Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
Long, long time ago, I was told that all great books have timeless message for the reader - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis fits that criteria.
It was a first book I thought of when the lockdown began last year. Ten years ago, this book was gifted to my sibling by our local priest, and we both re-read it year ago. It was a translated version - to me known as "The Letters of Old Devil to the Younger One", and it took me a bit to find original. That also meant that by the time I did, various "factcheckers" tried to diminish the book's message with their "factual-but-inaccurate" schemantics of "particular quote". (Sigh)
Either way - as someone who actually read the book 😉- I highly recommend it because its timeless message.
The actual brilliance of C.S.Lewis and this book, in the context of 2020 pandemic, lies within the following quote:
"They [humans], of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we [devils] have taught them to do so. Do not let us be infected by our own propaganda."
To brilliance of this quote is within Old Devil's observation, which is used throughout the book, that the human who fears death is the most susceptible to sacrifice his/her values to avoid death by protecting oneself, keeping oneself- "safe".
In other words, C.S.Lewis brilliantly depicts in 1941 how fear of death can be used to push people against what, while at peace, they had percieved as sacred.
On that note, I'm adding a link to a PDF version from 2017 (which is both factual and accurate 😉). I hope you will find it worthwhile!
http://judithwolfe.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2017/08/Screwtape.pdf
This was a very late recording contrasting two news articles about Omicron - so called "Covid super-strain".
I know I haven't been around lately...work...life...However, the 12-years-old clip popped into my feed and I wanted to share it. The reason? This clip provides the great basic understanding into what are the issues with so-called "evidence" related to anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and the lack of logic when it comes to the interpretation of such evidence. The sad reality is that even after 12 years from this clip, we are still forced to endure nonsensical conclusions that hurricanes hitting Florida are caused by big bad climate change.
The mainstream media is doubling down on the alarmism, and it is not hard to guess why. However, to be fair, consider my little observation an educated guess, an opinion, rather than the fact. Time will show whether I am right.
(1) 'Climate change affects everyone': Europe battles wildfires in intense heat by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/)
If you spent time in Southern Europe, Mediterranean, during summer season - July and August in particular - you probably know that heat-induced wildfires are nothing new. In fact, they are quite common and remarkably devastating for the affected communities, and I have witnessed several in person. Most of the time, the wildfires occur due to heat igniting grasses, especially in the areas where there are broken glass or broken bottles. The glass serves as an amplifier for the sun rays, especially, in the vicinity of dry grasses, or even dry pine needles, and as ...
