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| U2bsda Registered user Username: U2bsda Post Number: 124 Registered: 11-2004 |
Okay, admit it....anyone listen to these growing up or STILL listen to these stories? After I left the SDA church I was surprised at how some of them had the SDA bent...as an SDA I never noticed that. | ||
| Sabra Registered user Username: Sabra Post Number: 417 Registered: 10-2001 |
EEEeeewwww. The thought gives me the creeps. The narrators voice was so "sda" ya know? Friday nights, dark room,.........ok, on to better thoughts | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 622 Registered: 8-2004  |
I did! I have to say that I found the 'regular stories' much more interesting then the 'Bible' ones. One I especially liked was about the old geezer who hitchhiked across the country to his relatives because someone needed the trainfare they sent him. There difinitely is an SDA bent to them though. For those who like listening to stories, there are several similar programs - Adventures in Odyssey, Unshackled, Psalty Kids Company, and Keys for Kids to name a few. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 4525 Registered: 12-2003  |
We listend to Your Story Hour when our kids were really young sometimes. The local Adventist station ran them, usually on Sabbath afternoon, if I remember right. The main thing I remember is the voices of the characters signing off..."This is Uncle Dan, Aunt Sue...." We actually heard Unshackled more often because it was on (I think!) Friday night. I liked Unshackled better even thenóthey were also more suspenseful. (Maybe that's what helpd make them better...?) Colleen | ||
| Snowboardingmom Registered user Username: Snowboardingmom Post Number: 158 Registered: 11-2005 |
Uncle Dan and Aunt Sue!! Oh the memories... Speaking of creepy...last year I was re-reading some of my old Uncle Arthur's bedtime stories that I used to love, and was horrified at some of the underlying "lessons" of these children stories. I remember one story about a boy who got a model boat and would work on it constantly. I don't remember the exact details, but I remember the mother telling him that he couldn't work on it because it was Sabbath. The story goes on to say that he disobeyed and took the boat out to work on it during the Sabbath hours. I don't remember how it happened exactly, but somehow, the boat broke (I think he dropped it), and he was so devastated. I remember thinking, "How awful of a story is that?" Like you U2bsda, I never realized how "SDAish" those bedtime stories were until after I left. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2770 Registered: 3-2004  |
I remember hearing Uncle Dan and Aunt Sue as a kid and my son heard them on Sat afternoons. I even remember Unshackled. As for Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories, I think my Mom bought them for us and I do not know where they went as we got older. My ex and I could not afford these books when my son was young and I felt bad. So I read him stories right from the Bible. I also read him the Our Little Friend every Saturday afternoon. Now, I can see that God kept me from indoctrinating my son with Uncle Arthur. Thank you God. Diana | ||
| Agapetos Registered user Username: Agapetos Post Number: 295 Registered: 10-2002  |
Wow. Flashback indeed! All I can remember is the signoff and their voices. And the Uncle Arthur stories... I can only remember the style of the Bible pictures. Didn't Aunt Sue pass away and get replaced by Aunt Carol or something like that? Anyway, the memories somehow get overridden by stronger memories of the Prarie Home Companion...  | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 4529 Registered: 12-2003 |
Ha! Yes, Prairie Home Companion has completely eclipsed Uncle Dan and Aunt Sue/Carol for me, too! Colleen | ||
| U2bsda Registered user Username: U2bsda Post Number: 129 Registered: 11-2004 |
I had some of those stories memorized since I listened to them so much as a kid! Now, what exactly is the Prairie Home Companion? | ||
| Mrcato Registered user Username: Mrcato Post Number: 19 Registered: 12-2003 |
Prairie Home Companion is a two hour National Public Radio show featuring Garrison Keillor. Its a comedy variety show that usually airs on Saturdays and Sundays. | ||
| Zjason Registered user Username: Zjason Post Number: 48 Registered: 11-2005 |
I love to listen to PHC!! One of my favorites is the segment on rhubarb pie. Garrison was one of our patients a few years back when he had heart surgery. Nice guy... Hey snowboardingmom-which book did that sabbath boat story come from. we have a more recent set of the UA stories-maybe they removed that story? Thanks | ||
| Lisa_boyldavis Registered user Username: Lisa_boyldavis Post Number: 213 Registered: 3-2005 |
About Uncle Dan and Aunt Sue, we didn't have TV so we LOVED those stories and the Bible and Living Sound. We memorized them and acted them out as kids. I'll have to say in their defense they were quality in terms of story telling. My kids now enjoy Mr. Henry and Odyssey which are a lot of fun, but I've not heard their equal yet as far as dramatic presentations of real life stories. Some of Uncle Dan and Aunt Sue's stories were historical. I'm sure my love for history and autobiographies from times gone past were developed from these stories. Yes, there is an Adventist bent which is why if our kids listen to them, we join them and then talk about the implications being made. As for Uncle Arthur, we were also raised on those, and to this day I find them very WORKS and LAW based. I'm sure many of the messages I received in those stories played into my self esteem issues. So many stories pushed the "if/then" correlation. If I disobey, when a terrible occurrence happens, it occurred BECAUSE of my disobedience. It creates this forever looking back at my bad behavior when something bad happens in my life. ìWhat bad thing did I do to cause this pain?î There is some truth to the fact that my wrong choices can bring on pain, however "It's your KINDNESS that leads us to repentance, Oh Lord, knowing that you love us, no matter what we do, makes us want to love you too" (a scripture song ) Lisa | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 624 Registered: 8-2004 |
