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Saint Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member  Polymath
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I'm really starting to get into the whole "Harry Potter" thing. Does anyone know anything about the upcoming book? Who here has preordered it?
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Hana Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Aujourd'hui est une bonne jour
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Saint wrote: I'm really starting to get into the whole "Harry Potter" thing. Does anyone know anything about the upcoming book? Who here has preordered it? I have! I love Harry Potter!
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AuldFartte Original500© Member  Make the Scary Palin Go Away!!
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I'm a fan, but I haven't pre-ordered the new one.
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Kimber767 Original500© Member  Ask me about Self Advocacy
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My aunt pre-ordered the book for me as a birthday gift. I am looking forward to reading it. I have read all of the other Harry Potter books. I am feeling kind of sad that this is the last Book. I really like the series.
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AuldFartte Original500© Member Make the Scary Palin Go Away!!
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I'm waiting for the boxed set of all seven to come out 
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Saint Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member Polymath
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Yeah, me too! Isn't it coming out this Saturday? Or is it already out?
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theia Original500© Member 
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I loved the first three and then lost interest...but I'll probably catch up at some point. Excellent books.
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cynicalninja Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Smiling Shinobi
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I swear to god if I never hear the name Harry Potter again I will die a happy man. The biggest case of hype over actual content and artistic merit in history. Last edited on 12:24 am by cynicalninja |
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Saint Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member Polymath
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And I have to vehemently disagree. For over a decade other teachers and I saw the steady decline in reading skills until the average high school student was reading at a second grade level. I kid you not. Besides the obvious fact that life becomes infinitely more difficult when you cannot assimilate new skills or look up old ones because you are illiterate, there's also the terrible loss of history and culture. Old classics like "Treasure Island" and "Moby Dick" fell into disrepair next to copies of "Little House on the Prarie" and "Papillon." Each book containing not just powerful life lessons, but insights into the very nature of mankind. Eventually, like the law of nature states, "If you don't use it, you lose it." That thing which was lost was imagination. I asked a class during this period, "Just see this concept in your head." They replied, quite seriously, "We can't. We don't have an imagination." I thought about that statement and realized that it was true. Everything they saw or heard had been pre-imagined for them. Their TV shows, their music, their movies. Their minds did not have to imagine what it looked like or sounded like, they could see it and hear it and so that sense of imagination atrophied. Then came "Harry Potter." Just as "Star Wars" touched the imaginations of a previous cohort, Harry came at just the right time to influence an entire generation of young minds to read and expand their horizons: To think about what is possible in life and to stretch out to meet it instead of sitting apathetically in front of the television being force-fed their ideas without any conscious thought at all. And that is mankind's greatest gift. Imagination. Without it we are a stagnant species, slowly decaying and dying in our cubicles. With it we are superhuman, reaching out and growing to new ideas and new concepts of what is possible. When we have imagination, we can dream, and when we dream, we can achieve. That's the gift that J.K. Rowling has given to this newest of generations. And it's about damn time. Last edited on 04:25 pm by Saint A^2 + B^2 = C^2 |
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AuldFartte Original500© Member Make the Scary Palin Go Away!!
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Bravo, Saint !!!  Well said, and so very true. I was stunned when the first book came out, and saw the numbers of young people actually reading it rather than playing video games or watching TV. Several kids in the neighborhood here have read each of the books more than once. And there are more and more young people every day becoming hooked on reading because of the Harry Potter books. That can't be a bad thing.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member  BAH HUMBUG
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i've never read a harry potter book, or seen a movie. i'm just not into fiction. but i'm all for anything that makes kids want to read! YES! a friend of mine called this evening from ohio, at 6 PM. she was waiting with her little girl to get the book at midnight, and the child was dressed in a witch's hat and having a blast...i'm all for such great innocent fun!  Potter's fate finally in readers' hands "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the last in the seven-book series, went on sale at 12:01 a.m. London time. Fans there braved rain and long lines to find out if the young wizard and his friends vanquish their evil foe. full story
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1jester Pioneer100© Member  Pilgrim Sojourner
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Well, since you asked, I am vehemently opposed to Harry Potter, as I would be against any medium of instilling un-Christian and dangerous ideas into a significant element of our youthful and impressionable population. Though the books do get young people to read, which I would normally say is a good thing, all other things being equal, these books preach the worship of other gods besides the Creator. Have any of you ever noticed that there's no mention of God in any of Harry's books? How "good" and evil always seem to balance out with no clear triumph over the evil forces? What are we injecting into the developing minds of our youth? How can this wickedness possibly be construed as constructive?
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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i read grimm's fairy tales as a kid. as well as history and other worthwhile things. nothing i read changed my beliefs. i really think it's an innocent diversion. beats video games where you kill people.
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JustifiedByFaith Pioneer100© Member  Without Jesus we fall short...
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1jester wrote: Have any of you ever noticed that there's no mention of God in any of Harry's books? How "good" and evil always seem to balance out with no clear triumph over the evil forces? Very thought provoking questions 1jester regarding light/darkness, good/evil and who or what wins in the end...
Jesus said, "Take heed that no one deceives you." Matthew 24:4 |
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berinwitness Original500© Member
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1jester wrote: these books preach the worship of other gods besides the Creator. Where? Please quote, and give book title and page number. Secondly, Willow Rosenberg on the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" once called on Hecate, pagan Greek goddess of witchcraft, to help her cast a spell. This despite the fact that in a different episode Willow refused to observe Christmas because of her Jewish upbringing. Somehow Willow never read the Biblical teaching "You shall not suffer a witch to live". Yet I don't see millions of Christians on the Internet screaming that we should stop re-running episodes of Buffy. Have any of you ever noticed that there's no mention of God in any of Harry's books? Have you ever noticed that in the Book of Esther in the Bible there is no mention of God? How "good" and evil always seem to balance out with no clear triumph over the evil forces? Right. But we stopped the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia. Nobody kidnaps children and forces them to do porn films. Nobody blows up buildings with truck bombs or lets poison gas loose in a subway. Etc., etc., etc. In what percentage of real life has there been a clear triumph over evil forces?
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