C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! Find our content helpful? Why not buy us a cup of coffee! Go to: https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 8, Sections 95-105 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

The great Athenian statesman, Pericles, offered this speech, one of the most famous in history, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). It is probable that Socrates was present at the speech, and Plato would be born within two years following it. It was the Golden Age of Greece, and Pericles was in no small way responsible for that. If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal via https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #periclesfuneraloration #pericles #periclesoration #thucydides #historyofthepeloponnesianwar #peloponnesianwar #peloponnesian #thucydideshistoryofthepeloponnesianwar #athens #athenicanpolitician #funeraloration #karameikos #praisingofthedead #praiseofthedeadinwar #hellenic #greek #greece #ancienthistory #speech #historicalspeech #ancientspeech #greekspeech #athenianspeech

Book four of Paradise Lost is STUNNING in its profundity and psychological insight, not to mention the sheer beauty of Milton's poetic imagination. For any familiar with C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the literary influence is crystal clear, as Satan approaches the walled garden, the paradiso, of Eden, and climbs the wall, disdaining the gate, as does Jadis in The Magician's Nephew. We should pay particular attention to Milton's psychological portrait of Satan, the deliberate choice of evil, the acknowledgment of good and the desire to spoil it, the regret and pain in knowing himself a parasite on all the goodness and blessedness of creation, the arrogance and pain in knowing himself a diminished being as he confronts those "lesser" angels who are now his betters, as he chose his own will over that of his Creator. As Lewis says in The Great Divorce, "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, ... 'thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell." Satan here acknowledges this when he says, "Evil, be now my good," and that in fleeing hell, he carried it with him, and all its attendant misery, as he is himself hell incarnate, the choice to exalt self over God. Paradise Lost Book 4 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts This is an excellent summary and commentary on each of the books in PARADISE LOST. I strongly recommend reading these commentaries over as you listen to our readings of this great poem! This is but a foretaste of what awaits us in this book. Enjoy! Find our content helpful? Why not buy us a cup of coffee! Go to: https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 7, Sections 87 -94 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

When the Constitution of the US was ratified on June 21st, 1788, the anti-Federalists, led by Patrick Henry, voiced loud and determined opposition to it, demanding a "Bill of Rights" to restrict the reach of the new Federal government, and the threat of monarchy in the Presidency. The centralization of power in the national government threatened both state sovereignty and individual rights, they argued. In the process of ratifying the Constitution several states made it clear that their approval rested upon the passage of a "Bill of Rights" to correct the deficiencies and over-reach they feared. James Madison wrote a series of 12 Amendments, 10 of which were ratified together to form what we today call the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. The Amendment process has proceeded through history, and we presently have 27, all of which are presented here. https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #consititution #americandocuments #foundingdocuments #unitedstatesconstitution #unitedstateshistory #americanhistory #unitedstates #foundingideals #spiritualaspirations #georgewashington #thomasjefferson #colonialamerica #colonies #liberty #constitutionalamendments #billofrights  

Book four of Paradise Lost is STUNNING in its profundity and psychological insight, not to mention the sheer beauty of Milton's poetic imagination. For any familiar with C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the literary influence is crystal clear, as Satan approaches the walled garden, the paradiso, of Eden, and climbs the wall, disdaining the gate, as does Jadis in The Magician's Nephew. We should pay particular attention to Milton's psychological portrait of Satan, the deliberate choice of evil, the acknowledgment of good and the desire to spoil it, the regret and pain in knowing himself a parasite on all the goodness and blessedness of creation, the arrogance and pain in knowing himself a diminished being as he confronts those "lesser" angels who are now his betters, as he chose his own will over that of his Creator. As Lewis says in The Great Divorce, "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, ... 'thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell." Satan here acknowledges this when he says, "Evil, be now my good," and that in fleeing hell, he carried it with him, and all its attendant misery, as he is himself hell incarnate, the choice to exalt self over God. Paradise Lost Book 4 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts This is an excellent summary and commentary on each of the books in PARADISE LOST. I strongly recommend reading these commentaries over as you listen to our readings of this great poem! This is but a foretaste of what awaits us in this book. Enjoy! Find our content helpful? Why not buy us a cup of coffee! Go to: https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 7, Sections 77 -86 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

September 17, 1777, the US Constitution was signed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention. For this reason, September is Constitution Month.  The US Constitution is the oldest and shortest functioning Constitution in the world. Together with its amendments, it is arguably the most effective and successful Constitution in history. Regrettably, many US citizens are nearly completely ignorant of it. Let us remedy that ignorance! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #consititution #americandocuments #foundingdocuments #unitedstatesconstitution #unitedstateshistory #americanhistory #unitedstates #foundingideals #spiritualaspirations #georgewashington #thomasjefferson #colonialamerica #colonies #liberty #constitutionalamendments #billofrights  

