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Tuesday, November 19, 2002 Tuesday Too 1. Chad has been writing/talking about alternative forms of government. What's your take on a "new government?" What sort of new government? If it's based on a business model as Chad mentioned in his post, I agree, it won't work due to the monopoly problem. If you want me to think up a new form of government, I'd say I don't have a clue. (As in, I don't have a clue on how to think up of a good alternative government.) 2. The last Harry Potter film ignited a "whirlwind of controversy." What's your opinion; is Harry Potter dangerous to children? No. I think children understand that this is fantasy and not something real. Unless someone invents an anti-grav car real soon, we're not going to have any enchanted automobiles taking to the sky. Religious zealots just need something popular to latch themselves onto to make themselves feel good and justified. There are plenty of other children fantasy books out there like Harry Potter that don't have Christian influences (i.e. Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia) but are plenty more insidious from a Christian viewpoint if they even bothered to read them. In Tamora Pierce's The Song of the Lioness tetrology, there's some pretty heavy-handed paganism going on. Garth Nix's Sabriel/Lirael cycle deals with an alternate view of death. And in the His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman challenges with Christianity outright (as well as messing around with science). 3. What do you think of this ("What would Jesus drive?")? A noble cause, but I don't see an environmental problem as a moral problem. It needs to be solved via science and common sense, not preaching. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 6:42 AM : ]
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