Comments on: Lucy

By: Lis

Lis — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:22:44 +0000

or the fact that they were in the same writers group and in fact the Narnia chronicles only really exist because they were trying to find something else to go over besides Tolkien’s epic. They were good friends and both scholars of ancient literature including Medieval Allegory and early Anglo-Saxon epic literature. Oh sorry we need to pit these two scholars and friends against each other.

By: foL

foL — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:05:30 +0000

I like potato.

By: foL

foL — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:01 +0000

I like pota

By: Narf

Narf — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:13:57 +0000

That is absolutely hysterical, you just made my day.

J. K. Rowling is a sizable couple of pages, but C. S. Lewis is “a footnote, and won’t last for long.”

Oh man, you’re awesome. Do you buff and polish your monumental ignorance before you go outside? Because it is truly SHINING today.

By: SHAZAM

SHAZAM — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:51:44 +0000

I think I read it in both orders at different times. Prefer reading it in written order.

By: Greywolf1963

Greywolf1963 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:11:41 +0000

Actually in the book Aslan is already there,just Lucy is the only one he shows himself to. She is later rebuked for not having enough faith and determination to follow him without her siblings.

By: Platty

Platty — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:26:15 +0000

I’d like to point out that most people come here to read a webcomic, not read some tirade on human nature. In addition, religion is often used as a justification for war, simply because it sounds more reasonable than “we didn’t like them, so we attacked them.”

By: Platty

Platty — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:23:17 +0000

Say what you want about Tolkien and Lewis, I still maintain that A. A. Milne is simply the best fantasy writer to have ever walked the earth.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:35:56 +0000

I’m starting to think the driver of that bus is Godot…

By: JW

JW — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:32:50 +0000

The only thing I have to add is this:

When a survey of centuries’ worth of warfare, covering over 1,000 wars, was recently made and the causes examined?

7%.

That’s how many were triggered by religious divisions.

7%.

A little over a hundred out of a thousand+.

7%.

So, yes, sometimes religion is a trigger, or at least the major excuse.

But it’s actually pretty rare.

Most wars , it turns out, are territorial disputes, fights over resources (“this fertile farmland/water source/bunch of animals in a forest is OURS damnit!”), or just flat out people hating each other (the old “his third cousin’s grandfather killed my fourth cousin’s father!” type stupidity, revolts against disliked leaders, inheritance disputes etc.).

Hell, even in the middle east, where religious differences are a major deal, nonetheless, a lot of wars aren’t particularly religious in nature. A fantastic example is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Yes, they’re of somewhat different faiths (though not as different as a lot of people might think; Halal and Kosher practices are almost identical for instance), but the real issue is they both are convinced they deserve Jerusalem/the West Bank/etc., and neither side’s leaders wants to share the land.

Again, not to say the element isn’t ever there, and not to say it can’t be the main trigger… but it’s rare for it to be the primary cause for all-out war, compared to just sheer, ordinary territorialism.

Or in other words: Humanity is a bunch of jerks who like lobbing things at each other at the slightest provocation. Film at eleven.