Belly sin...

[Erax]

Um, what do you mean by 'you guys' ?

[Baron Munchausen]

I'm more interested in what happened to all the outrage over 'bias' myself. He accuses me of 'mocking' for observing something about the content of the review but ignores dogscoff, the original poster who was in fact mocking, and continues to ignore him after he's posted yet more mocking -- he actually says he's not fully convinced the site isn't a hoax/satire itself. So what happened to the high principles?

[Loser]

Originally posted by Erax:
Um, what do you mean by 'you guys' ?

Outspoken Christians, I think.

C.S. Lewis is something of a heroic figure to those pursuing a ... word... ah.. philosophical Christianity. I think it's especially the Protestants, but I don't meet to many Catholics enthusiastic about sharing or publicly exploring their faith.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
actually, in the mythology of the lotr, gandalph's an angel of a false god, so what you have is the corrupting influence of heathens.

Ironically, Tolkien was a Christian, and the mythology of Middle Earth mirrors a Biblical view of the world. Aragorn having to "walk the Paths of the Dead" to assume his kingship is but one of many reflections of Tolkien's Christian viewpoint. Gandalf was indeed a fictional angelic character in a fictional world, but that world is a reflection of a Biblical reality.

[Fyron]

It is not ironic that Tolkien was a Christian, it is ironic that he was a very devout Christian. A lot of authors (in Christian-dominated countries) that write evil occult stuff are Christians.

Of course, all of the Christian/Biblical similarities are a lot more pronounced in The Silmarillion than they are in LOTR.

[ September 12, 2003, 21:35: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Erax]

I agree 100% about the irony, but the joke is not on Tolkien, but rather on those who don't understand his work.

Loser, the best explanation of the Catholic doctrine I could find was Dante's Divine Comedy, but you have to read all of it, not just the Inferno.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Originally posted by Erax:
I agree 100% about the irony, but the joke is not on Tolkien, but rather on those who don't understand his work.

Exactly my point. Even more interesting is the fact that Tolkien was a friend of C. S. Lewis and was one of the men involved in his conVersion to Christianity. To accept one and reject the other is a significant mistake.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i can't beleive people are taking my 'heathen' and 'false god' comments so serieusly. i'm still using a large, cartoon mouse as an avatar, right? and i did post a smiley with that post? just checked, yes i did.

and i hereby critisize anyone who mocked in this thread, including myself.

whoop, i think that was mockery.

and what was THAT? sarcasm?

AND YET more sarcasm?

my point is, sarcasm and mockery can be fun as long as both sides know your not serious, but using it as a mean of logic is bad logic. not to beat a dead horse or anythin, but that bit i first critisized implied that only fundementalist's used work-arounds. that does not mean i have a responcibility to point out all the bad logic, that's Fyron's job.

i was serious about that bit of critisism, though.

[Wardad]

Wow! If this keeps up Belly sin will out post the Name Changing thread.

[Loser]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

I was first introduced to capalert by a fantastic website called www.ntk.net, which i read every week.

Oh yeah, Need To Know is a must read.

[ September 12, 2003, 12:23: Message edited by: Loser ]