Some Friday morning reading for those of you who are sick of the insane politics around us.
When mortals know they're at war, a kind of Emergency Consciousness arises in them. This can be turned to our advantage, by creating anxiety, but it's a very unstable compound because it can also foster self-sacrifice for a higher cause. When they know they're at war, they live with passion and alertness. They don't greedily demand comfort. There are no yuppies on a battlefield.Related Link: On Spiritual Warfare Taking his cue from the new literary genre invented by C. S. Lewis in Screwtape Letters, Peter Kreeft has gathered together fifteen spicy letters from Satan's agents below that allow the reader to spy into Hell's inter-office communication...
This might tickle MrTips:
ReplyDeleteThe Screwtape-FRST Letters | Apr 10, 2007 08:23
Dear Mr Screwtape,
Thank you for your expression of interest in the position of Funding Co-ordinator at the Foundation for Research Science & Technology (FRST).
The primary responsibility for this role is the ongoing implementation of our strategy to minimize financial wastage on traditional 'research based' science. This will help to target our limited science funding into areas that can deliver maximum value for the New Zealand taxpayer -- for example, by supporting the production of glossy pamphlets about FRST and/or by hiring additional FRST Funding Co-ordinators.
I note the concerns that you express in terms of your unfamiliarity with science funding in New Zealand, or anywhere else in the "earthly realm". However I don't anticipate that this will be a problem. To be honest, our funding strategy changes so often that a lack of knowledge is actually an advantage. Nor do I think your professed disbelief in science would be a major hurdle to employment with us. Like you, many of my colleagues at FRST would also prefer to put their faith in the "inexorable forces of darkness".
The position would initially involve a six month contract. If this is completed in a mutually satisfactory manner then you will be offered a permanent job. We would also be happy to consider your preferred contract period for "a thousand of your human lifetimes".
I enclose a simple two-page application form, and also a helpful 140-page pamphlet entitled How To Fill In My Simple Two-Page Application Form. Our five volume instruction manual Understanding FRST Pamphlets: A Beginner's Guide will be shipped separately to your address.
Yours sincerely,
Karen Brown
Foundation for Research Science & Technology.
Here's another goodie:
ReplyDeleteScrewtape On 'The DaVinci Code'
By Eric Metaxas
My dear Wormwood, here is a book (and soon, a movie!) filled with such a precariously towering heap of our very best non-thinking that it is quite dizzying! It has the potential to mislead, confuse, and vex millions! Its name? The DaVinci Code.