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KorvinStarmast
KorvinStarmast
2:50 PM
@GratefulDisciple A quick hello. Once more through the review queue, dear friends. I just saw the four episodes of the "House of the Dragon" HBO series, and was struck by a scene wherein two queens are meeting in secret, in a place of worship, where hundreds of candles burn, to try and prevent a war. It struck me as full of spiritual symbolism, for the odd reason that my wife (born and raised Catholic) lights candles a lot for various different reasons.
She too is an advocate of finding ways to avoid conflict.
@PeterTurner And for what it's worth, Tolkien rolls with that theme in his own works, to include his essay On Fairie Stories where he discussed the topic of creation/sub creation. I"ll need to check out Bishop Barron's take on that, he's very good.
GratefulDisciple
GratefulDisciple
3:14 PM
@KorvinStarmast Thank you for dropping by to help out. Re: House of the Dragon, I'm somewhat disappointed that it seems to retain TV-MA rating. One reason why I stay away from Game of Thrones. Are both series meant to portray historical reality in late Middle Ages, or is it set in a fantasy world like the Lord of the Rings?
@KorvinStarmast Found a good edition of Tolkien's On Fairy-stories with commentary and notes. Found a digital copy, not sure how complete or faithful to the original. Cannot find Bishop Barron's speaking about it yet, but found this one.
Peter Turner
Peter Turner
@GratefulDisciple I haven't watched it either - and won't for that reason (hbo stuff is pretty lewd by design) - but I'm pretty sure there are dragons and monsters and stuff like that in the books and movies.
GratefulDisciple
GratefulDisciple
@PeterTurner and @KorvinStarmast Watched Gavin Ortlund's video the other day about The Early Church on Entertainment which warns us about desensitizing ourselves to watching gratuitous violence & sex, but not framed in the usual Puritan / fundamentalist way, so it's fresh (for us) and makes sense.
Peter Turner
Peter Turner
I have been watching The Middle on peacock though, I totally missed that show in the 2010's, but watching that show while now having a kid the same age with autism spectrum disorder myself is really pretty heartening.
GratefulDisciple
GratefulDisciple
@PeterTurner Thanks, will keep it in mind.
Peter Turner
Peter Turner
The only thing annoying with that show is the continuous and repetitive "Oh my God" not followed with "I am heartily sorry". That's kinda desensitizing.
Matthew
Matthew
4:08 PM
@PeterTurner To be fair, "dragons" are real. (Well, extinct, but still real, and likely weren't extinct as recently as several centuries ago.)
GratefulDisciple
GratefulDisciple
4:57 PM
@PeterTurner I have a Chesterton question for you. I re-listen to Bishop Barron's explaining the Trinity. At minute 12:05 he said
> "Chesterton said that the Trinitarian language is just the theologically precise way of stating that God is love."
Which book / essay does it come from? Should I post a question on it?
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5:45 PM
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Ask Elisha
Ask Elisha
6:51 PM
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Peter Turner
Peter Turner
7:07 PM
@GratefulDisciple I don't think it's a direct quote, but it's probably from The Everlasting Man book 2 chapter 6, search for "God is love"
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65688/pg65688-images.html
> If through that unthinkable eternity He is lonely, what is the meaning of saying He is love?
I've got Bishop Barron's voice and Chesterton's voice pretty well queued up in my head and "the Trinitiarian language is just the theologically precise" sounds like Bishop Barron. Chesterton would have said "The Trinitarian, that thrice blessed trisombulist, never dreams of the three legged stool without saying 'love, it shall be three or none'"
@Matthew That's a fair statement. I've always hated to think of St. George stabbing down at a crocodile instead of stabbing up at a dragon.
@GratefulDisciple probably don't need a question since we already have it referenced in an answer! christianity.stackexchange.com/q/17844/4
Matthew
Matthew
7:25 PM
@PeterTurner Well... I don't know how tall Saint George's was. 🙂

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