Dr. Seuss?

[puzzleannie]

I have no information on this author’s pro-life views, or lack of them, but the issue with using a line from one of his best known books was one of copyright infringement. The group using it did not ask or receive permission, which is illegal and an offense against the 7th commandment.

 

[otm]

puzzleannie:

I have no information on this author’s pro-life views, or lack of them, but the issue with using a line from one of his best known books was one of copyright infringement. The group using it did not ask or receive permission, which is illegal and an offense against the 7th commandment.

Hallelujah! Someone figured it out!

It is another way of saying “stealing”. Amazing how many people don’t get it…

And there is another interesting concept wending it’s way through this thread, and that is that anyone who is “liberal” must obviously not be speaking any truth of any sort… whatever “liberal” means or how we define it.

Good post, puzzelannie!

 

[NightRider]

WhiteDove:

I think Seuss might’ve been a Jew. His real last name was Geisel. I’ll see if I can find out online. I do know, though, that he never had children himself, and didn’t particularly like them.

Mr Geisel came and stayed at our home for a couple of days when I was about three or four. He was a friend of my grandmother’s. To prepare me before he came my mother told me that Dr Seuss was not too fond of children and I just couldn’t understand that, given all his wonderful books *for children! *And then my ma explained that he didn’t necessarily have to like children to write childrens’ books, even though she didn’t quite understand that either! Anyway, because of this preparation I was quite shy of him when he arrived, and so I hid under this huge rug we had in the living room. He thought that was hilarious and started calling me “Bug in the Rug” and autographed all my Dr Seuss books *To the Bug in the Rug from Dr Seuss! *And he also drew a bug in the rug beneath it. I thought that was the cat’s meow! and of course, still do. And no, he was not Jewish.

My grandmother was arch-conservative and argued quite animatedly with Mr Geisel!

God bless y’all!

 

[Tom_of_Assisi]

otm:

Hallelujah! Someone figured it out!

It is another way of saying “stealing”. Amazing how many people don’t get it…

And there is another interesting concept wending it’s way through this thread, and that is that anyone who is “liberal” must obviously not be speaking any truth of any sort… whatever “liberal” means or how we define it.

Good post, puzzelannie!

mmmm…a conspiracy theorist…I haven’t noticed this secondary theme “wending” its way through the thread, but thanks for drawing our attention to it.

 

[otm]

Tom of Assisi:

mmmm…a conspiracy theorist…I haven’t noticed this secondary theme “wending” its way through the thread, but thanks for drawing our attention to it.

No, I don’t think I am into “conspiracies”.

Look at posts 1,7,15 and 17 (an possibly 11).

So Geisel wrote about the Grinch who Stole Christmas; now we are back to “Modernists” ( never mind that we are beyond post-Modernism) because he didn’t talk about the Incarnation. Give me a break!

First off, most people who throw the term “Modernism” around wouldn’t know a Modernist theory if it came up and bit’em in the backside. Second, that relates to the time of almost a century ago. Philosophy may be dry, but theories come and go with greater frequency than most people realize. Third, I really have an issue with people who seem to think that children should be treated like little adults, and never exposed to any stories or fairy tales.

Argh!

If you can’t read Geisel’s stories and use them as teaching devices for your children, you most likely are not going to be able to teach your children without them (you are too dense)!

 

[Amber101]

Wow! Who would have thought that Dr. Seuss would be such a hot topic!?!

I like his books, except “The Cat in the Hat” , but that is just because reading it to my kids is such a chore!

Not every author I read, or read to my children is Christian. For instance, we love the Greek myths. We would really be missing out if we limited are books to only explicitly Christian books.