Lewis Reincarnated...

I am C.S. Lewis reincarnated.

I know you may be shocked by the claim I am making. It is shocking, after all, being good Christian people and having rejected claims of such fallacies by those Eastern religions (where did Christianity originate again?). However, it is true. I must maintain that I am, in fact, C.S. Lewis reincarnated.

You may wonder how I happened upon this startling revelation. Naturally. Any truly inquisitive mind would ask. I came to realize this during my early years at Baylor University.

See, though my parents and my childhood had no knowledge of the existence of CS Lewis or any of his works (being isolated in the backwoods of Northeast Texas), when I arrived at Baylor, I found that CS Lewis agreed with me. That's right. I didn't agree with him as I read his works. Instead, I felt as though he (me) were plagiarizing my thoughts - STOP THAT! (I hate it when I have conversations with myself...and get confused...)

I also found that his arguing methods were exact replicas of mine. He (and/or I) like to argue in circles. NOT that we like to argue in useless circles, but that we like to start at the farthest point out and make wide, sweeping circles - engaging all possible objections along the way - moving inwards toward the center of "obvious truth."

All of this was disconcerting for awhile until I realized the actuality of the truth - that I was CS Lewis in another life.

Yes it's true. No autographs, please.

(to be continued...)

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 5/15/2005 08:30:00 AM