tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15252158.post115150842060099781..comments2023-10-30T06:13:42.971-05:00Comments on + bleu clair rhapsody et la symphonie de [crickets] +: Is there a needrhapsodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00785377043317363153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15252158.post-1151580912604270112006-06-29T06:35:00.000-05:002006-06-29T06:35:00.000-05:00Knowing that no one actually knows, we also know t...Knowing that no one actually knows, we also know that much has been written already about what is to be- I would (actually I already have!) name the names of men who could, at the very least- make an intelligent guess at future events.<BR/><BR/>Look at how many unintelligent surmises there have been!<BR/><BR/>My point about a "need for myths" was not referring to pagan practices, or a need to cleave to false beliefs. From what I understand, C.S. Lewis incorporated and crafted his beliefs into a made-up world... & the creators of Superman were young men who lived in an era, back in the thirties, where they may have longed for their Messiah to come and rescue them.<BR/><BR/>However, as far as continuing the One True Neverending Story- there is enough to go on in the Bible- enough brainpower WITH GRACE!!! & even enough resources in H'wood- (headquarters of those foolish master-crafters!) to produce a masterpiece worthy of God.rhapsodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00785377043317363153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15252158.post-1151559385433189712006-06-29T00:36:00.000-05:002006-06-29T00:36:00.000-05:00I'd like to think that what the above commenter ha...I'd like to think that what the above commenter has mentioned, re the continuation of the One Never Ending Story, would occur. I wonder who would tell it though?Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15400006028099229571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15252158.post-1151530166823483862006-06-28T16:29:00.000-05:002006-06-28T16:29:00.000-05:00No, and Chesterton explains why:"The place that th...No, and Chesterton explains why:<BR/><BR/>"The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic; it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true. Since that hour no mythologies have been made in the world. Mythology is a search."<BR/>[GKC, <I>The Everlasting Man</I> CW2:307]<BR/><BR/>Tolkien is not an exception. He did not make a new myth. He enlarged the story of the new world - the world with the cave the shepherds visited. <BR/><BR/>Middle Earth, as GKC says of "Peter Pan", "...does not belong to the world of Pan but the world of Peter." [ibid CW2:332]<BR/><BR/>We do need more stories - or maybe I might say new chapters of the One and Never-ending Story! <BR/><BR/>But myths are no longer an option.Dr. Thursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04666301445831509481noreply@blogger.com