Speaking of historical dramas, there is a series about the heroes of the refomation, but I don't remember the title at the moment. The times I've caught it it was usually on the same station that played 'unshackled'. If this rings a bell with anybody and you do know the title, could you post it? Blessings, Mary | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 2327 Registered: 11-2002 |
I never heard any of the story books. I got the Little Friend, Primary Treasure, Junior Guide and then the one for the teenagers growing p but other than the Pokey book and two others I did not have any SA books read to me. after I was in my 20's my mom bought the entire set of The Bible Story books at the swap meat for $10.00. I think she gave them to my son who may be reading them to my grandchildrem or he may not be, I don't know. I did like the dramaizations that mark Findley used to put on his program. they were really tacky. Like watching B-grade flicks. My favorite had Loni Anderson in it when she was only around 18 or 19 years old. Way before she stared in Taxi (Wasn't it taxi? ot was it MASH?). | ||
| Agapetos Registered user Username: Agapetos Post Number: 300 Registered: 10-2002 |
Okay, well, with all the Adventist stories on radio and in books, I thought I'd mention (a bit proudly, haha) the dramedy group I was in at LaSierra for its final waning days, "Feat of Clay". (Dramedy = Drama + Comedy) In its early days (which I missed) they had a series called "Adventist Man". He wore a cape and a big "A" on his chest. Later "Sidekick Girl" was added to help him. I remember one comic that was drawn about Adventist Man & his nemesis, the evil Backslider (or Backslider Man). Adventist Man found Backslider selling candy or something to kids on the Sabbath, so he chased him, but Backslider escaped into a boat and Adventist Man couldn't follow him into the water, because that would be swimming on Sabbath. Okay, you get the general idea. We had a *lot* of fun! | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 626 Registered: 8-2004 |
LOL! That does sound like a lot of fun Ramone!!! Mary | ||
| Snowboardingmom Registered user Username: Snowboardingmom Post Number: 160 Registered: 11-2005 |
Zjason -- you're right. That story is only found in the older set ('m not sure which book; my set is at my parents house). The newer set doesn't have that story in it. There were several stories that never made it into the newer set (and for good reason). There were MANY disturbing stories in the older set that got "cut". The newer set is much better, although as Lisa said, still very "works" based. Ramone--that dramedy sounds hilarious! I guess we would be the "evil Backslider"? | ||
| Ardyj Registered user Username: Ardyj Post Number: 4 Registered: 8-2006  |
How interesting! I grew up with Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories, and we purchased the Bible Story series to read to our children as they were growing up. All of those books as well as all of EGW's books and the SDA Bible Commentaries have been very unceremoniously "dumped" at the city dump. I no longer want any of those books in my house at all. I distinctly remember how works based those stories were. The "you do something bad and something bad will happen to you", and visa/versa mindset. I found a very old Primary Treasure and there was this poem in it titled "The Tithe Conscious Farmer": August, the farmer had feet that were sore. Almost no good were the shoes that he wore. He had a hard time to follow the plow. He knew ne needed some new shoes right now. "you have the cash. You have the cash.!" Satan was tempting the man to be rash. "That is my tithe money," August replied. So the foe's offer he firmly denied. Tying the sole of his shoe on with string, August was able to still do his thing. Selling potatoes and cucumbers paid. New shoes he gained on one sale that he made. "Thank you dear Lord. ThankYou dear Lord!" You gave me the shoes that I could not afford. All that I earn with my plow and my scythe Surely I gladly will faithfully tithe. This was made even more interesting because of the story my mother told me when she was raised on a little farm in Iowa. Her father and mother raised pigs to supplement the family income. Interesting especially for older historical SDA's :-) Never could quite figure that one out! | ||
| Dd Registered user Username: Dd Post Number: 707 Registered: 7-2004 |
When I was a grade schooler, a prominent SDA physician in Portland, Or and his wife were killed on their way home from eating dinner out on a Friday night. I remember my mom telling me, "This happened because they were eating out after sundown. If they would have been observing Sabbath, they would still be alive." Of course, what I understood her comment to mean was God killed them because they knew they should have stayed home after sundown and they didn't! This story is not really about Uncle Arthur but I would not doubt if my parent's belief stemmed from the readings of these books. What a joy it is to know Jesus! Denise | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 637 Registered: 8-2004 |
From Uncle Arthur, but also from EGW, and from SDA theology in general. Was it not EGW who taught that Angels would not enter a theater with you? It was a scary way to live! Yes!! What a joy it is to know Jesus! Mary |
