more about stories
Love this! It reminds me of Tolkien’s essay on Fairy Stories.
Yes, same for me. It's a pretty remarkable piece of writing for a 19-year-old!
An interesting take on Fairy Tales.
When our children were young, My self was not happy with the fairy tales of the day.
One , a fat guy in a red suit that knows and is always watching you to see if you were bad or good.
Then at the end of the year you could send him a note of things you wanted and If you had done good things you would get stuff.
y problem was , it is not true, The guy in the red suit had nothing to do with Jesus and dec. 25 had nothing to do with Jesus.
Folks thought me to be equal with a child abuser denying my children to opportunity to believe in Santa.
They had another one with bunnies and eggs in the spring.
Kids learn how to cheat the system.
They know they all did "bad things" but in the end the gifts still came .
They grow up thinking ok the systems is based on false narratives and fairy tales.
The world we live in today is showing the results of if you believe it then it is true.
Those aren't fairy tales in the sense this article is using the term. I think they'd be called folklore or folk characters. A fairy tale has to have a hero, a quest or task, a reward...
Well, Technically yes.
But Santa is the Hero, the task is to make children behave (act in a way the parents desire).
The reward is getting the things you want.
Jesus preached against traditions of men (or folklore and stories) making the Word of God of no effect.
Love this! It reminds me of Tolkien’s essay on Fairy Stories.
Yes, same for me. It's a pretty remarkable piece of writing for a 19-year-old!
An interesting take on Fairy Tales.
When our children were young, My self was not happy with the fairy tales of the day.
One , a fat guy in a red suit that knows and is always watching you to see if you were bad or good.
Then at the end of the year you could send him a note of things you wanted and If you had done good things you would get stuff.
y problem was , it is not true, The guy in the red suit had nothing to do with Jesus and dec. 25 had nothing to do with Jesus.
Folks thought me to be equal with a child abuser denying my children to opportunity to believe in Santa.
They had another one with bunnies and eggs in the spring.
Kids learn how to cheat the system.
They know they all did "bad things" but in the end the gifts still came .
They grow up thinking ok the systems is based on false narratives and fairy tales.
The world we live in today is showing the results of if you believe it then it is true.
Those aren't fairy tales in the sense this article is using the term. I think they'd be called folklore or folk characters. A fairy tale has to have a hero, a quest or task, a reward...
Well, Technically yes.
But Santa is the Hero, the task is to make children behave (act in a way the parents desire).
The reward is getting the things you want.
Jesus preached against traditions of men (or folklore and stories) making the Word of God of no effect.