqh=itn_teddybear28 November 2007, 11:20 AM
dandelionCute, Nard...very cute!
28 November 2007, 04:42 PM
Nicoquote:
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.
28 November 2007, 06:00 PM
Doug Spauldingquote:
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.
28 November 2007, 06:15 PM
Phil Knox"
Christianity TODAY" is biased and paranoid? Really?
Well, then, let me ask you a question:
What do you think of Muhammad the Prophet?
28 November 2007, 10:55 PM
Nicoquote:
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.