by Prisca 14 Replies latest social entertainment
http://aids.about.com/blworld1.htm
As of the end of 1999, an estimated 34.3 million people worldwide -- 33.0 million adults and 1.3 million children younger than 15 years -- were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 71 percent of these people (24.5 million) live in Sub-Saharan Africa; another 16 percent (5.6 million) live in South and Southeast Asia.
"We will be very careful to fashion our messages so they are appropriate to the age group. What do I do when I cut my finger? What do I do when you cut your finger? That sort of thing."
Sounds like they are handling it in a very appropriate fashion. Bascially it appears they are teaching children how to interact with someone who is "different" from you. I doubt they will go into any detail about the ways and means of getting the disease.
Growing up on Sesame Street and having my daughter watch it, I would have to say if anyone could deal with it in a way designed to educate without offending, they would be the ones to do it!
If the Watchtower Society were to introduce their own PUPPETS what do you think they would be like?
Wow, that WOULD be cool - they could deal with such hard-hitting questions as:
1) Who to tell when a friend is asking questions about the org
2) Elmo isn't a witness - how to deal with him dying at Armegeddon?
3) Why the reputation of god's org can't be tarnished (or: Why 'out little secrets' need to be kept)
4) Why human life is NOT as important as divine principles (or: Why does Big Bird have to die just because he needs a transfusion?)
5) Homosexuals and other people god hates. (Or: Why were Bert and Ernie turned into pillars of sulfur?)
etc.
Uh...yeah...I want them teaching kids things.
Wait..on second thought... NO!
Xander...the Count would be out over the blood issue in no time like 1, 2, 3 ah ah ah..., Cookie monster would get hammered for gluttony, and Oscar the Grouch would have to be swayed to a spirit of mildness.....Snuffleupagus Prophecies would be there and then next vanish...leaving BiGBird to look like the crazy one.....
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
