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To: LindyBill who wrote (129620)	8/3/2005 8:34:27 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793830

I agree. Young people would have a difficult time discerning between ID as the fact and ID as a belief by some as the fact. I admit to being a sucker for magical realism myself. This trend has been growing for a couple of seasons now-- we have Johnny Smith, and Allison of Medium, and I am loving Lost (which I am only now watching in reruns on kholt's recommendation). Magic lurks all around the edges, and there are several others that I haven't gotten addicted to so can't think of them right off. These are oddly contrasted with the plethora of CSIs, L and Os, Without a Traces-- gritty reality with no magic at all, and little of the best of human nature in evidence. (Ooo-a pun) People are always looking for seers with answers. Remember a book called The Celestine Prophesy? That was a terribly written, incredibly infantile book and people swarmed over it, sure that they too could reach some higher plane if they only followed the correct path. We need answers, we need hope, we desperately grasp at what promises these things. Because this seems to be something we all need in varying degrees, we have to be very vigilant about applying rigid standards to what we allow to proceed beyond the realm of personal belief.