Marjorie Writes a Book on Love

[HereticHick]

31 minutes ago, 19 cats and counting said:

I think she dodged a bullet by not marrying into the Duggar family.

Absolutely. Girlfriend could honest-to-god be an 18 year old pregnant newlywed today, instead of a teen working at Chik-fil-a (with a book contract).

Yes, I know she's still a fundy, but I think option B is a far better way for her to spend her 18th year.

[Coy Koi]

This girl should be Sierra's teenage "best friend" instead of Jinger or whatever.

[JermajestyDuggar]

11 minutes ago, Coy Koi said:

This girl should be Sierra's teenage "best friend" instead of Jinger or whatever.

But then Sierra wouldn't get to be on tv 

[EmCatlyn]

3 hours ago, OrchidBlossom said:

Read it, you won't regret it. I know so many adults who read Harry Potter and loved it. The first two are more kid centered but the later ones get thematically complex and adult.

I read the first HArry Potter book when it first came out.  I was over 40, and I loved it.  There is no such thing as being too old for a good book.

[TeaGrannie]

My mother in law is the one that hooked our family on Harry Potter. She's 70 and waiting for the new movie to come out. 

[OrchidBlossom]

51 minutes ago, EmCatlyn said:

I read the first HArry Potter book when it first came out.  I was over 40, and I loved it.  There is no such thing as being too old for a good book.

 

46 minutes ago, TeaGrannie said:

My mother in law is the one that hooked our family on Harry Potter. She's 70 and waiting for the new movie to come out. 

Harry Potter transcends all boundaries. The only people who don't enjoy Harry Potter haven't read it. Also, people without souls, I've heard.

On 11/16/2015 at 7:15 PM, bingbangboom said:

Alright! I'm going to read it! Is it too scary to read out loud to a 5 year old before bed?

Off to my local library tomorrow.

I feel kind of "bad", I can imagine the head of every adult that knew 'youngBBB' exploding. They would let me know that Satan was going to use the books to come after me, blah blah blah. I am a little nervously excited to read it.

You won't regret it! I assure you that if Satan is coming for the soul of everyone who likes Harry Potter, not only is it worth it but you're in great company.

[Bad Wolf]

My sister in law was quite perturbed that I read Harry Potter. Witches and wizards you know. Some people don't understand the concept of fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed them.

[livinginthelight]

You're never too old for Harry Potter, IMO. I think it's a wonderful series.

@Bad Wolf, my sister felt the same way. Wizards = terrible. Except, Gandalf in LOTR = wonderful. There's no real logic to it.

 

[FloraKitty35]

4 hours ago, Bad Wolf said:

My sister in law was quite perturbed that I read Harry Potter. Witches and wizards you know. Some people don't understand the concept of fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed them.

So was mine.  My Mother & I read them all. (The rule of thumb, if she finds them offensive, it's worth checking out.)

[FJismyheadship]

My daughters father is against Harry Potter. Evil. Witches. That sort of thing. He's never read them (he's not a reader....)

I've already told him I'm not denying our daughter the pleasure of reading books and he's cool with that and I told him no book is off limits, even Harry Potter.

Thats what he gets for knocking up a rather liberal female. Our child will have an interesting life, that's for sure. 

[Thorns]

I actually think this book thing might be a good idea. It plays to her strenghts and interests, and has a sound business concept in being based on a popular thing right now (coloring) and popular/accepted reading material (verses) for a lot of girls. 

I imagine she can get quite a lot of buyers off parents/grandparents looking for a godly gift to a teenage girl. 

Being a devotional, she does not have to produce something original. 

From what I have seen of her work, she is rather good. It's good to see fundies actually using their skills.

[Ungodly Grandma]

16 hours ago, anotherone said:

This is part of what she wrote:  "More than likely, the first connotation in your mind has to do with romance: Romeo and Juliet, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty… the list goes on."

I thought they couldn't read Jane Austen and authors like that.

 

"FEATURING 31 of my own hand lettered verses for coloring!!!"  

Teen girls are still coloring???

Coloring seems to be a thing these days. I brought some markers and an adult book to my mom in her LTC and she looked at me as if I were crazy. Then she asked me if she was really that far gone. We ended up having a good laugh about it. But coloring is a thing. Soothing, probably.

 

[theinvisiblegirl]

11 hours ago, Bad Wolf said:

My sister in law was quite perturbed that I read Harry Potter. Witches and wizards you know. Some people don't understand the concept of fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed them.

My great aunt was the same way! We only usually see her once a year at a Labor Day picnic (fine with me because she isn't my favorite person if I'm being honest). One day, the day after the picnic on actual Labor Day, my parents and I were going to NYC to go to Harry Potter: The Exhibition. Harry Potter is my and my dad's shit, and my mom knows enough that she didn't mind going so long as we explained things to her. (She was most excited about the interactive experience of lifting mandrakes out of pots. It's her favorite thing about HP.) We excitedly shared our plans for the next day, and she looked at my with this horrified face and asked, "Do you believe in that stuff? Do you think it's real? Do you worship Harry Potter?" and I was like "Um..." While internally I was seething. My dad jumped in and was like, "They're just books and movies. We're fans, and we're going." And she rolled her eyes and started to whsiper to my grandmother about us.