Book four of Paradise Lost is STUNNING in its profundity and psychological insight, not to mention the sheer beauty of Milton's poetic imagination. For any familiar with C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the literary influence is crystal clear, as Satan approaches the walled garden, the paradiso, of Eden, and climbs the wall, disdaining the gate, as does Jadis in The Magician's Nephew. We should pay particular attention to Milton's psychological portrait of Satan, the deliberate choice of evil, the acknowledgment of good and the desire to spoil it, the regret and pain in knowing himself a parasite on all the goodness and blessedness of creation, the arrogance and pain in knowing himself a diminished being as he confronts those "lesser" angels who are now his betters, as he chose his own will over that of his Creator. As Lewis says in The Great Divorce, "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, ... 'thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell." Satan here acknowledges this when he says, "Evil, be now my good," and that in fleeing hell, he carried it with him, and all its attendant misery, as he is himself hell incarnate, the choice to exalt self over God. Paradise Lost Book 4 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts This is an excellent summary and commentary on each of the books in PARADISE LOST. I strongly recommend reading these commentaries over as you listen to our readings of this great poem! This is but a foretaste of what awaits us in this book. Enjoy! Find our content helpful? Why not buy us a cup of coffee! Go to: https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

Chapter 6, Sections 69 - 76 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

September 17, 1777, the US Constitution was signed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention. For this reason, September is Constitution Month.  The US Constitution is the oldest and shortest functioning Constitution in the world. Together with its amendments, it is arguably the most effective and successful Constitution in history. Regrettably, many US citizens are nearly completely ignorant of it. Let us remedy that ignorance! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #consititution #americandocuments #foundingdocuments #unitedstatesconstitution #unitedstateshistory #americanhistory #unitedstates #foundingideals #spiritualaspirations #georgewashington #thomasjefferson #colonialamerica #colonies #liberty #constitutionalamendments #billofrights  

Book four of Paradise Lost is STUNNING in its profundity and psychological insight, not to mention the sheer beauty of Milton's poetic imagination. For any familiar with C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the literary influence is crystal clear, as Satan approaches the walled garden, the paradiso, of Eden, and climbs the wall, disdaining the gate, as does Jadis in The Magician's Nephew. We should pay particular attention to Milton's psychological portrait of Satan, the deliberate choice of evil, the acknowledgment of good and the desire to spoil it, the regret and pain in knowing himself a parasite on all the goodness and blessedness of creation, the arrogance and pain in knowing himself a diminished being as he confronts those "lesser" angels who are now his betters, as he chose his own will over that of his Creator. As Lewis says in The Great Divorce, "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, ... 'thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell." Satan here acknowledges this when he says, "Evil, be now my good," and that in fleeing hell, he carried it with him, and all its attendant misery, as he is himself hell incarnate, the choice to exalt self over God. Paradise Lost Book 4 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts This is an excellent summary and commentary on each of the books in PARADISE LOST. I strongly recommend reading these commentaries over as you listen to our readings of this great poem! This is but a foretaste of what awaits us in this book. Enjoy! Find our content helpful? Why not buy us a cup of coffee! Go to: https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 6, Sections 61 - 68 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

One of the finest examples of oratory in history, this iconic speech was delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. August 28th, 1963. I CANNOT do justice to Dr. King's delivery, which stands rooted in my memory. https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal to [email protected]   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com #racism #civilrightsactiviist #ihaveadream #publicspeech #americancivilrights #baptist #baptistminister #marchonwashington #martinlutherkingjr #slaves #slavery #emancipationproclamation #civilrights #economicrights #lincolnmemorial #americanhistory #naacp #rhetoric #king

Book three of PARADISE LOST begins with the poet offering a paean to the 'celestial light,' his muse, and while lamenting his temporal blindness, he asks the light to shine inward so "that I may see and tell/Of things invisible to mortal sight." His vision then turns to heaven and discussion between Father and Son and the plan of redemption freely undertaken by the eternal Word, and the angelic choir sings the glory of the Eternal Godhead's justice and mercy. The vision then shifts again to Satan, who arriving on earth seeks for Eden. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 6, Sections 52 - 60 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

