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wanderer

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Some cartoon shows are really harmful
 
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MissCris

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True...were there any particular you were thinking of?
 
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KeeganGentle

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Why not it can be true
 
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djness

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I think anything along the lines of SpongeBob is purposefully invented to make our children stupid and unable to compete in the global job climate.

Which is why when my niece asks me if she can watch it I explain to her "No, because I do not want you to grow up stupid."
 
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KeeganGentle

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I was thinking along the lines of The Regular Show in which satanic signs are put into the episodes. Scenes to do with hell and ressurection amd even pentagrams
 
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wanderer

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Nikelodeon - the cow and the chicken. The cow is cute but why do they have to highlight the pink breast with nipples poking out at you? Baby porn?
 
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I liked the old ones like popeye so much better, those taught children to eat more veggies. These days most cartoons hardly have any purpose, veggie tales are still awesome though :)
 

Nautilus

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I was thinking along the lines of The Regular Show in which satanic signs are put into the episodes. Scenes to do with hell and ressurection amd even pentagrams
sigh......not one of these again
 
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danschance

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I was thinking along the lines of The Regular Show in which satanic signs are put into the episodes. Scenes to do with hell and ressurection amd even pentagrams
Once while watching Sponge Bob Square Pants, I saw him make magick circles. Witches cast a sacred circle and I clearly saw a connection between Sponge Bob's circle and a magick circle. He would draw this circle and it protected him from a sea bear.
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Alicia

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Once while watching Sponge Bob Square Pants, I saw him make magick circles. Witches cast a sacred circle and I clearly saw a connection between Sponge Bob's circle and a magick circle. He would draw this circle and it protected him from a sea bear.
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First of all why are you watching Sponge Bob Squarepants if it's so wicked? Second do you really think a 6 year old can absorb these so called messages?
 
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djness

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First of all why are you watching Sponge Bob Squarepants if it's so wicked? Second do you really think a 6 year old can absorb these so called messages?
Yes..absolutely a 6 year old can...my sister in law makes my niece start her stories by saying if they are true or not cause even at 4 years old she would make up these elaborate stories incorporating things she had seen on tv or heard someone say and we didn't have a clue if the people were real or not. She started telling her grandmotrther once about this cruise she had been on and ended up in australia and a hippo bit her shoulder. We knew she had been on two cruises before but she has never been to australia and no hippo has ever bitten her.

so yah...actually I think 6 year old brains absorb these things they see on tv and people who create shows know that they learn it all like a...no pun intended..sponge
 

lil_christian

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Yes..absolutely a 6 year old can...my sister in law makes my niece start her stories by saying if they are true or not cause even at 4 years old she would make up these elaborate stories incorporating things she had seen on tv or heard someone say and we didn't have a clue if the people were real or not. She started telling her grandmotrther once about this cruise she had been on and ended up in australia and a hippo bit her shoulder. We knew she had been on two cruises before but she has never been to australia and no hippo has ever bitten her.

so yah...actually I think 6 year old brains absorb these things they see on tv and people who create shows know that they learn it all like a...no pun intended..sponge
I like how much creativity kids have. But like you say, they're so easily influenced, and sometimes we don't always properly channel their energy and creativity. The end result won't always be good when that happens...
 

TheAristocat

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I think anything along the lines of SpongeBob is purposefully invented to make our children stupid and unable to compete in the global job climate.

Which is why when my niece asks me if she can watch it I explain to her "No, because I do not want you to grow up stupid."
You're old enough to remember Ren & Stimpy. Sponge Bob is like a college-level physics lecture in comparison.
 
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Alicia

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Well I have grandchildren age 7 and 9 years old and I've watched SpongeBob with them so we must all be really thick because it never occurred to me that there was some hidden meaning nor did they ever indicate they took it at anything but surface value.

Children have active imaginations and at 4 years old they're just starting to learn the difference between the true and untrue it's part of their mental development.

We can look for evil and any movie or story and find something that could be interpreted as such but that does not mean it is so.
 
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Alicia

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I find it really difficult to believe that a 4 or 9 year old would recognize a witch's circle that was supposedly seen in Sponge Bob, how would they know what this was unless they had already been exposed to this?
Sometimes children just need to veg out after school and watch silly things, we all grew up watching cartoons with somebody being thumped on the head, falling off a cliff, being splattered in the road by a car or something like that but we certainly didn't attach any dark meaning to it or if it were there it would have gone right over our heads. It was just funny!
 

Elizabeth619

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I find it really difficult to believe that a 4 or 9 year old would recognize a witch's circle that was supposedly seen in Sponge Bob, how would they know what this was unless they had already been exposed to this?
Sometimes children just need to veg out after school and watch silly things, we all grew up watching cartoons with somebody being thumped on the head, falling off a cliff, being splattered in the road by a car or something like that but we certainly didn't attach any dark meaning to it or if it were there it would have gone right over our heads. It was just funny!
Sponge Bob is forbidden in my home, and for good reason. We are to also teach our children righteousness at a young age. Sponge Bob and many other cartoons are not good for children and conflict with the bible. kids absorb a lot of things they see on tv. If there is violence in a cartoon kids are likely to act out in violence bc the cartoon makes it funny or cool.

There are plenty of Christian based cartoons that kids could watch along with educational shows with exposing our kids to negative influences
theres also the thought that parents should play with their kids and interact with them instead of putting then in front of a television
 
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danschance

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First of all why are you watching Sponge Bob Squarepants if it's so wicked? Second do you really think a 6 year old can absorb these so called messages?
1) I never said Sponge Bob Squarepants was "so wicked".
2) I have no idea what kids can and can not absorb. All I know is the episode with the sea bear and the circle of protection, to me locked like blatant occult imagery.


Well I have grandchildren age 7 and 9 years old and I've watched SpongeBob with them so we must all be really thick because it never occurred to me that there was some hidden meaning nor did they ever indicate they took it at anything but surface value.
3) Congratulations on the grandkids.
4) Why are you claiming to be thick? I can only assume you are trying to be sarcastic out of a misplaced anger, some sort of outrage you must feel when others do not think like you?

Children have active imaginations and at 4 years old they're just starting to learn the difference between the true and untrue it's part of their mental development.

We can look for evil and any movie or story and find something that could be interpreted as such but that does not mean it is so.
5) Yep, children have active imaginations.
6) There is evil in a lot of children's programming. Vampires, ghosts, blatant witchcraft, paranormal shows are a small slice of that. I don't know why but as a Christian I draw the line on much of it. If you disagree with how I edit choices children watch or I watch, it is not my problem.

I find it really difficult to believe that a 4 or 9 year old would recognize a witch's circle that was supposedly seen in Sponge Bob, how would they know what this was unless they had already been exposed to this?

7) When I saw it it alarmed me. I continued to watch and the end made it very clear that the circle stopped the sea bear from attacking those with in the circle. As I mentioned before I don't know why it would be in a cartoon. I don't know what effect it has on children, but it is enough to make me wonder and not let my family watch that sort of stuff.

Sometimes children just need to veg out after school and watch silly things, we all grew up watching cartoons with somebody being thumped on the head, falling off a cliff, being splattered in the road by a car or something like that but we certainly didn't attach any dark meaning to it or if it were there it would have gone right over our heads. It was just funny!
I wonder what countless children did before cartoons? I wonder what mothers used to resuscitate children after school before electricity?