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lyledebeast · 3 months

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For @kijilinn since you got me started on watching new (to me!) Jason Isaacs content.

Since watching Sweetwater (2013) and Look Away (2018) over a couple of days, I've been reflecting on how Jason Isaacs' villains have changed over the years. While he certainly has played a variety of characters, and not all of them villains. Captain Hook from Peter Pan (2003) and Colonel Tavington from The Patriot (2000) have more in common with each other than with Dan from Look Away, Prophet Josiah from Sweetwater, and Dr. Volmer from A Cure for Wellness (2017), who likewise share several traits in common.

Hook and Tavington are, on the surface, a pair of campy, sword-wielding child killers, but if we look deeper, they are each singularly obsessed with one man (or boy) who has things they lack, and if we look deeper yet, they are both queer men whose peripheral relationship to society at large has left them anxious and resentful. With the last of these in mind, I'm tempted to throw Michael Ryan of Dangerous Lady (1995) into the mix even though he is not a villain. Of these three, Ryan is the one is most clearly attracted to men and hurt by them, though that is also true of Hook and Tavington to different degrees. Ryan was molested as a teenager by his mafia mentor, Tavington's father squandered the fortune he was to inherit, and Hook lost his hand in a fight with Peter Pan, all of which have redefined their connections to masculinity and to other men. They are all surrounded by men and unable to trust any of them. They all desire connection with and recognition from other men, particularly recognition as men. What allows for Hook's temporary triumph over Pan is that he has experienced adulthood and knows something of its pleasures as well as its pain, both things Pan will never know. Tavington could have ended Martin easily had he not insisted on making Martin acknowledge that he could. Ryan, having killed two of his lovers deliberately, is unwittingly killed by the man who infects him with AIDS. Ryan is definitely the outlier here as he is written to be sympathetic, despite his numerous crimes, while Hook and Tavington are fleshed out primarily through Isaacs' performance. He manages to make even flatly written characters feel human and even sympathetic.

As Hook, Tavington, and Ryan are all primarily interested in males, so their violence is primarily directed against them. Thus their relationships with men are very fraught, which is not the case in their relationships with women. In Ryan's case, the only consistently loving and somewhat healthy relationship he has is with his sister, the titular "dangerous lady" herself. Meanwhile, Hook and Tavington are completely indifferent to women (and girls) except where they can be used to manipulate the man/boy who is their true objects of desire. Intriguingly, Isaacs' straight villains also see women primarily as objects to manipulate for their own ends, even as a couple also believe they love women.

Dr. Volmer, Dr. Dan, and Prophet Josiah: oh, what can I say about these three? The first and most obvious commonality is that they are all fathers of daughters, and the second is that they all, to one degree or another, have incestuous desires for their daughters. The only one who attempts to act on that desire is Volmer, but Josiah's comment that Sarah "could teach [his daughter] how to fuck" hints that he might be interested in benefitting from that knowledge when she gets a little older. Dr. Dan--who, to his credit, is the only one of these three who is not a rapist--goes on "bonding dates" with his daughter maria and announces that he is giving her plastic surgery, of his choice, for her eighteenth birthday. He views women more as his artistic medium than as people. He left one of his twin daughters in the snow to die from exposure when she was born deformed, an act that haunts both the surviving girl and her mother. Like Volmer, Dan believes he loves his daughter, but what actually manifests in both cases is a selfish desire for control over women's bodies, medical and otherwise. At least Josiah is honest in his misogyny. When one of his men describes Sarah as a "female whore," he asks, "is there any other kind?" While I first interpreted this as implying that there are no sex workers who are not women--which has never been true, but that's a different point-- it could also imply that there are no women who are not sex workers. The second definitely fits Josiah's view of women generally. All of his converts are men except for his wives, and he has promised them wives of their own. That the women might not agree to being wives does not appear to have crossed his mind. Josiah is a collector of beautiful things: china, mahogany tables, and women, and, like the others, he sees little difference between them.

I wonder if it's a coincidence that Isaacs played the first three characters near the start of his screen career and the second group of three after he became a father himself. His first daughter with partner Emma Hewitt was born not long before filming on Peter Pan started; by the time he starred in Look Away, he had two daughters just a few years younger than his fictional one in that film. By then he was well established as a screen actor, and likely had greater ability to turn down roles that did not appeal to him. It's also possible that the new worldview parenthood brings about led him to rethink who the real villains in our society are. Even the most fantastical of these three, Dr. Volmer, exudes the kind of cold, cruel, selfish misogyny with which so many girls and women have to contend in their medical treatment even today. And it is by no means rare for a girl's first experience of misogyny to come from her own father.

