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Comment on His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman by Roger

Roger — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:55:37 +0000

In response to Celia. Apparently you haven’t done any research at all about the movie.. If you are not a Christian or don’t believe the existence of God, I can see what your comments means, however; the movie “Golden Compass” and even the books are all about attacking Christianity.
FYI, Pullman intended that the Magisterium to be the Christian church imposing on people what they need or don’t need to do. Christians don’t live a life based on what churches tell us. We live based on the Bible. In the third book, you see Lyra and Will eating a red fruit and a few minutes later they are involved in some kind of unspecified sexual act. That’s pretty much a mockery of what the Bible says about Adam and Eve in the garden.
About daemon being spelled with “ae” instead of an “e” is extremely irrelevant. The thing is an atheist doesn’t believe in a spiritual realm whatsoever. Every human being knows that a demon isn’t friendly and no one wants to be a part of it.
I am a preschool teacher and I have been warning my kids and parents about everything they watch. If you have a child(ren) and you don’t want them to be lost in sexual relationship at an early age, then you need to start judging and scrutinizing everything movie, books, or tv shows your child(ren) watch.

Comment on His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman by xman

xman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:29:40 +0000

philip pullman sucks like hell by the way he should go there. I have never read his books but i know they suck. Don’t read the books if you are a christian or believe in god because i do.

Comment on His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman by Celia

Celia — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:34:17 +0000

I would just like to say in Response to Tiffany: You clearly have not done “some research” on the topic at all. If you had, you would not have accused Pullman of having “Demons” in his books. If he had demons in his books, he would not spell them as “Daemons.” FYI, Daemons are animal familiars that share the soul with their individual humans in the parallel universe in which the movie and books take place. They are friends and loyal companions to their humans, and I think its awful that you channeled it to meaning something that it clearly doesn’t mean. If you are opposed to Daemons–loyalty, friendship–then by all means don’t let your children see this movie.

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Clueso — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:12:39 +0000

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Comment on His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman by Disher

Disher — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:54:18 +0000

I have just finished reading the 1st book in the series and I just can’t see what all the fuss is about. I am a Christian Man and my wife and I pray with our children (6 & 3) on a nightly basis. As a younger man, I played Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and various other games like WOW and Everquest. These books are works of FICTION. Nothing more, nothing less. I thought the first book was very entertaining, but nothing even close to the epic tales of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman from the Dragonlance and Deathgate novels. This movie would be a flash in the pan if it weren’t for blogs just like this one.

Like Kelly, I agree that some of the material may be a bit mature for my 6 year old, but let me make a suggestion…

To all of you who think you are showing concern for children by propagating the Snopes information… READ THE BOOKS!

I bet not 10 percent of the people who forwarded that email ever even heard of Pullman before hitting the forward button.

If you want to help children, TEACH THEM WHAT IS TRUE THROUGH YOUR EXAMPLE! Don’t shelter them from the world and try to police everything they read. Telling them not to read something only makes it that much more palpable. If you claim to be a Christian, just bring your children up using Jesus as your example. Then you won’t need to fear stuff like this.

Personally, I plan to read not only books 2 and 3, but also 4 and 5.

Bet most of you didn’t do enough research to even know about those!

~Disher~

Comment on You just got Cold Called by exhaxefidipse

exhaxefidipse — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:11:01 +0000

Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.

The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.

The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.

The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.

It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.

Comment on And now we have targetted spamming … by sriyansa

sriyansa — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:13:28 +0000

I never said you were spam

But seriously, if you don’t want your kid to see whatever movie or book that you think might harm his moral compass don’t let him/her see it and raise him to be upright Christian/Hindu/Muslim or whatever. WTF does one have to go on this moral crusade all the time and do spamming about it. And that too on personal blogs !!!

Comment on And now we have targetted spamming … by Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:05:25 +0000

Hey I wasn’t spam. And it really annoys me that these “devout” ‘religion inserted here’ are spamming your page, and talknig about things that are so not true, and probably making other “concerned” parents not want to watch the movie.
End of rant.
PS. I really enjoy reading your blogs.