Mr. King RE: Under the Dome

[vickilynn]

Heh. You are going to quote the Bible at us now? I think you should go back to my advice earlier, reread it, and embrace it. In Danse Macabre, Mr. King makes a comment which I think is very useful. I don't have the text in front of me so I am probably going to paraphrase despite my best intentions:

"Fiction reveals truths to us by telling lies about people who never existed."

I think you should consider that statement for a bit. There is value in stories which show people doing bad things. There is no night without the day; the road to heaven is made interesting only by demons along the way. I would suggest that stories (and Stephen King's stories do this in particular) highlight the bad and good behavior. They elevate us even as they show some descend. All that lofty language aside, we are talking about imaginary people living imaginary lives. You have your own soul to worry about without having to stress out about imaginary people or those that create them. I think you have a great career waiting for you in the pulpit, but unless you haven't noticed... this isn't a Church. We aren't your flock.

Thanks for the input.

[Sundrop]

Heh. You are going to quote the Bible at us now? I think you should go back to my advice earlier, reread it, and embrace it. In Danse Macabre, Mr. King makes a comment which I think is very useful. I don't have the text in front of me so I am probably going to paraphrase despite my best intentions:

"Fiction reveals truths to us by telling lies about people who never existed."

I think you should consider that statement for a bit. There is value in stories which show people doing bad things. There is no night without the day; the road to heaven is made interesting only by demons along the way. I would suggest that stories (and Stephen King's stories do this in particular) highlight the bad and good behavior. They elevate us even as they show some descend. All that lofty language aside, we are talking about imaginary people living imaginary lives. You have your own soul to worry about without having to stress out about imaginary people or those that create them. I think you have a great career waiting for you in the pulpit, but unless you haven't noticed... this isn't a Church. We aren't your flock.

Amen!

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.....I'd throw in a 'halleluja' as well......but do you think it would be a little much?

Okay.....Sunny is moving on to other things and more worthy topics now. Love, Limes & Daisies ♥

[GNTLGNT]

Really? The Lord said not to take His name in vain.
Colossians 4:5-7

King James Version (KJV)

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Shasta]

Really? The Lord said not to take His name in vain.
Colossians 4:5-7

King James Version (KJV)

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Shoot. I'm wearing two different fabrics today. Who gets the pleasure of stoning me to death?

[PatInTheHat]

[not_nadine]

PITH is speachless.

[Tim D.]

I was raised in a household with traditional Christian values and I rarely indulge in any sort of profane language, but I have never had a problem with the cursing SK uses in his writing. People in the real world curse and SK's writing is a reflection of that. It does not change the way I speak, nor does it insult or offend me. I'm not trying to be a smart aleck or anything, but my best advice would be that if Stephen King's profanity offends you then you probably shouldn't be reading Stephen King books.