Here are a couple words defined before you start to read, that will help you to understand the letter better.
Incongruities: not compatible, not harmonious
Flippancy: Excessive silliness and lack of steadiness especially regarding grave or sacred matters.
This letter discusses the patient's increasing circle of friends. Screwtape comments that much laughter can be heard and goes on to explain the 4 causes of laughter.
What are the 4 causes of laughter?
Which 2 causes are NOT useful to the devils?
Why do the devils hate fun?
Why is flippancy great for the devils? How can they use it to their advantage?
16 comments:
Okay...the 4 types of Jokes...Well, there's the Flippancy, the Fun, the Joy, and...um, something about jokes.
OOPS! I meant to put the 4 types of LAUGHTER. Not JOKES. Sorry!
The 2 causes that are not of use to the Devil...are... fun, and joy? I think that's right.
What are the 4 causes of laughter?
joy, fun, the joke proper (um, ok), and flippancy
Which 2 causes are NOT useful to the devils?
joy and fun
Why do the devils hate fun?
it can produce contentment, courage, and other things that they consider harmful to their cause
Why is flippancy great for the devils? it doesn't make you closer to the person you are joking with and draws you away from God
How can they use it to their
advantage? build up an armor of it around the person so they won't let God in
i think it is funny how we had a letter about being funny.
Question #1: Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy.
Question #2: Joy and Fun.
Question #3: It promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other "evils" (according to Screwtape).
Question #4: umm... kinda confusing paragraph, and I'm tired, so I'll try again later.
V.I.P. says:
1st question: Fun,Joy,Flippancy,and
Joke proper...
What are the 4 causes of laughter?
Joy, Fun, Flippancy and Joke proper
Which 2 causes are NOT useful to the devils? Joy and Fun
Why do the devils hate fun? It makes the people more accepting to good things, and makes them more compassionate to others
Why is flippancy great for the devils? How can they use it to their advantage? They will think of things as a joke, not taking them seriously.
V.I.P. says:
2nd question: Fun and Joy!
3rd question: Devils hate fun because God wants you to have fun.
The devil wants you to be drowning in misery. :{ [As long as you aren't killing people for fun... Then that won't be good..]
4th question: Flippancy puts devils at a great advantage. It makes the "patient" not take life or anything seriously. The devils can use this againist the church. So then the "patient" will think of the church as a mere joke... {Not to be taken seriously..}
He He Ha Ha Ho Ho! V.I.P.
1) Jokes Proper, Joy, Fun, and Flippancy.
2) Joy and Fun
3) They hate fun because having fun with loved ones can make you at ease, and allow one to let all worries slide. This can allow the person to connect with God.
4) Flippancy is when you do not take something seriously and become disrespectful. So knowing that, the devils take it to their advantage and try to make others use it so that they do not take God, religion, or grave matters/subjests seriously and to heart.
5) Basically what I said in question four. They use it to steer people away from God. They can use Flippancy when discussing Bible verses and other Christian related things, for example.
Ok, you all seem to be grasping the concept very well! Congrats!
1.The 4 types of laughter is joy, fun, joke proper, flippancy.
2.JOY and FUN
3. I would say because it makes the person happy and joyful.
1) Joy,fun,the joke proper, and flippancy.
2)Joy and fun.
3) I guess because fun makes you happy and the devil does not want you to be happy.
4) Its a thousand miles away from joy and it makes you dumb.
The four causes of Laughter are fun, joy, flippancy, and joke proper.
The two laughter's that are not useful to the devils are joy and fun.
The devils hate fun because it produces contentment and other feelings and emotions that they consider detrimental to their causes.
Flippancy is kind of like a jokers attitude. And if everything is like a joke to you then it could be very hard to take God seriously, making it hard for a relationship with Him to grow (which is one thing that Screwtape and all of the other tempters do NOT want to happen with their "patients").
Well just as my answer for question four states, if you can't take God seriously you won't be able to build a stronger and deeper relationship with him.
1. joy, fun, joke proper, and flippancy.
2. joy and fun.
3. It promotes charity, courage, contentment and many other devils.
4. Flippancy is good for satan because is leads us away from Christ and gets us off track with our relationship with God.
5.They can use it to their advantage by getting us closer to Satan rather than God.
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