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Re: My two cents worth

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 Ysobelle at aol_com wrote:
> 1. The Buffy thread, like the movie threads, the book threads, the
> fashion threads, etc., showed up, lasted a couple of days, then went
> away. The Christian theology threads come up over and over and over and
> last for days and are usually multiple. It's a thread that comes up
> second only to actual OtR discussion, I think.

Well, if OTR sang about Buffy more, maybe the Buffy threads would last
longer!  :)

> 2. Buffy is a pretty universal thing-- anyone can watch or not watch as
> they choose, no matter how they were raised or what they believe.

I dunno, that's kind of like saying Harry Potter appeals to everybody no
matter what their religious beliefs happen to be ...

> It's a TV show. If you're interested, you can check it out one evening
> when you have nothing else to do. Or not. Christianity is, as I think
> people have said, a discussion generally of interest to Christians.

And by implication, paganism is of interest to pagans and Judaism is of
interest to Jews, etc.?  Perhaps.  I'm curious about them all, m'self.

> 3. Buffy is a TV show. It is not, in the grand scheme of things, all
> that important. I can argue as passionately as I want about the merits
> of Buffy as opposed to Ally, but in the end, IT'S A TV SHOW. Maybe I'm
> wrong, but I happen to think religion is a fairly weighty, important
> issue. Once again, it's like bringing a 900 pound gorilla to the dinner
> table. It's your religion, so it's a part of your life. For the rest of
> us, it's not. It's a 900 pound gorilla.

Well, as long as the gorilla is well behaved and gets along with the rest
of us, I don't think I would have a problem with that, myself.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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