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2026-07-23 04:23 UTC

Anyway this fellow, whom I will simply call Jack X for now (I can't call him simply "Jack" because that's the name of our adorable Assassin friend who always craves sweets) immediately ran off to the Grey Town, which some of you might remember as a location from #CSLewis and The Great Divorce, in which Lewis does a number of perplexing things such as write himself in twice, giving his name to one half and sending the other galloping off to 'Heaven' on a steed made from the unnamed fellow's sins. That's right. Clive Staples Lewis wrote himself getting saved...saved, you understand, SAVED in the sense understood by Protestant #Christian fanatics (and others). Everyone knows the drill. They act as if they'd already gone to Heaven and their body just needs a few decades to catch up with their minds. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 04:27

Not their souls. Their minds. Their conscious minds are in 'Heaven' and as every hep person knows the conscious mind is rather a small and delicate piece of the total human organism. The conscious mind and its percept--a word I'm borrowing from computer science to use as a collective noun for all known and unknown human perceptions--go through a lot of processing before they're presented to human awareness as what seems to be, during waking life anyway, a continuous stream of multimedia that we generally call "the senses". The evangelical-type #Christian, who called themselves "born again" and "fundamentalist" when I was younger but who have frequently sought different labels ("Biblical" seems commoner now) spends as much of their life as possible daydreaming of Heaven. (cont'd)

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