Posted on 11/24/2013 1:14:57 PM PST by jocon307
Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but the day also marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of famed authors C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley.
Test your knowledge of these three historical giants with this quiz.
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Here is a diverting quiz to test your knowledge of these 3 men.
You have to keep your score on paper, if you care to; the piece is more of a slideshow.
There's a link there to the "top 100" Lewis quotes in placard format which some folks might also enjoy.
SEE? They DO always die in threes.
Amazingly, some people were even born on this date.
Yes...i was looking at a 50 year old new York Times last night, and on the front page , beneath the fold, was Huxley’s Obit.
Meaning: JFK hadda die!
It is also the day Disney announced his move to Orlando, but that is a totally different story.
LOL!
Sort of speaking from experience here, not my own, but it’s easy to remember certain people’s birthdays when it falls on memorable occasions such as.
- JFK: a serial adulterer and a man who lived his life unrepentant to God
- C.S. Lewis: an intellectual super giant, and a child of God through his belief in Christ
- Aldous Huxley: while intellectually brilliant, an atheist and drug addict until the very end, being injected with LSD by his wife before dying
Scored 12/15. Some were educated guesses.
Hugely did seem to indicate a certain despair over humanity’s godless future in a ‘brave new world’ he would doubtless have been disturbed bythe consequences of secular progressive values.
Yes, I did good too, but like you say some of them were just good guesses. I think an American might have an advantage since we all know way much more about JFK than we should.
I love this man's comparison of Huxley and Orwell:
"“What George Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Aldous Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distraction.” ln 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. ln Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This is about the possibility that Huxley, and not Orwell, was right." (George Orwell: author of 1984. Aldous Huxley: author of Brave New World) - Neil Postman, in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
But Huxley just could not bring himself reconcile this:
"If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Romans 10:9
He could not accept that. As a result, he died in his sins.
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