Ruin a date in just four words
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It’s not just fairies, it is faerie- which encompasses all mythologies. The Inklings were into mythopoetics. They believed that fantasy is a way to God, something I have long believed. I have always believed in mythological creatures and that they exist in reality somewhere. I know this sounds insane, but I found out today that I am not the only one.
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I think what we call reality is not the real reality- but a shadow of the real reality that will be Heaven. So, if we think things are real that other people think is make believe, the things may be manifest in the real reality and not this subreal reality.
Kind of Platonism, I guess. Plato was onto something, I believe he came to know God after death.
Kind of Platonism, I guess. Plato was onto something, I believe he came to know God after death.
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Yes, why not? Only they are not dangerous. Like the Bumble in Rudolph, Cornelius says “he’s a reformed Bumble”. Maybe An Abominable Snowman without teeth seems to be boring, but I bet he is still extremely interesting. C.S. Lewis wrote his space books and said that there are perhaps other universes where Christ has gone to redeem the creatures in a different mode, of course. I thought this, myself. I haven’t read his space books but now want to very much.
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Yes, I plan to read them.
Funnily enough, Lewis was a materialist before his conversion. It is interesting how he went from believing in nothing spiritual into believing that much was spiritual. On an off side, Tolkien considered chopping down trees to be “murder”. They were an interesting lot, these 20th century British Christians. They apparently talked about all sorts of subjects. One of the Inklings, Hugo Dyson, did not get along with Tolkien and when Tolkien got up to read a bit of The Lord of the Rings, he said “Oh God! Not more about the *Anglo Saxon expletive* elves!” Not a staid bunch of Christians, at all.
Funnily enough, Lewis was a materialist before his conversion. It is interesting how he went from believing in nothing spiritual into believing that much was spiritual. On an off side, Tolkien considered chopping down trees to be “murder”. They were an interesting lot, these 20th century British Christians. They apparently talked about all sorts of subjects. One of the Inklings, Hugo Dyson, did not get along with Tolkien and when Tolkien got up to read a bit of The Lord of the Rings, he said “Oh God! Not more about the *Anglo Saxon expletive* elves!” Not a staid bunch of Christians, at all.