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Post by redheadedskeptic on Nov 3, 2009 3:50:10 GMT -5
lol! I do, too! I get so disgusted by how nicely TLC portrays it that I can't help but make snarky comments wherever I go! That, and I want to know what I'm reading when I read the book that the one who breaks away publishes someday! ;D Was that too mean?
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Post by km on Nov 3, 2009 7:52:46 GMT -5
lol! I do, too! I get so disgusted by how nicely TLC portrays it that I can't help but make snarky comments wherever I go! That, and I want to know what I'm reading when I read the book that the one who breaks away publishes someday! ;D Was that too mean? Oh, hell, I didn't think so, but I'm not maybe the best person to ask that question. I feel the same way.
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Post by km on Nov 3, 2009 7:54:36 GMT -5
It's called "Plugged In" by Focus on the Family. There are other "Christian" review sites, too, and I think Family Life Today had a radio blurb about movies (though it's been so long, I could be wrong about that). Not a convention exactly, but close enough. Then there is some kind of Christian film festival every year in Texas. Ah, right. I did know about the thing in Texas (Is that the same one that the Duggars went to? That's the only episode of the show that's ever on when I tune in--the one where they go and watch Fireproof and decide that it's their favorite movie.).
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Post by redheadedskeptic on Nov 3, 2009 10:33:39 GMT -5
It's called "Plugged In" by Focus on the Family. There are other "Christian" review sites, too, and I think Family Life Today had a radio blurb about movies (though it's been so long, I could be wrong about that). Not a convention exactly, but close enough. Then there is some kind of Christian film festival every year in Texas. Ah, right. I did know about the thing in Texas (Is that the same one that the Duggars went to? That's the only episode of the show that's ever on when I tune in--the one where they go and watch Fireproof and decide that it's their favorite movie.). Yup! I couldn't remember the name of it, though.
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Post by xara on Nov 3, 2009 13:21:00 GMT -5
And there is nothing better than singing The sound of Music at the top of your lungs with friends after having a few drinks. Lol. LOL! I haven't ever done it after drinking, but is it sad and pathetic that even though I am no longer a fundamentalist (though never as extreme as being part of quiverful) that I still like Sound of Music? And, uh, I kind of REALLY like Princess Bride. I'm a nerd. There is nothing wrong with Princess Bride. "Have fun stormin' the castle"
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Post by amyrose on Nov 3, 2009 14:57:59 GMT -5
When I worked in the "Christian" school, I was told that I needed to learn to do crafts or I would never get married. Apparently, good "Christian" men are out looking for women who can make a Christmas ornament out of popsicle sticks and shoelaces or whatever.
Or maybe the people telling me that were just completely insane.
I tend to go with the second explanation and did at the time as well.
And I'm very happily married to a man who has never expressed an interest in me doing crafts.
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Post by rosa on Nov 3, 2009 15:16:38 GMT -5
You know, I'm a big heathen and I LOVE crafts. I used to spend hours (when i used to have hours, ha) cutting out pictures for collage. We have Christmas ornament-making parties. I knit until my RSI flares up on a regular basis. That's why I got interested in the QF stuff, on an intellectual level - as a cloth-diapering, gardening, canning, home-cooking, knitting, crafty mom I kept running into the patriarchal ladies.
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Post by redheadedskeptic on Nov 3, 2009 16:52:45 GMT -5
You know, I'm a big heathen and I LOVE crafts. I used to spend hours (when i used to have hours, ha) cutting out pictures for collage. We have Christmas ornament-making parties. I knit until my RSI flares up on a regular basis. That's why I got interested in the QF stuff, on an intellectual level - as a cloth-diapering, gardening, canning, home-cooking, knitting, crafty mom I kept running into the patriarchal ladies. It's so weird. I didn't get artsy craftsy (except for scrapbooking) until AFTER I left fundamentalism. Maybe it was my own form of rebellion or something, I don't know!
