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Alashuko The Fighter Crew
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 Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 9:13 pm
Lewis is the worlds famous christian apologist who lived. I am currently reading what is considered an apologetics classic called Mere Christianity. In the book, he explains several instances that defend the Christian faith well. It proves that religion can be rational and used with reason. Anybody else know about this guy?
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:54 pm
Everyone's heard of Clive Staples!
Not receiving a box set of The Chronicles of Narnia by age 12 should be considered child abuse.
I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but I've actually read very little of his work outside of Narnia. I even own a copy of Mere Christianity, and I've read bits and pieces of it, but I've never gotten around to reading it cover-to-cover.
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Alashuko The Fighter Crew
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:48 pm
SinfulGuillotine Everyone's heard of Clive Staples! Not receiving a box set of The Chronicles of Narnia by age 12 should be considered child abuse. I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but I've actually read very little of his work outside of Narnia. I even own a copy of Mere Christianity, and I've read bits and pieces of it, but I've never gotten around to reading it cover-to-cover. Well what I do is I'll read with an audiobook you can find on youtube. It's very interesting stuff he provides. I plan to read The Problem of Pain after Mere Christianity since he has an entire book focusing on how pain can be destroyed.
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:11 am
Honestly, I often sort of have trouble reading non-fiction, even if it's really interesting and relevant to me and well-written.
It doesn't make any sense, because I can spend hours reading random articles on Wikipedia (you know, when you look up "pine tree" and then before you know it, it's four hours later and somehow you've ended up on the page for "foreskin restoration"), many of which are decidedly NOT well-written at all.
It took me over a month to get through The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, and Oscar Wilde is probably one of my favourite people in the universe, so you'd think if anything non-fiction would hold my attention, it would be a biography about him. (And that was supposedly the latest and greatest book about Wilde, at least ten or so years ago when it was published.)
But I have no trouble getting through the densest, most ridiculous works of classic literature...so long as they're fiction.
I do remember doing a school report on C.S. Lewis though. I don't remember exactly what the topic of the report was even supposed to be, but I remember I chose Lewis because I absolutely loved the Narnia books, as well as Tolkein's work, and I knew they were friends.
Is it bad that the Christian allegory of the Narnia series went completely over my head until I was....much older than I should have been?
Then again, I also thought the Bible was intended as 100% fiction until I was much older than I should have been.
I don't think I really grasped the concept of symbolism very well as a child. And I think I always assumed that if someone was writing about it, they'd made it up.
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:27 am
Alashuko The Fighter SinfulGuillotine Everyone's heard of Clive Staples! Not receiving a box set of The Chronicles of Narnia by age 12 should be considered child abuse. I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but I've actually read very little of his work outside of Narnia. I even own a copy of Mere Christianity, and I've read bits and pieces of it, but I've never gotten around to reading it cover-to-cover. Well what I do is I'll read with an audiobook you can find on youtube. It's very interesting stuff he provides. I plan to read The Problem of Pain after Mere Christianity since he has an entire book focusing on how pain can be destroyed. Meh, I kind of hate most audiobooks I've come across. I think the voices in my head usually sound better than most human voices. Also, I read a lot faster than any reasonable human reads out loud, so all that listening to something read aloud really accomplishes for me is slowing me down, which I find frustrating. I always hated when teachers would make students read aloud in school for exactly the same reason. Well, that combined with the fact that nine times out of ten, I'd already finished most of the required reading several years prior. Also, buying books on tape or CD used to be heinously expensive, though I guess that's not really an issue anymore, as you can now find any audio recording ever made for free online. But it's not an issue of physical reading ability or reading comprehension. I've always been a strong reader and always had a perfectly capable imagination. It's more an issue of...attention span, I guess. Non-fiction doesn't provide the same escape that fiction does, so maybe that's why I have trouble staying focused on it.
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:33 pm
Narnia wasn't that good of a movie or book
I don't know much of Lewis
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:42 pm
Islamic Teacher Narnia wasn't that good of a movie or book I don't know much of Lewis It's actually a series of seven books. And I've only seen the old movies that I think were made in the early 90's. They're pretty terrible, but my little brother used to watch The Voyage of the Dawn Treader over and over and over again when he was little.
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:14 pm
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Alashuko The Fighter Crew
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 12:52 pm
i love everything he wrote except The Dark Tower, which seemed psychologically twisted.
'Til We Have Faces was pure genius, and should be part of every liberal arts curriculum.
His best satire is in That Hideous Strength, so true in its characterization of colleges and government bureaucracies.
Nobody more effectively told spiritual truth to intellectuals.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:49 pm
he psychologized and philosophized about the concept of Pain, in The Problem of Pain,
then his beloved wife Joy died, painfully, and it humbled him
he recanted all his past pomposity is A Grief Observed, which is gut wrenchingly honest,
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