CS Lewis on Suffering…
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aaahmemories — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 06:36 PM)
For anyone who doesn't know CS Lewis
I've read The Screwtape Letters, the Cosmic Trilogy, Mere Christianity, and The Four Loves. He's a good writer, just a poor apologist.
BTW, it's always a mistake to assume ignorance.
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aaahmemories — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 11:06 PM)
I didn't assume anything
Do you even proof your posts? You made the tacit assumption I knew nothing about Lewis except his children's stories because I referenced Narnia.
You really aren't nearly as good at this as you congratulate yourself for being.
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aaahmemories — 9 years ago(January 06, 2017 06:21 AM)
I assumed nothing of the sort.
You really aren't very good at this. No wonder you feel "bullied." You just keep tripping over your own shoelaces while crying, "THEY did it to me!"
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aaahmemories — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 07:27 PM)
But did you read what was linked?
If it can't be paraphrased in a post, it wasn't intended to be a board contribution thus doesn't merit reading separately.
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smithjgs — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 05:20 AM)
That's irrelevant.
If you die at all, you suffer.
I don't like little pithy quotes like this though.
Humans need to forgo the notion that they deserve or earned the right to have a suffer free life. It's there.
It's going to happen and the goal should be to avoid as much suffering as possible and deal with it when it does happen.
I understand how that accurate notion is not exactly Hallmark card material.
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filmflaneur — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 06:08 AM)
If you die at all, you suffer
Nothingness is not suffering. Perpetually worrying about what purportedly happens after one dies, right down to eternal pits of fire and how to avoid them, is. It is a good job that only fundamentalists take the Bible as literally true.
I'm well aware that railing does no good
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