I hear ya Blessed! Funny ya mention Stephen King. I caught a little bit of one of the dozens of films that have been made from his writing's last night. No doubt he has single handedly spread more demonic based fear and unclean thoughts and themes than practically anyone in media. He ranks right up there with Ozzy and Manson, yet he somehow gets a reprieve because it's deemed 'literature'.
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Thou shalt attend to thy work at the appointed hour
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Thou shalt seek no reward but the satisfaction of thy Master
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Thou shalt know thy Duties
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Thou shalt Obey thy Master in all matters
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Thou shalt rejoice in thy Service
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Thou shalt be grateful of thy Master's Favour
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Thou shalt not make improper use of thy Master's comm-links, nor his las-lines, nor his opticon either
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Thou shalt be glad of thy Master's punishment, for it is deserved, and it improves thee
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Thou shalt not speak but Praise of thy Master
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Thou shalt not look upon the words of the Heretic nor speak of them
o Ecclesiarchal Proscriptions, MCXVII.IV
Go and read the full version of The Stand (if your tiny brain can encompass such a broad conceptual sweep).
Then shut the fuck up, you tiresome waste of protein and electrolyte.
I'll admit, King creeps me out more than a little.
I grew up in a small town in New England. When we were digging the cellar hole for the house I grew up in, ancient American Indian artifacts were discovered on the property. I lost a cat and two rabbits in that house.
But Satanic? My head hurts now ...
Shipwreck/Bazooka '08. Because they can't be any worse than whatever we'll eventually end up getting.
Amazing. Abso-fucking-lutely amazing.
I, personally, love reading most Stephen King books. His imagination is extraordinary.
Something like yours, actually. The difference is he totes his imagination as fiction wile you tote yours as truth.
I'll take King over a fundie or god any day of the week.
Yeah! Book burning, here we come...
The problem is that you seem to have lost the grip of reality and can't tell fact from fiction. The first symptom is that you actually beleive what the bible says.
Huh?
-I used to read King's books (propably all of them)when i was a kid.
In just about every other book the monsters/vampires/werewolves/demons are only defeated with
help from heaven...devout christians(exepting that fundie bitch in "The Mist")or at least those who seek help from god are generally the last persons standing in those stories.
What's the problem? Fearmongering used to be one of fundies favorite tools in days gone past.
-Well...at least gone past here in skandinavia, heh.
Please stop with the Stephen King bashing. Have you ever read one of his books? Good usually beats out evil in the end, and the good is usually found in unlikely places. There are good social morals to his stories and the underdog is usually the hero.
I don't know his relgious beliefs, but I know he has been married to the same women for many years, raised 2 children (his son Joe Hill, writes great ghost stories) and he is very charitable. You know, gives of his time and money to people who need help.
He has a great imagination and a way with words and every interview I have seen of him, he seems like a really nice guy. If you don't like his genre of stories, that's fine, then don't read them.
I read Cujo last night then had to shoot my dog cos it looked at me funny.
It's alright though, I've got the "infected by King's demons" defence all lined up.
You obviously haven't read any of Stephen King's books. A lot of them have Christian themes on some level. The Stand and the Gunslinger series are the first that come to mind. Just because he doesn't beat you over the head with Teh Jeebus doesn't mean he's evil. Don't talk shit about things you know nothing about.
(Yes, I'm a huge Stephen King fan, as if you couldn't tell.)
I suppose logosone would also condemn H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Phillip K. Dick, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and any other writer who features supernatural horror.
@ Ozzy
Stephen King has three children (and three grandchildren).
Oldest Naomi King is a Unitarian minister, lesbian, and is working on a nonfiction project; Joseph Hillstrom King recently wrote "Heart Shaped Box," under the pen name Joe Hill; and youngest son Owen King published a novella in 2005 entitled "We're All in this Together."
I'm right about midway through Duma Key now, and it's fantastic. Supernatural, yes, but one of the main characters uses said supernatural things to save a good friend's life.
Horrific, isn't it? *Shudders dramatically*
Don't dis King. He rules.
"Some people think I must be a very strange person. That's not true. I have the heart of a little boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk." --Stephen King
King's works ARE literature. Would I read 'Salem's Lot once every year if it wasn't well-written?
Stephen King also likes the heavy metal.
Look up the track listing for the soundtrack to _Maximum Overdrive_. Nothing but AC/DC there.
Could it be that he listens to Ozzy while writing, and reads true-crime like the Manson family murders for inspiration!?
It's a matter of opinion whether his books could be called literature, but there is no question whatsoever that they are fiction.
Of course fundies take the worst work of fiction in all of history to be factually true so what what hope do we have of ever making them understand the difference between fact and fiction?
"I hear ya Blessed! Funny ya mention Stephen King. I caught a little bit of one of the dozens of films that have been made from his writing's last night. No doubt he has single handedly spread more demonic based fear and unclean thoughts and themes than practically anyone in media. He ranks right up there with Ozzy and Manson, yet he somehow gets a reprieve because it's deemed 'literature'."
Or simply jealous that he's one of the richest authors on the planet, along with JK Rowling, who has almost single handedly gotten an entire generation hooked onto the joy of literature - and not just her own "Harry Potter" books, neither.
Certainly not the Bible, that's for sure.
The First Children Sasha & Malia Obama are big "Harry Potter" fans. Suck it, fundies.
XD Since you mention Ozzy, I assume you mean Marilyn Manson, who's...okay, not Charles Manson, who was a dick and had people killed but didn't do a lot in the field of culture. What about Alice Cooper? He's fun.
Not sure what you mean by a reprieve, since it isn't like either of those artists have been thrown in jail for demonic proselytizing. Are you bitching out your fellow fundies for not bitching about King more?
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