I want to end this depressing meta by acknowledging that the first father Isaacs played after becoming one in real life is also, from my limited knowledge, the best. George Darling tries to suppress his natural gentleness to become the kind of stern, decisive, powerful Victorian father his sister urges him to become for his children's sake, but, fortunately, he fails. The best thing by far about this version of Peter Pan is its assertion that a father who can connect emotionally with daughters and sons alike is far better than one that cannot.

#jason isaacs #peter pan 2003 #captain hook #the patriot 2000 #colonel tavington #dangerous lady 1995 #michael ryan #sweetwater 2013 #prophet josiah #a cure for wellness 2017 #dr. volmer #look away 2018 #dr. dan #so many freaking characters!#fatherhood

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belongstocaptaindoyle · 1 year

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Jason Isaacs as Prophet Josiah (part II)

#jason isaacs #prophet josiah #sweetwater #mygifs

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apenitentialprayer · 5 months

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Top Left: Icon of the Prophet Isaiah Top Right: Icon of the Prophet Jeremiah Bottom: The Death of King Josiah

The person responsible for seven books of the Bible […] deliberately designed his history of the people to culminate in [King] Josiah. Josiah was not just good, and he was not just important. In the writer's picture, Josiah, in many ways, was someone to be compared to Moses himself. [... T]he Deuteronomistic historian paints Josiah in special colors - Mosaic colors. He is the culmination of that which began with Moses. His actions in his day emulate Moses' actions in his own day. He is the hope that the covenant that began with Moses will be fulfilled as never before. [...] All of the Deuteronomist's major themes —fidelity, torah, centralization, Davidic covenant— culminated in Josiah. And then Josiah died from an Egyptian arrow.

- Richard Elliot Friedman (Who Wrote the Bible?, pages 94-95, 97, 116). Bolded emphases added.

Psalm 72 gives a description of the perfect king of Israel. He would be someone who was filled with wisdom like Solomon, as well as being a great warrior who could enlarge the boundaries of Israel from sea to sea, one of David's accomplishments. He would also guarantee justice in the land, especially to the poor. [...] None of the kings of Israel would fulfill all of these expectations. Every time that the prophets spoke of a king whom they hoped would finally do the will of the LORD, they ended up being disillusioned. Thus, they began to speak about an anointed one in the future who would be unlike all the other kings of Israel.

- Rev. Jude Winkler, O.F.M. Conv.'s commentary on Psalm 72

In any case, we should still note that the years between 722 and 587 were not unceasingly bleak. These were times of powerful persons and great events, of the rise and fall of great empires. This period included times of hope and vision, especially, it appears, during Hezekiah's and Josiah's reigns. These times produced an Isaiah, a Jeremiah, and an Ezekiel. Precisely in this age of empires in conflict, of rebellions, of violence, and of cruelty, a man conceived of an era when They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. A nation will not raise a sword against a nation, and they will not learn war anymore.

- Richard Elliot Friedman (Who Wrote the Bible?, pages 94-95, 97, 116). Bolded emphases added.

#Prophet Isaiah #Prophet Jeremiah #King Josiah #King Hezekiah #Messiah #Christianity #Catholicism #Judaism #Kingdom of God #icon #King David #King Solomon #peace

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graceandpeacejoanne · 1 year

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The Prophet Huldah

Huldah, one of five named women prophets in the Hebrew scriptures, was perhaps the most influential prophet of her day. The fate of her people, her nation, and her king hung on the oracle she would deliver. #Huldah #Josiah #2Kings22 #2Chronicles34

Have you ever even heard of Huldah? I bet not! Most timelines for the history of ancient Israel place prophets alongside the kings they advised. Even prophets without their own books, such as the prophet Nathan who counseled King David, are listed. But as much as I look for her, I have yet to see the prophet Huldah listed as well. It is a strange choice, to leave her out of Judah’s timeline,…

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#2 chronicles 34 #2 kings 22 #huldah #josiah #woman prophet #women prophets

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rabidbatboy · 7 months

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aynl · 3 months

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Gehenna, the greek name for the Valley of Himmon, is a valley surrounding Jerusalem and is often referred to as a place of divine punishment.

