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Anna - 2004-10-27 10:41:22 That is funny you mention that, because that's the very first word of the article, and they print it 2 inches tall. * * * * * * * * * * * * Anna - 2004-10-27 10:47:45 One of the schools around here is banning witches' costumes on halloween putatively because it might offend... witches! (Not because it might offend religious zealots, as one might think). I wonder, though, why they don't have similar worries about doctors, police officers, firemen, robots, space aliens, Spiderman, etc. etc.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 11:00:12 That is a very curious wrinkle. Your objection to it is a valid one and exposes the fallacy of their ban.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 12:20:10 Besides, a ban on witches doesn't make sense because the modern-day witches whose tender sensibilities might be offended don't, to my understanding, do the black-robes and peaked-hat bit. They're just normal people, like the witch that was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to offer one tidbit of pop culture fluff as convincing proof of my argument.* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-10-27 12:33:52 So. "God" created humans "one time within the last 10,000 years or so," plunking them down among all those large animals and fish and stuff. And so, men/women hurried up and created guns and slingshots and bombs to kill off some of the wild things for food - or did "God" also created the microwave and frozen dinner at that point? * * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-10-27 12:34:51 I worked with a witch in a show once, very nice, interesting young woman. Good actress, too.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 12:42:38 Addiann, you sound a bit skeptical. :) Some creationists posit that God lit the fuse and evolution did the rest (life didn't just come out of "nothing," they say. Following this argument to its logical conclusion, why, yes, God did create the frozen dinner. Those Hungry-Man Salisbury Steak ones are especially divine.* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-10-27 12:47:37 just like a male to think that only his gender was hungry.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 13:00:27 Oops, skeptical about the poll result, I meant. At any rate. Hmm...you're right...let's see, "Hungry-Gal Big Slab O' Sushi"?* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-10-27 13:14:20 yup, I'm just a *tad* bit skeptical about where "on god's green earth" did those folks get such an idea. On a related(?) subject: today's Lansing paper informs us that an evangelical church's House of Horrors for kids is actually filled with graphic descriptions (and depictions) of teen suicide, date rape, child molestation, abortion, terrorist beheading and a marriage between two men performed by Satan himself. For that they're charging $6, $10 for an "express lane". * * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-10-27 13:18:10 "about the time an older man starting unbuckling his pants while a teenaged boy got down on his hands and knees, the mom who had taken a birthday party group of 11-year-olds, pulled the plug, and demanded a refund, which she received."* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 13:19:28 I am speechless. Speechless. I can hardly believe that actually happened.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 13:20:58 This is so wrong. My head is still spinning that anyone--it must have been many people, at this church--would actually do this.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura again - 2004-10-27 13:25:53 ...that's like some sick, crude version of a medieval morality play.* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-10-27 13:26:23 I know. So am I. I guess that's why I wrote it down here in your blog. I just can't get over it. The church is well-known here, a very large place, full-time drama department, although the article didn't detail whether this stuff was actually acted out or on film. Whatever, it's unbelievably ugly.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 13:31:44 A large place. Wonderful. So lots and lots of children are being dragged through that ugliness ("ugly" is the right word, all right). There was a big church out by Dexter, St. Joseph, that last Xmas put on a recreation of scenes of everyday life in Christ's time: male attendees had to "register" for the Roman tax, you could learn about period crafts from people in period clothes--there were Biblical foods to try--it was so elaborate [they took a year to build all the sets, &c.] and so well-done that even I was mighty tempted to go just to see. They had a Christmas message at the end. So the whole thing was not only informative but uplifting. That would definitely be my preference to this lurid horror in Lansing. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 13:35:24 In a strange quirk of irony, I see that the organizers rate the event "R: for REALISTIC" when one of their tableaux depicts gay marriage. Guess they don't think gay marriage is unrealistic.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 14:05:01 Even better: the church is tricking people. The news story says that attendees didn't know it was anything other than the standard Hallowe'en House of Horrors, and were very indignant. The organizers' HOH website gives no warning of what's inside, either. Lovely. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 16:22:32 NPR reports on the astonishing discovery in Indonesia of an entirely new dwarf species of human, Homo floresiensis. Amazingly, it is thought to have survived to up to 13,000 years ago (Neanderthals are thought to have died out 28,000). Even more amazingly, there are traditional Indonesian folk stories about "little naked people." I am amazed to learn about 13,000 year old stories and wonder if those are the oldest stories in the world.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura again - 2004-10-27 16:24:23 New Scientist article on the new human species.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura yet again - 2004-10-27 16:35:13 While feverishly trying to find Indonesian stories with tiny people in them, I remembered that one popular way to tell stories in Indonesia is with elegant wayang kulit (shadow) puppets. Maybe there's a traditional wayang kulit story out there somewhere whose characters include tiny people. Maybe evidence of homo f. is preserved in traditional Indonesian puppetry, a thought that astonishes me. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura laura laura - 2004-10-27 16:43:57 beautiful example of wayang kulit. The page says that wayang kulit is one of the world's oldest storytelling methods. Ypsidixit actually has one wayang kulit puppet, from her visit to Malaysia years ago.* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-10-27 19:23:30 The Church of Horrors should depict a monkey morphing into a human and then into Satan in order to debunk Darwin. Some of the scenes from the chirch production sound titillating. The Deja Vu should bring them to Ypsi. Or the Aut Bar could sponsor them.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-27 23:49:43 :) Yes; I wonder if there's a touring production? Perhaps they could be lured to the Deja Vu if it's presented as clearly the ideal venue for saving the lost, where their message would have the maximum impact. Maybe Christpuncher could be booked to open for them. * * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |