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Aha, all the parents are sissies. Come on, guys, speak up!
Why don’t you put your parents on, Pheebs?
I am speaking for my father (all of these statements are quotes, I promise):
I hate Muse. It is an obnoxious magazine. It has obnoxious, gross articles and obnoxious charecters that make me sick. Kokopelli is more than obnoxios, he is mean, and Urania is stupid. Nothing in the magazine is true. In fact, it makes me sick.
End of statements. By the way, my dad is a nice guy, and even though he really dosn’t like Muse, he only makes fun of it to poke fun at me, because I am an adolescant so I like this kind of thing. My mom likes Muse, though, so it’s okay.
My dad can’t say the word “Muse” properly, and it bugs me. XD
You mean there are people out there who actively dislike Muse? And they’re allowed to have children? Wow. “‘Curiouser and curiouser,’ said Alice.”
If I did put my parents on here, they’d ground me for trying o take over the world, see plan MH.
NOTE: Muse Mom has asked us to keep her name secret so she won’t embarrass her kids if they go online.
Greetings fellow Muse Fans,
Yikes, all the posts scared me. You see, I was hoping to be the first parent to post on this blog. I have to tell you why I love Muse.
The Muse Staff are awesome!
The Muse Staff are awesome!
The Muse Staff are AWESOME!!
Did I mention that the Muse Staff is really AWESOME!!
My favorite issue was the one on TOILETS. Not gross, FACINATING! And then there was the one with the Giant Squid in it. We have a saying in our family for when someone interrupts a conversation with some other topic that is way out there, it’s “Oh, Cecilia would like to ask about Giant Squid.†Then Muse told us about Giant Squid and we needed a new subject in which to explain that Cecilia’s comments were off topic.
OK, now I will explain how I believe the Muse Staff are really awesome. Because I don’t know them personally, I have to tell you about why I love Muse.
I LOVE MUSE
For the following reasons:
# 1 In our family we take pride in the fact that the bread winner in the family is following his vocation. He does what he really loves to do, using the talents he was created with. My husband is a bike mechanic. We love to amaze people that a family of seven can live well and be happy on a bike mechanic’s wage. When we read Muse we can tell that the Muse Staff is having a great time and they love what they are doing. I hope they get paid well, but if not, we can tell they are still happy.
#2 I am a parent of home educated children. I like to think of what we do at home as formation of the person. A person with 4 parts that is integral to one another. These for parts are the intellect, the spirit, the human body, and a need to give to others the gift of self. When I read Muse I can tell that the writers of Muse know it or not, have a handle on the human person. Muses purpose is to stimulate the intellect but the people, who give us that stimulation, also nurture the human person’s spirit by enjoying what they are doing. Therefore they witness to the readers the sense of purpose their lives have, (the spiritual part). By its very nature of asking questions that have to do with created matter Muse gives witness to the beauty of humanity. Humans are the only one who inquire about life. They are also the only ones to argue with speech. So before you argue that your CAT inquires about its meal, I need to clarify that begging for food or snubbing the Mew Mix for a better brand is not the kind of inquiry I am talking about. : ) So if your parent is grossed out about articles in Muse, tell them to get a grip on their humanness and start appreciating creation!
Last but not least, the staff at Muse is truly interested and I believe they love their readers. This interest fulfills the model of a fully integrated human person who reaches out and gives to others of themselves. I am sure you have noticed the interest they have in you. This fan page is an example of that interest. They want to know what you have to say, they respect you and want to know what your questions are. NO question is too silly. They have to be discriminating. For example I would love to see an article about a modern day morgue (one of my daughters ideas that I found fascinating), but I have to be satisfied with the mummy issue because the other might give children nightmares. I guess I will have to go with my unnamed daughter to the local morgue and ask for a tour. AHHHH! I don’t know if I have the courage to ask!