In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Joshua states in 28:3 that King Azah “burnt incense and children in the valley.” 33:6 mentions that his grandson continued this ritual. The children were sacrificed to the god Moloch. In 7:31Jeremiah(prophet) says to end the practice and all the shrines for it. So King Josiah answers this call and destroys the shrines to prevent the sacrifices. Important to add that this was never proven in any sense. The name Moloch only appears 8 times in the hebrew bible, so its not 100 percent confirmed that its even a god. A lot of theologists think that this ritual wasn’t actually a sacrifice but more like a rite of passage for a child. Plus that its actually just anti-pagan propaganda of that time.

In Aramaic translations of the hebrew bible, Gehenna is used for verses about resurrection, judgement and fate of the wicked.

In the christian Bible, Jesus refers to it as a dump where the habitants burn their trash and criminals. He calls it the pit of eternal fire which never burns out. Jesus uses Gehenna to symbolise the eternal suffering of the second death(The second death here refers to the punishment of sinners after death.). Its not the same as the eternal lake of fire as in the Book of Revelation but it corresponds to it. So gehenna is not Hell itself but more a symbol of it.

The reason why a lot of people call it hell is because 16th century translaters translated hades and gehenna both as hell. In Islam, the islamic name for hell, Jahannam derives from the word Gehenna!

So originally, Gehenna was just a valley but then became a place of sacrifice BUT this may be misinformation and it actually was used for rite of passages. It then became a dumping place, where the wicked were burned. It was never referred to as Hell but became synonymous with it after 16th century translations and the concept being analogous to the eternal lake of fire in BoR. The word Gehenna itself is referred to in verses about resurrection.

But how does this correspond to The summer Hikaru died?

A lot of those points fit the story very well! Like how they sacrificed their own people to a pagan god and how the village sacrificed heads to Unuki-sama. Im not entirely sure about this one point about the misinformation aspect. We know that the village believes that Nounuki-sama is some inherently evil spirit. But it’s not actually true, it’s more a man made thing. The villagers came to Nounuki-Sama. Like how Gehenna wasn’t inherently associated with hell but more so over the years. It also fits How Gehenna is often used in verses about resurrection, which kind of is what happened to Hikaru after being taken over by Nounuki-sama. AND how Josiah abolished the shrines and therefore the rituals may be what will happen in the story, how Yoshiki (and Hikaru) will overcome the village tradition and kind of put an end to what the elders and everyone before them have been doing. Maybe maybe idk these r just my thoughts would love more thoughts on this

#hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hikaru indou #yoshiki tsujinaka #spoilers #maybe #???#idk #theology #wanted to ask my old islam teacher about this but hes on vacation

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 4 months

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The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the son of Abraham:

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,

Isaac the father of Jacob,

and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar,

Perez the father of Hezron,

and Hezron the father of Ram.

4 Ram was the father of Amminadab,

Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

and Nahshon the father of Salmon.

5 Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab,

Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth,

and Obed the father of Jesse.

6 Jesse was the father of David the king.

David the king was the father of Solomon, by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam,

Rehoboam the father of Abijah,

and Abijah the father of Asa.

8 Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat,

Jehoshaphat the father of Joram,

and Joram the father of Uzziah.

9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham,

Jotham the father of Ahaz,

and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.

10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh,

Manasseh the father of Amon,

and Amon the father of Josiah.

11 Josiah was the father of Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were exiled to Babylon.

12 And after they were brought to Babylon,

Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,

and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel.

13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud,

Abiud the father of Eliakim,

and Eliakim the father of Azor.

14 Azor was the father of Zadok,

Zadok the father of Akim,

and Akim the father of Eliud.

15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar,

Eleazar the father of Matthan,

and Matthan the father of Jacob.

16 And Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the exile to Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the exile in Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.

The Birth of Jesus Christ

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way: After His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the Holy Spirit. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, had in mind to divorce her privately.

20 But while he thought on these things, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for He who is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”

22 Now all this occurred to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet, saying, 23 “A virgin shall be with child, and will bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is interpreted, “God with us.”

24 Then Joseph, being awakened from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and remained with his wife, 25 and did not know her until she had given birth to her firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS. — Matthew 1 | Modern English Version (MEV) The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House. Cross References: Genesis 22:18; Genesis 25:19; Deuteronomy 22:23; Deuteronomy 24:1; Ruth 4:18; Ruth 4:20; 1 Samuel 1:20; 2 Samuel 7:12; 2 Samuel 11:27; 1 Kings 3:5; 1 Kings 11:43; 1 Kings 15:24; 2 Kings 24:14; 1 Chronicles 2:12; 1 Chronicles 3:14; Isaiah 7:14; Jeremiah 22:30; Jeremiah 27:20; Haggai 1:1; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 16:20; Matthew 27:17; Luke 1:31; Luke 2:7; Acts 5:19; Romans 1:2

