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Reviewing The 5th And Final Season Of Gomorrah

*WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS MAD SPOILERS*

Sad to see this show come to an end but it had to end.

As the 5th season begins, Gennaro Savastano is still on the run from prosecutor Ruggieri, who almost came within an inch of getting Patrizia, Gennaro’s most trusted employee, to turn on him, but moreover, Gennaro Savastano is literally and figuratively, in a hole.

He has literally taken to living underground to avoid being seen, and from a business perspective, he is as isolated as he has ever been with many of his block bosses ready to look elsewhere for new supply.

Ciro’s death in the finale of season 3, coupled with Patrizia’s betrayal in season 4, and the attempted takeover by Gerlando Levante’s family, thought to be Gennaro’s last remaining relatives, has all left Gennaro a tad bit desolate.

And add to that, his wife won’t speak to him.

But make no mistake, Gennaro is not a sympathetic figure. He’s a mob prince turned mob kingpin. About as far from relatable as a man can possibly be. Guy went from rich to richer and keep this in mind because it’s going to matter as far as the alliances that are formed later.

Among the things that are very real, and/or genuine, about Gennaro, was his affinity for his best friend, Ciro Di Marizio.

When Gennaro finally gets the prosecutor off his back, thanks to an alibi provided by his wife, Azzura, he wipes out what remains of the Levante clan and then sees to it that some of the their co-conspirators meet the same fate, and it’s here that Gennaro finds out that Ciro Di Marizio is still alive.

While you are more than welcome to have your doubts, given how tired this trope is, you have to bear with me because the writers of this show took it, and absolutely gave it new life with how much subtexts it adds to the themes of this show in it’s 5th and final season.

When the two are reunited, Gennaro appears to embrace Ciro and even talks about bringing him back in to the fold and “taking over the world” again.

When Ciro refuses, he proceeds to calmly sit back as his bestie is kidnapped and taken to what looks like a dog pound to be kept as a slave, because he dared to try to establish any kind of independence from Gennaro.

See that’s the major difference between Gennaro and Ciro.

The reign of the Savastanos, both Pietro and Gennaro, has been particularly brutal and treacherous.

Forgiveness doesn’t exist in the Savastano realm and what cannot be controlled, or manipulated, must be destroyed. There is no room for oxygen at the top of this pyramid and it’s an all-or-nothing game with anyone and everything the Savastano’s come in to contact with.

Contrast this with Ciro, whom upon freeing himself, seeks out SangreBlue, the man thought to have killed him, and allies with him.

This in itself shows the differences between Gennaro and Ciro.

Gennaro could never allow SangreBlue to live even if his reasons for “killing” Ciro were justified, and indeed SangreBlue is still on the run from Gennaro and his business partners in season 5, having lost his territory due to not having any supply because he trusted Patrizia.

That type of benevolence doesn’t exist in Gennaro’s world.

In fact, while Gennaro and Ciro’s relationship is very much built on loyalty, and the two have always insisted that it was them against the world, and that they are two peas in a pod, the way friends do, this season showed they are, in fact very different people.

I mentioned how treacherous Gennaro’s time as a mob kingpin had been, but it has also been efficient, pragmatic, adaptable and reliable. His business partners knew that he could come through, no matter what.

But the drawback of this, is a man who allows his need to control, and moreover his desperation, to get in the way of what is actually best for him, his business and his family.

He makes an unnecessary enemy out of the Gentlemen’s wife when he cannot accept the Gentlemen’s refusal, and that turns out to have long term consequences but also speaks to Gennaro and the Savastano way.

What we are watching, are two conflicting styles of leadership.

Gennaro’s being the more traditional, pragmatic, business-minded, and at times even corporate, leadership style.

Ciro’s style is one that borders more on kinship, loyalty, and most of all, belief.

While Genaro gives his business partners confidence, Ciro gives his closest allies faith, and these things are, in fact, very, very different.

Gennaro’s allies back him because they think his triumph is the likeliest outcome, Ciro’s allies having nothing but a belief in the idea that a man once thought to be dead, is said to have come back to life, and this turns Ciro into something of an urban legend and a unifying force against the Savastanos.

Gennaro has had many different foes throughout five seasons of this show.

He went to war with the old time mobsters in Rome, and claimed one of their daughters as a prize. He built his drug empire up again at a time when it seemed that no one could possibly control the block bosses of Naples, and one-by-one, he has eliminated the top bosses of his father’s generation.

None of those people were like Ciro.

His old foes were leaders because of their business savvy, their charisma, their money, or their legacy/ family name.

That is nothing like a guy that people believe to be immortal. A guy that fills them with belief in something outside of themselves.

Gennaro’s defeated foes always had someone that would turn on them for the right price. Ciro’s followers appear to be operating on blind faith and an out of place sense of moral justice, much like the Gentlemen’s wife.

As it turns out, it’s way harder to pay people off when they’re fighting for something other than money.

The politics of Gomorrah have always been fascinating to observe or ponder, and this season, it really feels like the writers were more ham fisted in depicting how each situation, or new scenario forces a kind of compromise that otherwise wouldn’t be ideal.

That’s not new as far as this show’s themes are concerned, the difference is for a change it actually harms the Savastano clan in a way that Gennaro cannot recover from.

His decision to trust the Monk and bring him in to the fold of his organization is arguably his worst mistake in the war against Ciro, and he completely misreads The Mistral’s devotion to his wife, a decision that weakens him severely in his war effort.

