I liked the first Harry Potter book well enough. And the third was pretty good too. I liked the characters in that one, and the plot. Very cool plot. Well...in the first book I will admit, I did like Rowlings style. I had trouble putting that, the 2nd, and the 3rd down. In the forth, it flopped on me. But I'm a weird reader anyhow. I'm one of the people who doesnt' read Dickens, and I've only read one by Jane Austin.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about sorcery and all that. Yes, it is real. Satin does help people do this stuff if they believe in it. It is like if a person believes demons are in their home. (I am still learning a lot about this. But Demons are real, and they will come into a person's house and mess with things if that person - I don't want to say believes because all Christians should believe demons are real. but they let it take over. They dwell on this and almost come to believe they are more powerful then God. It borders on mystical stuff.) The same with sorcery I believe. I am almost willing to say I don't, personally, believe magic is wrong. In a sense. I could look outside and say a flower blooming is magical, which is a way to put it. I know God is doing the work, of course, but isn't there something magical about it? Something sweet and amazing and beautiful. And maybe that is how I view magic. An almost child like thing. A part of the imagination. And yet, it can be used badly. One doesn't have to look far to find examples of this. Soothsaying. Fortune telling. Talking to the dead. So, maybe it is how one uses magic that I have a problem with. Such as, in the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Narnia, there is a clear line. Good and bad. (Merlin as well.) How one uses their gifts. Just these gives are magic. And in this sense, I don't think it is wrong. (Again, personal conviction.) It is when it gets into the other things I have a problem. And this likely makes little sense, but I think it might explain some of my reason behind it.
Still, I will not go about trying to change someone's mind if they have a different conviction in the matter. It might cause them to stumble. God has given us different convictions for a reason.
Not having finished the books, I do not know how far into the magic area they go. I saw all the movies and didn't notice any of it. (There was a fortune telling part I didn't like, but it was more of a silly view on it. Not that it made me like it any better..) But as far as I could tell, there was that line there. Good and bad. When things start crossing and people start to make bad things good, that is a good time to stand back and question it. Because that is what the world likes to do. They call bad things good and good things bad.
Hmmm....*wants to nod like Jack and look wise, but I'm really not where this is concerned* This made zip sense....Yeah, so I just decided to say it. I've read it over half a dozen times, and its puzzling me.
@ Jack: Yes, something like that. I agree with you in a majority of ways. But it's all quite confusing to reach a sense-making conclusion on the subject of magic portrayal in entertainment.
@ Lauricia: Oh goody. It's only supposed to make sense to exactly fourteen people on the planet. Sort of a science class inside joke, if you will. ;)
Don't worry, you won't be the only one in the dark. But no, I won't explain. It was more of a "you had to be there" thing.
I figured out the first part. :) Which is sad, because I took physics three years ago. Why am I still remembering this subject that I really didn't need to take?????? :D
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*Nods in an attempt to look wise.* *Smirk*
I liked the first Harry Potter book well enough. And the third was pretty good too. I liked the characters in that one, and the plot. Very cool plot.
Well...in the first book I will admit, I did like Rowlings style. I had trouble putting that, the 2nd, and the 3rd down. In the forth, it flopped on me. But I'm a weird reader anyhow. I'm one of the people who doesnt' read Dickens, and I've only read one by Jane Austin.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about sorcery and all that. Yes, it is real. Satin does help people do this stuff if they believe in it. It is like if a person believes demons are in their home. (I am still learning a lot about this. But Demons are real, and they will come into a person's house and mess with things if that person - I don't want to say believes because all Christians should believe demons are real. but they let it take over. They dwell on this and almost come to believe they are more powerful then God. It borders on mystical stuff.)
The same with sorcery I believe. I am almost willing to say I don't, personally, believe magic is wrong. In a sense. I could look outside and say a flower blooming is magical, which is a way to put it. I know God is doing the work, of course, but isn't there something magical about it? Something sweet and amazing and beautiful. And maybe that is how I view magic.
An almost child like thing. A part of the imagination. And yet, it can be used badly. One doesn't have to look far to find examples of this. Soothsaying. Fortune telling. Talking to the dead.
So, maybe it is how one uses magic that I have a problem with.
Such as, in the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Narnia, there is a clear line. Good and bad. (Merlin as well.) How one uses their gifts. Just these gives are magic. And in this sense, I don't think it is wrong. (Again, personal conviction.) It is when it gets into the other things I have a problem.
And this likely makes little sense, but I think it might explain some of my reason behind it.
Still, I will not go about trying to change someone's mind if they have a different conviction in the matter. It might cause them to stumble. God has given us different convictions for a reason.
Not having finished the books, I do not know how far into the magic area they go. I saw all the movies and didn't notice any of it. (There was a fortune telling part I didn't like, but it was more of a silly view on it. Not that it made me like it any better..) But as far as I could tell, there was that line there. Good and bad. When things start crossing and people start to make bad things good, that is a good time to stand back and question it. Because that is what the world likes to do. They call bad things good and good things bad.
And now I shall end my ramble.
Hmmm....*wants to nod like Jack and look wise, but I'm really not where this is concerned*
This made zip sense....Yeah, so I just decided to say it. I've read it over half a dozen times, and its puzzling me.
@ Jack:
Yes, something like that. I agree with you in a majority of ways. But it's all quite confusing to reach a sense-making conclusion on the subject of magic portrayal in entertainment.
@ Lauricia:
Oh goody. It's only supposed to make sense to exactly fourteen people on the planet. Sort of a science class inside joke, if you will. ;)
Don't worry, you won't be the only one in the dark. But no, I won't explain. It was more of a "you had to be there" thing.
Love ya all,
K-Minty
I figured out the first part. :) Which is sad, because I took physics three years ago. Why am I still remembering this subject that I really didn't need to take?????? :D
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