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Post by itsallaboutme on Apr 8, 2004 14:31:37 GMT -5
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Post by Gorf on Apr 9, 2004 1:42:50 GMT -5
Bizarre.
I'm sure someone thought it was a great idea at the time they were writing the script for it.
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Post by IdahoBoy on Apr 9, 2004 4:57:26 GMT -5
I don't see the problem...
A little help?
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Post by Hadrian on Apr 9, 2004 12:37:55 GMT -5
That was crap. Anyway, I don't believe children "get" high level messages in plays, movies, fables, and other stories. I remember when I was a little toddler, I read "The Little Engine That Could." Of course, the message was about perseverence and working hard to accomplish your goals. I don't think I cared about that. When I read that story, I was fixated on two things:
(1) Why doesn't that choo-choo train have any arms?
(2) If you look at the Little Engine character from the front (essentially, the front of the train), there is a cylindrical thing (I don't know what it's called) that looks like a giant nail. In fact, it looks like a nail that has been pounded in so that the train is nailed to the railway tracks. I could not get over the fact that the train could move when it was so obviously nailed to the tracks! How could it move?!
Children rarely "get" messages. Whoever wrote that play is an idiot. They don't "get" children.
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Post by Psychopotamus on Apr 10, 2004 15:04:12 GMT -5
I don't get adults. Do they write things like that because they honestly think children are that smart? I think most of them do it because they are so stupid they need to write to children in order to make themselves feel smart. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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Post by benwhipdrofn on Apr 21, 2004 23:13:20 GMT -5
dang, that was plain stupid. It bothers me that a church brought the Easter Bunny into church period. With my kids, on Sat. we do the egg thing. Sunday is church. They know what Easter is about and they don't mix Easter Bunny with Easter Sunday.
I mean, I can guess that somewhere someone thought that if they took what kids can identify innocents with Christ, maybe it would work.....but sometimes people just don't think clearly.
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Post by Hadrian on Apr 22, 2004 19:01:29 GMT -5
I'm wondering, how do they ever discuss the prostitute Mary Magdalene? I attended a Catholic school and barely remember Mary Magdalene being mentioned. In fact, I had to do my own research; then, when fascinated, did secular research on prostitutes in general. Fallen women? Maybe. Bad women? No. In fact, a lot of priests and nuns were worse than some prostitutes I knew. (I knew prostitutes as a child because I lived in a not-so-good section in the city and some prostitutes and transvestites lived there.)
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