#Jesus #Jesus' genealogy #Jesus' birth #Joseph #Mary #angel of the Lord #Matthew 1 #Gospel of Matthew #New Testament #MEV #Modern English Version Bible #Military Bible Association #Charisma House

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incorrect-gunslingers · 7 months

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Josiah: I’m trying this new thing where I make decisions based on “Common Sense” and not my prophetic Visions and Omens

#the magnificent seven #the magnificent seven 1998 #mag7 #the magnificent seven series #josiah sanchez #incorrect qoutes #incorrect quotes

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imnotkosmic · 3 months

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The Way, chapter one: 'A Voice in the Wilderness.'

It had been three weeks. John had been stuck in that dark, dingy, rat infected prison for three weeks. His followers where scattered throughout Gailiee, even making their way to Nazereth. Andrew, son of Jonah, was one of those followers. His older brother, Simon, had told him it was a stupid idea to follow that rouge Baptizer. Now that he was in prison, Simon had told his brother to stay away from him. Andrew thought about how he could see John in prison without his brothers knowledge, when someone yelled his name, "Andrew! Andrew!" the man in question turned around to see one of the other followers of the Baptizer running toward him, waving. "Tobias?" Andrew asked. "What is the matter?" Tobias grinned broadly, "Its John! He's finally out!"

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Simon put the last of the fish into the barrel and called out to James, "I've finished! How much do you have left?" James looked at his net and back to Simon, "A whole nets worth." Simon laughed. Even without their younger brothers, they got all the work done. Well, Simon had gotten all his work done. "Go back to town," James said, "I'll meet you there when I've finished." Simon nodded, said their goodbyes, and started walking into town, hoping James would put both of their barrels of fish into market this time. As he walked into his home, he saw his wife, Edah, standing at the counter, cutting vegetables, probably for tonight's dinner. He put his hand on her shoulder and leaned forward and pressed a kiss into the side of her head. They talked, and then Simon went and changed. "Have you seen Andrew?" he asked as he walked into the big main room. "Not since last Shabbat." his wife answered.

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"You brood of vipers!" John the Baptizer exclaimed to the group of Pharisees. "Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Repet! Don't think you can say, 'we have Abraham as our father' I tell you, that God could make children of Abraham out of these stones!" The 3 Pharisees that had had interrupted John's sermon, Josiah, Asher, and Levi, had been asked by the higher ups of the Sanhedrin to question the rouge Baptizer. So far, no luck. After a few minutes of arguing, the quiter Pharisee, Josiah, asked a question: "Are you the Christ?" John looked at the him, "I am not the Christ." "Or perhaps Elijah?" "No." "The Prophet?" "I am not." The Pharisees were getting angryer by the second. "Then, who are you, man?!" they asked. "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the path of the Lord." John said, qouting Isaiah. "Then why do you baptise if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Phophet?" one Pharisee, named Levi, asked, pointing his finger in John's face."I baptise with water," John said, his voice getting louder, "but among you stands One you do not know. He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whoses sandals I am not worthy to untie." The Pharisees, being quite fed up with the Baptizer at this point, looked at one another, and started to leave. Most of the crowd did the same. John's followers came up to him, "Rabbi," they said, "the people are starting to leave, we should try again tomorrow." John paused, looked at the crowd starting to depart, and said, "Very well."

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The three Pharisees that had questioned John the Baptizer earlier, Levi, Asher, and Josiah, had just got a earful from the High Preist, Caphias. They managed to get nothing from the Baptizer, and on top of that, actually had drawn more people to him. They had orders to go back the next day. "Ugh! How much longer?" Asher asked. He, Josiah, and Levi were on their way to the Jordan, were John proformed most of his sermons and baptisims. "We're nearly there, sir." the man who was driving them there answered. "I can't believe we have to go back to that mad man!" Levi huffed. Josiah just sat there, staring out the flap of the carriage. He, being the newest out of the three, didnt see John as a 'mad man'. Maybe a little weird, but not dangerous. Soon, they heard the Baptizer's loud voice when they got to the Jordan. They made their way out of the carriage, and quietly into the crowd. John and his dicsiples were baptising in the river. Suddenly, John started to look at a tall man coming his way. "Behold!" John cried, "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the One I meant when I said, 'a man who has come after me has surpassed me because He was before me'! I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptising with water was that He might be revealed to Isreal." The crowd watched as the Man came down to the river, took His sandals off, and went into the river. "Rabbi.." John said. The Man smiled and put His hands on His cousins shoulders. "Shalom." John paused, realising what He was doing there. "Have You come to be baptised by me? Shouldn't You be baptising me?" He smiled, "You don't realise now what I am doing, but later, you will understand. This is the Fathers will." John nodded. Then he lowered his cousin into the water, and baptised Him. Suddenly, something like a dove came and rested just above the Man's head, and a loud voice came from heaven, "This is My Son, in whom I am well pleased."

