Fist and Faith wrote:He was one of the two main characters in one of the best movies ever: Chariots of Fire.

A movie that I would very much like to see, if anyone has a link to a free viewing... (I am still unable to pay for stuff online)

The thing is, rus, I do agree with that quote. Problem is, I think the intellectual causing the evil is Chesterton. I disagree with every first step he has. A point hammered home by nearly every sentence the policeman spoke. So against all good, and all common sense. As for Christian saints, I don'...

Not quite far enough...to G.K. much of what the Modern calls reason is not reason at all...actually, it proceeds reasonably enough but from false first principles. Some peeps know this and do it anyway for their own purposes, some don't know enough to know the principles are wrong. I kinda get what...

Am I likely to agree with the saints more than I do with Jesus. I doubt it. They all speak from a worldview that I disagree with for many reasons, some of which I oppose. But pick out a saint. Who should I read? St John Chrysostom. Definitely. Or among modern speakers, Metropolitan Anthony of Souro...

You don't mean, "They are for people who are honestly interested and haven't closed their minds." You mean, "They are for people who are honestly interested and who agree with me." I'm honestly interested, but I disagree with point after point. But you don't want to hear that, s...

Here is a cool video for people who have already read the book (it won't make sense to those who haven't): www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHCwBukyH0 And for those who haven't, or want to give the story an abbreviated whirl, here's Orson Welles' broadcast radio (audio, 6 parts, total one hour): www.youtube...

I didn't tear it down. I didn't ignore it. I'm just saying that you want this to be taken as Truth in our world. Don't pretend you do not. You believe absolutely that this is the case. It's not ideas that are assumed true in a fictional setting to you, and you want the rest of us to take it the sam...

If you were treating this fairly, though, as a story, you wouldn't put quote marks around 'the anarchist conspiracy', any more than you'd treat a statement by an SRD character as a mere allegation. You'd conditionally grant that on some level, in that world, there really was such a thing. True enou...

I'll hazard a couple of questions: - Is it really a conflict between the folly of youth and the wisdom of age? (Conservative versus radical? Traditional versus modern?) - Is there also an overt criticism of Marx or is property being used as an example to illustrate another point? u. I'd say no, no,...

If y'all would be so kind as to refer to the OP... :) Seemed kinda preachy to me, but then again, it could just be setting some future plot point, where the main character discovers that both anarchists and philosophical police are 'bad'. Fairly decent acting, though :D I find it interesting that t...

If y'all would be so kind as to refer to the OP...

Hi Linna, good stuff - pardon the extreme brevity - I'm already tired. Yeah, I'm not into flouting rules; I generally believe in authority (in case it's not obvious) :) Yes, I do think the interpretations are more complex. On TMWWT, hee hee hee! I'll just say your spoiler doesn't go deep enough, and...

As Lewis said, education without morality seems to create rather clever devils. I see the simple wisdom of this statement. However, I wonder if it is possible to have an education on morality that does not presuppose one specific brand of morality, or offer one as superior to the others? Such an id...

"The Man Who Was Thursday"? Ahh! I "got off on the wrong foot" with GKC because the first thing of his I attempted was "The Man Who Was Thursday." It was too subtle for me! :lol: But then again, I was the student who read some story by voltaire in collegeand didn't rea...

A dramatic presentation from "The Man Who Was Thursday":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Kl7mc6cIo
(9:37)

I've been thinking a good deal about my intentions and goals in posting here. I'm not looking for the same input from the same people who've already told me what they think of me. I am sorry about the tremendous misunderstanding; I do see one of the biggest in the idea that 'a person is their belief...

Naturally no one - with the possible exception of Furl's Daughter - remembers that I offered the private opinion that people like Furl's are saints, even if I can't formally make such a statement. All they hear is a mistaken allegation from Ali and there is a public outcry. I, too, honor Tracie's me...

The problem is clear. A person is not their beliefs. You all think a person is their beliefs. That is why you are offended by challenges to them. A person is not their beliefs. My mother has changed her beliefs quite a few times in her adult life. She's been Catholic, Baptist, past-lifer, Mormon, Me...

There's also a big difference between going to a park and joining a kickball game, and telling the other players that they are not playing by the right rules every time there's a play. If you want to play by your rules, you need to get a game going on a playground that only allows those rules. This...

Thanks, Av, I appreciate most of what you say. (If you ever check, you might find that I do thank posts that I disagree with, if I find that they are intelligently expressed and address what I'm addressing, particularly if they engaged something I'm asking be engaged.) I'd suggest a poll among self-...