This is not an update. Just a test. My subscription's coming to an end. Ohwell.

Anyway, I got delivered from demonic oppression last Saturday. Thanks be to God. More on that prolly next week. I don't have time to update this.

Praise and glory be to Yeshua!

And apparently, the script don't work here. Pity.

My dad just took back what he said about me being allowed to read the Potter books.

Tis okay, I've finally seen fantasy fiction in a new light: they're beautiful as literary for everyone, especially for the intellectual -- however, if one is a Christian, one should follow Christ all the way through -- meaning, regardless of whatever has to offer, so long as it is not of God, one has to give it up.

The only thing hard for me to give up was the Narnia series, as I have grown up with Narnia and have loved Lewis as an author, since he was a distinguished Christian one.

Every fantasy fiction happened to have more to it, spiritually -- in the most subtle ways that even the author might not have noticed it. Satan works like that. It's terrifically awful how he takes into being his diabolical plots by masquerading this things as good and proper and, worse, as 'Christian'. I am not saying that Rowling, Lewis, and Tolkien are his instruments, but rather -- his instruments unbeknown to them.

The last fantasy fiction I will ever read will be The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones for the sake of comedy. Harry Potter still has my respect, and I will always like Harry Potter, nevertheless I will not read it nor support the cause of magic that it has long made popular into the poor world. Narnia has my respect as well, and so does Middle-Earth. Take note, though, that respect for such brilliant literary works does not mean I support their hidden content.

I will now move on to my ever-favorite batch of reading materials, a level that used to be below fantasy fiction which used to be in level with beautiful classics which were several empty levels below the Bible, and keep with it - Archie Comics. but seriously. Haha.

My dad just allowed me to read the Harry Potter Books. He said that it was okay for me to read the Potter books so long as I was sure that I was deeply in love with my Savior, my Lord Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure that I am, and so I was thrilled to get to read the books. However, there was a catch: I'm not allowed to buy the books. I can borrow them, but I can't buy them.

My dad said it would be dreadful to invest my Lord's money into something that is associated with witchcraft. Too true, really. However we manipulate the situation of Harry Potter, it is still rather filled with magic and wizardry, things that are clearly not of God, no matter how nice they sound in the literary world.

'Tis okay. I bought several anime a few years back, namely Death Note, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, and FullMetal Alchemist [and Get Backers, Midori no Hibi, Tsubasa Chronicle, Great Teacher Onizuka (a best bud gave this one to me as a Christmas gift, actually), Alice Academy, and other JDorama but those don't matter right now, not really].

I loved FMA. I loved it more than any anime. It still has my respect to be the best anime until today. Nonetheless, those three anime had to be burned and thrown out of the house.

FullMetal Alchemist, not to be really slandering the anime, no offense, has really disturbed me ever since I started regularly viewing the series. Thank God I haven't read the manga or else I probably would be even more disturbed. Regardless of being disturbed spiritually, I still kept my FMA stuff as the anime was the best anime I've seen so far. But I can't take it anymore. It was just too dreadful to keep seeing stuff about the 7 Sins and Homunculi [dreadful creatures they are, really]. So I had to remove my FMA.

Death Note comes next. L was incredible. He was cute and cool and, simply, a genius. Death Note was really appealing to me as it was a very intellectually intriguing anime. Nonetheless, my God is a God of Life, and not of death, and the shinigami are totally not of Him. Plus Yagami Raito envisioning himself as the god of the new world was incredibly frustrating, as was Edward Elric and Roy Mustang's disbelief in the existence of God. Death Note had to be removed.

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, the last anime I had to remove. It seemed to be perfectly innocent and cute, as Sunako was always a chibi and the four [or was it three?] bishounens were always being weird and nice around her. Nonetheless, there were totally demonic symbols and figures that were all over the anime, since Sunako was this dark type of girl. YNSH had to go.

I have been interested in the goth subculture. Not so much, actually, just in the range of Amane Misa's fashion statements. But as I ventured further into her fashion statement, the presence of skulls and the like were just too much. They were things that God does not delight in, nor should we be delighted in. I had to give up that. It was hard as I was used to it, but praise the Lord for His love and kindness for helping me.

Now with those gone, I had to clean out other things. My L'Arc~en~Ciel dvd, that covers Chronicle [was it?] and Chronicle II [I'm not really sure], had certain elements that were absolutely disturbing. HYDE likes to wear replicas of Marilyn Mason's pentagram-bearing ring, which is a satanic symbol. Regardless of HYDE's rare prettiness, I had to throw it away.

Those things that had to be burned or thrown out of the house cost a lot, I tell you. They cost a great deal of money -- money given to us by God -- wasted on such dreadful things. It was a pity when we could have used it for something more proper. So if I buy the Potter books, and I find them just as disturbing, it would be awful to waste even more money. And to think of it, each Potter book costs a lot.

So there. I'm thankful to God for allowing me to read the Potter books. He's totally wise. I've asked Him, if He ever allows me to read the Potter books, that I'm gonna ask for permission from my dad who's never liked the Potter books and probably never will and if my dad allows me, with regard to my persuasive comments, that pretty much means I'm allowed to read them. And yeah, God allowed me to. I'm just not allowed to buy them. That's all for my good. Thank God and praise Him forevermore.