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haggishlyhagging · 7 months

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Sophisticated monotheism is very abstract, for the one God who is worshiped cannot be seen or imaged. The religious thinking of the prophets and Deuteronomy continually made Israel's religion more abstract, eradicating all visual symbols, eliminating the heavenly court, and leaving only human beings and God. Human responsibility was seen as extending to the whole world; human failure could result in the destruction of everything. The very existence of nature, the people of Israel are told, depends on their observance of laws of social behavior which have ostensibly nothing at all to do with the natural order. We can only imagine the bewilderment of farmers who are told that the earth will be fertile so long as farmers remember to treat the poor correctly. Such a theology places the responsibility for fertility on human beings, but it provides no ritual to help assure fertility, no rite by which to celebrate abundance, no way to participate in the mystery of regeneration. It seems impossible that the farmers of Israel could have adhered to a system so abstract, so devoid of symbols for such important matters, so lacking in emotional outlet for their concerns.

The answer is that they did not. Over and over, the prophets assert that the people are "backsliding" or "stiffnecked." The prophets Hosea (eighth century, northern Israel) and Jeremiah (seventh century, Judah) both complain that the people are worshiping "on every lofty hill and under every green tree." Despite the vigorous opposition of the prophets, the people of Israel maintained these rituals and did not find them incompatible with the worship of YHWH. In fact, the complex of altar, tree, hill, and megalith that characterized this worship was an ancient and integral part of Israel's religious life, and the "reforms" of Hezekiah and Josiah that destroyed this complex were a radical innovation rather than a return to some pristine purity. The tenacity of this worship may indicate its importance to the people of Israel; indeed, this nature-oriented worship may have enabled the people of Israel to feel the immanence of God and to continue to worship the abstract and demanding YHWH.

-Tikva Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth

#Tikva Frymer-Kensky #monotheism #nature worship #history of religion #biblical mythology

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lyledebeast · 3 months

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Here is my Vengeance Criteria Based Review of Sweetwater (2013). Ok, before I get into these criteria, it has to be said that this is basically the plot of The Patriot stripped of all the fat and it is approximately 50% of the total run-time (Are you listening, Roland Emmerich?)

The avenger cannot be culpable in the grievance being avenged. Nope, she absolutely is not.

The vengeance has to solve an ongoing problem. Prophet Josiah is the cause of innumerable ongoing problems.

Vengeance should be proportional to the grievance. This one is a little trickier because Sarah kills a lot of men. There are varying degrees of guilt among them, and they are all meted out the same punishment. Also, she doesn't actually kill Josiah. Apparently, he and Ed Harris take each other out (which is how The Patriot should have ended, but I digress). She is obviously disappointed by this. I share her disappointment. Josiah is arguably the worst Jason Isaacs villain ideologically, and he deserved a worse fate than being shot in the head posthumously.

One thing I did like and think worth of note, because I have seen other revenge stories like this, is that Sarah burns her own house down and goes to say goodbye to her mother before carrying out her plans. She does not expect to survive this quest for vengeance. Which is, you know, just reasonable. If you are trying to take out a dozen armed men, there is a very good chance that you aren't making it out alive! But she doesn't care; she can't see a life for herself that doesn't include the man she obviously loved and the baby she was (or thought she was) carrying. Revenge born of abject despair is always easier to sympathize with than revenge for personal closure or, God forbid. so everything can go back the way it was before the act the avengee committed.

#sweetwater 2013 #spoilers #january jones #jason isaacs #vengeance #revenge stories

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belongstocaptaindoyle · 1 year

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Jason Isaacs as Prophet Josiah (part I)

#jason isaacs #prophet josiah #sweetwater #mygifs

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demi-shoggoth · 1 year

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So I'm giving a talk for Open House this week. Which is unusual, because at Open House, it's usually about more casual conversations with parents and teachers. But I teach AP Bio, and I have lots of ideas. So after a fun, weird, witchy April 30th ( Walpurgisnacht), I wrote a fun weird witchy presentation for my AP Bio kids, and I'm going to review and revise it to show to their parents.

