tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post6186510675676372435..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Failures of Negative ExampleDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-59692548378918159752008-10-24T16:20:00.000-04:002008-10-24T16:20:00.000-04:00"But the stories that helped me were the ones that..."But the stories that helped me were the ones that showed the 'cool, rebellious' character to ultimately not be very likable at all."<BR/><BR/><BR/>What stories would those be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-5750095057720544272008-10-20T04:36:00.000-04:002008-10-20T04:36:00.000-04:00Oh boy. Now this raises an incredibly important a...Oh boy. Now this raises an incredibly important and difficult question:<BR/><BR/>How DO you achieve the formation you want for your children?<BR/><BR/>Here's a quote:<BR/><BR/>"Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."<BR/><BR/>-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"<BR/><BR/>It is a difficult, very fragile process; even history's famous examples--the Spartans, the upper-class Romans, 18th-Century European "gentlemen"; all had a chronic problem with individuals betraying the standard--not to mention incidents of mass collapse of the whole standard.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I think you touched on a point that, at least, affected me: If the character who "misbehaved" had a lot of fun flaunting authority, no matter what happened to him in the end, lots of kids (including the gray-haired variety who should have grown up but never did) would want to emulate him. Darth Maul was one of the most popular of the Star Wars characters. <BR/><BR/>But the stories that helped me were the ones that showed the "cool, rebellious" character to ultimately not be very likable at all.<BR/><BR/>Not just unfortunate; not likable.<BR/><BR/>LogEyed RomanLogEyed Romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13889437392169618869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-15290458608022001072008-10-19T21:38:00.000-04:002008-10-19T21:38:00.000-04:00If you ever wondered why Lewis constantly harped o...If you ever wondered why Lewis constantly harped on that business about never closing a wardrobe door behind you when you hid in it, now you know. It was just a literary form of "Don't try this at home, kids!"CMinorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07305306030099439903noreply@blogger.com