Shik
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"Tao Of Pooh" has been around for years. It's basically philsophy idioted up for againg hippies & neo-Deadheads. I don't get the whole "Pooh" thing.
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Just the other day, someone at the library had that book out, overdue. She thought she'd returned it, so I checked the shelf. It wasn't there, but, in the same spot, I saw we had another one called "The Te of Piglet".
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I guess anything is acceptable when you are trying to make religion more accessible...I hear the christian faith is in decline, perhaps we should encourage various religious leaders to find a way of linking Pokemon to the resurrection...give it a modern day slant.
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Ashes to Ashes, er, Gary to dust? Or whatever the kid from Gold/Silver is called.
infinity11: You have your own religion? That's quite impressive for someone still at school.
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"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Pika, Pika, lama sabachthani?', that is, 'My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?' And some of the bystanders hearing it said, 'This man is calling Pikachu.' And one of them at once ran and took a pokéball, filled it with Jigglypuff, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him. But the others said, 'Wait, let us see whether Pikachu will come to save him.' And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his Psyduck."
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
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I read that Pok�mon would be discontinued in Japan because of the extreme dedication the children of Japan devoted to this filthy franchise.
Also, the Guinness book of records state that 800 or so children, ages 4-13, were hospitalized with acute symptoms of migraine, epilepsy and nausea due to a TV-ep of Pok�mon with the little yellow pok�mon flashing it's eyes red.
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Yeah, I remember the news reports at the time. Name of the show didn't register, though, so when Pok�mon appeared here a few years later I didn't know it was the epilepsy-inducing show. I'm still twitching, someone's gonna get sued. . .
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"I read that Pok�mon would be discontinued in Japan because of the extreme dedication the children of Japan devoted to this filthy franchise."
"Filthy"? Going a bit far, aren't we Nimmy. Besides, it's been going on for about 5 years now. Bit late to worry about it.
"Also, the Guinness book of records state that 800 or so children, ages 4-13, were hospitalized with acute symptoms of migraine, epilepsy and nausea due to a TV-ep of Pok�mon with the little yellow pok�mon flashing it's eyes red."
God, this gets bought up a lot. You know, it doesn't make the show "evil" because it accidently caused some epileptic fits. Unfortunate, but not evil.
Yes, an episode did cause that to happen. Back in 1996. The show was immedietly pulled off the air in Japan. It came back a few months later, and they'd drastically butchered all the episodes they had to remove anything close to strobe lighting. These are the versions the US gets. You watch early episodes, at points you get very juddery animation. Later episodes are animated in a completely different way, to avoid this altogether. And the episode that caused the fit had never been shown since. Or released on tape or DVD. Or even spoken off. It has been buried, and the earth above it salted. And they got a priest to bless the area with holy water, to make sure that it doesn't rise again as a vampire.
Sorted.
------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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I think it's filthy and I stand by that. It represents the worst in capitalism and to this point it is the boldest exploitation of children's desires I have ever seen.
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Really? I don't see how it's any "worse" in than children's TV has ever been. Transformers, GI Joe, even Star Wars (the toys) have been designed to get money out of children.
In fact, Star Wars (and Trek) are far worse than Pokemon in that regard. The different Pokemon toys are fairly obviously aimed at different people. Soft cuddly toys for girls, action-type toys for boys, and so on. Are you suggesting that the, roughly, 9 million different Darth Vadar toys (look! See him with lightsabre! And Without! And with his arms in a different pose! And with a slightly different helmet! And look! He's dancing!). Is that any better?
------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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