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To: wagglebee

Pro-life message of not, these books seem to be awfully creepy fare that I wouldn’t let my daughter near. And no, I don’t mean creepy as in “It has a vampire in it and vampires are creepy.”

I mean as in relationship creepy:
http://thepoint.breakpoint.org/2008/07/twilight-the-ol.html


8 posted on 08/09/2008 12:51:54 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (*******It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.******)
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To: Mr. Silverback

That fact I was not aware of.


10 posted on 08/09/2008 12:53:41 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Mr. Silverback

I’ve never heard of them before...

What is it you object to ???


12 posted on 08/09/2008 12:57:43 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Mr. Silverback
Oh, please.

I could post a website decrying the creepiness of Woody Woodpecker and get people to believe it.

My 17 year-old daughter read the previous books in the series and is almost finished with this one.

She is a deeply committed Christian who helps lead praise and worship at our church. She has a real aversion to things “on the dark side” and surprising wisdom for someone so young — far far far more than her daddy had at that age.

We can strain at this gnat all day, while real evil runs roughshod over our youth culture.

13 posted on 08/09/2008 1:00:04 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Thanks for that great link. I have no desire to read the series. In general I am disturbed at the popularity of taking what has usually been thought as evil and making it seductive (yeah I know vampires are not real) but there is a deeper message here. We are in this society being asked to accept as viable and affirming choices that those before us had no problem identifying as poison to the soul. If no one thinks teen, children or adult fiction does not play an important role in this they are very naive (sp).


14 posted on 08/09/2008 1:00:18 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Mr. Silverback
I can understand why you are concerned. The relationship sounds unhealthy and obsessive.
16 posted on 08/09/2008 1:03:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mr. Silverback
the process will involve days of torture, take away her humanity, and stop her heart, and that afterward she might not be able to control her thirst for human blood...

So that's what happened to Hillary!

18 posted on 08/09/2008 1:05:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Mr. Silverback

OK I see ...

I went back and actually READ the link...

“nice” books...

No pre-marital sex...

But every other kind of abuse and demonic goings on...

But HEY...

No pre-marital sex...


22 posted on 08/09/2008 1:12:56 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Mr. Silverback
Pro-life message of not, these books seem to be awfully creepy fare that I wouldn’t let my daughter near.

I agree. My daughter isn't getting near these.

29 posted on 08/09/2008 1:42:19 PM PDT by conservative cat
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I had never heard of this author or this series....

..but after reading your link, I find the storyline very sick, abstinence or not.

And now I remember last week being in a bookstore, and all the employees were dressed to the 'nines' and said they were going to have a 'book party' and it was for THIS book...which I realized as I read all this.

Very disturbing....very sick.

31 posted on 08/09/2008 1:53:20 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Mr. Silverback

The discussion at “The Point” is kind of “What did you think they’d say?” but the one they link to, “Occupation: Girl,” is hysterical. No wonder my daughter said the first book in the series was even dumber than my secret Barbara Cartland stash!


53 posted on 08/09/2008 3:39:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And the rum is for all your good vices.")
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To: Mr. Silverback
would you let your daughter read Romeo and Juliette? a fickle teenage boy and a melodramatic 13 year old girl who kill themsevles for what they beleive to be love. little mermaid? in the non-disney version she kills herself when she finds that her prince loves someone else after giving up her voice just to be with him. i could go on for ever bringing up timeless fairy tales about fantasic creatures and unrational love. Meyer is very careful to differenciate between the way that the humans love eachother, however real it is (like between bella and her dad and Rene and her husband) and the unnateral, uncontrollable connections the supernatural have between eachother.it's not just romantic love. even the werewolves have something similar, and more powerful than anything that humans feel.
78 posted on 08/09/2008 8:25:40 PM PDT by calicandi32
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