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Sarcelle
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Methinks you have been messing around with the forces of darkness.
Otherwise how would you have known that the official language of magic is Latin?
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Otherwise how would you have known that the official language of magic is Latin?
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BartholomewB
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Mutatis mutandis! Carpe diem! Alea jacta est!
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Salibi
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Great. Now whereād my day go?
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StephieNorthCo
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O no. Our coins are evil. E pluribus unum.
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Titivillus
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"Itās Carpe DIem, not Carpe diEM "
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Sarcelle
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Itās Leviosaaa not leviosar
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Wozza
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Mensa
Mensa
Mensam
Mensae
Mensae
Mensa
Mensai
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Mensas
Mensarum
Mensis
Mensis
Good grief. How can I still remember the twelve (count 'emā¦12!) declentions of ātableā off the top of my head after so many decades? It must be magicā¦
It was years before I knew that people could actually speak Latin. It seemed more like a literary form of algebra to me.
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Titivillus
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Fixed it for you.
There is a famous anecdote related by Winston Churchill encountering the Vocative Mensa - āO, tableā
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Wozza
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Thanks. I get just a B+ then. And Winston and I shared the same bemusement in why youād want to address a table.Wozza:
Fixed it for you.
There is a famous anecdote related by Winston Churchill encountering the Vocative Mensa - āO, tableā
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tgGodsway
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It is common knowledge that the Harry Potter series is a big hit with the youth. The ideas are clear: casting spells, incantations, charms, and all sort of witchcraft practices. It is all introduction stuff to desensitize people to accept what the bible condemns. They say, āitās just fiction!ā yeahā¦ tell that to the local witch who attends most churches today. Itās not fiction for them with their voodoo dolls and whatnot.
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VanitasVanitatum
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Iād say thatās more of a separate problem.
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angel12
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Not churches in my neck of the woods. Weāre all muggles here.
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Loud-living-dogma
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You know, GOT isnāt typically sold to children.
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Paddy1989
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Does anyone know or is there any evidence showing Harry Potter leading people towards practicing the occult? I know NOONE who has ever taken that stuff seriously and the increase in practicing witchcraft for example could be explained by a renewed interest in pagan religions by some in society. Especially those who feel marginalized in materialistic secular society and find these mystical traditions exciting. Iām not taking sides on this, i just would like evidence. Iām an Irish Catholic who grew up in a atmosphere filled with mystical and horror stories which were are based upon a blend of pagan and Catholic influences so Harry Potter doesnāt really come across as Dark compared to these stories
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TheHolyTrinity
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Interestingly J.K. Rowlings has uses the phoenix in her stories, much like your profile picture of the phoenix rising.
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BartholomewB
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Phoenix Park?
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TheHolyTrinity
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Oh okay, what you have said in your past posts all make sense now. With the Irish Republican Socialist Party an off shoot of Provisional I_R_A - symbology the phoenix.
A Catholic Irish nun, spoke to me much about the horrors in Ireland. So much fighting, so many deaths. Bombings and murders. So very sad.
A Catholic Irish nun, spoke to me much about the horrors in Ireland. So much fighting, so many deaths. Bombings and murders. So very sad.
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Frankie65
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I read tons of magic fantasy books when I was a teenager and I also read the silmarillion. It was in the 80s. I loved all of them especially the ones with arthurian myth attached to them.
All the heroes had real weapons like spears or swords. Wizards had staffs.
None that I remember had wands. None of the kids ever had a wand.
I think even then I would have associated anyone with a wand as a witch. It was how it was then.
Nowadays kids think witches are cool and heroic.
Garbage. They have always been evil.
All the heroes had real weapons like spears or swords. Wizards had staffs.
None that I remember had wands. None of the kids ever had a wand.
I think even then I would have associated anyone with a wand as a witch. It was how it was then.
Nowadays kids think witches are cool and heroic.
Garbage. They have always been evil.
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Loud-living-dogma
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What are you expecting to find? Peer-reviewed journal articles on āThe influence of Harry Potter on todayās young practitioners of Wicca and neo-Paganismā?
Iāll look for something like that, but I donāt know if there are any academics studying Wicca and neo-paganism at this point.
Iāll look for something like that, but I donāt know if there are any academics studying Wicca and neo-paganism at this point.
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Bithynian
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The only thing that bothers me about the Harry Potter series is that itās become highly commodified. I wouldnāt have minded if it had remained just a very good childrenās series of fantasy novels, but now itās become an over-extended franchise, many truly awful video games, disposable toys of every variety to the extent that a marketing department can envision, etc. They even had a Quidditch team at my university: how does Quidditch even work without flight?
Instead of it being a fertile fictional world where adults could talk to kids about serious issues (e.g. politics, liberty, suffering) in a way that was accessible to them, itās morphed into some cynical cash-grab (well, their parentsā cash). A good example is the new āHogwarts Mysteryā cell phone game: the microtransactions have been reviewed as extremely exploitative of children, relying on psychological tactics that emulate gambling.
Kids donāt need more junk in their lives, they donāt need it exploitatively marketed at them, and they donāt need junk that weds them closer to their cell phones. But this is hardly exclusive to Harry Potter (Iām looking at you, Pokemon). Nonetheless, JK Rowling has still penned a very good book series.
Instead of it being a fertile fictional world where adults could talk to kids about serious issues (e.g. politics, liberty, suffering) in a way that was accessible to them, itās morphed into some cynical cash-grab (well, their parentsā cash). A good example is the new āHogwarts Mysteryā cell phone game: the microtransactions have been reviewed as extremely exploitative of children, relying on psychological tactics that emulate gambling.
Kids donāt need more junk in their lives, they donāt need it exploitatively marketed at them, and they donāt need junk that weds them closer to their cell phones. But this is hardly exclusive to Harry Potter (Iām looking at you, Pokemon). Nonetheless, JK Rowling has still penned a very good book series.
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