Thread 24539105 - /lit/ [Archived: 388 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:15:13 AM No.24539105
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>If children stab boggles to death they will become closer to Jesus. However, if they grow up and get a job their souls are damned and they will never find Jesus again.
I don't understand CS Lewis' theosophy.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:58:48 AM No.24539566
It makes sense if you imagine Narnia as Book Zero of the Space Trilogy
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:01:24 AM No.24539573
>>24539105 (OP)
What's the problem?
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:07:32 AM No.24539591
>OP doesn't see how bad it is to grow up instead of remaining a child
NPCs fail to understand many things that ought to be obvious.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:59:23 AM No.24539661
>>24539105 (OP)
>If children stab boggles to death they will become closer to Jesus.
Pretty straightforward, slaying evil creatures is good
>However, if they grow up and get a job their souls are damned and they will never find Jesus again.
Not what CS Lewis said. He said "The books don’t tell us what happened to Susan. She is left alive in this world at the end, having been turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there is plenty of time for her to mend, and perhaps she will get to Aslan’s country in the end—in her own way. I think that whatever she had seen in Narnia she could (if she was the sort that wanted to) persuade herself, as she grew up, that it was ‘all nonsense.'"
He also said, when someone asked if he'd write a book on her redemption, "I could not write that story myself. Not that I have no hope of Susan’s ever getting to Aslan’s country; but because I have a feeling that the story of her journey would be longer and more like a grown-up novel than I wanted to write. But I may be mistaken. Why not try it yourself?”
Susan is not damned
>I don't understand CS Lewis' theosophy.
Theosophy is the wrong word here, you mean theology
But it's pretty straightforward, just because you have seen with your own eyes God and His power, you are still at risk for falling away. You need to make the choice to have faith yourself
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:35:42 AM No.24539708
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>>24539661
Lewis is arguably the wisest man of the 20th Century. I say this as a Catholic who must begrudgingly admire him despite being a Prot. But he was a genius, and far-sighted. He knew the human heart better than so many others, and he foresaw exactly what was going to happen over the last 80 or so years.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:34:38 AM No.24539796
>>24539591
Peter Pan syndrome is fucking sad and I will never understand it.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 1:10:36 PM No.24540075
>>24539708
He was anglican, which is basically catholicism lite
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:41:43 PM No.24541173
>>24539796
Think about how grim the average Englishman's adulthood was for a moment.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:49:55 PM No.24541201
>>24540075
along with the sexual abuse