XPost: alt.conspiracy, alt.philosophy, alt.atheism   
   From: ingilt@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On 06/02/2017 10:34, Jeanne Douglas wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  "Alex W."  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 06/02/2017 06:41, Jeanne Douglas wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>>  "Mr. Man-wai Chang"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 6/02/2017 3:53 AM, bilgat@m.nu wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>     According to the Bible, he was stabbed by a Roman solider.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Hah yeah, fairy tales....   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A good fairy tale is still a good story for bed-time reading! :)   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Not sure this fairy tale is appropriate for children about to try to   
   >>> sleep, what with all the extreme violence and sex.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Have you ever read the unexpurgated unedited un-Disneyfied versions of   
   >> our most common fairy tales, Jeanne?  They are full of blood and guts   
   >> and death.  Just as fairies are not really cute and harmless pink flying   
   >> things but frightening supernatural beings, so fairy-tales are moral   
   >> stories to educate children about the dangers of life.  In the past,   
   >> parents thought a few nightmares were a good sign that their children   
   >> were taking on board the lessons necessary to survive...   
   >   
   > Yes, I have a book of unexpurgated Grimm's fairy tales.   
   >   
      
   Spooky stuff, ain't it?   
      
   Imagine a world where all of us had been brought up on these bloody   
   scary tales instead of a constant diet of syrupy cute-kitten pieces of   
   literary fluff.  We'd grow up fully aware that life can be hard and   
   cruel and unfair and nasty.  We'd have far fewer traumas as adults when   
   bad shit happens and we are confronted with the fact that reality does   
   not match the feelgood happy-clappy claptrap we were peddled as kids...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)