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Post by jadehawk on Nov 3, 2009 23:53:40 GMT -5
QF'ers are allowed to like The Princess Bride?
but there's magic, and resurrection from the dead of someone who isn't Jesus, and pirates who are good!
i love that movie, btw :-)
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Post by Ella on Nov 4, 2009 11:25:26 GMT -5
You know, I'm a big heathen and I LOVE crafts. I used to spend hours (when i used to have hours, ha) cutting out pictures for collage. We have Christmas ornament-making parties. I knit until my RSI flares up on a regular basis. That's why I got interested in the QF stuff, on an intellectual level - as a cloth-diapering, gardening, canning, home-cooking, knitting, crafty mom I kept running into the patriarchal ladies. Yeah, it seems as though every time I find a new site for stuff like that it's absolutely plastered with bible verses. Kind of frustrating really. And The princess bride does seem like an odd one to me as far as it being okay with families like this. The sound of music though I can totally see. I managed to catch in on tv a while ago and I finally figured out why they were singing the Maria song during the wedding scene. Cause her getting married was the thing that finally managed to tie her down... or at least that's what was implied. Ick.
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Post by redheadedskeptic on Nov 5, 2009 14:22:29 GMT -5
The wedding theme Maria used to march down the aisle was the same wedding theme I used to march down the aisle.
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Post by margybargy on Nov 5, 2009 16:37:26 GMT -5
This made me smile. Sometimes I have to go read a nice atheist blog after I read a fundie one just to regain my equilibrium. The fundie ones make me so mad sometimes. Plus the bizarro logic makes me dizzy.
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Post by krwordgazer on Nov 5, 2009 16:51:23 GMT -5
And The princess bride does seem like an odd one to me as far as it being okay with families like this. The sound of music though I can totally see. I managed to catch in on tv a while ago and I finally figured out why they were singing the Maria song during the wedding scene. Cause her getting married was the thing that finally managed to tie her down... or at least that's what was implied. Ick. I love The Princess Bride. It's my all-time favorite movie. But Buttercup irritates me in it-- the way she spends most of her time waiting to be rescued. I can see why fundies would like that part of it, anyway. But the wedding scene in Sound of Music? I never thought that was why they sang that song at all! I thought the point was that the nuns tried to make Maria fit into their mold, and she didn't because she just wasn't meant to be a nun. Their singing "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" wasn't about the nuns being glad the trouble-making girl was finally getting tied down-- it was about them "solving the problem" by letting her go free, to be who she was meant to be-- but still accepting her as herself even if she would never be a nun. In other words, you don't "solve" the problem of people who don't fit into your rules and lifestyle, by forcing them into it. You "solve" it by letting them go. I thought it was a sweet and affirming message.
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Post by Sierra on Nov 5, 2009 16:57:50 GMT -5
I like Princess Bride, but I do have to turn off my feminist sensibilities a little bit to enjoy it. The one that fundies were obsessed with when I was growing up was The Fiddler on the Roof. Oh, how I hated that movie! The point was supposedly the subverting of tradition, but it seemed to make out tradition just to be the harmless eccentricities of the older generation. And my friends loved to sing the songs without thinking about what they meant. I had a feeling they all wished life were really the way it was in the "traditional" family. Blech.
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Post by Ella on Nov 5, 2009 20:41:45 GMT -5
Ah, that would make sense about the wedding song. That makes me feel a little better. Must have been in an odd mood that night. For some reason that just struck me as odd that night, though it hadn't in the past. Sorry if I offended in any way, redheadedskeptic. Personally, I used the Princess Bride theme when I got married.
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Post by redheadedskeptic on Nov 5, 2009 21:58:44 GMT -5
oh, goodness, why on earth would I be offended?
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Post by redheadedskeptic on Nov 5, 2009 22:00:14 GMT -5
OH! I get why. It was actually what I marched down the aisle to with my EX husband, back when I was neck deep in fundamentalism. So no, no offense taken AT ALL. Even if it was a recent thing, I wouldn't be upset!
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Post by Ella on Nov 7, 2009 10:43:39 GMT -5
Glad to know. I just really like to err on the side of caution, especially when it comes to offending people.
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