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Re: Star Wars... It's not the hype
>Paul says:
>
>And what, exactly, is wrong with that? I'm not smelling a little
>highbrowism,
>am I? The deepest truths, the most touching sympathies, the most
>spectacular
>imaginations can be realized by ten-year-olds, and it takes a rare genius
>(Jim
>Henson comes to mind) who can pull such things off without alienating the
>adult
>audience. Any film or book (Narnia, anyone?) that can supercede our
>culturally
>imposed distinctions of age-level focus should be lauded, not berated.
>
>And I say:
>
>
>I bought a kid's book at the supermarket a couple weeks ago: "I Am A
>Jedi,"
>by Qui-Gon Jinn. Cool, right? A friend pointed out this weekend how scary
>it is that George Lucas is selling what amounts to false religion to our
>10-year olds (or our 5, 4 and 3 year olds, for that matter). The book is
>laid out like a very simple primer to the "Jedi" religion, explaining the
>force, the council, the Dark Side and the Good Side, the importance of
>apprenticeship, etc., etc. All on about 15 pages of 8 by 8 glossy paper.
>
>Is Yoda God? Do kids know the difference?
AND D.M. makes a smarmy comment (with horns showing)
I'd rather have Yoda as God (or god, or g-d for that matter) than most any
other icon you care to place on the mantle. He's a good bit less
hypocritical (at least his followers are- at least they admit to it) and a
little harder to blame
ON TOP O IT ALL: it would completely blow that argument about God's gender
right outta the water >:) Hhmph.
Ta
D.M.
"Make you so jealous you be green as Yoda's ass"
--- Lord High Sherriff of Cleveland Slam Dave Snodgrass
P.S.: I've always wondered who God's God was. I could deal with it being Jim
Henson
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