I've been a very good girl this year!
2007-10-30 15:48:34 · 12 answers · asked by Lisa the Pooh 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes I am. Would you like to join me and Linus?
2007-10-30 16:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ justbnme ♥ 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
snippped from Oct 31 "delanceyplace" newsletter:
In today's excerpt--Charles Schulz and the Great
Pumpkin. Though often identified with the evangelical
church, Charlie Brown's creator struggles with
organized religion, stating that "[Peanuts is] not
an evangelistic strip. In fact, it's anti-evangelistic."
Linus's obsession with the Great Pumpkin is
one way Schulz manifests his views:
"The theme of questioning and faith, which was
central to his life, had emerged in the strip's
Great Pumpkin sequences, where Linus,
smart but simple, had gotten ahead of himself
in holidays and begun to believe that an omnipotent
pumpkin would appear on Halloween to serve
good little children as Santa Claus did on Christmas.
But, of course, the Great Pumpkin does not come
to lavish toys on all good little children. Linus
performs a mitzvah every Halloween in going
to the pumpkin patch to do what he must to be
betrayed again.
The reader does not discern any radiance of
certainty; the worshipper is not alight with
enduring faith--he's hopelessly hyped up:
his enthusiasm is a more modulated and
cheering emotion. Linus is keyed to the
highest pitch as he marches out with
his placard: WELCOME GREAT PUMPKIN!
His willed mania demonstrates that some
people would rather live drunk on false belief
than sober on nothing at all, at whatever cost
in ridicule. Schulz is saying: be careful
what you believe. ...
"[Schulz] received few serious complaints--no more
than a dozen over the course of Peanuts' first
fifteen years. One, in 1965, had come from a woman
who asserted that the Great Pumpkin was sacrilegious.
Schulz wrote back saying that he was 'basically on
her side, that the real sacrilege is Santa Claus, and
that [he had been] trying to show this in the Great
Pumpkin strips."
2007-10-31 04:19:14 · answer #2 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have made my own little pumpkin patch out front & I will be waiting for the Great Pumpkin, there is room under Linus' blankie for us all...I hope all those trick or treaters don't scare him away :o)
2007-10-31 01:06:39 · answer #3 · answered by ♫brokenangel♫ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
*yes, I am whispering ...... I am hiding in a corn field .... its so dark out here ...... I must be very quiet ...... I hear noises ...... maybe it is coming? ........ but, what if it is the Children of the Corn ? ...... I am scared now ...... I think I will just keep hiding and just hope the Great Pumpkin can find me ...... what was that noise?* = )
2007-10-31 00:41:37 · answer #4 · answered by Ocho Cinco 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Of course don't want to go out and just get a bag of rocks!
2007-10-30 22:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by Nuthouse 4456 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course. I hope I don't fall asleep like I did last year. I know he's coming this year!!!
2007-10-31 10:00:33 · answer #6 · answered by Dr. E. Bunny A.K.A. Andy. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if my Sweet Baboo waits with me!
2007-10-30 22:52:04 · answer #7 · answered by FlowerChild 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NOW Look, Were sharing this Blanket OK? dunta dunta dunta dunta>>>>> WHAT'S THAT?
2007-10-31 02:41:48 · answer #8 · answered by tim b 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, i guess i will wait till ten
2007-10-30 22:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by Fallen&Broken 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
santa will know if you are naughty or nice
2007-10-30 22:57:05 · answer #10 · answered by Agent99 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