I do like the cool sand-being-formed-into-shapes-on-a-drumhead opening. Wasn't there another opening filmed with molten metal pouring down ring molds, though? Is that being saved for later?
What's with the tattered awning thing? Does this franchise actually remember that orcs can't handle sunlight very well -- unlike a certain Peter Jackson I could mention?
So, the presumably-Numenorian sailor uniform looks cool but I can't help but think long jerkins and gambesons will be constricting if they have to go aloft. Don't you boys have to reef the topsails sometimes? Keep your legs free!
Top two pictures are from the show: bottom two are what I'm guessing are the real-world inspirations. Greco-Roman islander, but with some kind of twist.
The unexpected hug. Classic Rogue move. Okay, I think I've got this guy just about statted out in my head. High DEX, high CHA, decent but not above average WIS, mysterious backstory...
Anin -- from "anha," "give"
apsene -- from apsen, "release" "forgive"
"Forgive me."
Both words can be seen in "...ar ámen apsenë úcaremmar sív’ emmë apsenet tien i úcarir emmen." ("Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.")
If you're gonna use Augustine's "ordo amoris," get it right.
"All men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you."
In other words, it's not that you love your neighbor more than the rest of the world because because there are concentric circles of whose love "outranks" the others.
You love everyone equally -- but focus in particular on those life brings you in contact with.
An abstract love for the unknown stranger in some other country is not a bad thing, but has few practical applications.
But the migrant from another country that I pass on the streets of my hometown has been brought within my sphere of influence, and I must love him.
In the early days of the Reformation in Zürich, a debate was held on baptism, between Zwingli (an influential priest who was instituting reforms in his church) and a few young former members of Zwingli's Bible study, who believed Scripture did not support infant baptism.
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The city council sided with Zwingli. They ordered that all unbaptized infants must be immediately baptized, on threat of exile.
Conrad Grebel, who had an unbaptized infant daughter, met privately with a few others who shared his convictions: Felix Manz and George Blaurock.
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The three young men didn't just disagree with the council about baptism. They believed the council had no authority to make decisions about faith.
After prayer, Blaurock came to a decision, and asked Conrad Grebel to give him a "true baptism." He then baptized the others.
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"When we govern in ways that limit or crush 'agency,' we are limiting and crushing the image of God... The Kingdom of God flourishes as the Image of God flourishes in all." --LSH
(Quotes may be slightly paraphrased, I'm typing as fast as I can, but she's *preaching*)
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"We need our next President to move us in the direction of the vision of the hungry being fed, the thirsty being given something to drink... I and my house will cast our vote for the candidate that will move us closest to that Kingdom vision." --LSH
They tell us that Christian Nationalism is not about white supremacy, that what Wolfe and Wilson and Rigney and Sauve are promoting is just wanting to follow God's laws and live in a "Christian Nation."
But shall we peek under the "hood" and see for ourselves? A 🧵
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"But we the unhyphenated, who trace our ancestry to Western Europe... We, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded, built, died for and led this country for most of its history, we are not permitted in this New America to have a... place that is distinctly ours."
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"There's no distant place that we call home. We have nowhere else to go. But THIS is our home. THIS is our native land. *WE* are Native Americans, born of those who didn't immigrate, but who SETTLED here."
1) Eternal Conscious Torment (Dante style). Hell is God's *retribution* for your sins. The fire is literal. Level of punishment is scaled to fit your sins, but the worst part is the separation from God forever. Held by: Augustine.
2) Eternal Conscious Torment (Evangelical style). As above, but more emphasis on spiritual/psychological torment of God's Absence, less sense of physical punishment. The fire is a metaphor. Held by: Alphonsus Liguori
3) Eternal Conscious Torment ("The Great Divorce" style). Hell is self-exclusion from God's presence, in which we make ourselves eternally miserable without God. The doors to Hell are "locked from the inside." Held by: C.S. Lewis, some Catholics
Theories of Atonement as GIFs from The Office -- a thread.
1: Ransom Theory (Origen) -- Jesus's death was a ransom given to the devil in exchange for humanity's freedom
2. Moral Example Theory (Socinius) -- Both Jesus's life of self-sacrifice, and his martyrdom, were examples for his followers to emulate.
3. Moral Transformation Theory (Abelard) -- Jesus's death is the demonstration of God's love for us, a demonstration so powerful it can change our hearts and turn us back towards God.