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What would CS Lewis or George McDonald say?

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by greenmtnboy, Aug 25, 2020.

  1. greenmtnboy

    greenmtnboy Fapstronaut

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    “For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back: sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides. And this harem, once admitted, works against his ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman. For the harem is always accessible, always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attractions which no real woman can rival. Among those shadowy brides he is always adored, always the perfect lover: no demand is made on his unselfishness, no mortification ever imposed on his vanity. In the end, they become merely the medium through which he increasingly adores himself . . . . And it is not only the faculty of love which is thus sterilized, forced back on itself, but also the faculty of imagination.

    The true exercise of imagination, in my view, is (a) To help us to understand other people (b) To respond to, and, some of us, to produce, art. But it has also a bad use: to provide for us, in shadowy form, a substitute for virtues, successes, distinctions etc. which ought to be sought outside in the real world—e.g. picturing all I’d do if I were rich instead of earning and saving. Masturbation involves this abuse of imagination in erotic matters (which I think bad in itself) and thereby encourages a similar abuse of it in all spheres. After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all born in. Masturbation is to be avoided as all things are to be avoided which retard this process. The danger is that of coming to love the prison.”


    What would CS Lewis or one of his mentors George McDonald think of porn in 2020?

    Porn is nothing or less than nothing. Gay for pay ovulating girls, sucking mucus and pretending to be orgasming. Crazy as can be, nothing or less than nothing.
     
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  2. Is it bad when I hear the name CS Lewis I only think of the comedian that talks about madtirbatong often and got in trouble for it.
     
  3. Well at least the comedian is an example to me on how not to act. As his masterbation habit became his downfall.
     
  4. My yes wasn’t directed to you.
     
  5. Ah sorry.
     
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  6. lol
     
  7. mrk303

    mrk303 Fapstronaut

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    You're thinking of Louis CK, a prolific promoter of wanking
     
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  8. Love2LongBoard

    Love2LongBoard Fapstronaut

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    I love C.S Lewis. He is probably my favorite author. He would have a lot to say I am sure. I will never try and put it to words though, his words are far more effective than mine are.
     
  9. Yes you are, and we saw where that has gotten him.
     

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