On kids reading Harry Potter?

[TrueChristian]

I.... had no idea.....

I am so sorry Stimbo..

I really shouldn't have said that.

[Cyberman]

Of course you had no idea. You just wanted to wank your tiny ego all over me.

I will take your apology, on the assumption that it is sincere. But don't you ever cross me again. Got it?

[TrueChristian]

Of course you had no idea. You just wanted to wank your tiny ego all over me.

I will take your apology, on the assumption that it is sincere. But don't you ever cross me again. Got it?

Yes...... I ......

This whole Harry Potter thread wasn't worth it. They are fantastic books and got even book-phobic kids looking forward to a book the following summer.

There has been no book like it before or since really.. in that regard..

This is second time you threatened violence toward me if I were near you. You threatened to knock my teeth out I think.

I guess I also apologize for the "Should the poor be helped thread?" where I posited that 3rd world poverty shoulnd't be alleviated for it's victims. I see the errors of my ways , and should not have posted that either

[bennyboy]

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.

Dude.  What TC said, and how you responded, represented an escalation of about 1000%.  This thread is in fact about kids and Harry Potter.  Given that TC thinks Harry Potter books are bad for kids, his question toward you was certainly a reasonable one.

Now, I know TC is a poe, and is trolling a bit, and I hate that he keeps putting weak-minded Christian threads in the Philosophy section.  But I don't think hysterical rants about your personal life are an appropriate response to a discussion of Christian morality and modern literature.

As for this:

I will take your apology, on the assumption that it is sincere. But don't you ever cross me again. Got it?

I'd say that constitutes bullying, and that's not cool. Let's all settle down, and treat this thread as the light, and mostly pointless, discussion it was meant to be.  Peace, okay?

[TrueChristian]

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.

Dude.  What TC said, and how you responded, represented an escalation of about 1000%.  This thread is in fact about kids and Harry Potter.  Given that TC thinks Harry Potter books are bad for kids, his question toward you was certainly acceptable.

Now, I know TC is a poe, and is trolling a bit, and I hate that he keeps putting weak-minded Christian threads in the Philosophy section.  But I don't think hysterical rants about your personal life are an appropriate response to a discussion of Christian morality and modern literature.

Let's all settle down, and treat this thread as the light, and mostly pointless, discussion it was meant to be.

Look, I touched unwittingly on something personal and touchy tp Stimbo and it touched a nerve. If Stimbo experienced what he really did it's a normal response.

[bennyboy]

Nah. The thread is about kids. If Stimbo has deep-seated feelings about children, maybe he should have the discipline not to engage in threads that are explicitly about them.

[Cyberman]

Then report me. I don't have deep-seated feelings about children. What I do have deep-seated feelings about are idiotic judgements about my not being a decent parent from people who don't even care enough to find out about me.

[God of Mr. Hanky]

In most cases I would agree, but it's far past time that TC gets slapped down for being the shit-posting, egotistical troll tit which he's been around here for much too long. You deserve it when you go critical and personal on somebody who you don't know regarding children.

Regarding what this thread is about, it is, just like every single post which he's ever defecated, about TC's ego and not legitimately about anything else. Therefore, it doesn't deserve to be treated at face value.

[Ravenshire]

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.


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!!

Go away troll/poe. You bring nothing of value to the forum. Not even comic relief.

[bennyboy]

In most cases I would agree, but it's far past time that TC gets slapped down for being the shit-posting, egotistical troll tit which he's been around here for much too long. You deserve it when you go critical and personal on somebody who you don't know regarding children.

Regarding what this thread is about, it is, just like every single post which he's ever defecated, about TC's ego and not legitimately about anything else. Therefore, it doesn't deserve to be treated at face value.

I see art in what TC does, though it may not be deliberate.  This isn't just a guy coming in and saying, "Accept Jesus?  No. . . fuck you your a fucktard" and stuff like that.

A poe troll can still have a voice, and can bring out people's ideas and feelings about things.  So long as the poe engages in dialogue that shows he's read what people have said and is willing to respond, I don't see a problem. We are all poes in life to some degree, and that's fine except. . .


for his annoying habit of posting X-tian bullshit in the philosophy section! That is unforgivable!