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Love the hodgepodge, Mark! 😛

You are correct.

This is kind of hard to explain, because I’ve never put it into words before, but I believe there is a difference between portraying God in an allegory and creating your own God. Did you read King’s Armor? Hope portrayed Jesus a little differently, but she didn’t change His nature.

There is no difference to my thinking, because you’re not reall…[Read more]

Good points, Rosey. Of course this is fun!

Good points about magic too. 😛

You mentioned that magic in the Bible is portrayed as bad. Here’s a link to an article if you want to follow it, that discusses this issue very well, but in a nut shell, the magic mentioned in the Bible is witchcraft. Of course it’s portrayed as bad! Magic in the Bible is…[Read more]

The system of power thing could work, but I’d say that’s treading on dangerous ground. In the bible, there are the outright miracles, true. But usually the prophet or person seeking help prays to God, gets direct instructions and follows them. There aren’t any incantations or wand-waving and nothing that closely resembles the magic we see in a lot…[Read more]

Yes, it is @Alia. I haven’t read the other books in the series; maybe I’ll pick one up over Christmas break. 🙂

I have to join in, sorry guys. This is an awesome topic! Ok, here are some of my favorite books:

Lord of the Rings…It’s just simply amazing!
The Harry Potter books are awesome!
The Percy Jackson series was hilarious! I love Rick Riordan’s writing style. 🙂
The Mysterious Benedict Society…very cleverly written (is cleverly a word? :P)
To…[Read more]

Haha! No problem… I understood it okay. 😛

*sigh* The inner author makes slaves of us all.

Oh! Okay. Gotcha, @Daeus. I agree. 🙂

Yes certainly! I love a good debate. So let’s both enjoy this thoroughly. This is just so fun. Really debate is so fun, and it so stretches our brains, and I love it…

So. Yes, you have good points there. I may be redundant in what I say, and say it all over again, but I hope not and if I am oh well. 😛
With LotR magic (I assume you’ve read…[Read more]

Hey, Kate!
So *cough* you requested to know where I stand on magic-y stuff. Going in, I just want to say I understand where you are coming from and by no means am trying to insult anyone. *looks around* everybody clear on that? ‘kay.
Now, I see your example of a lightbulb at the beginning of the intro here. Point taken, but God did not take a…[Read more]

You and I were posting at the same time, Daeus! 🙂 I don’t think this is necessarily a problem for leadership only, though it would be good to talk to them, certainly.

I’m not very wise, and certainly still learning, but I would love to discuss this with Sarah and I think it’s a good thing to have these discussions where people who may be…[Read more]

These are all very valid questions, Sarah, and I know it can’t have been easy for you to speak out. I admire that.

Let me make a quick statement as to where I stand. I write fantasy. There is magic in my work. I love the Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Star Wars— though there are certainly elements of Star Wars I strongly…[Read more]

Ooh… that’s quite a question!
I don’t think I can answer that with just one character— I pour a varied amount of myself into every one of mine, pretty much. But a lot of my sarcastic characters bear many similarities to my personality, because I can be ridiculously sarcastic and witty in an odd, wacky, irrelevant sort of way. 😛 I also tend…[Read more]

My method is putting a bit of myself in pretty much all of my characters. There’s one who looks like me, one who talks like me, one who has some of my habits or expressions… it varies.
Jean and Cobalt are a sort of split of how I act in different situations.

Anna West, definitely. Mainly because I’ve based her (in part) of imaginings of myself in various situations. She’s an 18 year old girl in America 200 years in the future, and she is a Christian who works in the underground and, later on, in the rebellion.

Oh! That kind of elf hat! Okay, yeah, I might draw the line there. 😛

Hey Rosey, can I ask you what it is you don’t like about magic? I’m not being patronizing— really I’m not. But I love this discussion. This is like one of my absolute pet-peeve discussions, and I’m always on the lookout for someone who can offer a new dimension of thought to it. I’d love to discuss this with you.

I already created a thread for…[Read more]

Our family just read Storybound by Marissa Burt and it was… gah, spoilers, but it was really really good. Make sure to have the sequel on hand, though. The first one ends on a cliffhanger. 😛
Only issue was good guys using magic, and I wasn’t really all the comfortable with that.

Wow @kate-flournoy. Don’t think I could spot you in a grocery store. XP
Elf hat, as in, Santa’s elves elf hat. 😉