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I have a problem

There is a 14-year-old Nic who would read this book waaaaayyyy to late on a school night lol

I’ve only scratched the surface of this series and I can already tell I will be enlisting homies for a DnD campaign before it’s said and done.
#booktokwhy

“The night was filled with horrors, and [Yossarian] thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward of nuts, like a victim through a prison of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper would have been!”

It’s spooky season bby

Broke lent early (was just reading the Bible for it). Great exercise! Appreciative of the intentional time I had during it.
Now the bibliophilia continues…

“The absurd is sin without God.”
Hmmm…
What do you humans look like without God?
I want to say blank. Is absurdism says that white is both a color and empty slave? Neither? Unimportant nonetheless?

Man fulfilled Hebrew Law by scaring a mother pigeon off her egg and holding it… to be a Jew BC must have been a wild ride.

“The title page says, "This Bible is presented to..." and then, in handwritten bubble letters, the name of my ex-girlfriend. Huh. Somehow I had inadvertently pilfered my ex-girlfriend’s childhood Bible. I hope inadvertently. It's been a decade since we broke up, and I can't remember. Regardless, that's not a good sign. At the very
least, I need to return it when I'm done.””
This book already has me giggling.

So I just finished The Silent Planet, the first book, and here’s what I have to say.
1. SO INTERESTING! I was really (and I mean really) into space when I was K-3rd grade. So my search history is now space related.
2. Have to remember it’s not Narnia. I think that’s why I had a slow start. There’s no lions or beavers here… only aliens.
3. Hope you’ve studied principles of language before reading this.

“[God] sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means the point of highest reality… Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”
Chesterton said orthodoxy is not about compromise or amalgamation, but all things burning at the top of their energy. Jesus was not simply God and man, he was VERY God and VERY man.