He also unnecessarily makes an enemy out of Nunzia, who ironically browbeats Gennaro about a lack of respect for his elders and the dead, which pretty much sums up Gennaro better than most.

Up to this point, Gennaro’s leadership is the tried and tested, immovable institution of the criminal world. It’s as set in stone as the monarchies of King Louis the great, and as expansive and as robust as the Roman Empire before Christ. It is the hegemonic power of it’s day.

But even empires have limits.

The Soviet Union, Germany in World War 2, and yes, even the Roman Empire, all collapsed because it is not practical to wage war on two different fronts, and in the same way, Gennaro simply had too many enemies.

Compare this with Ciro, whose leadership is like socialist democracy in action. He unites what remains of his own loyalists with SangreBlue’s that remain in Forcella, then allies with Gentlemen’s wife for financial backing.

However that doesn’t mean Ciro is free, and his unholy alliance with the Gentleman’s wife, is the constant theme of his life and it is really unironic at this point, how his own goals always clash with those in power, leadership, or in this case, positions of leverage.

Ciro really only wants to take down the Savastano clan and claim Naples as his own. The Gentlemen’s wife wants to go a few steps further than this, and Ciro is in the same pattern, he’s always been in, doing the bidding of more powerful forces even when he’d rather not.

Gennaro’s price to pay is that he is betrayed by those closest to him, in very much the same way as he had encouraged those that eventually betrayed his foes in almost every conflict he’s ever been involved in.

See, Ciro and Gennaro, are reunited at very different points of their narratives in this 5th and final season, and for as intelligent, pragmatic and resourceful as they are, neither truly attains what they set out for.

Gennaro is not venerated as the gangster-turned-businessmen, and in doing so also legitimizing his family, and thus becoming the greatest of the Savastano line.

Ciro doesn’t attain any sense of freedom or independence. HIs proletariat visions of the common criminals ruling over the blocks of Naples are never realized.

Gennaro is at a point where years of controlling and monopolizing Naples’ drug market, compounded with the isolation of his time on the run, has resulted in him being pushed as close to breaking point as he’s ever been, as shown when he admits feeling overwhelmed to Azzura on a few occasions this season.

The demands of Gennaro’s business, his ambitions and his family life, stretching him thin before all coming together to contribute to his demise.

Ciro has reached where he is for very different reasons, which are explored better in a prequel called l’immortale, but Ciro realizes how good criminal independence could be, and this is the reason he does not return to Naples, even if Gennaro is his friend.

While Gennaro seeks to maintain control, Ciro seeks to dismantle and disrupt the old order, but the way he approaches this is with a sense of inevitability, a sense that what will be, will be, and always clouded in desperation.

You get the sense that this guy actually thinks he’s immortal.

Ciro assembling a ragtag group of dealers with no funding or arms, to take on the machine that is the Savastano empire, is a suicide mission, and Ciro approaches it with a brazen, devil may care attitude, that requires one to lose all regard for themselves before undertaking it.

In the end, for all the ways these guys differ, they still shared the same ending, and the series end the way it began.

Genny and Ciro in a hail of bullets versus everyone else.

I enjoyed this series more than any other television series in this decade, and it’s rare for there to be a show that I like as much as this given how narrow my tastes can be sometimes when it comes to television.

I mentioned earlier that there was a kind of follow up, with a show called l’immortale, which depicts what Ciro’s life was, in between being thought to be dead and reuniting with Gennaro in season 5.

it’s worth checking out for the Ciro fans like myself, but note to future producers of Italian television shows, don’t bother re-dubbing with English voice actors, the shows are better when dudes are speaking their native tongues and subtitles are still cool.

I don’t care what anyone says, SUBTITLES WILL NEVER BE OUT OF STYLE!!!!

#tv #tv shows #crime #crime drama #hbo #gomorrah #gomorrah season 5 #marco d'amore #salvatore esposito #sky #sky atlantic #long post #napoli #napoli fc #l'immortale #max original

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I know its beens awhile but what did you think of S15 as a whole?

As a whole I think season 15 was an above-average season due to below-average execution and ended with a stellar series finale that added rewatch value not just for season 15 but also all of 15 seasons.

Season 15 started and ended with callbacks to previous seasons; from season 1's woman in white and Sam's goal of returning to a normal life, to season 5's Dean's time in hell as Alastair's apprentice and bringing closure to Adam Milligan, to season 8's endgames for Sam and Dean.

The first half of the season 15 was about free will vs determinism, with Sam representing the former and Dean representing the latter. Sam and Dean’s confrontation with God parallels how they've reacted to family and authority their entire lives: Sam challenged God’s Divine decree over His Creation while Dean accused God of abandoning His Creation. When Abraham spoke with his heart and mind to God over His plan to destroy Sodom & Gomorrah, it led to Abraham transcending himself, leading the way for God, and becoming the father of faith. Metaphorically it's all about lessons in honest, meaningful relationships with our fellow human beings. People often suppress their true selves and principles for the sake of avoiding conflict instead of taking the relationship a step further into a place of sincerity. From season 11 to 14, Sam and Dean spoke their hearts and minds to God and the brothers' relationship became at its strongest, never wavering even when occasional arguments sprouts up because they were honest with each other.

