Distraction, Focus & Questions
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Chapter 25
Distraction,Focus
&Questions
by Wesley Fryereyesright.speedofcreativity.org
Twitter: @wfryer
Thursday, August 11, 11
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“The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is
that it is merely Christian...What we want, if men become Christians at
all, is to keep them in a state of mind I call ‘Christianity And’.”
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“If they must be Christians let them at least be Christians
with a difference. Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion
with a Christian coloring. Work on their horror of the Same
Old Thing.”Thursday, August 11, 11
fashion or faith?
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Thursday, August 11, 11
fashion or faith?
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fashion or
faith?
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“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have
produced in the human heart... He [God] has balanced the love of change in them by a
love of permanence.”Thursday, August 11, 11
“...just as we pick out and exaggerate the pleasure of
eating to produce gluttony, so we pick out this natural
pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for
absolute novelty.”
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changing fashions
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marketing dissatisfaction
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“Only by our incessant efforts is the demand for infinite, or unrhyhmical,
change kept up... it diminishes pleasure while increasing
desire.”
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“The game is to have them all running about with fire
extinguishers whenever there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is
already nearly gunwale under.”
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“...the greatest triumph of all is to elevate this horror of the Same Old Thing into a
philosophy so that nonsense in the intellect may reinforce
corruption in the will.”
(rationalizing a focus on fashion?)
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It’s easy to be distracted and choose distraction
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How can wemaintain focus
&avoid distraction?
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“The Enemy [God] loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants
men, as far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it
righteous? is it prudent? is it possible?”
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“...if we can keep men asking ‘Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or
reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?’ they
will neglect the relevant questions.”
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what are the simple questions?
what are the prudent questions?
(which help us maintain focus & avoid distraction)Thursday, August 11, 11
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