Churchill was no longer Prime Minister when he delivered this famous speech at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri on March 5th, 1946. Having been invited by the college's president, encouraged by President Truman with a promise to introduce him if he came, the newly deposed Prime Minister, as 'leader of the opposition' in Britain aptly defined the world stage for the next half-century: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.... all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject ... not only to Soviet influence but to a very high ... measure of control from Moscow.... [T}his is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up. Nor is it one which contains the essentials of permanent peace." Hope lay in the Western democracies and the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States. His warnings were even more prophetic than he himself knew: "However, in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. These are somber facts for anyone to have to recite on the morrow of a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains." As Vergil said, fugit inreparabile tempus, and it is shorter now than it was then. Sleepers Awake!   If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #churchil #winston #winstonchurchil #worldwarii #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #worldwar #england #america #europe #europeanwar #americanwar #englandwar #warineurope #primeminister #bristishprimeminister #parliament #historicchurchillspeeches #houseofcommons #bbc #britishhistory #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #fultonmissouri #ironcurtain #westminstercollege #fugitinreparabiletempus #sleepersawake

Book three of PARADISE LOST begins (lines 1-55) with the poet offering a paean to the 'celestial light,' his muse, and while lamenting his temporal blindness, he asks the light to shine inward so "that I may see and tell/Of things invisible to mortal sight." His vision then turns to heaven and discussion between Father and Son and the plan of redemption freely undertaken by the eternal Word, and the angelic choir sings the glory of the Eternal Godhead's justice and mercy. The vision then shifts again to Satan, who arriving on earth seeks for Eden. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 5, Sections 41 - 51 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

Churchill was no longer Prime Minister when he delivered this famous speech at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri on March 5th, 1946. Having been invited by the college's president, encouraged by President Truman with a promise to introduce him if he came, the newly deposed Prime Minister, as 'leader of the opposition' in Britain aptly defined the world stage for the next half-century: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.... all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject ... not only to Soviet influence but to a very high ... measure of control from Moscow.... [T}his is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up. Nor is it one which contains the essentials of permanent peace." Hope lay in the Western democracies and the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States. His warnings were even more prophetic than he himself knew: "However, in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. These are somber facts for anyone to have to recite on the morrow of a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains." As Vergil said, fugit inreparabile tempus, and it is shorter now than it was then. Sleepers Awake!   If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #churchil #winston #winstonchurchil #worldwarii #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #worldwar #england #america #europe #europeanwar #americanwar #englandwar #warineurope #primeminister #bristishprimeminister #parliament #historicchurchillspeeches #houseofcommons #bbc #britishhistory #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #fultonmissouri #ironcurtain #westminstercollege #fugitinreparabiletempus #sleepersawake

Book three of PARADISE LOST begins (lines 1-55) with the poet offering a paean to the 'celestial light,' his muse, and while lamenting his temporal blindness, he asks the light to shine inward so "that I may see and tell/Of things invisible to mortal sight." His vision then turns to heaven and discussion between Father and Son and the plan of redemption freely undertaken by the eternal Word, and the angelic choir sings the glory of the Eternal Godhead's justice and mercy. The vision then shifts again to Satan, who arriving on earth seeks for Eden. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #georgeorwell #animalfarm  #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 5, Sections 35-40 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

Churchill was no longer Prime Minister when he delivered this famous speech at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri on March 5th, 1946. Having been invited by the college's president, encouraged by President Truman with a promise to introduce him if he came, the newly deposed Prime Minister, as 'leader of the opposition' in Britain aptly defined the world stage for the next half-century: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.... all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject ... not only to Soviet influence but to a very high ... measure of control from Moscow.... [T}his is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up. Nor is it one which contains the essentials of permanent peace." Hope lay in the Western democracies and the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States. His warnings were even more prophetic than he himself knew: "However, in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. These are somber facts for anyone to have to recite on the morrow of a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains." As Vergil said, fugit inreparabile tempus, and it is shorter now than it was then. Sleepers Awake!   If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #churchil #winston #winstonchurchil #worldwarii #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #worldwar #england #america #europe #europeanwar #americanwar #englandwar #warineurope #primeminister #bristishprimeminister #parliament #historicchurchillspeeches #houseofcommons #bbc #britishhistory #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #fultonmissouri #ironcurtain #westminstercollege #fugitinreparabiletempus #sleepersawake

Book three of PARADISE LOST begins (lines 1-55) with the poet offering a paean to the 'celestial light,' his muse, and while lamenting his temporal blindness, he asks the light to shine inward so "that I may see and tell/Of things invisible to mortal sight." His vision then turns to heaven and discussion between Father and Son and the plan of redemption freely undertaken by the eternal Word, and the angelic choir sings the glory of the Eternal Godhead's justice and mercy. The vision then shifts again to Satan, who arriving on earth seeks for Eden.   If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

