So… it’s 3 A.M…. 🙂 I am working on my Systematic Theology paper that is due tomorrow. Well, obviously I am not working on it right this second… because I am writing this… I am procrastinating finishing it though. 😉 About 2/3 of the way done.
You know, if I sat and wrote papers and didn’t stop writing until I was done I would be done writing them immensely fast… like within an hour maybe. Ah well… I like it better this way.
I slept a bit earlier… so I’m hoping that I will be ok in my lack of sleep tonight.
Anyway, I read a bit of C.S. Lewis earlier… “The Weight of Glory”.. anyway, I just found this one section to be kind of interesting, so I thought I’d share it.
“I have tried to stress throughout the inevitableness ofthe error made about every transposition by one who approaches it from the lower medium only. The strength of such a critic lies in the words “merely” or “nothing but.” He sees all the facts but not the meaning. Quite truly, therefore, he claims to have seen all the facts. There is nothing else there; except the meaning. He is therefore, as regards the matter in hand, in the position of an animal. You will have noticed that most dogs cannot understand pointing. You point to a bit of food on the floor; the dog, instead of looking at the floor, sniffs your finger. A finger is a finger to him, and that is all. His world is all fact and no meaning. And in a period when factual realism is dominant we shall find people deliberately go about to inspect it analytically from the outside and regard the results of this analysis as truer than his experience. The extreme limit of this self-binding is seen in those who, like the rest of us, have consciousness, yet go about to study the human organism as if they did not know it was conscious. As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. The critique of every experience from below, the volunatary ignoring of meaning and concentration on fact, will always have the same plausibility. There will always be evidence, and every month fresh evidence, to show that religion is only psychological, justice only self-protection, politics only economics, love only lust, and thought itself only cerebral biochemistry.”
There ya go. Drink that in 😉
i’m either too dumb or too tired to fully comprehend, even after re-reading it. you decide which
it’s really not too hard 🙂 He is just saying that behind all facts there is meaning. Facts are facts, but there is more to them then that. If all you look at is the fact, and not the meaning behind the fact, then you miss out on the truth of what the fact really is. In his example, the pointing finger. Yes, it is a finger. But if onefails to make the connection that it is pointing towards something and you that you will want, then one misses the point of it entirely. I’ll let you try and figure the rest out from there 😉
Gotta love on C.S. Lewis… =)
[ shauna ]
Wonderful thinker and writer he was.
*ahem*
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I beat reesespieces at halo. Like 10 times in a row.
the end. 🙂