em
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Post by em on May 12, 2010 22:18:25 GMT -5
km, Jacob Have I loved has been a favorite of mine since elementary school. I dont like Bridge to Terabithia as much because it made me cry. lol
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Post by krwordgazer on May 13, 2010 0:25:13 GMT -5
My daughter is loving the Cleary books. Stampinmama, has she tried the Elizabeth Enright books about the Melendy children, beginning with The Saturdays? They are delightful, and in pretty much the same genre. Set in the 1940s, about a group of five very unique siblings. Completely secular. I was and am a voracious reader. Since I wasn't involved in fundamentalism as a child, I have no experience with having my books censored. The time period that I was most deeply in the fundamentalist cult, I was also majoring in English in college, and had way too much literature to read for homework, to pay any attention to what I was or wasn't supposed to read per my church! (Though I do remember gravitating towards mysteries after getting out of college, because fantasy -- my first love-- was frowned on.) But books like Elizabeth Enright's are just great, fun books about being a kid. A Wrinkle In Time and its sequels were amazing, but I loved L'Engle's companion series, beginning with Arm of the Starfish, even better. L'Engle is a fantastic writer-- a Christian whose theology is fairly liberal (as Rowling is also).
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Post by humbletigger on May 13, 2010 6:52:17 GMT -5
I can't imagine having to pretend to believe in something that seemed nonsensical to you. I have been called "liberal" lately, since I am no longer a fundamentalist. ;D I seem to have come through fundie land with a good head on my shoulders, but I shudder to think of all the harm it did my twin sister. She was continually terrified by the whole thing- hell, the Rapture, bad-things-happen-cause-you-ticked-god-off...AGAIN! I think it's great that Erica protects her daughter from visually disturbing images. I wish my mom had protected my sister from mentally disturbing images....
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Post by stampinmama on May 13, 2010 16:44:44 GMT -5
I think it's great that Erica protects her daughter from visually disturbing images. I wish my mom had protected my sister from mentally disturbing images.... You know what's interesting about that is that my daughter protects herself more than I protect her. She's pretty good at knowing herself and what she can and can't handle, even at only 10 years old.
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Post by km on May 13, 2010 21:46:48 GMT -5
km, Jacob Have I loved has been a favorite of mine since elementary school. I dont like Bridge to Terabithia as much because it made me cry. lol Ooh, see, Jacob Have I Loved made me cry much more than Bridge to Terabithia. And let's not even discuss that horrific Disneyfied *soulless* movie version of Bridge to Terabithia. *Nothing* that captured even the spirit of the book. /rant
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Post by Volly on May 14, 2010 19:16:16 GMT -5
"What if Mary was artificially inseminated?" Ha! Love it and can relate. I remember remarking to a fellow megachurch congregant -- someone who seemed pretty open-minded and educated -- that rather than calling Jesus the Son of God, "the Clone" of God would be a lot more accurate. I mean, right? He basically took God's DNA and replicated it so that he would possess all the holy and sinless attributes of God but still be a separate individual being. Well, I could tell this acquaintance didn't like that at all -- right down to the hand-wringing, throat-clearing and eye-shifting that followed. Fortunately, I was able to cover it up slightly by saying "It's okay -- my mom wouldn't have liked me saying that either." Getting back onto the subject of a disapproving mom made this guy feel so much more comfortable. Nice Christian girls, after all, shouldn't talk about science! Not even if they keep up with the subject to a respectable degree. No, we're supposed to talk about babies. Or at least being babies. What I didn't say was that my mom wouldn't have liked it because she was squeamish about scientific topics. However, she didn't believe in the trinity at all. But I was wise enough to keep that nugget to myself
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Post by corardens on May 15, 2010 7:25:18 GMT -5
Getting back to the notion of the reality/fantasy divide for a mo, I'm almost afraid to ask... what happened to children in QF/fundie families who had imaginary friends?
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Post by Ex-Adriel on May 17, 2010 16:47:45 GMT -5
I'm not qf, but we were seriously fundie, and I had an angel named Micah. I don't remember him well now, but I do remember laying in bed at night and telling my mother stories about what we did all day.
Mom thinks (she randomly brought him up this weekend) that Micah was brought into my life to keep me from being lonely since I wasn't allowed to associate with the neighborhood kids, and the home churches we were in very rarely had someone my own age for me to play with.
I remember that he was very large, and he didn't understand figures of speech or modern life, so I had to explain most things to him. Again, I don't remember the details much anymore, but my mom tells stories about all the funny explanations I came up with to tell him about cars and airplanes and traffic lights.
I was apparently a strange little child.
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