The full title of this essay is, "Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer." Lewis here muses on a scriptural puzzle. There seem to be two "patterns" for petitionary prayer presented in the New Testament. One presents the pattern of "nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done," and the other seems to indicate a faith such that whatever is asked, it will be given. Lewis attempts with his usual wit and incisiveness to make sense of the distinction. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #religion #religious #evangelical #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #cslewis #petitionaryprayer #prayer #petition #essay

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences! Enjoy ... and be vigilant! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #georgeorwell #animalfarm #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #georgeorwell #1984 #nineteeneightyfour #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Chapter 5, sections 25-34 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

Chapters 3 and 4 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

The full title of this essay is, "Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer." Lewis here muses on a scriptural puzzle. There seem to be two "patterns" for petitionary prayer presented in the New Testament. One presents the pattern of "nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done," and the other seems to indicate a faith such that whatever is asked, it will be given. Lewis attempts with his usual wit and incisiveness to make sense of the distinction. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #religion #religious #evangelical #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #cslewis #petitionaryprayer #prayer #petition #essay

Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, is considered one of the classics of Western literature. Having now read the second book, I am beginning to understand why. It is not easy going, but it is rewarding. This month we track the journey of Satan from Hell to earth. Let's explore this classic of Western literature together! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #georgeorwell #1984 #nineteeneightyfour #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

Germany surrendered unconditionally, ending the European theater of war in WWII, on May 7, 1945, effective 12:01 am on May 9. Prime Minister Churchill took to the airwaves from the House of Commons to announce Victory in Europe. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #churchill #winston #winstonchurchil #worldwarii #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #worldwar #england #america #europe #europeanwar #americanwar #englandwar #warineurope #primeminister #bristishprimeminister #parliament #historicchurchillspeeches #houseofcommons #bbc #britishhistory #victoryineurope #veday

This partial essay came at just the right time, and I find it one of his most fruitful. The topic is one of Lewis's favorites: language. We do seem to have differing ways of speaking, and they are not always working the same way. For our purposes in this essay, Lewis speaks of common language, scientific language and poetic language, asking how "the language of religion" fits in. Common language, of course, is the base from which the others spring. It is indexical. We use language to point beyond language, to convey information to others, whether in science or poetry. Now, this next is utterly central to the argument. Many dismiss poetry as merely the expression of emotion. Lewis rejects this as untenable, and for good reasons. Poetic language is about something, just like scientific and ordinary language. It expresses information in many cases by the only way that information can be expressed: "This is the most remarkable of the powers of poetic language: to convey to us the quality of experiences which we have not had, or perhaps can never have, to use factors within our experience so that they become pointers to something outside our experience." "My conclusion is that such language is by no means merely an expression, nor a stimulant, of emotion, but a real medium of information. Which information may, like any other, be true or false.... Because events, as real events 'really' are and feigned events would 'really' be if they occurred, cannot be conveyed without bringing in the observer's heart and the common emotional reaction of the species, it has been falsely concluded that poetry represented the heart for its own sake, and nothing but the heart." That is, poetic language conveys concrete information from one subject to another, involving the whole subject, but it is no less ABOUT something (in philosophical language it is intentional) than scientific or ordinary language. Whereas scientific language is abstract, poetic language is concrete. An expression like, "it is -60 degrees centigrade" out there is impoverished, but precise language; it is not qualitative, but quantitative. "It's so cold out there your nose hairs freeze to your nostrils as you breathe, and your head feels likely to explode," is concrete, but also vague in expressing temperature, not quantifiable. Religious language is usually conducted, like most of our language work, with ordinary language, but when we are pressed to explain what we mean by religious statements like "I believe in God," we will need to go one of two ways: toward the scientific, or toward the poetic, and while each attempt will be trying to convey the same information, they will suffer different strengths and weaknesses. "Apologetics is controversy. You cannot conduct a controversy in those poetical expressions which alone convey the concrete: you must use terms as definable and univocal as possible, and these are always abstract. And this means that the thing we are really talking about can never appear in the discussion at all. We have to try to prove THAT God is in circumstances where we are denied every means of conveying WHO God is." "Now it seems to me a mistake to think that our experience in general can be communicated by precise and literal [that is, scientific] language and that there is a special class of experiences (say emotions) which cannot. The truth seems to me the opposite: there is a special region of experiences which can be communicated without poetic language, namely, its 'common measurable features,' but most experience cannot. To be incommunicable by scientific language is, so far as I can judge, the normal state of experience." If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]

Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, is considered one of the classics of Western literature. Having now read the second book, I am beginning to understand why. It is not easy going, but it is rewarding. This month we track the journey of Satan from Hell to earth. Let's explore this classic of Western literature together! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #georgeorwell #1984 #nineteeneightyfour #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell

John Locke's Second Treatise on Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents. As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #johnlocke #locke #secondtreatise #secondtreatiseongovernment #government #politicalthought #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophicalvoice #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory #thomasjefferson #america #americans #foundingfathers #liberty #safeguardofliberty #tyranny #safeguardsagainsttyranny

We posted long ago President Roosevelt's D-day prayer. Here is Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons on that historic day. If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #churchill #winston #winstonchurchil #worldwarii #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #worldwar #england #america #europe #europeanwar #americanwar #englandwar #warineurope #primeminister #bristishprimeminister #parliament #historicchurchillspeeches #houseofcommons #bbc #britishhistory #dday      

This partial essay came at just the right time, and I find it one of his most fruitful. The topic is one of Lewis's favorites: language. We do seem to have differing ways of speaking, and they are not always working the same way. For our purposes in this essay, Lewis speaks of common language, scientific language and poetic language, asking how "the language of religion" fits in. Common language, of course, is the base from which the others spring. It is indexical. We use language to point beyond language, to convey information to others, whether in science or poetry. Now, this next is utterly central to the argument. Many dismiss poetry as merely the expression of emotion. Lewis rejects this as untenable, and for good reasons. Poetic language is about something, just like scientific and ordinary language. It expresses information in many cases by the only way that information can be expressed: "This is the most remarkable of the powers of poetic language: to convey to us the quality of experiences which we have not had, or perhaps can never have, to use factors within our experience so that they become pointers to something outside our experience." "My conclusion is that such language is by no means merely an expression, nor a stimulant, of emotion, but a real medium of information. Which information may, like any other, be true or false.... Because events, as real events 'really' are and feigned events would 'really' be if they occurred, cannot be conveyed without bringing in the observer's heart and the common emotional reaction of the species, it has been falsely concluded that poetry represented the heart for its own sake, and nothing but the heart." That is, poetic language conveys concrete information from one subject to another, involving the whole subject, but it is no less ABOUT something (in philosophical language it is intentional) than scientific or ordinary language. Whereas scientific language is abstract, poetic language is concrete. An expression like, "it is -60 degrees centigrade" out there is impoverished, but precise language; it is not qualitative, but quantitative. "It's so cold out there your nose hairs freeze to your nostrils as you breathe, and your head feels likely to explode," is concrete, but also vague in expressing temperature, not quantifiable. Religious language is usually conducted, like most of our language work, with ordinary language, but when we are pressed to explain what we mean by religious statements like "I believe in God," we will need to go one of two ways: toward the scientific, or toward the poetic, and while each attempt will be trying to convey the same information, they will suffer different strengths and weaknesses. "Apologetics is controversy. You cannot conduct a controversy in those poetical expressions which alone convey the concrete: you must use terms as definable and univocal as possible, and these are always abstract. And this means that the thing we are really talking about can never appear in the discussion at all. We have to try to prove THAT God is in circumstances where we are denied every means of conveying WHO God is." "Now it seems to me a mistake to think that our experience in general can be communicated by precise and literal [that is, scientific] language and that there is a special class of experiences (say emotions) which cannot. The truth seems to me the opposite: there is a special region of experiences which can be communicated without poetic language, namely, its 'common measurable features,' but most experience cannot. To be incommunicable by scientific language is, so far as I can judge, the normal state of experience." If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected]  

Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, is considered one of the classics of Western literature. Having now read the second book, I am beginning to understand why. It is not easy going, but it is rewarding. This month we track the journey of Satan from Hell to earth. Let's explore this classic of Western literature together! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #paradiselost #paradise #johnmilton #milton #poetry #poem #epic #epicpoem #classicpoetry #classicpoem #classics #westernliterature #satan #hell #earth #christianity #religion #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry

C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else." Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces." "One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human." Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream. It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE! If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #georgeorwell #1984 #nineteeneightyfour #classic #classicdystopianliterature #dystopianliterature #dystopianfiction #dystopian #literature #fiction #psychologicalliterature #psychological #psychology #totalitarian #totalitarianfiction #totalitarianliterature #20thcentury #20thcenturyliterature #woke #wokism #orwell