Sam and God became connected through Sam's hope which manifested in their identical wounds. Secular-based hope is about anticipating something good to come in the future. Sam has hope in a better future, so Chuck showed him a bleak future to make his lose that hope. Once Sam lost his hope, God leaves. That’s pretty much what happens to people in real life, when they lose hope, they feel there is no God or God abandoned them. Another physical manifestation of a bleak future is Dean's old friend who retired from hunting, Lee, who became so corrupted that Dean is forced to kill him.

The return of Sam and Dean's half-brother, Adam, brings welcome closure. Adam is not out for revenge as he acknowledged his own culpability for agreeing to vessel-ship in the first place. Him and Michael only having each other for 10 years in the Cage led to their codependent-symbiotic-ish relationship that parallels Sam and Dean to some extent.

I like to call the second half of season 15 the "Dean redemption tour" where side characters were used to address Dean's unresolved issues in order for him to be good enough for Sam in their eternal afterlife. Normally whenever Dean interacted with side characters it is about the side characters, not Dean (see example here and here). But when the formula is reversed, it becomes a bit disjointed, and the audience picked up on it. The final redemption act target Dean's anger issues that both Amara and Chuck discussed.

Chuck: This is my ending. My real ending.

Very next scene: *Dean pulls a gun on Sam*

Dean’s been so obsessed with having free will that he’s actually following Chuck’s writing. As usual Sam broke through to Dean, in effect breaking Chuck’s influence. Then a very mad mad Chuck shows up.

Chuck: “Are you kidding me? After all that, you did it again!”

Then 15x18 happened. Ignoring the hilarity of that scene, the speech was supposed to remind the general audience that Dean is A HERO before he dies two episodes later. By 15x19, free will vs determinism comes to a conclusion. Michael and Lucifer betrayed the Winchesters and succumb to determinism, fulfilling their destiny to destroy each other. Sam and Dean manipulated Michael to lure Chuck into a trap to replace him with a new God, Jack. Chuck is left only with human frailties and for the first time Chuck has no idea what happens next, bringing the free will theme to a full circle.

Due to interactions with Sam, Rowena became the new queen of Hell while Jack becomes the new God of Heaven. Jack promises Sam that He will have a hands-off approach and people don’t need to pray or sacrifice to Him. Jack’s perception of humanity is distilled down to, “When people have to be their best, they can be.”

Before the story ends, the protagonist is supposed to accomplish their primary goal that had kept them driven and move the story forward. Sam’s goal was attaining normal life, it was never about eradicating monsters to extinction or avenging his mother’s death. In fiction it always seems like the main character want many things, but there is always a primary goal. Harry Potter gets dragged into many subplots such as conflicts with his best friends, romantic misfires, and incidents with secondary characters, however his main goal was always to defeat Voldemort and that's what the audience is holding out to see. Sam Winchester’s journey is flipped from Harry Potter’s; Sam gets dragged into many subplots of saving the world, defeating the Big Baddies, and conflicts with his brother, however his main goal was always to have a chance at a normal life. But this can't happen while Dean is still alive.

Dean has everything he wanted: Sam and hunting. Dean is a complete person; he doesn’t need anything else. But Sam had given up just about everything so that Dean wouldn’t be alone. 15x16 reminded the audience that Sam wanted out of the hunting life since he was a child. Sure, Sam is very good at his job and even became a leader, but they always made sure to show that Sam doesn’t have passion for the family business other than saving people’s lives. Claire Novak shows way more enthusiasm for the job. But Dean would never retire from the hunting life. Even when Michael gave Dean a fantasy life, Dean still conjured up monsters so he can fight and kill them. As long as Dean is alive, Sam will never be free to pursue a normal life. Think back to Dean's speech in season 8 telling Sam to pursue his normal life only after Dean dies with a gun in his hand and a smile on his face.

The pivotal barn scene in the 15x20 finale was genius, bringing the series to full circle with callback to the pilot, fleshing it out, adding backstory to Dean’s pov that brings his fear, need, relief, and love to stark relief. It hurt like hell, and at the same time, cathartic because Dean was honest. The way Dean said, “Come here. Let me look at you. There he is!” That’s Dean in dad mode, the parental figure to Sam. The show reminded the audience in 15x18 that Dean raised his little brother. Still in dad mode, Dean then tells Sam that he is proud of him. It’s what every son wants to hear from their dad.

Dean then goes into brother mode and tells Sam he admires his strength even when they were children. Sam’s strength is such that Dean was afraid that Sam doesn’t need him. Fearing rejection, he stood outside of Sam’s dorm for hours before finally going to Sam because it’s always been Sam and Dean, and Dean can’t comprehend if he didn’t have Sam.

From there Dean gives Sam his blessing to keep living his life. “I love you so much, my baby brother”. Sam’s reaction was pure and raw, he has always been honest about his wants and needs but craves Dean’s approval to pursue them, and now he has it. Sam’s faith in Dean went answered with Dean saying how proud he is of Sam, how much he admired Sam’s strength so that Sam knows he is strong enough to go on living without Dean.

Another reason why the barn scene is genius is the pilot callback sets up Sam and Dean’s reunion in New Heaven as pilot 2.0. From there they will build their relationship just as Sam and Dean. They are at peace without monsters disrupting their lives, without vindictive angels disrupting their afterlives, and without childhood angsts weighing them down. They have both freedom and peace.

This applies to all of the hunters. Jack’s New Heaven is like a retirement home for hunters where they can enjoy their peace and socialize with their friends and loved ones and even upgrade themselves to the people they were meant to be on earth.

#Supernatural #Sam Winchester #Dean Winchester #season 15

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Sodom and Gomorrah: A Speculative Meta

on Ao3: Sodom and Gomorrah: A Speculative Meta

Sodom and Gomorrah is the story of a land so steeped in sin that many prayed to God for intercession, and God sent two angels to see for themselves if the rumors were true, and determine based on their testimony whether the cities should be destroyed.

In Season 1, we learn that Sandolphon was there, doing a lot of smiting and turning people into salt. The way that Aziraphale talks about it, we are led to believe that he was there too, bearing unhappy witness to the destruction, his plastered-on smile faltering as his vision fades into the middle distance:

In this meta I am taking an alternate stance to the wonderfully presented interpretation by @queerfables in my speculation of what happened in Sodom and its relevance to the GO story arc overall, if canonized. I hope that readers will consider the merits of both arguments in their own formulations of Aziraphale and Heaven in the GO universe.

TW: discussions of homophobia, sexual assault, death & destruction

Verses are taken from this translation of Genesis, chapters 18 and 19.

Genesis 18

20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous

21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

(Notably, the allegations made against Sodom and Gomorrah are never discussed. It is simply left at “sin so grievous.” Though it seems like there may be more information in Genesis 12)

But God herself did not go down to Sodom, instead sending two angels. I, like queerfables, read this and quickly came to the conclusion that for GO narrative purposes, the two angels that God sent to Sodom were Aziraphale and Sandolphon, where the former is playing tour guide to the latter, who has the real authority in the situation.

Upon arrival, the angels are met by Lot; he invites them to stay with him. At first they refuse, saying they will stay in the square, but he insists.

Genesis 19

4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.

5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know [have sex with] them.”

There is a lot of baggage to unpack from these two lines, especially in the 2023 context of politics in the Western hemisphere. Same-sex marriage is nearly ubiquitous, a near turnaround from only twenty years ago, but so is homophobic rhetoric, and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is cited a lot for those purposes. Intersectional communities of faith have done a lot of work to try to reinterpret these two verses, insisting that what God finds so abhorrent about the actions of the men of Sodom is not that they are homosexual but rather that they are attempting to gang-rape two newly arrived strangers in their city.

For the real world, this is a very important discussion and a solid position to maintain, if one wishes to defend the concept of a benevolent God who made homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and every other flavor of human as lovingly and intentionally as was made every cisgender heterosexual person.

But we’re not talking about real-world God. We’re talking about the God in Good Omens. And She is not a very nice person.

We have only to look at the contract that would allow the murder and then replacement of Job’s children, or the abject poverty under which Elspeth suffers that forces her to commit [apparent] atrocities, and ultimately drive her to attempt suicide. Whatever your feelings may be about the God of our shared meatspace, the God of Good Omens is not a character we are meant to admire, sympathize with, or make excuses for.

Returning to Sodom in the Good Omens universe.

I propose that it is thematically in keeping that the men of Sodom were not attempting to commit gangrape, but rather, they saw Sandolphon and fell in love on the spot. Because yes, Aziraphale is a fine scholarly-looking fellow, but it’s approximately 2000 B.C., the Bronze Age. Sodom and Gomorrah are most likely agrarian societies, and Sandolphon looks like he could throw a bale of hay like a javelin. He’s a whole lot of man, and the men of Sodom are into it. I mean, c'mon, Paul Chahidi in some biblical garb, is, uhh...

...not an eyesore, iykwim. [image source: imdb.com]

So they go to Lot’s house and ask if they can see this man, in hopes that they can ask him on a date. They are smitten by Sandolphon. Sure, the ultimate goal may be to have sex with them, but not right there on Lot’s doorstep, and the gross misquoting can be attributed to Sandolphon’s own libelous report of events, not to the Sodomites themselves. History is written by the victors, after all.

While we’re at it, let’s consider Lot’s response:

Genesis 19

6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him

7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.

8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

In the true spirit of Good Omens comedy, I can envision Lot walking out among these men, complaining that not one of them has asked permission to court or marry either of his daughters of maritable age, and perhaps rather than simping for his houseguest, perhaps they would consider dating one of them instead. Is it homophobic? Sure, but I’m not here to defend Lot; he doesn’t need it. Because standing next to Sandolphon, he’s an absolute poppet.

(The remaining stanzas regarding the Sodomites breaking into Lot’s house, I am going to selectively set aside and chalk that up to Sandolphon blowing some Sodomite choice statements about Lot being a homophobic asshole way out of proportion.)

Sandolphon, a True Believer, is not about to stand for this insult to his heavenly purity. Angels do not have relations with humans, and to insinuate that he would even consider it is blasphemy. He takes it as a personal insult that the Sodomites would propose such a thing. He finds this to be evidence enough that the Sodomites are truly corrupt and worthy of destruction.

I feel the need to emphasize here that while this contains some distinctly queer themes, Sandolphon is not angry because they are men; he is angry because they are human, a different species from himself (in the same way that angels are different species from demons), and furthermore that anything resembling love the way humans do it is disgusting and vile to him.

Aziraphale, meanwhile, is standing helplessly on the sidelines, desperately trying and failing to de-escalate the situation. But it’s no use, Sandolphon has already made up his mind. There’s nothing left for Aziraphale to do but to try to save as many people as he can, beginning with Lot and his family.

Genesis 19

12 The two [angels] said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”

Again, in the fashion that GO takes liberty with biblical narrative, I propose that it is Aziraphale alone who warns Lot that Sandolphon will destroy Sodom come sunrise, and sends him out into the night to gather his family and get them out as quickly as possible. I propose, additionally, that Aziraphale is the one who leads Lot and his daughters by the hand out of Sodom and then protects the village of Zoar from destruction so that they can take shelter there.

Genesis 19:

15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”

16 When he hesitated, the [angels] grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.

17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[or singular, lord] please!

19 Your[singular] servant has found favor in your[singular] eyes, and you[singular] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[“small”])

While yes, this is a fictional interpretation of a biblical scripture, let’s take something from the fact that Lot is supposed to be addressing two angels, but the pronouns he uses to do so are all singular in the original Hebrew: that is to say, it seems like he is only talking to one angel. So in the victor-edited retrospective, the story is written to seem like two angels were rescuing him, but from the faithfully quoted words of his own mouth, it was only one. It seems like Sandolphon tried to write himself in as one of the good guys but couldn't bring himself to actually change the words that were coming from Lot's mouth. (Again, this is unnecessary work to do for the biblical narrative to be molded to a GO narrative, but it is an interesting feature of the original text nonetheless.)

At sunrise, the destruction begins:

Genesis 19

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.

25 Thus [S]he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

So goes the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: The cities are slandered before God, who sends Aziraphale and Sandolphon to investigate; Sandolphon is so incensed by human men flirting with him that he determines that the city shall be destroyed in the morning, and Aziraphale races against the clock to save as many as he can, knowing that he cannot save everyone. He bears witness as the men who resemble himself so much, who committed no greater crime than to seek out a forbidden love, perish in a rain of fire and brimstone. He must feign heavenly delight that a sinful blight was erased from the world, while mourning thousands of lost souls. He wonders if they have been sent to Hell. Even Lot’s wife, whose only crime was to question, to wonder what is behind her and perhaps regret leaving it behind, is turned to salt. He sees the vicious glee of Sandolphon exacting his revenge for the crime of impugning his celestial celibacy. He wonders what Sandolphon would do to him if he ever found out about the stirrings in his heart for a demon who, 500 years prior, had sat beside him on a rock, looking out over sea, comforting him as he nursed his wounded faith. He wonders just how far along with Heaven he can go, and what the consequences will be when he dares to say, “I will go no further.”

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[image source: Wessex Archaeology]

For those who (like me) are interested, the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah seems to have been merged from two historical events, which was common in a period preserved primarily by oral history. The tale seems to resemble a volcanic event that occurred nearby and around that time, but Sodom and Gomorrah were most likely destroyed by an earthquake and a subsequent flood, since they were located in the Jordan Plain, the lowest dry land in the world, a full quarter of a mile below sea level at its lowest, and very near the Dead Sea. Additionally, the area is rich in bitumen, sulfur-rich near-surface petroleum deposits that, when disturbed by a major earthquake, may have sent hot tar flying into the air, which if it landed on anything flammable would give the impression that fire and brimstone were raining down.

✨ the more you know ✨

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Blending together the biblical canon and archaeological speculation, I'm going to make a wild, unsubstantiated proposal that Crowley turns the people of Sodom into fish so that they survive the flood. Because one biblical flood was enough, and he'd heard around the water cooler that She had promised not to do that again (lying liar). This creates a tentative connection with the raining fish we see in the title credits of both seasons, and I'm also going to reference it in an upcoming meta.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #aziraphale #sandolphon #sodom and gomorrah #ivoc #textpost #long post

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Puzzle Game Powers Hints

White-Haired Will

Was Will a Mistake By the Lab?

Does Will Have Soteria in Him?

When Did Will and Vecna Create a Connection?

Why Did it Take Two Extra Days For Particles to Come Through?

El's Arc vs Will's Arc

Peter Pan: Is the Upside Down Neverland? Part 2

Will's Shadow Walking and Joyce's Vision

Will's Powers Could Be Activated With Drugs

Will Cloned Himself in the Upside Down

Will Transformation Theory

Lonnie Byers Your Days Are Numbered

Figuring Out Lonnie’s Deal

How Much Does Joyce and Jonathan Know About Lonnie's Abuse?

The Importance of Lonnie Byers in Season 5

Will Probably Misses His Dad

Lonnie Phone Weirdness

Lonnie/Lab Hypothetical

Lonnie & Editing

Lonnie/Chester/Bat Demomonsters

Will Might Kill His Dad?

Will's Fear of Clowns is Related to His Dad

Lonnie Byers is Bones

Was Lonnie an MK ULTRA Test Subject?

Larry the LEGO Man Analysis

Lonnie Wants a Family Just Not Will

Stranger Things x Twin Peaks

Will Byers & Laura Palmer Part I Part II

Joyce Byers & Sarah Palmer

Will & Laura Dancing on Video

Joyce & Sarah Hallucinations

Episode One Similarities

The Secret Diary of Will Byers

S2 & FWWM Similarities

Will & Laura Visual Parallels

"I held a mirror up to them"

Character Analyses

Mike & the Word "Girl"

Dustin's Absent Father and the Effects on His Character

El's Dresses

Has Mike and El Ever Had a Mutual... Anything?

El's Monster/Superhero Dichotomy

Mike Wheeler and Audience Perception

Will Byer’s Coming of Age Horror Story

Sam Owens: Playing Devil’s Advocate

The Effect NINA Actually Had on El

Willel Narrative Duality— With Charts!

Willel Narrative Mirroring: Presenting Themes of Sexuality (TW)

“And yet you still have a C in Spanish.”

Max is El's Mentor

Other Theories

Vecna the LEGO Man

Will Vecna Try to "Combine" With Will?

Reagan/Bush '84 and the Looming Danger of Homophobia

No Longer Will

The OTS Shot

"It Was a Seven" & The Seventh Seal

Will's Missing Left Hand

Will "Creature With a Gaping Mouth" Visuals

Is Vecna Absorbing Will's Memories For Strength? (Birthdaygate)

Will & Hopper Parallels

Color Stuff

"Love, Mike"

Collar Theory

Max Could Activate the Doomsday Clock

Thoughts on Will's Scrapped Letterman Jacket

Sam Owens Fishiness

Henry as Will's "Good Angel"

Mike and El Confession Parallels

Mike & El + Steve & Robin Parallels

On Character Biases and Parallel Storylines

Is the Upside Down a Living Thing?

#pinned post #masterpost #will be editing periodically

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Daily Light on the Daily Path by Samuel Bagster

Daily Reading for April 3rd

Amos 4:11 "I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

Isaiah 33:14 Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?"

2 Corinthians 1:9,10 indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; • who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hebrews 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

2 Corinthians 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

Jude 1:23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

Zechariah 4:6 Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.

1 Timothy 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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i am so curious to see if you know earth crisis/what you think of them lol

okay, fuck, you accidentally asked me about something i love to talk about. so, one of my favorite niche music scenes to talk about is the hardcore scene and what spun off and evolved out of it over the course of like the 80s, 90s, 00s and earth crisis occupies such an interesting space in that niche.

bc like when we talk about metalcore now, we're not really talking about bands like earth crisis. we say metalcore in a mainstream sense and people think like oh bad omens, or periphery, or underoath or whatever, right? the -core in modern metalcore basically indicates like breakdowns, but the -core being drawn from is actually more post-hardcore than it is actual hxc hardcore. right? (broadly speaking, don't @ me)

but when it comes to DEFINING the very first prototypical metalcore sound, literally the melding of hardcore and metal, for me one of the first bands that comes to mind is earth crisis. that like 90s NY hxc scene sound smashing full into like bolt thrower, right? they're iconic and they cast a long shadow over the scene. and that's very interesting sonically and it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the ideological shit going on in the sxe and xvx scenes they were a part of. i mean, what a fucking cesspool those scenes can be. and, no, earth crisis isn't a hardline band but if you get mistaken for one enough times it kinda means??? maybe there's something you could be doing different????

but still: they were HUGELY influential and they really pushed a vegan message in front of a lot of audiences who otherwise would never have thought twice about it. that's something, at least.

anyway. all that shit is so fascinating. i could talk about it forever. which i shouldn't do, bc that's NOT what you asked me. but uh anyway

If I know them:

Favourite Song: "to the death" probably no surprise that i prefer their animal rights songs over their anti-drug rhetoric lmao. this song goes so hard. the ending? if you're in the car driving to work and you're so so soooo sleepy and it's 6:30 AM but VEGAN FOR LIFE! VEGAN TO THE DEATH! hits you ARE going to sing along. anyway, at the risk of losing cred in front of hxc purists i will freely admit to thinking earth crisis got even better after they reformed. to the death is a sick comeback album - it's leaning more into the metal side of things, which is my preference, and it's fucking HEAVY. it just GOES, it's a chainsaw and it doesn't quit for like 40 minutes.

Least Favourite Song: ugh god idk. so much to choose from. first one that comes to mind is "killing braincells." now, here's the thing: i am a slither defender. i think it's a fun record. i think it's cool when a bands sound evolves, i like that there's groove/nu-metal influence here! they sound like prong! i love prong! and this song isn't even, like, bad to hear but lyrically it typifies the kind of punitive moralizing bullshit that i hate in the sxe scene - pointing at addiction and people suffering from it and literally saying "what is deserved is what they receive" like. fuck off already.

Favourite Album: okay as much as i love later era earth crisis, i do think gomorrah's season ends is one of the most iconic 90s metalcore/xvx albums of all time. so, it's tied between that and salvation of the innocents.

Least Favourite Album: last of the sane. i don't care about covers.

Song that got me into them: god, idk. probably forced march, since it's the first track off destroy the machines.

Seen Live?: no and i'm not sure i'd want to lmao. maybe if the lineup was good. but it would be a tall order to get me to willingly enter a space full of hardcore earth crisis guys

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#i need a music tag i don't hate #tldr earth crisis is good but them AND their fans AND the scene they represent can be SOOOOOOO annoying #and i'm saying this as someone who IS xvx

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ASK EDDIE - February 16, 2023

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss this year’s plans for our NOIR CITY film festivals, Bob Dylan’s relationship with noir, foreign noir television shows, heist films, and more. We also comment on this quote from poet, April Bernard, “Noir is romanticism embittered. The life of feeling that has been betrayed leads to the attitude and genre of noir. No one who loves noir is a cynic. Cynics never believed in anything in the first place. People who love noir are disillusioned romantics.” We wind things up with a discussion of classic era film noir posters and their creators. On the cat front, Emily and Charlotte have their post-breakfast 10-hour powernap. All this week’s questions are listed below the description. Want your question answered in a future episode?

We solicit questions via our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

This week’s questions:

1. Have you set dates and locations for future NOIR CITY events in 2023? —Multiple inquiries

2. Who, would you say was the most creative director of noir during the classic period. Creative in the sense that they could have done much better if the times they were living in didn’t hold them back. —Steve from Exeter NH

3. Could you please tell me why “77 Sunset Strip” is not available in English to purchase the DVD's? —Jannie

4. Did the James M. Cain estate ever bring suit against Warner Brothers for plagiarizing “Double Indemnity” when they made “Body Heat”? And, if so, was it settled out of court? —Doug, Silver Spring, MD

5. The Bob Dylan lexicon is full of film noir and other references. Dylan is both lauded and reviled for this sort of thing. In all of art, what some call theft others call influence. I stand on the side of celebrating influence and would love to hear your thoughts on the matter. —Joe from Suffolk County NY

6. What has been a revelation to me have been the foreign noirs, whether it be “Narcos” from Colombia, “The Break” from Belgium, or the Nordic noirs like “The Bridge” and “Bordertown”. The most impressive TV show I have ever seen has been the 5 seasons of the Italian series, “Gomorrah. Any comments by either of you on whether you've watched any of these shows? —Bob, the Chicago area

7. I’m currently reading Evan Puschak’s new book of essays, “Escape into Meaning”. He cites this definition of noir given by the poet April Bernard: “Noir is romanticism embittered. The life of feeling that has been betrayed leads to the attitude and genre of noir. No one who loves noir is a cynic. Cynics never believed in anything in the first place. People who love noir are disillusioned romantics.” Would love to hear your comments about it. —Michael, Post Falls, Idaho

8. Would you consider “Rififi” a film noir? What distinguishes a heist film from being noir or not? What would be some examples of heist films from the classic noir period that are not noir? Ryan from Studio City adjacent (aka Valley Village, CA)

9. I have The Film Noir Foundation’s restoration of “Woman on the Run” is truly an astonishing story. I wonder, since Eddie has seen other prints, whether the movie always had climatic moments as they are in the restoration. —Rob

10. I have just finished Jim Thompson’s novels, “The Grifters” and “After Dark, My Sweet” which I thought were great. Described as roman noir it's a term I wasn’t familiar with but translates into black novels. Can you give me any background on the use of this term, where it came from? —Sharon

11. Just watched "Cry of the City" and "The Naked Street" and wondered, how many noirs begin with a bridge under the titles? Seems to be a few... —Joe on Long Island

12. Did the poster artists in the classic noir era work for the studios or were they freelancers? Which poster artists do each of you admire most? Who are your favorite pulp fiction cover artists? Are there any other paintings or painters you associate with film noir? Thanks for the great show. The YouTube channel alone makes me feel that my donation is money well spent. —Joe from Suffolk County, NY

#youtube #ask eddie #film noir foundation #eddie muller #anne hockens #noir city #film noir #film noir festivals #film festivals

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Hosea 4:6

[6]My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

2 Timothy 4:2-4

[2]preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

[3]For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

[4]and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

Matthew 24:24-25

[24]For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

[25]Behold, I have told you in advance.

2 Peter 2:1-22

[1]But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

[2]Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

[3]and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

[4]For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

[5]and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

[6]and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

[7]and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

[8](for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

[9]then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

[10]and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,

[11]whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

[12]But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

[13]suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

[14]having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

[15]forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

[16]but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

[17]These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

[18]For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

[19]promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

[20]For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

[21]For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

[22]It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire."

Matthew 3:2

[2]"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

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August Hope: Resurrections…Timeless Faith, Hope, and Love. A Supplemental to the 8/5/2023 10/10 888 Jesus Christ Earthquakes Posts. Part 2/5.

Touch: "Pilot" (alternatively "Tales of the Red Thread") is the first episode of Touch. It originally aired in a special preview event held January 25, 2012, on FOX.

"Today we'll send over 300 billion e-mails 19 billion text messages. Yet we'll still feel alone. The average person will say 2,250 words to 7.4 other individuals. Will these words be used to hurt or to heal? The ratio is always the same. 1 to 1.618, over and over and over again. The patterns are hidden in plain sight. You just have to know where to look. Things most people see as chaos actually follow subtle laws of behavior. Galaxies, plants, seashells. The patterns never lie. But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together. 7,080,360,000 of us live on this tiny planet. This is the story of some of those people. There's an ancient Chinese myth about the Red Thread of Fate. It says the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles and attached it to all the people whose lives we're destined to touch. This thread may stretch, or tangle, but it'll never break. It's all predetermined by mathematical probability, and it's my job to keep track of those numbers, to make the connections for those who need to find each other, the ones whose lives need to touch. I was born 4,161 days ago, on October 26, 2000. I've been alive for 11 years, 4 months, 21 days and 14 hours. And in all that time I've never said a single word." - Jake/Jacob/Israel Bohm

October 26, 2000: Strong's Concordance #4161 motsa: a place or act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring, growing place, a mine. Original Word: מוֹצָא

A Web search leads Jake's father, Martin, to the Teller Institute, a rundown home at 318 West Tesla Street. Arthur Teller explains that, on his own, Jake discovered the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical ratio concerning patterns repeated in nature: a wave's curve, a shell's spiral, segments of a pineapple. Jake sees vast connections that amount to road maps, and it's Martin's job, his destiny, to follow them for Jake.