It's called " How I Hacked My DNA and You Can Too".

It starts with a conversation about biohacking and the Netflix documentary Unnatural Selection. In the first episode, a guy named Josiah Zayner is basically a prophet of CRISPR, a DNA editing technique that can work in living cells in a whole organism. But because he's unhappy with his appearance, he wants to mitate himself to be more muscular, a real life super serum.

They're trans now. Jo Zayner, she/they. And are doing much safer and more ethical work, like making biopolymers that act as temporary breast implants and improving open source vaccines.

I'll tal a little bit about how the organs and tissues in the human body are still made of individual cells, and that the body works through communication between cells. I'll talk about how Homo sapiens is the last human standing because we had diversified our diets. I'll talk about how the large intestine is more bacteria than human, an entire ecosystem, and how that ecosystem is in constant contact with the body through chemicals it releases.

And then I'm going to tell them little tiny ways to improve their functioning.

Eat more fermented foods to add bacteria to the gut. Even if they don't survive, they'll help teach the immune system what is and isn't a threat, so you'll get sick and stressed less. Dietary supplements like zinc and B12 can be used to institute more permanent changes, from building pathways between neurons to influencing which genes are turned on and off. Not, taking a huge multivitamin every day, but maybe taking a more tailored supplement once a week. And, because I'm trans, talking about how some foods will subtly influence hormones. The "soyboy" insult is a reflection of how little things, like linseed oil, will actually change your hormone levels.

And then I'll open the floor to questions, and I'll talk with whoever stuck around to the end. The door will be open, so people can come and go and see and do other things. Which is important, diversity and choices.

And I'll have a good time being a scientist, even though I dropped out of grad school

#about the author #teaching #health #evolution #epigenetics #diet #any questions?#💙💙💙

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frmartinshomiliesandreflections · 9 months

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8th September >> Fr. Martin's Gospel Reflections / Homilies on Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23 for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: ‘She will give birth to a son’.

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Gospel (Except USA) Matthew 1:1-16,18-23 The ancestry and conception of Jesus Christ.

A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:

Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, Tamar being their mother, Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon was the father of Boaz, Rahab being his mother, Boaz was the father of Obed, Ruth being his mother, Obed was the father of Jesse; and Jesse was the father of King David.

David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife, Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Azariah, Azariah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah; and Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers. Then the deportation to Babylon took place.

After the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor, Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob; and Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.

This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph; being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins.’ Now all this took place to fulfil the words spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel,

a name which means ‘God-is-with-us.’

Gospel (USA) Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23 For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.

The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse, Jesse the father of David the king. David became the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah. Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asaph. Asaph became the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah. Uzziah became the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amos, Amos the father of Josiah. Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the Babylonian exile.

After the Babylonian exile, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor, Azor the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ. Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly. Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,

which means “God is with us.”

Reflections (8)

(i) Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

We celebrate the birth of Mary because of the role she would play in God’s saving purpose for the world. In the words of the gospel reading, it was she who gave birth to Jesus, whom believers came to recognize as Emmanuel, God with us. It was through Marty that God became flesh in the person of her son, Jesus. Even while Jesus was in Mary’s womb, he was Emmanuel, God with us. Because Mary gave birth to Jesus, God with us, we recognize her as the Mother of God. It was through Mary’s son that God would work powerfully to draw all humanity to himself. That is why Mary’s birth was such a momentous event and why we celebrate it every year on this day. In the words of today’s second reading, Mary was chosen long ago for a unique role in God’s purpose for humanity. We venerate Mary not only as Mother of Jesus, Mother of God, but also as Mother of believers, Mother of the church. Jesus looked to Mary as his mother, but he wants us all to look to Mary as our mother. If we are to be children of Mary, we need to be like her Son. In the words of Saint Paul in today’s second reading, God intends us to become ‘images of his Son’. Mary’s calling in life was to become the mother of God’s Son. Our calling in life is to become images of God’s Son. Just as it was through the Holy Spirit that Mary became the mother of God’s Son, so it is through the Holy Spirit that we can become images of God’s Son. God sends the Spirit of his Son into our hearts so that we can each become an image of his Son. What does it mean to be an image of God’s Son? It means loving one another with the love of the Lord, and it is the Holy Spirit who empowers us to do that. When we ask Mary to pray for us sinners now, we are asking her to help us to become living images of her Son, of God’s Son.