Notice that those reasons overlap a great deal? The joy of doing what you love and giving to others nurtures the spirit while the uniqueness of the human person has much to do with how we relate to others. Again giving to others and all humanity is enriched. I guess that is why we call it integral. So my whole family LOVES MUSE. We marvel at what a gift the magazine is brought to us by the human persons who are truly following a vocation of inquiry. I hope you all become Muse writers at one time or another! Muse Staff is AWESOME and that is why I love Muse.
P.S. Here is my first question for a future Muse Magazine. I would like to see an article on the theories of differing human intelligence, especially relational and the intelligence that has to do with #’s and non living matter. There is a name for it, but it escapes me. We won’t talk about Alzheimer’s just yet.
I am way more secretive than I need to be. I keep my online stuff tucked far away from my father, regardless of the fact there’s nothing really to hide. This is out of chronic paranoia, I suppose.
It’s a chain I don’t particularly feel like breaking, to boot.
Many thanks for the kind words, Mrs. M. M. (#7)!
I suspect that everybody involved in putting out Muse, like each of our readers, thinks about what we are doing in a slightly different way. What we all have in common is that we do think about it, a lot. And while it would be most un-Kokopellian of us to admit that we care about anything, I think it’s fair to say that we are living proof that it’s possible to be perfectly serious without being the least bit solemn.
— Robert
Muse Mom, no child would be embarassed to have her mother post awesome things on an awesome blog for a awesome magazine. Feel free to post your name.
weeee….. must put mom on here…… or i could say what i think she would say, but i dunno….
I love muse because ______ loves it, learns from it, and it is well published
lilbro777
but i still want my Nov/Dec iss.
you haven’t gotten that yet?
i feel for you…i got mine early dec.
you should call the publishers. that’s what my mom did and she says they said they never got our new address (which they did, twice, but whatever) but yeah then you can get it and…um…read it.
yay!
my mom would say something about education, and “making learning fun!”
i’m really bored. go me. woohoo. yay. choklit. no, no choklit here. wah. pistachios. yes, we have pistachios. pistachios good. gotta go eat pistachios now.
lol 1 parent and the rest is fake hahahaha
HOWDY MUSE PARENTS!
HEY, HAVE ANY OF YOU READ ‘ATTACK OF THE SMART PIES?’
WELL ME AND QUITE A FEW OTHER KIDS, ARE TRYING TO PERSUADE THE MUSE STAFF TO CREATE A LIVE ACTION/COMPUTER ANIMATED* FILM, BASED ON THE BOOK!
PLEASE STOP BY, AND POST YOUR OWN IDEAS!
PS: IT WOULD BE A GREAT SERVICE!
* KOKOPELLI IS A COMPUTER ANIMATED SHADOW!
WE’D LOVE TO HAVE YA!
BYE!
I would get my parents to post, but my dad works with computers all day and never wants to go online at home. I’d ask my mom, but she sees the computer as her enemy (since it always messes up when she tries to use it) and avoids it as much as possible. However, I can let their actions speak for them. Once Muse arrives in the mail, a cycle begins. I read Muse first, then I pass it on to my mom, who reads it and passes it on to my dad, who reads it too. My mom then calls my grandparents to tell them about the interesting articles she’s read, and then she brings the magazine to show my sister and her husband. Needless to say, my parents are just as addicted to Muse as I am. We love it!
As for my personal opinion, I can’t put it in better words than Muse Mom, so I’ll just say that I wholeheartedly agree with her opinion in post seven. One thing I’d add that I really like about Muse is that it’s very user-friendly. I can tell from the letters in the magazine and from the interactions on this blog that the people who make the magazine care about the people who read it, which means a lot. My mom knows about the Museblog even though I can’t get her to come and comment on it, and she thinks it’s great that the magazine has a place for the subscribers to meet each other. She also thinks it’s really cool that the staff takes the time to meet people and post, too.
LONG LIVE MUSE MAGAZINE (and the staff, of course)!!!!!!!!!
Also, it’s kind of off-topic, but in reply to post 8, I feel the same way most of the time. I’m not doing anything bad, but I still feel compelled to hide my activities. Would you consider yourself an introvert, Morbid? I am, and I think that’s why I feel the need to be secretive about everything I do even though I don’t need to be.