faith-hope-love ... also Star Wars musings

[asakiyume]

But first, an apology and some excuse making. I've had a crushing amount of work, so I haven't been here much, either to read and comment or to write my own entries (and reply to commenters). I think of my friends here pretty much all the time, and I try, gradually, to make my way to people's journals, but I do miss things--please accept my apology. Things should ease up soon.

So, what are you in the mood for? Theological questions?



We heard this on Sunday:

So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.

I was thinking, if you pick those three things for comparison, it must be because they're somehow similar and, hence, comparable (you don't assess things against each other if there's no logical way to do it--you can compare apples and oranges, in spite of the saying, because they're both fruits, and you can compare apples and potato chips, since they're both food and snackable, and you can compare apples and beach balls since they're both spheres, but you can't compare apples and pajamas in any very meaningful way unless you want to? challenge accepted?) So how are faith, hope, and love similar? ... But if love is greatest, it must also be different from the other two, too, in some qualitative ways--the ways that make it greatest. What are those ways?

Thoughts?

Or thoughts on plotting?


I haven't seen the recent Star Wars movie, but since I don't mind spoilers and like following along with current enthusiasms, I've let myself find out certain plot and character details (actually, surprisingly few...). I very much enjoyed theferrett's musings on what heroine Rey's (grand)parentage might be. What I liked most of all was how he pointed out that no matter who you choose, you'd be able to find justification for it in the current movie--that's the power of imagination and looking selectively.

He said the question he's asking is, “If I had to choose her father/grandfather, what decision would create the most interesting set of character reactions?”

And that struck me as such a fruitful way to decide things in a story. What do you think? And if you've seen the most recent Star Wars, do you have opinions on Rey's parentage?

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's all right about not answering the questions! I was just wondering things out loud. I asked for your thoughts, and these are great thoughts! I like the quote from Kipling (I didn't know the story).

My feeling when i was thinking about it on Sunday was that faith and hope were more dependent--you have to have faith in something, or keep the faith with something, and you have to hope for something, or have hope because of something. Whereas love--well, I guess people may say you have to have an object for your love, so it's dependent too--but there are times when you can experience an upwelling of love that doesn't seem to have a particular object. So because of that, love feels more independent. But then again, most often, love does have an object... so maybe my reasoning here isn't very sound.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

The story:
http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/RewardsFaries/stwilfrid.html

It's one of a book'sworth - Dan and Una, brother and sister, meet the spirit Puck, through whose agency they meet various people from England's history (more specifically, their own region's history) - but always being magicked to forget the meeting afterwards.

(Kipling's a great story-teller, and this is a really good one!)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to reading it (arghh, but when time allows).