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I'm afraid to go and watch it.

PW132 wrote:

Tell me what it is.

"Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger"

Last edited by kimmy123 (2010-09-06 19:52:54)

I think that might be a little too strong for the kids of Scratch.

Wierd...

ah this video again

it's pretty crazaaaayyy

Eerie.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

rufflebee wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:

if your sister is in distress, asking the help of a stranger is probably the best possible thing she can do.

Eh, you don't know my sister. She'll go to the park and talk to random people about anything. I'm probably just going to show my older sister, anyway, to see how she interprates it.

You're worse- you go on the internet and talk to random people about anything (and most likely deeper things). xP

Pfft.
TALK ABOUT THE VIDEO.

Last edited by rufflebee (2010-09-06 20:06:14)

I'll say this, it's nothing exactly wrong for SCRATCH except for some religion which is NOT TO BE DISCUSSED IN THIS TOPIC.

soupoftomato wrote:

I'll say this, it's nothing exactly wrong for SCRATCH except for some religion which is NOT TO BE DISCUSSED IN THIS TOPIC.

"Satan" is commonly used as a universal symbol of evil, small discussion is allowed if not directly associated with a religion/religions.

From Wikipedia's summary:

In 1590 a few boys are living happy sheltered lives in a remote Austrian village named Eseldorf. (Esel means "donkey" in German and can refer to a stupid or ignorant person, and "dorf" means village, so in essence it is a village of stupid people.) The story is narrated by one of the boys—Theodor, the village organist's son—in a first-person narrative. One day, a handsome teenage boy named Satan appears in the village. He explains that he is an angel and the nephew of the fallen angel Satan. Young Satan performs several magical feats. He claims to be able to foresee the future and informs the group of unfortunate events that will soon befall those they care about. The boys don't believe Satan's claims until one of his predictions comes true. Satan proceeds to describe further tragedies that will befall their friends. The boys beg Satan to intercede. Satan agrees, but operates under the technical definition of mercy. For instance, instead of a lingering death due to illness, Satan simply causes one of Theodor's friends to die immediately.
Mayhem ensues — witch trials, burnings, hangings, deaths and mass hysteria. Satan vanishes with a brief explanation:
"In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!"

"Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago - centuries, ages, eons, ago! - for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities."

"Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane - like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell - mouths mercy and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!" . . .

"You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier."

"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

And now, based on that, I can say...

Mark Twain was full of bologna. And cheese. I'd be happy to say what I really think of it, but it involves religion, but anyways, this story is somewhat religious, so I might post it.

Last edited by Sunrise-Moon (2010-09-06 20:20:41)

rufflebee wrote:

Umm.. I say its the kind of thing you can't summarize. Sunrise's summary was a tl;dr that summarized the BOOK, not that video..

It was not tl;dr! I read it!