(February 8, 2016 at 8:16 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 7:26 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Hah! I lived in Sigonella too! About 15 years after you, though...

Is the golf course still explosive?

I dunno. I was like 4 when my dad was stationed there... I didn't do much golfing...[emoji14]
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(February 8, 2016 at 8:19 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 8:16 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: Is the golf course still explosive?

I dunno. I was like 4 when my dad was stationed there... I didn't do much golfing...[emoji14]
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When I was there, '72-'75, kids would dig up ordnance left over from Operation Husky and play with it. One kid put a 40mm round in his rock polisher. I was across the street at the bowling alley so I was first responder there. I hit the main breaker for the house and waited for EOD.

I would love my children to read HP,  it's great fiction.

My third wife made me read the first one. She was studying to be a children's librarian and wanted someone she could argue about the book with. I didn't need any prompting to read the next ones. For 5, 6, and 7 we pre-orders two copies so I wouldn't have to wait on her to get done.

I don't have any problem with kids reading and enjoying Harry Potter, or any other such stories for that matter.

The difference between those works of fiction and certain other stories, is that no one claims Harry Potter to be factual and based on real people and events.

(February 7, 2016 at 2:39 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: Greetings all.

I wonder how many people here have read the Harry Potter books or seen the movies?

I have seen them all, and enjoyed them tsely. That said, I am not certain I would permit my (future) children to read them if indeed I had any.

If and when I find a humble,dutiful Catholic wife with whom to procreate with ( no contraceptives please!! ) I think I might want to keep Jk Rowlings books out of their hands.

Idk, I just hear they can be a bad influence, and can lead kids to doing actual magic (wicca, tarot cards, Ouija boardss) instead of focusing on God and his son Jesus.

It makes me wonder, if Rowling is a Christian, as she claims to be, why do none of the wizards express a faith in Jesus?

Perhaps she she really was just "JK" on the whole christian thing .


I suppose I won't be able to stop them from forming their own opinions after they become adults (pre 18 is a whole different ball park !) but I should Id try to keep them on the xtian straight and narrow for as long as possible.

Any thoughts/concerns? Do the Potter books have an anti Christian message?

Just name one thing which Harry Potter ever said against Jesus, Yahweh, or the Holy Ghost. What, there really aren't any?

The one reason why xtians have to make a problem out of jkRowling is they just can't stand to see other people challenging their self-declared exclusive rights to use the ideas which were hatched by the medieval terror campaigns of none other than Christians. Ooooh, the irony!!! Then they have the nerve to tell a far better story than any to be found in your lame bible with the ideas which Xtian Inquisitionists originally cooked up - it just isn't fair, is it?

(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I don't have any problem with kids reading and enjoying Harry Potter, or any other such stories for that matter.

The difference between those works of fiction and certain other stories, is that no one claims Harry Potter to be factual and based on real people and events.

With the exception of books that offer explicit, graphic descriptions of violence or sex (which precludes much of the buy-bull), I've never cared what my kids read, as long as they did read. Now that they're both young adult, I don't even care about the sex and violence (except as law applies to my 16-year old).

(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I don't have any problem with kids reading and enjoying Harry Potter, or any other such stories for that matter.

Kids should definitely be encouraged to read as early as possible (I myself was taught independent reading way before I started infant school). Giving their imaginations totally free reign should be among the top priorities of education at that age, if not number one. Shackling a developing, enquiring mind at the exact point at which it is the most fertile would, in a parallel universe in which a truly caring deity existed, be the single most heinous thing disqualifying someone from getting into heaven.

(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: The difference between those works of fiction and certain other stories, is that no one claims Harry Potter to be factual and based on real people and events.

No one - except the rabid, agenda-driven, mind-raping pulpit pundits who have never opened a book in their pathetic little lives, sadly.

(February 9, 2016 at 7:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote:

(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I don't have any problem with kids reading and enjoying Harry Potter, or any other such stories for that matter.

Kids should definitely be encouraged to read as early as possible (I myself was taught independent reading way before I started infant school). Giving their imaginations totally free reign should be among the top priorities of education at that age, if not number one. Shackling a developing, enquiring mind at the exact point at which it is the most fertile would, in a parallel universe in which a truly caring deity existed, be the single most heinous thing disqualifying someone from getting into heaven.

(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: The difference between those works of fiction and certain other stories, is that no one claims Harry Potter to be factual and based on real people and events.

No one - except the rabid, agenda-driven, mind-raping pulpit pundits who have never opened a book in their pathetic little lives, sadly.

Your lucky you don't have kids of your own! Do you not care about them reading harmful things? What about things that are extraordinary violent or pornographic? You'd let them read/watch them? Crazy..

Fortunately Harry Potter is neither of those things. I might permit it.. as long as they know witches and wizards are not ok in real life!!

Yes, I am indeed lucky that I have never had kids, despite many years of trying both in the time-honoured tradition and IVF treatment. And now since my one true love actually died in the pursuit of the one thing that she craved since she was old enough to express her desires, I will most probably die intestate.

See what happens when you make unfounded personal assertions without bothering or caring to put in the work necessary actually to get to know the person, you unnutterably disgusting waste of a human skin? Seriously, you can have no idea how lucky you are that you aren't anywhere near me just at this moment, vomit-filled weak-minded proselytising pustule that you are. How dare you pass your obscene judgements on me. I expect... no, I demand an apology in your very next post. And if you had even the final dying ember of integrity you would give it without being prompted.

Wanker.