Posted on 06/16/2012 9:32:41 AM PDT by ReformationFan
Yes we do.
And George Macdonalds.
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Very interesting aspect of what friendship and love should be. What caught my eye was the Lewis statement: mixing truth w/a lie makes the lie much stronger. The great deceiver is a master of telling us a lie just enough to make our truth worse.
Interesting. One principle of reparative therapy for homosexuals who want to change their ways is to enable them to forge a strong non-erotic same sex friendship. As Lewis insightfully observes, this is not a part of the homosexual life.
Love George MacDonald.
So of course I immediately hit Amazon and bought one copy each of Lilith and Phantastes for my 16-year-old son, the budding writer who is working on his first novel.
I love being a homeschooler.
...and Owen Barfields.
This reminds me of the entire way the culture has become so twisted, automatically and bizarrely reading sleaze into what was once everyday normalcy. I’ve shown old movies, old magazines, and all sorts of vintage material to folks nowadays, and they have an almost kneejerk reaction of reading some perverse sexual innuendo into absolutely everything. And I mean everything. Sometimes jokingly, sometimes not. Always a twisted subtext ready to be applied, to the most mundane and innocuous material.
It’s all rather warped. But it seems like modern culture has really cultivated this in recent years.
Love has been perverted by perverts.
Ask someone if they can truly love someone without having any sexual desire for them.
Then ask them if they love their grandparents and their dog.
Go search ‘photos, “gay interest”’ on ebay.com.
You will see everyday snapshots from decades past with a slur cast at anonymous people.
That’s another good example. I’ve gone through listings of old movie stills on ebay, and kept seeing sellers describe entirely innocent and innocuous photos of two men together as “gay interest.” As you say, the same has been done with ordinary family photos.
Absolutely sick. Could anyone envision one day that, after they and their friends and family were all deceased, and their photo albums and scrapbooks scattered to the winds, that decades in the future, some creep would be selling their normal, everday, innocent photos under the context of depraved homo-eroticism? Sick, sick, sick.
Pro-homosexual cultures make men see other men as sex objects. It destroys trust and creates an atmosphere of awkwardness—as all situations where people have no Virtue do.
Boys are especially attractive to homosexuals since it is the age they are fixated sexually in-—an immature age of lust without commitment —inability to form mature, long-lasting relationships. It is why they are promiscuous—it is immaturity and lack of self-mastery. It is really a very sick, immature lifestyle that puts selfish lust above all other things. True maturity takes selflessness. Homosexuals never have it unless they revile their own actions.
What a fabulous education you are giving your child!
C.S. Lewis was himself a great friend. If anyone’s writing on the subject of platonic friendships could be trusted it would be his. Lewis had a friend who died in WW I. For the rest of her life Lewis housed and patiently cared for that friend’s mother. It was a deal the friends had made with one another and Jack stuck it out loyally. He had strong friendships with every one of the Inklings and was able to relate to each individually as well as to each within the context of the group. He was a great friend to and of his older brother who survived him; they lived together for decades. His friendship with Joy Davidman began as a pen-pal relationship and only years later blossomed into marriage. We all should be so lucky as to have a friend of the sort that C.S. Lewis was, and we would all do well to seek to emulate him.
Thanks for this post.
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object present to your senses.” – C.S. Lewis
talking about C.S...
C.S. was Roman Catholic in his heart and at present, He
is now fully Roman Catholic.
Belief in the Holy Eucharist is the way to go. Believe, then all misunderstandings about the faith will fall away, the Real Presence is the pinnacle.
“I love being a homeschooler.”
I understand what you mean. We are in Central America and I’m mentoring several young men in appropriate technology skills. English is taught in school here. One young man said that he did not like to read. I mentioned the joy of good books and re-reading them over the years.
I had my Android phone with me (as data storage) and pulled up Kipling. The young man was not familiar with Kipling, but had seen parts of the Disney movie of The Jungle Book. First I gave a synopsis of “The Miracle Of Puram Bhagat” from the Second Jungle book then read the last few pages.
Then I started on the Mowgli stories from the First Jungle Book. My the time I finished reading the first chapter to him, he was hooked!
Get your hands on The Princess and Curdie by MacDonald. It's the sequel to The Princess and the Goblins by the same author, though I didn't enjoy Goblins half as much as I enjoyed Curdie. The latter is a work fairly ringing with warning (and, if one could dare say it, prophecy) relevant to our own age and current state of civilization, though I can't say whether MacDonald had any such conscious intentions of doing this (though he may well have done). Certain British authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (and this would include GK Chesterton) seemed to be at least vaguely aware that some sort of dreaded sea-change was taking place in western civilization, and that its Ruin was then well within sight on the horizon unless something were done.
That aside, it's a good fantasy-adventure story on its own,
The Bible speaks of “thy friend, which is as thine own soul” (Deuteronomy 13:6).
Now way this isn't intentional, and intended to destroy our fighting forces.
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