Originally posted by Kate
Is it good to put into our children's impressionable heads teaching about magic and life's lessons that a kind fairy or a prince will come and fix it all?
Now, Sozo.. is that very nice? This is friendship week you know. We all need to be nice. I'm doing my part and so should you. In fact, I'm not even going to mention that I fully agree with your statement.Originally posted by Sozo
I do not think that Michael Jackson or Prince can fix anything, so I am against tales about fairies.
Maybe not in Indiana, but my sons are "princes" or so say their wives.Originally posted by ebenz47037
Tell them that no prince is going to come "rescue" them.
Originally posted by Kate
Is it good to put into our children's impressionable heads teaching about magic and life's lessons that a kind fairy or a prince will come and fix it all? I now think it does more harm than good.
Into the life eternal the Holy Scriptures lead us, which teach us through divine words. But so long as our immaturity forbids our understanding their deep thought, we exercise our spiritual perceptions upon profane writings, which are not altogether different, and in which we perceive the truth as it were in shadows and in mirrors. Thus we imitate those who perform the exercises of military practice, for they acquire skill in gymnastics and in dancing, and then in battle reap the reward of their training. We must needs believe that the greatest of all battles lies before us, in preparation for which we must do and suffer all things to gain power. Consequently we must be conversant with poets, with historians, with orators, indeed with all men who may further our soul's salvation. Just as dyers prepare the cloth before they apply the dye, be it purple or any other color, so indeed must we also, if we would preserve indelible the idea of the true virtue, become first initiated in the pagan lore, then at length give special heed to the sacred and divine teachings, even as we first accustom ourselves to the sun's reflection in the water, and then become able to turn our eyes upon the very sun itself. - Basil the Great, Address To Young Men On the Right Use of Greek Literature, 2
Men in tights, riding on white horses are hard to come by these days.Originally posted by Kate
I don't know about you all, but I am still waiting....
Originally posted by Goose
Men in tights, riding on white horses are hard to come by these days.
For real. When I try to ride my white horse with them, they just chafe my skin.Originally posted by KamiQuasi
That's because they just don't make tights like they used to.