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(ii) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

We cannot be sure when Mary was born but today is the day that the church has traditionally celebrated the birthday of Mary. Generally, when we celebrate the feast of saints, their feast coincides with the date of their death. There are only three exceptions to this, when we celebrate the birth of someone who is recognized to be especially holy. We celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25, the birth of John the Baptist on June 24 and the birth of Mary on September 8. John the Baptist and Mary had a unique relationship with Jesus. Mary gave birth to Jesus and John the Baptist prepared people for his coming. We remember the birthdays of both Mary and John the Baptist because of the person they went on to become. We remember Mary’s birthday because she was the one through whom Jesus came to us. God chose this woman above all other women to be the one who would give birth to God’s Son and Mary accepted this unique role she had in God’s purpose on behalf of us all. Her ‘yes’ to God’s choice of her, God’s call, was also a saying ‘yes’ to all of us, to whom God’s Son was being sent. Her generous response to God’s call was an extraordinary grace for us all. Her Son who was given to us was none other than, in the words of today’s gospel reading, Emmanuel, God-with-us, sent to save God’s people from their sins. Because of her ‘yes’ to God’s call, God has drawn close to all of us in a loving and merciful way. It was through Mary that God gained a human face. Jesus was and is the human face of God’s love and mercy. Jesus not only reveals God to us but he also reveals ourselves to us. He shows us what it is to be fully human. In Jesus we see the person we are called to become if we are to be fully human. As Paul tells us in our reading today, God intends us to become true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers and sisters. Our calling is to grow up into the image of Mary’s Son and, in so far as we do that, we become fully ourselves. We celebrate Mary’s birthday because of all that we have received through her, all that God has given to us through her.

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(iii) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

We remember the birthdays of those who are significant for us in life. We also remember the birthday of those who are significant for our faith life. The most significant person in terms of our faith life as Christians is, of course, Jesus, and we remember his birthday on Christmas day. Next to Jesus, Mary is the most significant person for the faith life of many Christians, and it is only fitting that the church remembers her birthday. It is impossible to know when exactly Mary was born, but September 8 has traditionally been the day when the church celebrates Mary’s birthday. When we wish someone a happy birthday we are, in a sense, giving thanks for that person’s birth and life. Today we give thanks for Mary’s birth and life. The gospel reading for today’s feast has to do with the birth of Jesus, rather than the birth of Mary, and that is only right and fitting. We celebrate Mary’s birth and life because of the birth of Jesus, because she became the mother of the Saviour. She is the one through whom we receive Emmanuel, God-with-us. Mary doesn’t offer us herself; she offers us her Son. She holds out her Son to us. She would have been happy to make her own the words of John the Baptist in relation to himself: ‘He, Jesus, must increase, but I must decrease’. The best way to honour Mary is to receive the Son of God whom she offers to us, to become, like herself, people who, in the words of Luke’s gospel, ‘hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance’.

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(iv) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

There are very few people whose birthday we celebrate as feast days. I can only think of three, Jesus, of course, whose birth we celebrate on December 25, John the Baptist, whose birth we celebrate on June 24, and Mary, whose birth we celebrate today, September 8. What John the Baptist and Mary have in common is that they are both defined by their relationship to Jesus. Mary gave birth to Jesus; she gave Jesus to the world. John directed people, including his own disciples, to Jesus. If Mary brought Jesus to the world, John tried to bring the world to Jesus. We honour the birthdays of John the Baptist and Mary because of the unique roles they each had in the life of Jesus. John pointed out Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. According to this morning’s gospel reading, Mary’s child was called Jesus because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins. John and Mary in different ways point to Jesus as the revelation of God’s mercy. Matthew in this morning’s gospel reading gives another name to Mary’s child, Emmanuel, God-with-us. Mary’s child is above all God with us in his mercy. We celebrate Mary’s birthday because of the precious gift she gave to the world.

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(v) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

We do not know when Mary was born but the church has chosen the 8th of September to celebrate the day of her birth. We celebrate the birth of Mary because of who she was to become, the mother of God’s Son. Her birth points ahead to that special child who was to be born from her. This morning’s gospel reading gives the child that was to be born of her two names, Jesus and Emmanuel. In the Semitic world, names were very important because each name carried a specific meaning. The name Jesus in Hebrew means ‘the Lord saves’. As the gospel reading says, ‘he is the one who is to save his people from their sins’. The name Emmanuel in Hebrew means, ‘God is with us’. These two names reveal a great deal about the child who was born of the woman whose birthday we celebrate today. God was present among us through Mary’s son as a merciful God, as a God who works to deliver us from our sins and to reconcile us to himself. Jesus is God with us in a merciful way. Saint Paul gives expression to one aspect of God’s mercy in today’s first reading. He declares that God co-operates with all those who love him by turning everything to their good. In other words, if we are open in love to the God present in Jesus, this God will turn everything to our good, all the experiences of our lives, including those we consider totally negative. Jesus reveals a God who works in a life-giving way in the midst of all our experiences. It is through Mary that we have come to know this God, which is why it is right and fitting for us to celebrate the day of her birth.

