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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Third

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Awry Stoic

This is an outline of why Pilgrim’s Progress is better than the sequel. The sequel even features a bodyguard who as Pastor Bennett stated, is the allegorical equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger (or at least an 80’s action hero) who is … Continue reading →

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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Second

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Awry Stoic

Conflict is the engine of fiction. . . . The more hopeless you can render the situation, the more powerful your ending will be. — Jerry B. Jenkins[1] A life without tests and challenges is a life without growth and … Continue reading →

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Projecting Feeling as Thought

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Awry Stoic

Jeremiads teach us the impermanence and misguiding of emotions through a false filter as shown by Amusing Ourselves to Death and the Screwtape Letters. My father valued Spiritual emotions as one of the greatest and most important books he ever … Continue reading →

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Theological Inner Ring Ghetto Club

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Awry Stoic

C. S. Lewis says that we listen to some men because they seemed to have been closer to God than we are. In this case, Lewis indicates that the primary danger in reading the Bible is not an overindulgence in … Continue reading →

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On Edification Drive: Solomon Dissonance

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Awry Stoic

Base image by Void Design Can Man Make God’s Word Sinful? It is sometimes said that there was a saying that young Israelites should not read the Song of Solomon until they are married. Who is this person though? Who … Continue reading →

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On the Concept of Control

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Awry Stoic

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. —Frank Herbert Self reliance is rarely if ever defined. The Oxford English Dictionary has the following definitions for self-reliance: 1 a. The state or condition of not needing … Continue reading →

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Random Memento Mori Hamletry

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Awry Stoic

What does it mean to be true to oneself? In the tragedy of Hamlet, Laertes’ father, Polonius, the king’s advisor, tells his son to be true to himself. Hamlet’s mother marries her husband’s brother, and Hamlet is depressed about this … Continue reading →

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Joshua’s Duty of Drudgery and the Moral Joyworthiness of War

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Awry Stoic

Did Joshua desire his duty? Continue reading →

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Holy Discontentment

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Awry Stoic

Like unity, contentment is not inherently good. Discontentment, like all emotions, is at least partially justified by its object. Aaron was content to make an image of an animal to represent the creator of animals. The Israelites were content to … Continue reading →

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The False God of Unity: When Unity is The Fruit of The Flesh

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Awry Stoic

Unity is not inherently good or evil. Unity with political leaders is not inherently good or evil. Unity with religious leaders is not inherently good or evil. Disagreement is not inherently good or bad. It is a tool that can … Continue reading →

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