believe it or not this is a real book. I picked it up at my churches garage sale and all I can say is this guy is nuts! The author Phil Phillips seems to have a personal vedanta agents all children's TV shows. I mean this man has found something wrong with the Care Bears. He believes TV corrupts minds and makes children into idol worshipers. In this book Mr. Phillips completely tears apart all the shows I grew up with. She-Ra Princess of Power, well according to him she uses "black magic". The same for He-Man. Care Bears he said "they weave a subtle message filled with magic, humanism, the practice of transactional analysis, Bahai beliefs, and the motion of spirit guides." Casper, the friendly Ghost, the Smurfs (he claims Gargamel is a devil worshiper). All of the shows I loved growing up fall victim to his analyses but none so much as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Phillips has studied over a thousand hours of cartoons in order to document the religious, occultic, and satanic practices portrayed in children's television programming. Saturday Morning Mind Control, which focuses on the effect of the television medium on the minds of children and on the conflict between biblical and societal values, it the first book to thoroughly document these practices.
Page 81. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles falls
nicely into the long legacy of gang profiles, which has as its origin the
programs of the 1970s: Yogi's Gang, Superfrinds, Fat Albert and the
Cosby Kids, and even the animated
version of Lassie. The basic plot line for Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles
is the four ordinary turtles are accidentally
dropped into a sewer manhole, where they encounter a radioactive goo that
causes them to grow to human size
and gain the power to speak. The mutated turtles are adopted by splinter,
a similarly mutated rat. Splinter had
been the pet of a ninja warrior, and he continues to battle against his
former master's nemesis. Splinter names
his adopted sons Leonardo (the leader), Raphael (the rebel), Michaelangelo
(the prankster), and Donatello (the
whiz with anything technical). He drills them to become ninja warriors,
which they are by the time they reach
teenager status. As a gang of four, they have a look, a code language
and mutual love of pizza, a share religion
(ninja), and a wise older guide who is not part of a true family unit.
Where is the family? For the most part, the
family doesn't exist. In cases of impending tragedy or trouble, parents
are never around or never consulted. The
child must save himself, his family his neighborhood, his nation, and sometimes
his universe."
(Okkay first he has the plot wrong, he is talking about the movie and comic
way they came to be. In the cartoon
Splinter was never a pet, he was the ninja warrior. If he is going
to talk about something he should at least get his
facts straight.)
Page 123. "In the animated series, Splinter
frequently is shown in a classic lotus position, with a large Yin/Yang
symbol behind
him on the wall, as he counsels the Turtles. Ninja is based on an
ancient religious practice called Kung pau in the
cartoon. In history, this early religion, which employs one of the
earliest mind control techniques known, is called
kujucurry Splinter often lays his hand on his head as he communicates with
the Turtles, indicating a mind control
technique at work. The ninjas were trained to be assassins; in their
practice of ninjitsu, they seek to train their
minds and spirits, as well as their bodies, to become fighting tools.
A foremost technique is hypnosis. They form
signs with their fingers to hypnotize, and when they reach perfection in
their religion, they believe they gain theeyes
of god, which allow them to foresee future danger. Early episodes
of the Turtles were violent but rather campy in
their story lines and uses of language. Increasingly over the years,
however, the religious undertones of the ninja
belief have become more obvious. The turtles recent movie was rated
PG, but the day I saw it it in a theater
outside Dallas, at least half the audience was in the three to six year
old range. The movie is filled with curse
words, has a reporter who dresses like a hooker, and is extremely violent.
The children that day saw mental
telepathy exercises while the turtles were in meditative positions with
legs crossed, hands raised upward, thumbs
and forefingers looped in the classic lotus position; the image of Splinter
appearing in a flame that changed color
to blue as the Turtles, who are calling him forth, increase their powers
of concentration; and Turtles endowed with
power after a intense spiritual experience in which they gain the psychic
ability to fight successfully even when
blindfolded."
(So he wants no exposure to other cultures, or ways of life. And
as for three to six year olds seeing the first movie
I don't think they would be their if their parents did not agree, and the
cursing well the movie is rated PG like he
said what's the problem. If parents take their kids to see it any
way what's the prob? People like him are what
made the third movie so lame.)
Page 159. "the movie version of Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles has 194 individual acts of violence, making it far
more violent
than Batman. More than a third of the movie is devoted to fight scenes;
one fight scene lasts eight minutes. But
that's what ninjas do . They are warriors trained to fight.
(maybe the title Ninja Turtles would tell him there would be lots of fighting,
it is not like it was hidden or anything)
I cracked up reading this book and all the off the wall things this guy found wrong with TV. This guy thinks Smurfet it as cross dresser and Alvin and the Chipmunks are a gang. The book is older copyright 1991 but I cant help but wonder what he would think of some of the newer shows out now. He is probably lobbying for a shout down off all TV stations, this book is so out their I would not put it past him.
