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2026-07-23 04:27 UTC

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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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 04:31

Plainly their experience of salvation...which probably isn't actually true salvation in any sense, let's put it that way...changes their personality completely. They become bivalent in a curious way too disquieting to get into right now. The worrying thing is that #CSLewis, who should have known better, seems to have undergone quite this sort of false conversion. That's roughly what I think "born again" Christians are, they are Christians who think they experienced Jesus somehow but didn't and now they're locked into a peculiar semi-delusion. I assert that traces of this are scattered throughout Lewis's writing. His own career suggests it: he "converts" and instantly he's like all the other "evangelicals", acting as if he's the Second Coming--of St. Paul. (cont'd)

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