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(vi) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The church has chosen this date, the 8th of September, to celebrate the day of Mary’s birth. We celebrate the birth of Mary because in the words of today’s gospel reading, she gave birth to a son who was named Jesus. The name ‘Jesus’ is very akin to the name ‘Joshua’. In the Hebrew language names often have a special meaning. Thus, the name ‘John’ means ‘the Lord is gracious’. The name ‘Jesus’ means ‘the Lord saves’. The gospel reading specifies that Mary’s son was the one who would save God’s people, Israel, and all of humanity, from their sins. The adult Jesus, on the night before he died, at the last supper, would take a cup of wine, give it to his disciples to drink, while saying, ‘this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins’. Jesus was being true to his name at the last supper and, above all, on the cross, which the last supper anticipated in a symbolic way. We repeat those words of Jesus at every Eucharist, at the consecration of the Mass. Saint Paul says in his first letter to the Corinthians that ‘every time we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death, until he comes’. At every Eucharist, just as at the last supper, the Lord’s total gift of himself for our sins is powerfully present. The Lord’s death was the demonstration of God’s love for us, a love that called out to all humanity, ‘Be reconciled to God’. Jesus revealed by his life and especially by his death God’s searching love for sinners. Mary’s birth looks ahead to the birth of her son, Jesus, who revealed God’s love to be stronger than human sin, if only we open ourselves to that love in our poverty. That is why we celebrate Mary’s birth as a birth of great significance, not just for her own parents and family, but for all humanity.

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(vii) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of several feasts of Mary in the church’s liturgical calendar. We consider the birth of Mary a blessed day for all of us because as a young woman she would say ‘yes’ to God’s call to become the mother of God’s Son, Jesus. With the birth of Mary, the story of Jesus has already begun. The gospel reading this morning declares that Mary conceived her child, Jesus, through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was at work in Mary’s life not only at the moment of Jesus’ conception, but throughout her earthly life. She was a woman of the Spirit, even before the Holy Spirit came down upon her and Jesus’ first disciples at Pentecost. We are all called to be men and women of the Spirit, as Mary was. Our baptismal calling is to allow the Holy Spirit to shape our lives, all we do and say, just as the Holy Spirit shaped the life of Mary. According to Saint Paul in today’s second reading, God’s purpose for our lives is that we become ‘true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers and sisters’. Just as Mary brought Jesus into the world, we are called to bring Jesus into the world by becoming true images of Jesus, God’s Son. Just as Mary brought Jesus into the world through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can only become images of God’s Son, bringing him into our world, through the power of the same Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit to keep overshadowing us if we are to grow into the image of God’s Son, so that we can continue Mary’s work of bringing Jesus into our world today.

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(viii) Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

On the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we read one of the gospel accounts of the nativity or birth of Jesus. We remember the day of Mary’s birth because of the role she would go on to play in the life of Jesus. Jesus had many disciples in the course of his public ministry, but he only ever had one mother. Mary’s relationship with Jesus was truly unique. Yet, as well as being his mother, Mary was also his most faithful disciple. This aspect of her relationship to Jesus is one she shares with us all. Today’s gospel reading speaks of Mary as having conceived Jesus ‘by the Holy Spirit’. The gospels portray Mary as a woman of the Spirit, completely open to the Spirit’s promptings. Not only was her son conceived by the Spirit, but her whole life was shaped by the Spirit. As a woman of the Spirit, she was not only the mother of Jesus but, in the words of Paul in today’s second reading, she was a true image of God’s Son. Paul declares in that reading that God intends all of us to become true images of God’s Son. It is the Holy Spirit at work in our lives who will enable us to become true images of God’s Son. We look to Mary to show us the person that God intends us to become, people of the Spirit who reflect God’s Son to others by our whole way of life. In celebrating Mary’s birthday, we are also celebrating our own baptismal calling. We will not be fully conformed to the image of God’s Son in this earthly life, but each day of our lives we are called to grow into this image, in the power of the Spirit. As we do so, we can look to Mary as our inspiration and also as our help and support on this journey, calling on her to pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Fr. Martin Hogan.

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