The Glade 4.0

It's still far better than anything by Hemingway. Damn, we had to read a lot of that crap.

This thread makes me sad.

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Much like a dog is only about three meals away from being a wolf, apparently humans are only about three books away from being savages.

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In almost all cases, these banned books are simply a case of outraged parents wanting libraries to do parenting for them. Parent X finds out about book Y and doesn't want their kid reading it, which is fine and well enough... but instead of doing any actual parenting they just yell at the library to remove it. It may have a little to do with the deification of books or something in society too, especially 'literature', but this is only a half-formed thought from someone not quite fully awake yet... I am simply trying to figure out the difference between books and movies here.

There have been a handful of lawsuits over the years. It can be fairly depressing stuff.

what makes you sad?

If I were to hazzard a guess, several reasons:
- How many artistic works humans try to ban. (unlikely the reason, but worth being sad about)
- How many of us illiterate plebians have read so few classics on the list. (far more likely, I suppose)
- Several stated negative opinions of literary classics (also very likely)
- that hack of a british children's author having her derivative works at the top of the list?

I could think of other reasons.

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None of Khross' works being listed?

Vague posts make me sad.

At a Harry Potter themed Christmas display window a few years back, I overheard one mother tell another she would never let her kids read those books because it promotes witchcraft and sorcery.

Indeed. Satanic spiritism and superstition in our children's entertainment is a serious threat to them growing up to be good Christians. Besides, they might catch teh gay from Dumbledor.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Harry Potter slipping from #1 on the banned books list is my current theory on why Rowling decided she always envisioned Dumbledor as gay.

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Yeah, its far better to ban it than to learn about the real themes of friendship, courage, integrity, and overcoming bullying and douchebaggery.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Of course! If they learn to courageously band together to overcome bullying and douchebaggery, we might never manage to convince them to properly love Jesus.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Holy shitsnacks!

Just tell everyone it is a christian allegory. That worked for LoTR and Narnia.

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The gay leaders gets struck down and tossed from the heights after indulging in a drinking binge involving an under age male?

Kind of ruined The Matrix.

But it isn't banned is it? I think we should have the authors of all these banned books go on the record and say they are Christian allegories/folk-tales and see if we can empty the list.

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The Matrix is generally banned in schools, yes. Something about an 'R' rating or some such.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Probably has to do with "glorification" of firearms. It does sort of glorify them, but in such a caricatured way that only an utter fool could think its seriously advocating pointless violence.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'm still sticking with the 'R' rating as the reason most schools tend not to play it. Most elementary schools don't show Schindler's List, either.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I've never seen Schindler's List, but I hear it has full frontal for both genders. Probably not really allowed to show that to children. However, I believe I watched Glory in the 6th grade and if I recall correctly, it was pretty violent and had a lot of "bad words." I mean, they say nigger like it was an every day word or something.

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That's interesting. You know what makes me sad? ...

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Is this list solely books that are banned from schools? I was under the impression that it went beyond that.

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We watched plenty of movies that had an 'R' rating in school. All of them were about books we had just finished for the most part, from what I can remember. I'd say say any R-rated movie that doesn't involve school curriculum would probably not be allowed in most schools though.

Off the top of my head:
Polanski's version of Macbeth (I believe this movie was funded by Playboy, if I remember correctly)
1984 (R-Rating)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest