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I'm Too Tired To Think Of A Good Title~ Logan Turner

 Let me start off by saying: what? I was completely lost reading this. I think I gleaned a little bit of information, though, so this will be my thoughts on what little I could grasp.

So, the dark night as I understand it, is a spiritual journey of sorts in which the person going on the journey is deprived of something. I am unsure of what exactly it is, so I'll avoid that part. What I want to talk about is the purpose of the deprivation. 

The super-sensor theory is one that says that as we lose one sense, the others will become better to pick up the slack. Think Daredevil, who was blinded and whose hearing became almost supernaturally good. Now, this is a loose connection, but hear me out. The point of being deprived of something on the journey is so that our spiritual senses get better. This allows us to get closer to God on our own spiritual journey. The deprivation is so that we could gain something (a closeness with God) out of the journey.

 Anyway, that's my incoherent rambling over.


Edit: Commented on Jackson Riddle's and Isabelle Ferguson's posts

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  1. Rachael GregsonApril 12, 2021 at 11:47 PM

    Logan, your ramblings aren't quite that incoherent! In fact, when you mentioned a sort of 'deprivation' that made us lean on God more, I immediately thought of Paul's thorn in his flesh. He begged God to take it away, but God left it because His strength is made perfect in weakness.

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