tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post8498170579835519565..comments2024-03-22T03:19:38.110-04:00Comments on Forever In Hell: Unintended HilarityPersonalFailurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-63913747223900484842011-04-05T08:16:42.705-04:002011-04-05T08:16:42.705-04:00I'd like to see St. Assisi go all dark side wi...I'd like to see St. Assisi go all dark side with the force lightning shooting out of his fingers.Andrew Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01495983897864604830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-84127248686417769852011-04-04T23:33:54.233-04:002011-04-04T23:33:54.233-04:00i was mostly thinking it'd be a sort of D&...i was mostly thinking it'd be a sort of D&D-type thing, where people walk around and act like Clerics do in the game - healing and etc. those ARE miracles, really, even if D&D terms them "divine spells" - there's no real difference between a spell and a prayer in the REAL world, and no real difference between a miracle and magic in a fantasy world. so, yeah.denelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083149213773118359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-43050980508795577462011-04-04T20:11:35.089-04:002011-04-04T20:11:35.089-04:00Yeah: no chance he'd be allowed access to Terr...Yeah: no chance he'd be allowed access to Terry Pratchett (imagine if he read <i>Small Gods</i>!) or Douglas Adams (he of "how well this hole fits me, thinks the puddle" fame), but he might (possibly) get away with Tolkein due to it being "High Fantasy": elves and wizards in a far-away land is okay because it makes it clear that it isn't real. It's when the author puts it in a more modern setting (JK Rowling, for example) that the moral guardians get their knickers in a twist, due to their apparently pathological inability to distinguish fiction from reality. Unfortionately, I'd never recommend LotR as a starting point: the flourid prose is wonderful, but unless he's as geeky as I was the pace won't be fast enough to engage him. The Hobbit might work though: it's a little faster.<br /><br />But let's consider something else: <b>"I, as a Christian, believe God can perform miracles any time and at any place"</b><br /><br />How does that influence your characters? Can they really ever be in danger if god is prepped and ready to perfom his miracle-fu at any moment? If George Lucas had written <i>A New Hope</i> with this mindset, how would it have ended?<br /><br />Obi Wan: "Use the force, lu- oh wait never mind. God blew the death star up and saved the day."<br />Luke: "Yaaaaaay!"<br /><br />Random Rule Of Fiction 7498: A subtle god, manipulating and bending seemingly unrelated events to his will, can be interesting, especially if set up as part of a big reveal. An overt god is little more than an expected and predictable deus ex machina.Quasarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09398018171200335379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-35383058565018051242011-04-04T18:40:45.501-04:002011-04-04T18:40:45.501-04:00also - that's Dennis Markuze up there, the lin...also - that's Dennis Markuze up there, the link leads to a forum where he's asking to BURN PZ Meyers...denelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083149213773118359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-7342137744278829372011-04-04T18:38:41.508-04:002011-04-04T18:38:41.508-04:00you're thinking of Terry Pratchett. whom this ...you're thinking of Terry Pratchett. whom this kid will NOT be able to read, considering the plethra of Gods in Discworld [there's the Goddess Anoyia, who is the goddess of things that get stuck in utensil drawers, like that one thingy that you don't know who bought it or what it's for, maybe it's supposed to be something for flour? but it ALWAYS catches the drawer so it won't open! she's my favorite :D]<br /><br />feel sorry for the kid :(<br />Star Wars has IMPLIED porn - the scene in Jabba's Palace, with the slave girls.<br /><br />it does NOT have "Pantheism", and Jedi aren't really "religious" in the sense of "believing in and worshipping a God", they're closer to buddhist sorts of religion - but it's STILL not "Pantheism" when <i>there's no actual deity</i>! <br /><br />as for prejudice - that's fucking everywhere. we're WORKING to stamp it out - but this is one of those places where you shouldn't be trying to remove the mote in someone else's eye, because of that LOG in yours - since most fundy Christians *are* prejudice. extremely so. perhaps they aren't RACIALLY prejudiced [although many ARE] but they're sure as fuck prejudiced against almost everything else - Christians Not Like Them, People Of Other Religions Entirely, Atheists, Secularlists, Humanists, "Liberals", Feminists, "Gays" [LGBTQI], etc, etc, etc.<br /><br /><br />that other guy? WTF *IS* that?denelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083149213773118359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-81593937353765074512011-04-04T17:33:42.585-04:002011-04-04T17:33:42.585-04:00Oops, extraneous "either," ten point ded...Oops, extraneous "either," ten point deduction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-73881085466659442912011-04-04T17:31:47.992-04:002011-04-04T17:31:47.992-04:00@PF-- yeah, I really hope for his sake that he eit...@PF-- yeah, I really hope for his sake that he either breaks the chains and picks up some good, gritty, dirty, existential crisis causing literature. <br /><br />I could see this being a piety stunt, unfortunately. Especially if this kid is homeschooled. Which is also sad. I sincerely hope that this not some absurd marketing gesture in the hopes that he'll be the next whomever-that-guy-that-wrote-"Eragon,"-is, but you know, with more jesus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-78996764127789306672011-04-04T16:58:30.713-04:002011-04-04T16:58:30.713-04:00Ahem. I take it back. Not "that". Yeesh....Ahem. I take it <i>back.</i> Not "that". Yeesh.Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-70088687063924860772011-04-04T16:50:01.238-04:002011-04-04T16:50:01.238-04:00"Stormtroopers in roman armor, with kicky lit..."Stormtroopers in roman armor, with kicky little leather skorts!"<br /><br />Okay, I take it that. I would buy that book.Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-4999845278155439842011-04-04T16:23:13.391-04:002011-04-04T16:23:13.391-04:00I honestly don't know, though I don't want...I honestly don't know, though I don't want to mock an 11 year old geek in a fundy Christian family. Kid's got it hard enough.<br /><br />I will say from the stiffness of the prologue/blurb on the website, that he needs to back away from the King James and . . . well, read a few things he probably isn't allowed to, like early (whoever wrote Ank Morporkh and all that) and Douglas Adams to loosen up his style a bit, then move on to Tolkien for the soaring poetry, then write a lot just to get his own voice going.<br /><br />All of which cannot be accomplished by 11.PersonalFailurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-68120655207359379962011-04-04T15:22:56.304-04:002011-04-04T15:22:56.304-04:00@MM-- Stormtroopers in roman armor, with kicky lit...@MM-- Stormtroopers in roman armor, with kicky little leather skorts! <br /><br />Seriously though, based on data sets I've seen for porn useage, and how high it is in red states, I'd be shocked if this poor kid hasn't stumbled upon mom or dad's struggle stash. Which is quite sad, really. <br /><br />Also, my anecdotal evidence is that all of evangelic christians I've encountered wore a shiny aspartame coating over pure snake face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-59157154753140279542011-04-04T14:40:59.112-04:002011-04-04T14:40:59.112-04:00I have to admit, I'm both intrigued and distur...I have to admit, I'm both intrigued and disturbed by the idea of a "Christian Star Wars". Will the Saints have lightsabers? Instead of doing the little hand-wave, will they just pray that the stormtroopers won't realize that these actually are the droids that they're looking for? How does he suppose this is going to work?Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-39716708177200372152011-04-04T14:13:43.642-04:002011-04-04T14:13:43.642-04:00The language of that whole "mission statement...The language of that whole "mission statement" doesn't sound like that of an eleven year old. I don't know any pre-teens that talk or write like that. Methinks he had some help.<br /><br />And John Piper, ugh, don't even get me started.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17313118060838041133noreply@blogger.com