<div>>You quadrupleposted, btw. <BR></div> <div>I know. I have had it with my Yahoo account! I think I will be switching to Google.</div> <div> </div> <DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 10/12/2007, <B class=gmail_sendername>John</B> <<A href="http://us.f356.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=desertpaths2003@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:desertpaths2003@yahoo.com"><FONT color=#003399>desertpaths2003@yahoo.com</FONT></A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">spike, i personally love "a christmas carol" because it is such a classic tale of moral redemption. </BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Seien wrote:</DIV> <DIV>Moral..? I thought it was a horrible, immoral tale. It advocated blind charity to the poor instead of
Scrooge figuring out what he was doing madly and making himself better. That's a crappy message. It's not moral at all. </DIV> <DIV>>></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Please explain exactly what you mean by Scrooge figuring out what he was doing "madly?" I don't understand. How would you rewrite the story to make you happy with it? lol I cannot grasp how you consider this classic story "horrible" and "immoral." When Scrooge made a financial commitment at the end of the story to some charity workers does that make him foolish? Perhaps, but it was in his moment of transformative elation! I would suspect Scrooge later on looked very carefully at how his charity dollars were used. Dickens was trying to make a statement about social injustice and poverty, which was a huge problem in the England of his time (and these problems are still overwhelmingly with us, if you havn't
noticed...). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>you wrote:</DIV>I think I like Tom Lehrer's <I>Christmas Carol</I> better than Dickens': <A href="http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/xmas.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1197332965_1>http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/xmas.htm</SPAN> </FONT></A></DIV> <DIV>>></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Tom Lehrer piece is very funny with some definite elements of truth.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John Grigg : )<BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV><BR><BR><p>
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