"Imagine the unspeakable beauty of the universe he sees! No wonder he doesn't talk." - Arthur Teller on Jacob/Israel Bohm

In the 2012 television series Touch, season 1, episode 9, "Music of the Spheres", Jacob "Jake" Bohm, a mute boy who mysteriously feels the suffering of those along his path and aims to positively adjust their fates, is revealed as possibly one of the "Lamed Vav Tzadikim" by a Hasidic man. In the second season of Touch, Jake and other people who have special gifts are referred to as members of the 36; throughout the episodes they are exploited for their capabilities and are hunted down by one who believes they hold too much power. The final episode features consideration of the Kabbalah and the mystical roots of the legend of the 36.

Lamedvavnik (Yiddish: למד־װאָװניק), is the Yiddish term for one of the 36 humble righteous ones or Tzadikim mentioned in kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. According to this teaching, at any given time there are at least 36 holy persons in the world who are Tzadikim. These holy people are hidden; i.e., nobody knows who they are. According to some versions of the story, they themselves may not know who they are.

For the sake of these 36 hidden saints, God preserves the world even if the rest of humanity has degenerated to the level of total barbarism. This is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hebrew Bible, where God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if there was a quorum of at least 10 righteous men. Since nobody knows who the Lamedvavniks are, not even themselves, every Jew should act as if he or she might be one of them; i.e., lead a holy and humble life and pray for the sake of fellow human beings. It is also said that one of these 36 could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for them to reveal themselves. Otherwise, they live and die as an ordinary person. Whether the person knows they are the potential Messiah is debated. (Wikipedia)

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 870 and 871: Isaiah 11:1 But a shoot shall grow out of the stump of Jesse, A twig shall sprout from his stock. Isaiah 11:2 The spirit of the Lord shall alight upon him: A spirit of wisdom and insight, A spirit of counsel and valor, A spirit of devotion and reverence for the Lord. Isaiah 11:3 He shall sense the truth by his reverence for the Lord; He shall not judge by what his eyes behold, Nor decide by what his ears perceive. Isaiah 11:4 Thus he shall judge the poor with equity And decide with justice for the lowly of the land. He shall strike down a land with the rod of his mouth And slay the wicked with the breath of his lips. Isaiah 11:5 Justice shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle of his waist. Isaiah 11:6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard lie down with the kid; the calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together, With a little boy to herd them. Isaiah 11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze, Their young shall lie down together; And the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw. Isaiah 11:8 A babe shall play Over a viper's hole, And an infant shall pass his hand Over an adder's den. Isaiah 11:9 In all of My sacred mount Nothing evil or vile shall be done; For the land shall be filled with devotion to the Lord As water covers the sea. Isaiah 11:10 In that day, The stock of Jesse that has remained standing Shall become a standard to peoples--Nations shall seek his counsel And his abode shall be honored.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1053: Jeremiah 17:13 O Hope of Israel! O Lord! All who forsake You shall be put to shame, Those in the land who turn from You Shall be doomed men, For they have forsaken the Lord, The Fount of living waters.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1459: Psalm 39:7 Man walks about as a mere shadow; mere futility is his hustle and bustle, amassing and not knowing who will gather in. Psalm 39:8 What, then, can I count on, O Lord? In You my hope lies.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1616: Proverbs 10:28 The righteous can look forward to joy, But the hope of the wicked is doomed. Proverbs 10:29 The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the blameless, But a ruin for evildoers.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1617: Proverbs 11:7 At death the hopes of a wicked man are doomed, And the ambition of evil men comes to nothing.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1620: Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred sickens the heart, But desire realized is a tree of life.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1678: Job 14:7 There is hope for a tree; If it is cut down it will renew itself; Its shoots will not cease.

“I believe with complete faith in the coming of Mashiach. Though he tarry, nonetheless I await him every day, that he will come.”.

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey." - Sarah Fielding

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." - Buddha

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau

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Acts 22:6 “About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. Acts 22:7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’ Acts 22:8 “’Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. “’I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,’ he replied. Acts 22:10 “’What shall I do, Lord?’ I asked. “ ‘Get up,’ the Lord said, ‘and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.’ Acts 22:11 My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me. Acts 22:12 “A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. Acts 22:13 He stood beside me and said, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ And at that very moment I was able to see him. Acts 22:14 “Then he said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. Acts 22:15 You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard Acts 22:16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’ Acts 22:17 “When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance Acts 22:18 and saw the Lord speaking to me. ‘Quick!’ he said. ‘Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.’ Acts 22:19 “’Lord,’ I replied, ‘these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you. Acts 22:20 And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’ Acts 22:21 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’” Acts 22:22 The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He’s not fit to live!”

#august #hope #holy bible #tanakh #messiah #second chances #second chance at life #touch #audrey hepburn #Sarah Fielding #robin williams #buddha #henry david thoreau #gotg3 #guardians of the galaxy #groot #rocket raccoon #Youtube

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