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What is Real? (6): “If I Find in Myself a Desire Which Nothing in This World Can Satisfy…” Uncategorized

What is Real? (6): “If I Find in Myself a Desire Which Nothing in This World Can Satisfy…”

“This is what I have been looking for all my life.” Lewis puts these words into the lips of several of his characters: John in The Pilgrim’s Regress, Psyche in Till we Have Faces, Jewel in the Last Battle.  The words represent a lifelong search for…
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justinbaileyFebruary 17, 2012
What is Real? (5): Myths are Not Lies Uncategorized

What is Real? (5): Myths are Not Lies

Before Lewis met Tolkein, he writes in his autobiography that although he loved his imaginative life, he did not believe that the characters in his imaginary world were real: “I never mistook imagination for reality.” Indeed, when Lewis met Tolkein, the two would argue intensely…
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justinbaileyFebruary 15, 2012
What is Real? (4): A Marsh-Wiggle’s Perspective Uncategorized

What is Real? (4): A Marsh-Wiggle’s Perspective

In his autobiography, Lewis writes that as he was being steeped in naturalistic materialism, he also was falling in love with Norse mythology. These two spheres of his inner world were so distinct, he writes, that it made it necessary almost to write two different…
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justinbaileyJanuary 27, 2012
What is Real? (3): A Kiss is Just Two Sets of Lips Pressed Together Uncategorized

What is Real? (3): A Kiss is Just Two Sets of Lips Pressed Together

What is real? Naturalism takes the possibility of super-natural off the table from beginning.  It is natural-ism, after all. But if we insist on explaining everything in terms of sense and science, then this leaves us with rather mechanical explanations of everything we experience. Joy…
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justinbaileyJanuary 25, 2012
What is Real? (2): Morpheus, Dumbledore and Screwtape Agree Uncategorized

What is Real? (2): Morpheus, Dumbledore and Screwtape Agree

What is real? When skeptics say that God is not real, they are usually arguing from sensory experience: they haven’t seen or experienced God, therefore, God might be a nice idea, but he is an imaginary one. This method of investigation is rooted in a…
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justinbaileyJanuary 23, 2012
What is Real? (1): Why am I Crying? Uncategorized

What is Real? (1): Why am I Crying?

We are in the midst of Snowpocalypse 2012, and so I used the extra time to do some blogging.  I am starting a new series that is adapted from something I wrote several years ago.  It is literature and philosophy-oriented, so if you’re not interested,…
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justinbaileyJanuary 20, 2012
Life Stories: Counting Diamonds for an NBA Star Uncategorized

Life Stories: Counting Diamonds for an NBA Star

One thing that I decided to try out for 2012 is to use the "Life Story" category to recount some mildly amusing vignettes from my life.  Here's one story I found myself telling a few weeks ago. When I was in college, I worked 20-25…
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justinbaileyJanuary 17, 2012
A New Blog Plan for the New Year Uncategorized

A New Blog Plan for the New Year

One of my resolutions for the new year was to have a better plan for this blog.  And so here are some things I'm working on right now, or at least some things to expect from me in 2012.  My goal is to: 1) Write…
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justinbaileyJanuary 16, 2012
Backpacking in Denali (6): “Just an Hour More” Uncategorized

Backpacking in Denali (6): “Just an Hour More”

In my last post, I wrote about how we had spent the balance of the day hiking through the Toklat River Valley to get to a campsite marked on the map near the Toklat Visitor's center. When we reached the visitor's center - exhausted - we met…
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justinbaileySeptember 28, 2011
Thank God for Facebook ConfessionalMinistry

Thank God for Facebook

I know that it is probably one of the greatest sources of distraction for many of us, diverting our attention from more important responsibilities. And I know that they are a shrewd company bent on increasing their market share, and perhaps the death of privacy…
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justinbaileySeptember 27, 2011
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