Little does this aunt know that I had a Harry Potter reading buddy when I was growing up - OUR PRIEST! My grandparents worked at the church, and I spent a considerable amount of time there. He was a fan, and he even let me borrow some of his copies to read as I was reading the series.

[Mrs. Figg]

Hey. My very screen name tells you I am, in fact, a squib.  

[sophie10130]

My very first boyfriend was never allowed to go trick or treating or dress up for Halloween, and when Harry Potter came out his family said no way.

Well, the summer after he turned 18 and was about to go to college he was dating my other friend who is a HUGE reader and she finally got him to read them and he read them all that summer and now he's in love.

Also I found out that my husband who is the biggest reader I know next to my mom had NEVER read the books past #3 and I was so sad. He finally read them last fall. I don't think he loves them as much as I do, but I think he was glad he finished. He did get all the way to 7, afterall.

When I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade (whenever the first book came out), the reading specialist at the school came to our class and read the whole dang thing to us out loud. That must have been before schools banned it because I don't ever remember it being an issue.

In fact, until I met that dude, I didn't even know people HAD an issue with it. I thought it was pretty safe. Good always wins over Evil in every book. And then there's the whole Jesus allegory in the 7th book, but no one seems to care about that. Is it just that he uses magic and magic is bad? Isn't The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe also magical?

[choralcrusader8613]

4 minutes ago, sophie10130 said:

In fact, until I met that dude, I didn't even know people HAD an issue with it. I thought it was pretty safe. Good always wins over Evil in every book. And then there's the whole Jesus allegory in the 7th book, but no one seems to care about that. Is it just that he uses magic and magic is bad? Isn't The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe also magical?

Most people I know who have an issue with Harry Potter also have issues with The Chronicles of Narnia because all magic is bad, no matter the source or use, because you're trusting in something other than the power of Jesus. Also, in Exodus 22:18, it says that the people shouldn't let a witch live.

Frankly, I'm with you, @sophie10130. There's dark stuff in Harry Potter, to be sure, and I always saw the series as a(n imperfect) retelling of Hitler's rise and fall (the first and second Wizarding Wars, the hunts for Muggleborns, etc.), but the main lesson is that goodness can rise out of deep darkness, even when all hope seems to be lost. It makes me sad to know that there are kids who aren't allowed to read it simply because magic exists.

[sophie10130]

24 minutes ago, choralcrusader8613 said:

Most people I know who have an issue with Harry Potter also have issues with The Chronicles of Narnia because all magic is bad, no matter the source or use, because you're trusting in something other than the power of Jesus. Also, in Exodus 22:18, it says that the people shouldn't let a witch live.

Frankly, I'm with you, @sophie10130. There's dark stuff in Harry Potter, to be sure, and I always saw the series as a(n imperfect) retelling of Hitler's rise and fall (the first and second Wizarding Wars, the hunts for Muggleborns, etc.), but the main lesson is that goodness can rise out of deep darkness, even when all hope seems to be lost. It makes me sad to know that there are kids who aren't allowed to read it simply because magic exists.

Yeah exactly! I just knew that my first boyfriend could read all sorts of other fantasy novels including Narnia, but no Harry Potter for some reason. I think it was mostly because his parents believed in the hype and it was a Good Godly Parent^tm thing to do to not let your kids read HP.

I never understood, even when I was a part of it, why Christians wanted to shield themselves from any hardship or anything that would put to question what they believe. From everything I've ever learned, if you struggle, you'll be stronger. Now, I don't take that too far. I don't go looking for struggles and I don't think we should all be struggling for the rest of our lives and it's a sign of good faith or any of that BS. But like, if your faith is tested and you come out on the other side still believing, you're stronger for that and your faith is stronger for that.

So why do these Christians shelter themselves from anything that could test their faith when their faith is supposedly unflappable and SO STRONG. Why do they put themselves into bubbles and only talk to people who are like-minded and protect themselves so much if nothing can break down their righteous faith?

If reading Harry Potter makes you (universal you) an athiest, then there was something fundamentally flawed in your faith. I don't mean that in a rude or harsh way. I just mean that if all it takes is a book or a TV show or a website, then maybe your faith wasn't a good fit in the first place. But maybe I'm wrong! Educate me!

[EmCatlyn]

14 hours ago, livinginthelight said:

You're never too old for Harry Potter, IMO. I think it's a wonderful series.

@Bad Wolf, my sister felt the same way. Wizards = terrible. Except, Gandalf in LOTR = wonderful. There's no real logic to it.

 

The problem is that most fundies are, by definition, "literalists."  They want to take every word of the Bible literally.  When it is obvious that they can't (for example, they know that parables are symbolic fictions not stories of real events), they need someone to tell them the "right" interpretation.

