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The Mythic Mind Fellowship is discussing some of our favorite games from a Christian humanities perspective.
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52 - Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding (opens the original)
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Video games are not only amusement. They are structured existential experiences: forks that press agency, anxiety, identity, desire, and failure on a real self, whether the world on screen is "primary" or secondary. In this Mythic Mind Games season opener for Exploring the Psyche, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) makes the case for approaching games with seriousness and discernment. Drawing on Tolkien's fairy-stories (escape, consolation, recovery), C.S. Lewis and Kierkeg
51 - Facing Fate in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (opens the original)
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Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Qi0kgEKEEmg Final Fantasy VII Rebirth asks whether Remake's defiance of fate was ever real freedom: after killing the arbiter of fate, the path still narrows, some outcomes stay locked, and Sephiroth bends the Whispers to set himself up as a new master of fate across timelines. Aerith still dies as fate decreed, yet the remake path saturates her arc with foreboding from the start, trading original shock for a different, sustained weight that largely keeps the sp
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