34. El libro "el problema de dolor" por CSLewis.

Los decisions:
- cuando yo amo alguien, Será un amor muy fuerte y retando.  Yo voy a querer  lo mejor por y de mi amor, y no va a soportar o desatender acciones malas.  Y espero que ella va a hacer lo mismo.
- yo siervo mi mismo demasiado.  Debo enfocar me en como puedo servir los demás con mas de mi vida.  La cosa importante: yo podría servir con cosas simples, como tiempo o influencia.

Los puntos claves:

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34. The book "The Problem of Pain" by CS Lewis.

The decisions:
- When I love someone, this love will be a very strong and challenging. I'm going to want the best for and of my love, and will not support or ignoring bad actions. And I hope she will do the same.
- I serve myself too much. I should focus on how I can I serve others with more of my life. The important thing: I could serve with simple things like time or influence.

The key points:


Love is more than kindness. Love rebukes, it cares if you act poorly and wants you to be the best you can.

There are 4 types of love exhibited by God for us:
a) Artist to artifact: we are something that god is making, and he is a perfectionist. In this sense love is an intolerable compliment. He loves the work so much that he will take endless time and effort to make it as he wants it.
b)  man for beast. By taming dog man makes it more loveable. In it's normal state it had habits making it incapable or receiving love. By housetraining, baths, etc we allow us yo love the dog fully. While being trained the puppy must doubt our goodness but once trained and thus able to receive our love fully there are no such doubts.
c) father for son. Authoratove love from the father, obedient love from the son (us). The father desires to make his son the best he possibly can be.  Able to reprimand and punish to mold the son into the type of human he should be.
d) man for woman and woman for man. This also means that we act as an adulturess when we stray. We care immensley and while we will live in spite of and through infirmities and darkess, but will not cease to wish their end. Love is more sensative than hatred to blemishes of the soul.

Love in this way is not a senile benevolence that wishes Shiney happy times irrespective of the effects.

We need to be needed.

We are the pursued in this love. He seeks us. We must respond.

Gods guidance pushes us to what is better for us, what we should want if we knew what was good for us. He demands worship, obedience, prostration not because he needs it but because this is when humans are best. God wills our good, and our good is to love him. (which, of course, we do by loving the least of us).

There is no greater sign of pride than thinking you are humble enough.

The fall of man: the choice to serve self, not completely god. Turning from god. The mere existence of self allows for self idolatry. The very moment we can become aware of god and ourselves we are faced with the choice of putting him or us first. It o our day and maybe we put part of it at gods feet but mostly we treat it as our day.  There is a perpetual insistence on the self. From a similar doctrine we know that man is happiest when obeying god, because he knows what is best, even if it is hard.  Thus the best state for humans is self surrender to god and his will. We are not merely bad at it, we are actively fighting against it.WE love our free will, and the idea of using free will to surrender it just seems ludicris. Hmmmm. (remember tantrums when our will was thwarted as a kid?). Well it's like that. But daily. Hourly. By the minute.

We can ignore pleasure. Pain is a lot harder to ignore

The universal feeling that bad men ought to suffer shows us that pain tell us that something is wrong. The fact that we want them to feel what we feel suggests we want them to feel the pain that their actions caised so that they know that they were in the wrong: so that they understand that this is a bad thing  because It causes pain and pain is from bad things.     It also appeals to the universal sense of justice.

Hobbes on revengefullness: it is the desire by doing hurt to another to make him condemn some fact of his own.

St augustine:  god wants to give us something, but cannot because our hands are full. When we are content and have all that we could possibly want we forget god. We use god as a parachute: for emergencies but we hope we will never have to use it.

We call it our own life when we should surrender it to him.

God wants us to turn to him. Doesn't matter to him whether it is because our life is wretched and we have nothing better or because of fear of hell.  He will take it.

There are two goods. The things or actions whic are good and then doing them not because they are good but because god tells us to.

Secondary thoughts on good. Simple good: basic stuff. Simple evil: produced by rebellious creatures. Exploitation of that evil to produce complex good which is accepted sin and repentance, and the reactionary good produced by our actions against the suffering that the evil inevitably produces.

Fasting asserts the will against the appetite.

Forgiveness to be complete must be both freely offered and freely accepted.