They approach secular writing and culture in the same way.  They don't recognize that it can, and often does, deal with symbols that are closely connected to Abrahamic notions of good and evil.  A "witch" is "bad" in the Bible, so a series of books that uses "witches" to mean merely "people with magical powers which may be used for good or evil" just doesn't work for them.

 

[hollywood]

I hope her and Josiah don't become a'courtin again in the future. 
At least she is getting what she wants. A book deal is pretty cool, she gets to work a job at Chick-fil-a like a normal teenager/18 year old adult and seems to just want to have fun with friends and such. 
So, do what ya want Marjorie while you still can*

*parent approved fun only

[Thorns]

Harry Potter is awesome. And actually on right now  Gotta love coincidences! 

(Even though I much prefer the books.)

[pamplemousse]

22 hours ago, Coy Koi said:

This girl should be Sierra's teenage "best friend" instead of Jinger or whatever.

No, no, no! Marjorie needs to stay as far away from Sierra as possible! Marjorie does not need to be anywhere near the Duggars or people close to the Duggars. 

BTW, Hobby Lobby sells coloring books of mandalas. Haven't some people thought mandalas potentially invite evil? 

[PartriarchydefyinValkarie]

3 hours ago, sophie10130 said:

Yeah exactly! I just knew that my first boyfriend could read all sorts of other fantasy novels including Narnia, but no Harry Potter for some reason. I think it was mostly because his parents believed in the hype and it was a Good Godly Parent^tm thing to do to not let your kids read HP.

I never understood, even when I was a part of it, why Christians wanted to shield themselves from any hardship or anything that would put to question what they believe. From everything I've ever learned, if you struggle, you'll be stronger. Now, I don't take that too far. I don't go looking for struggles and I don't think we should all be struggling for the rest of our lives and it's a sign of good faith or any of that BS. But like, if your faith is tested and you come out on the other side still believing, you're stronger for that and your faith is stronger for that.

So why do these Christians shelter themselves from anything that could test their faith when their faith is supposedly unflappable and SO STRONG. Why do they put themselves into bubbles and only talk to people who are like-minded and protect themselves so much if nothing can break down their righteous faith?

If reading Harry Potter makes you (universal you) an athiest, then there was something fundamentally flawed in your faith. I don't mean that in a rude or harsh way. I just mean that if all it takes is a book or a TV show or a website, then maybe your faith wasn't a good fit in the first place. But maybe I'm wrong! Educate me!

THIS. ALL THIS.

One of my best friends from Middle School told me upon graduation from College he couldnt be a professor because someone had 'tested his faith'. It infuriates me so much when they need to shelter themselves from the world and act like a movie or book could ruin them. 

Such as Kevin Swanson said that HTTYD would turn people pagan merely because the Vikings were pagan, til a certain point, if that really is the case wouldn't tons of little kids be sacrificing in Odin's name? 

In my opinon the ones who have to write about God and only watch GND/War Room its because they maybe don't fully believe and its gonna make them question what they assume to know as truth. 

As for this MJ thing does anyone remember the "Coming up next season on 19 & counting?" It looked like Jo was gonna propose to MJ??

[theinvisiblegirl]

2 hours ago, PartriarchydefyinValkarie said:

THIS. ALL THIS.

One of my best friends from Middle School told me upon graduation from College he couldnt be a professor because someone had 'tested his faith'. It infuriates me so much when they need to shelter themselves from the world and act like a movie or book could ruin them. 

Such as Kevin Swanson said that HTTYD would turn people pagan merely because the Vikings were pagan, til a certain point, if that really is the case wouldn't tons of little kids be sacrificing in Odin's name? 

In my opinon the ones who have to write about God and only watch GND/War Room its because they maybe don't fully believe and its gonna make them question what they assume to know as truth. 

As for this MJ thing does anyone remember the "Coming up next season on 19 & counting?" It looked like Jo was gonna propose to MJ??

I didn't interpret it as that. I think the new season was going to be about their courtship. The way she is, the kind of "freedom" her fundie lite family is gives her would not have made a closed off, strict Duggar a good match. As we learned more and more about her, and we never really learned all that much, it just became clear that beliefs about the little things like pants and women working were very different. The match, to me, always seemed a bit force. I think Josiah was a long ways from being ready to marry, despite what his father might have told him.

[ADoyle90815]

I'm also one who thinks MJ dodged a bullet when her courtship with Josiah failed, as she didn't become a mother at 19. As for the Harry Potter books, I was in college when they first came out, so it was a while before I started to read the series. Once I did, I loved those books, as while they were written for children, they have things for adults as well. At least, living in California, I can go to the new Harry Potter section at Universal Studios, but I can wait until the summer crowds die down a bit since you can't even get near that place right now.

[KnittingOwl]

On May 20, 2016 at 1:53 PM, sophie10130 said:

This actually sounds like something that could potentially be SUPER popular.

I wonder if Hobby Lobby will sell it. It seems right up their alley. 

I think it's great for her. Her lettering is pretty amazing. I would love to learn how to do that