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The document discusses various philosophical and theological reflections, emphasizing kindness, honesty, and doing good regardless of others' reactions. It also critiques the commercialization of spirituality and examines the nature of human desires and societal expectations. Additionally, it touches on themes of perseverance, the complexity of human virtues, and the pitfalls of false spirituality.
![How do our high and holy prayers
prevent authentic worship?
Ch 27
False spirituality
is always to be
encouraged. On
the seemingly
pious ground
that praise and
communion with
God is the true
prayer, humans
can often be
lured into direct
disobedience to
the Enemy
[who] has
definitely told
them to pray for
their daily bread
and the recovery
of their sick.
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33 w screwtape
- 1. People WITH C.S. LEWIS and TTL are often unreasonable self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If 12 OCTOBER 2012 you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- 3. Ch 22 So! Your young man is in love Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. What is Gods purpose in
- 4. Silence and Music p 170 Or NOISE! For tomorrow, I know, all those Who girls and boys Will wake bright and early. They'll rush for their toys!" "And then...all the noise! All the noise, noise, noise, noise! If there's one thing I hate...all the noise, noise, noise, noise! And they'll shriek, squeak, and squeal racing round on their wheels, Then dance with jin-tinglers tied onto their heels!" "They'll blow their flu-flubers, they'll bang their tar-tinkers, They'll blow their hoo-hoovers, they'll bang their gar-dinkers! They'll beat their trum-tookers, they'll slam their sloo-slunkers! They'll beat their blum-blookers, they'll wham their hoo- whunkers!" "And they'll play noisy games, like Zoo-Zivver-Car-Zay, A rollerskate-type of LaCrosse and croquet!
- 5. Ch 23 Theology, Politics, and Jesus I find that the best point of attack would be the borderline between theology and politics. Several of his new friends are very much alive to the social implications of their religion(171)
- 6. Jes us We thus distract mens minds from who He is and what He did. We first make Him solely a teacherbesides being unhistorical in the Jesus it depicts, religion of this kind is false to history in another sense. No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into the Enemys camp by the historical study of the biography of JesusThe earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin they already had.
- 7. "Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)
- 8. He must be made to feelhow different we Christians are; and by we Christians he must really, but unknowingly, mean my set. (174) Chapter 24 Have you ever excluded someone (even without meaning to) who didnt belong? Have you ever been excluded because you didnt belong?
- 9. What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call Christianity And. (175) Chapter 25
- 10. Your greedy little soul is finally satisfied with a diet drink ByTim Nudd Is that all there is? Diet drinks, like life, usually leave you wanting more. Not Coca-Cola Zero. It will satisfy even the most obnoxiously hard-to-please soda drinker, according to Crispin Porter + Bogusky's new spot, which launches this weekend and ushers in a new brand positioning for the zero-calorie cola. The commercialrunning online as a :60 and on TV as a :30follows a guy who ain't ever satisfied from his youth into young adulthood. He doesn't want a plain cone; he wants it loaded with candy. He isn't impressed by a skateboarding dog; he wants it to be Tony Hawk. He bargains for more from potential employers, and a whole lot more from female clerks at the clothing store. Plenty of good things come his way, but he's always ready with a signature catchphrase: "And?" In the end, of course, Coke Zero stops him in his tracks. Taking a swig at a restaurant with friends, he pauses, flabbergastedand finally utters a heartfelt "Thank you." The worldor at least some sugar waterhas finally met his lofty expectations. The spot is nicely pieced together, with rapid-fire montages that illustrate the character's overactive imagination. The actor himself, Chad Jamian Williams, has a bit of an Adam Sandler thing going oncontemptible and entitled but in a comically conniving way that makes him somewhat tolerable. (He even looks like Sandler.) And as a simple summation of what consumers tend to crave these days, it doesn't get much more pointed than the word "And." The ad also introduces a new tagline: "Enjoy everything." But if it teaches us anything, it's that people these days enjoy almost nothing, as they neurotically pursue bigger, better, and more. It seems unlikely that Coke Zero will change any of that. But at
- 12. How do our high and holy prayers prevent authentic worship? Ch 27 False spirituality is always to be encouraged. On the seemingly pious ground that praise and communion with God is the true prayer, humans can often be lured into direct disobedience to the Enemy [who] has definitely told them to pray for their daily bread and the recovery of their sick. (179)
- 13. Ch 28 Perseverance You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. (181)
- 14. Hatred, Cowardice, and Shame Ch 29 To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtuehatred is best combined with FearHatred is also a great anodyne for shame.
- 15. COURAGE courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the highest point of reality. (184)
- 16. Ch 30 Fatigue and Exhaustion The paradoxical thing is that moderate fatigue is better soil for peevishness than absolute exhaustion.
- 17. See you after break HOMEWORK