Sunday, March 30, 2008
Screwtape 12-15
In letter 12 Screwtape is talking to Wormwood about the excellent progresses happening with the patient, and how to keep moving forward with progression. The patient has shown a complete change in how he acts and thinks, which is a great thing for Wormwood because it shows him leaving the Enemy. I think the most intriguing part of this letter is that Screwtape wants Wormwood to keep the patient thinking that he is still changing toward the Enemy while in reality he is actually changing toward Hell. If the patient is knowledgeable about the change toward Hell then he would immediately go back to the Enemy. If the patient is able to think about being with the Enemy and not act on it then eventually the patient will loose faith and the change will be reversed. I thought this was the best part because it is saying that Screwtape still wants the patient to have Christian thoughts and not practice them, because then the change toward Hell is a lot easier for the demons to make. It makes perfect sense to me why Screwtape would want Wormwood to keep these actions going. In my own life there are things that I can be thinking about and consider myself to be but when I do not act upon them for long periods of time I eventually loose all thoughts and beliefs about them. In reality this means that I no longer will consider myself to be part of that category I once used to describe myself as.
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I agree with you about giving up when things doesn't seem to be going right, but if we give up than the only person that we have fail , is ourselves. How would we know how sucessful at things we can be if we give up without a fight. This is call giving the devil what he wants , {failure}. I believe in the word (push) pray unti something happens.
I agree with you. For me I see other people and how they act upon things in their life, then I learn from their actions to better my own. However, I do not always hold those promises to myself and sometimes they are lost. Why does this happen? I think as a human with a highly developed working brain, we think so much into things and cannot organize our thoughts and motifs. Meaning we are behavioral organisms that have the brain capacity to absorb and process many resources. I believe we can fix this problem by a simple technique of writing down our thoughts in journals and think with a open mind but also allow things going on in our lives to just happen without controlling every little thing. If we get in the habit of controlling things we will lose ourselves in that process.
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