4.9 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yes, God, God. God don't never change. |
0:17.0 | Welcome to the Plodgas. This is episode 332. |
0:21.0 | 332. |
0:23.0 | Can you believe it? |
0:24.0 | So welcome, good to have you aboard. |
0:26.0 | I want to talk about something that my daughter-in-law just recently reminded me of, |
0:32.0 | and that was a little sticker that Cannon Press used to |
0:36.6 | distribute, and it was a picture of CS Lewis with the caption, Story Always Wins. |
0:42.3 | Story always wins. |
0:43.0 | wins. |
0:44.0 | One of the things that we have to realize in this time of cultural turmoil |
0:50.0 | is that the left has no stories. |
0:53.0 | But what they do have is a narrative, |
0:56.0 | and they stick to their narrative. |
0:58.0 | And in a matchup between story and narrative, Story always wins, but Narrative is going to triumph every |
1:08.9 | time over those people who don't have a narrative and who don't have stories. |
1:14.0 | Now, what do I mean by story? |
1:17.0 | I'm reminded of something that Tolkien once said when he was asked if he believed that his tales had ever happened anywhere. |
1:27.2 | And Tolkin's response was telling. |
1:30.6 | He said, one hopes. |
1:32.4 | One hopes. Now now both Tolkien and Lewis believed that |
1:36.2 | storytellers were not inventing anything ex-Neilo they were not just coming up |
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