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Finwe · 05-28-2003, 07:02 PM

I'm sorry about the whole impromptu speech thing. I tend to do that when I'm talking about things that I feel very strongly about. Of course, it's also probably because I've been reading too much Tolkien (if that's possible!). <BR>I'm known as the Instant Speech-Maker at my school. If someone needs to make a speech, or a persuasive presentation, they always come running to me, because I'm good with things like that. In fact, just the other day I used the "Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?" on a parent who was trying to get a couple of books banned (Stranger in a Strange Land and Brave New World). <BR>My reasoning was that you can't hide things from children forever, so banning books with sex in them from school won't accomplish anything. It will only cause a new generation of repressed people. No parent wants their kid to turn out as a repressed psychopath. Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for? '<BR>Needless to say, the parent backed down after that!

05-28-2003, 07:02 PM	#9
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	I'm sorry about the whole impromptu speech thing. I tend to do that when I'm talking about things that I feel very strongly about. Of course, it's also probably because I've been reading too much Tolkien (if that's possible!). <BR>I'm known as the Instant Speech-Maker at my school. If someone needs to make a speech, or a persuasive presentation, they always come running to me, because I'm good with things like that. In fact, just the other day I used the "Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?" on a parent who was trying to get a couple of books banned (Stranger in a Strange Land and Brave New World). <BR>My reasoning was that you can't hide things from children forever, so banning books with sex in them from school won't accomplish anything. It will only cause a new generation of repressed people. No parent wants their kid to turn out as a repressed psychopath. Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for? '<BR>Needless to say, the parent backed down after that! __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.