In this episode, the dogs talk about Michael Metz’s lack of a nickname (00:30), pig iron plants (02:30), and how to get out of the stone age (05:20). Connor returns to last episode's conversation about expectations and desires (08:00), Rob speaks about the temptation to squash desire (11:50) and the fruits of Kreeft's book on suffering in one of his small groups (12:30). The dogs proceed to talk about suffering (22:58) demons in Tobit (29:40) and why God won't answer Job's questions (36:00). 

 

Quotes:

“Suffering has made me more myself.” (Connor, 22:58)

“I don’t want this grief to go away.” (quote from Andrew Garfield, 24:36)

“The more you love, the more you suffer.” (Connor, 25:30)

“The only real meaning of human life is love and yet the more you let go of your own expectations and enter into communion with the other, the more you make yourself vulnerable.” (Connor, 27:51)

“Even in suffering there can be love. It’s not either joy or suffering, but the possibility of joy in suffering.”  (Michael Metz, 32:00)

“I’m not answering questions so that the questions go away.” (Connor, 36:00)

“I have found enough clues to live by.” (quote from Peter Kreeft, 37:10)

“The only thing that satisfied the human heart is a face.” (Michael Metz, 39:00)

 

Media Mentions:

Pig Iron
Alone: The Arctic (TV 2015- present)
Peter Kreeft’s Making Sense Out of Suffering
C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
Peter Kreeft’s talk on Till We Have Faces
Luigi Giussani’s The Religious Sense (Chapter 1 for more on “elementary experience”)
Andrew Garfield on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Tobit 8:5-7
John Paul II’s Salvifici Doloris
Job, The Book of
Sheldon Vanauken’s A Severe Mercy
Blade Runner (1982)

 

Shout-outs:

Joe Pug
Katy Dornbos
Jon Kearney
Jordan B. Peterson
G.K. Chesterton
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Miscellany:

(07:05) Bow Drill

 

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