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23390561 No.23390561 [Reply] [Original]

How misunderstood is this quote?

>> No.23391202

>>23390561
how can anyone misunderstand such a simple and cliché quote like that? pls start overthinking stuff less.

>> No.23391213

>you can't do things because it's childish
>but you can't think that doing anything is childish because that's childish too
>you're not a man because you care about what being childish is
>so, essentially, if you own a nintendo switch and a funkopop collection worth over 1000 dollars, you're practically the most mature man in the world
Am I getting this right? Maybe we should use other words to define these things, because clearly there's a grave misunderstanding of what it really means to be a man and actually mature.

>> No.23391216

>>23390561
why not quote the bible instead?
>When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
>1 corinthians 13:11

>> No.23391236

I can come up with an even better quote than this brainlet have and define maturity and being a real man in a way more rational way.
Being a mature man means doing things you don't want to do, it means adhering to the society you live in, to the norms presented, you allow yourself to be shaped into someone you don't want to be, but you become. Responsibility for your own actions is the most mature thing in the world, something clowns that sit down writing smut have a tough time understanding.

>> No.23391288

>>23391236
Dumb cog mentality, the epitome of wanting "to be very grown up". Slavish obedience, consumed with what others think about you. Maturity isn't just doing things you don't want to do, you're confusing the means with the end. It's standing up for right principles, regardless of social pressures and how you fit in.

When Lewis talks about childish things, it's about being unselfconscious versus the status obsession of adults. It doesn't mean doing stupid or shallow things, just because society has become lazy and destructive enough to pass those on as sufficient for children.

>> No.23391290

>>23391236
Feeling euphoric?

>> No.23391326

>>23391288
Your example of someone mature is someone able to say things despite opposition.
My example of someone mature is functioning as a person, having responsibilities, doing things that are difficult and that most people avoid doing, but still do anyway. I think of a mature person as someone who has experienced these things and do for a long period of time. Someone responsible and mature doesn't have time to do what you've mentioned.

>> No.23391377

bro embraced cringe and thus became chad

>> No.23391394

>>23391213
You fetishize the aesthetic of maturity.

>> No.23391399

>>23391394
Christians are literally paedophiles and abusers.

>> No.23391627

>>23391326
Maturity implies you don't have the time to stand up for what's right? By that definition, maturity seems like a very bad thing.

>> No.23391652
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23391652

>>23391213
Insecurity is childish.
Grown men ought not spend their days playing video games and eating candy but nor should you feel shame if you feel yourself enjoying a kids game while playing with your kid or eating a box of nerds on Halloween.

>> No.23391656

>>23391652
What about acting like retarded toddlers? Don't Christians feel shame for that?

>> No.23392047

>>23390561
The quote applies to the very people who spam it

>> No.23392664

It's misunderstood because in his age the full extent of "childhood indulgences" was things like childrens books or fairy tales. There weren't mass produced toys and shitty video games and heckin marvel movies
It's fine to enjoy anything as an adult as long as you're able to enjoy things that are specifically aimed towards adults too. But there are tons of people in arrested development who can ONLY enjoy "content" geared towards children, which I doubt lewis would have said was okay. People who misinterpret the quote will point towards toddlerbrained college students and say he's le wrong, but in reality he's not talking about that kind of stuff

>> No.23392829

>>23391627
Agreed. He seems to be describing essentially a slave mentality where you serve society because that's what's expected of you, even if what you do isn't even that positive. In which case I'm glad I'm able to be 'childish'.

>> No.23392830

>>23391236
What a dumb, worthless drivel.
>Dude, the definition of being a grown up is a servile mind-set, because...Because it is, okay?

>> No.23392913

>>23390561
This is the quote that infantilized every conservative Christian since the 70s

>> No.23393095

>>23391202
I've seen grown ass men use it to defend their love of My Small Horse.

>> No.23393175

>>23391399
>I don't have to deal with Christian morality because the news told me Christians were pedophiles
Good luck explaining that to God when you are called to account