Writer's Block: The supper club

[hummingwolf]

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I still want C.S. Lewis and Michael Shermer to get together for a few drinks and a friendly debate, but the fact that one of them is dead and the other is a skeptic who disbelieves in ghosts makes it a bit difficult to turn this dream into a reality. Such a shame.

If it were possible to have this little get together, though, I would also like to invite various late relatives, particularly those on my father's side of the family. Even if my father and his father appeared in noncorporeal form, they would gladly argue against the possibility of anyone appearing in noncorporeal form (they always did enjoy being contrary if it made for an entertaining debate). Also, my living friends who are fans of Shermer and/or Lewis would have to be invited as well.

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[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

>Even if my father and his father appeared in noncorporeal form, they would gladly argue against the possibility of anyone appearing in noncorporeal form (they always did enjoy being contrary if it made for an entertaining debate).

that's wonderful. i don't know who shermer is, and i think i need to remedy this lack.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

As Wikipedia helpfully says, "Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic,[1] which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.... Shermer claims to have once been a fundamentalist Christian, but converted from a belief in God during his graduate studies, and has described himself as an agnostic,[3] nontheist,[4][5] atheist[6] and advocate for humanist philosophy.[7] He has expressed reservations about such labels, however, as he sees them in being used in service of pigeonholing, and prefers to simply be called a skeptic."

Based on what I've read of his work, I think Shermer would have gotten along well with Lewis had their lifetimes overlapped a bit more. I really would like to listen to them having a friendly debate!

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

interesting. once i'm back online at home, i'll look into shermer. i have read some hitchens and that other guy... sam something... i like a clear-minded skeptic. lewis, btw, if you read his books, isn't completely hostile to religion, as hitchens is. i think he just finds people incredibly stupid in the way they believe and act. that's kind of a different thing!

i'm still writing fanfic about lewis. i love getting into the flow of his speech patterns. *g*