tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7519523956314037106..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Wise Men From the YeastGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47944380662272350592016-06-08T04:26:21.137-07:002016-06-08T04:26:21.137-07:00The Last Battle has the same feel only in a more c...<i>The Last Battle</i> has the same feel only in a more child-like form, appropriate for the series, but sobering for any adult reading it for the first time. The gasping at The Lie when first experienced, the tears at the deception and loss that the Lie is causing, the corruption of language as the anti-yeast, the deflation of meaning. It's all there, artfully tucked into a child's adventure. Lewis' audience was children who had lived through bombings and war so he did not hold back on the painful reality the adventurers were experiencing, he knew his audience could bear it. His description of the The End of Time still thrills my soul and I probably see it as some of the best end-time theology available (but I'm horribly biased!). After reading both series for the first time as a young Christian mother, nothing since that has happened in our culture has surprised me. Or worried me much.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20709333413582874372016-06-06T11:30:59.286-07:002016-06-06T11:30:59.286-07:00"In its prelude it assures us that "The ..."In its prelude it assures us that "The importance of the document is that more than thirty men" -- thirty men! -- "have come to general agreement on matters of final concern and that these men are undoubtedly representative of a large number who are forging a new philosophy out of the materials of the modern world."<br /><br />So it's pretty important. Self-important, anyway."<br /><br />It's kinda fun (using the term rather loosely) to see how many of those promoters of humanity, were rather keen on various ways of ending human lives via final solutions as it were, through eugenics and euthanasia. <br /><br />Julie, that last of Lewis's space trilogy really shows how well he understood his quarry, doesn't it? It's almost as if he had Screwtape advising him on the technical details. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6850623518541853842016-06-06T10:16:03.836-07:002016-06-06T10:16:03.836-07:00Mmm... bread! Incidentally, this is why I view the...Mmm... bread! Incidentally, this is why I view the fad of gluten hatred with a jaundiced eye, for what good is yeast if it has no glutenous flour to make rise?<br /><br />I am currently reading through, at long last, the final book of Lewis' <i>Space Trilogy</i>. He knew the enemy all too well; large passages of the story could be mistaken for today's news instead of a work of fiction from 1945. Relevant to the post, though is the passage I just read this morning, where the end point of humanism - or more truly, <i>in</i>humanism - is revealed: a pure "objectivity" untainted by any affinity for life, which is regarded, ultimately, as mere material to be shaped according to the will of the people in the know. Because only <i>humanists</i> can possibly imagine what's best for humanity, apparently.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91914199884504976082016-06-06T10:07:32.878-07:002016-06-06T10:07:32.878-07:00I didn't even have time to get into that angle...I didn't even have time to get into that angle, but I recently read an interesting book on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Proof-Science-Booze-Adam-Rogers/dp/0544538544?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0544538544&linkCode=xm2&redirect=true&tag=onecos-20" rel="nofollow">science of booze</a> that has a whole chapter on the wonders of yeast -- without which spirits would be strictly impossibleGagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34727860086727491832016-06-06T09:53:57.006-07:002016-06-06T09:53:57.006-07:00Yeast: It's Alive!Yeast: It's Alive!mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com