"Newspaper readers have been exposed to Charles Schulz's comic strip 'Peanuts' for over half a century. Even now, a few years after Schulz died, many newspapers continue to carry reruns of his strips, and bookstores offer Peanuts collections. "
I can tell you that things-Peanuts are VERY difficult to find, at least here in the nation's Capital city. There used to be greeting cards, figurines, etc. Just before Christmas, I was fortunate to find a small book of Peanuts cartoons and a selection of videos of the animated TV series. :-( Perhaps the "Gospel According to Peanuts" is not translating into the popular Australian culture of the 21st century. Has Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and the crowd been abandoned, after all? [From the article, "Does The Great Pumpkin exist? We can never know. But from an existential point of view, it doesn't matter if he exists or not. The important thing is that Linus is abandoned and alone in his pumpkin patch."] As an office colleague just said to me in an unrelated conversation about the thinking processes and actions of our children, "You're an adult, and you exist, so of course you are wrong!" It points out that a child's view of the world, and an adults view of the world, and an adults view of a child's view of the world, are all completely different. What would Charlie Brown say to that? Peter -----Original Message----- From: SF & P Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 22:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: peanuts: the bible and existentialism While Schulz had a great interest in the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ, he was also highly suspicious of dogmatic pious beliefs. http://www.philosophynow.org/issue44/44radke.htm <http://www.philosophynow.org/issue44/44radke.htm> ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
