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re: Anybody read The Screwtape Letters?
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:36 am to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:36 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Take my words, and do exactly the opposite
Will do
And I left out a very good half sentence. I fixed it. Have fun at work
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Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:48 am to MrTide33
In my 20's C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton were among my favorites.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:21 am to MrTide33
Haven't read it, but read Mere Christianity. I felt he made the shallowest and weakest arguments for reconciling his apologist desires. Very, very, very self serving, and very bad arguments, IMO. The premise of this seems at least a little bit more creative. Next time I go through a religious wave of reading I'm sure I'll add it.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 9:54 am to TeLeFaWx
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Haven't read it, but read Mere Christianity
I haven't read that one yet. Not sure if I will or not. The premise of this one is pretty good and seems to have good insight to some aspects of the human condition
Posted on 2/21/14 at 11:01 am to MrTide33
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I haven't read that one yet. Not sure if I will or not.
Lots of people seem to like it, but it's very generic and ambiguous rhetoric, imo. His logical fallacies were incredibly bothersome. Screwtape does seem to have an intriguing premise. I'll give it a read eventually. Or just put the play on YouTube.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 10:36 pm to TeLeFaWx
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TeLeFaWx
Now I have to read it to see the logical fallacies and generic, ambiguous rhetoric.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 10:09 am to MrTide33
Should I get the annotated edition?
Posted on 2/22/14 at 12:16 pm to MrTide33
I just saw a play adaptation a few weeks ago. It was great.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 1:51 pm to MrTide33
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Anybody read The Screwtape Letters?
Seriously?
Pretty sure it was required reading in jr high.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 11:21 pm to Cheese Grits
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Seriously?
Pretty sure it was required reading in jr high.
I went to a Christian school and we didn't even read it
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Saw a play adaptation. It was great
How did they work it out? Like the one I've already described?
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Should I get the annotated version
I didn't
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:27 am to MrTide33
One setting, 2 characters. It was a monologue by Screwtape, and he had a demon assistant that basically acted like Gollum. She was hilarious.
Screwtape would narrate letters while his assistant wrote them, then she'd climb a ladder and put them in the "mailbox".
I'm sure it sounds kinda lame, but it was a great performance. I'll try and find out who put the production on.
Screwtape would narrate letters while his assistant wrote them, then she'd climb a ladder and put them in the "mailbox".
I'm sure it sounds kinda lame, but it was a great performance. I'll try and find out who put the production on.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 11:18 am to MrTide33
Excellent book.
Also recommend The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis.
Eta: Good luck with the play, sounds like you have a great idea.
Also recommend The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis.
Eta: Good luck with the play, sounds like you have a great idea.
This post was edited on 2/23/14 at 11:20 am
Posted on 2/23/14 at 3:03 pm to Garfield
Have to give this a read ... the most of Lewis I have read is The Chronicles of Narnia
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