Comments on: The Mystery of the Ordinary http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/ My Wrong Opinions.. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:53:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Lisa V http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/#comment-3186 Lisa V Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:43:29 +0000 http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/#comment-3186 Thanks! oh and I'm glad you didn't answer my last question! Have a great work week lisa Thanks!
oh and I’m glad you didn’t answer my last question!

Have a great work week

lisa

]]> By: roodee http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/#comment-3184 roodee Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:10:13 +0000 http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/#comment-3184 You raise some interesting questions. Unfortunately, this medium is challenging for any sort of dialectic endeavor. As a start I would ask what particular principles are used to derive your general rules for censorship. After understanding what these principles are it may be useful to evaluate whether these principles have sound reasons (theological, pragmatic, etc). To answer your first question though, I attempt to avoid certain novels that expose my children to ideas that I have not personally discussed with them. The rationale I used with my oldest (that seems to work so far) is that reading/watching/hearing certain things has a tendency to "grow her up" faster than she was designed to. This, as you can see, is purely pragmatic. This is only for those overt activities and themes present within novels. As for "witchcraft" in Harry Potter, it is hard to argue that they use magic as their means for manipulating the world around them. Having said that, it is equally hard to claim that such fictive accounts having any grounding in reality. Even if they did, given that it is a work of fiction, what is the risk? Is it that a child may become curious? Surely it is not that a child will become "infected" somehow. Furthermore, if the child is of an appropriate age, he can surely distinguish between reality and "make-believe". This is why "make-believe" is so much fun. It bends the rules which we are all under. As you can see, there are numerous "principles" at play here that a post cannot easily cover without additional questions and answers, but maybe this gives you enough to think about to enumerate your principles and put them under the microscope of personal inquiry. -rudy You raise some interesting questions. Unfortunately, this medium is challenging for any sort of dialectic endeavor. As a start I would ask what particular principles are used to derive your general rules for censorship. After understanding what these principles are it may be useful to evaluate whether these principles have sound reasons (theological, pragmatic, etc).

To answer your first question though, I attempt to avoid certain novels that expose my children to ideas that I have not personally discussed with them. The rationale I used with my oldest (that seems to work so far) is that reading/watching/hearing certain things has a tendency to “grow her up” faster than she was designed to. This, as you can see, is purely pragmatic. This is only for those overt activities and themes present within novels.

As for “witchcraft” in Harry Potter, it is hard to argue that they use magic as their means for manipulating the world around them. Having said that, it is equally hard to claim that such fictive accounts having any grounding in reality. Even if they did, given that it is a work of fiction, what is the risk? Is it that a child may become curious? Surely it is not that a child will become “infected” somehow. Furthermore, if the child is of an appropriate age, he can surely distinguish between reality and “make-believe”. This is why “make-believe” is so much fun. It bends the rules which we are all under. As you can see, there are numerous “principles” at play here that a post cannot easily cover without additional questions and answers, but maybe this gives you enough to think about to enumerate your principles and put them under the microscope of personal inquiry.

-rudy

]]> By: Lisa V http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/#comment-3181 Lisa V Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:07:34 +0000 http://www.thummy.com/roodee/2007/08/23/the-mystery-of-the-ordinary/#comment-3181 This is very interesting! I haven't let Micah read this series (and I'm still not sure I will) But He LOVES to read ~ He can if I let him read a book like this a week! What do you think about all the controversy in re: to the books and children? Re: witchcraft and homosexuality (just asking your opinion because you like to read books he'd be interested in and I haven't read them yet) He was in 4th grade and I let him read The Golden Compass ~ now I'm hearing that the author is an anti-Christian and wants to kill God in his books... but Micah didn't come away with that at all. (This movie is coming out soon ~ with Nicole Kidman) Anyway... I love that he's like me ~ and loves to read... I love that he has an awesome imagination (considering God only gave us one child and he needs it) BUT I was just wondering what you thought in re: to subtle messages etc... What kind of crazy lady gets up at 5:30 on a Saturday morning anyway? Love you guys Lisa This is very interesting! I haven’t let Micah read this series (and I’m still not sure I will) But He LOVES to read ~ He can if I let him read a book like this a week!
What do you think about all the controversy in re: to the books and children? Re: witchcraft and homosexuality (just asking your opinion because you like to read books he’d be interested in and I haven’t read them yet)

He was in 4th grade and I let him read The Golden Compass ~ now I’m hearing that the author is an anti-Christian and wants to kill God in his books… but Micah didn’t come away with that at all. (This movie is coming out soon ~ with Nicole Kidman)

Anyway… I love that he’s like me ~ and loves to read… I love that he has an awesome imagination (considering God only gave us one child and he needs it) BUT I was just wondering what you thought in re: to subtle messages etc…

What kind of crazy lady gets up at 5:30 on a Saturday morning anyway?

Love you guys

Lisa

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