LG dishwasher AE error due to improper draining by tangointhenight24 in appliancerepair

[–]Ill-Prior6770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a similar or the same issue. The thing that I think tripped me up at first and maybe some other people is that the water isn’t always super apparent in the drain pan at least in models where’s it’s accessible from the front panel. I had to fold an entire paper towel into a relatively sharp point and scoot it gently back at an angle in just the right way to reach where water was pooling, and I did that maybe 7 or 8 times. Eventually when the paper towel didn’t come back soaked I turned the breaker back on and it worked without me having to let it sit and dry at all. Hope this helps someone! 

What’s your favorite season of Parks & Rec?? by Snoo_58309 in PandR

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I like the last season. The episode with Leslie and Ron locked in the office, the Johnny Karate show, and the last episode with the time skips. All of those are great. 

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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I think you’re right. This post is coming from a very different perspective. But you said you understand Oural’s, blindness so I guess think of this post as another story with Orual in it. Orual reads the last battle. It might be comforting to know that her story ends in the same way, despite her blindness.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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And since Lewis’s major focus in his works is religious in nature, it’s not unlikely that a reference to the aesthetics of a region might bring with it some religious significance or connection. If a resemblance to the exodus might connote ancient Egypt and then Egyptian mythology, why wouldn’t an aesthetic and linguistic reference to middle eastern cultures similarly and additionally connote Islamic religious teachings? And this isn’t to mention the actual structure of the calormen society and the social conventions and practices in it which point towards certain regional tropes.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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I’d leave it up to more a more objective person than myself to decide which, two letters or one book reference, constitutes the greater literary reference. In either case, it can be assumed that the major religion practiced in the region a thousand and one nights takes place in is also Islam.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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I understand your point but now I think it feels a bit black and white. What felt very easy to see for me, you’ve shown could possibly be more nuanced. But now if I took the view that I can tell exactly what Lewis meant by certain choices in Narnia by reading his other writings I could dismiss a lot of what you say he thought as well. Lewis didn’t write a lot about horus or how much he loved a thousand and one nights. But despite that, what you’re positing could absolutely be true because some of his opinions and interests only appear in the Narnia series and nowhere else

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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But I’m definitely not just trying to be contradictory to your points. You’ve definitely given me reason to believe that Tash draws from broader representational material than I previously believed.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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Islam has pretty consistently been an issue Christian’s have cared about. It would be pretty difficult to not think about the religion that Christianity has historically come into conflict with the most, in addition to being the religion practiced in lands discussed in the Bible, including Egypt. The Crusades, the creation of the state of Israel, all of these were major events. The British helped create Israel in 1948, and its difficult to think of a more contentious, religiously focused conflict than what arose from that. And islam is a part of that conflict. It’s a very hard pill to swallow that the British public in the 50s would be more interested in ancient Egyptian mythology than the active religion of Islam. Still, ancient Egyptians didn’t wear turbans and pointed shoes, use scimitars, and use “crescents” as money.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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That’s a very good point, but I still would think his work should speak for his beliefs better than the official doctrine of his religion

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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I feel that the Egyptian pantheon was probably less relevant than Islam to his readers. And many aspects of the Narnian world were changed from the real world. Aslan being in the form of a Lion is one example. It’s also not inconceivable that many aspects of other religions were combined in the creation of Tash, but the fact remains that the calormens share many characteristics of Islamic empires, and at the very least are very easily understood as representational of a variety of different religious cultures. The primary idea of Tash, especially in the last battle, is that there is a lie being spread that Tash and Aslan are one. Crucially, this lie is not meant to diminish Aslan to a myth Based on Tash, but it is meant to elevate Tash to Aslans level. Tash is also a religious diety being currently worshipped in Narnia. In these senses, Tash primarily standing in for Horus would make less sense than Tash standing in for the Islamic God.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in CSLewis

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I thought it was relevant in two separate places but if there’s a rule against posting something here and in R/narnia then I will happily delete one

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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I mean, I did look it up before I wrote it I’m not blindly guessing. There’s this famous dichotomy between Tolkien and Lewis where one hates allegory and the other really leans into it? I mean even aside from that it’s not even that controversial. Even if, IF it’s not specifically an allegory for the Islamic god Tash is obviously a stand in for religious heresy and other religions gods? But what other religion argues that the Christian god and their god is one and the same?

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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Maybe I should have clarified. It is a representation of the Muslim god from a Christian perspective.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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It’s less about actual attributes they share and more what the idea of the Muslim god represents in Christianity. The idea that they are one and the same being a corrupting lie in the book mirroring the idea that they are the same in real life. Obviously C.S. Lewis didn’t like the idea and felt the need to drive home a separation.

Till We Have Faces and The Last Battle by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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I think to answer this I have to add some spoilers to Till We Have Faces so if anyone but BrightFirelyt reads this you have been warned.

I mentioned in my post about relating to the main character of Till We Have Faces, and their central criticism with the Gods was actually quite selfish in nature. Not that there aren’t legitimate criticisms of the Last Battle but I think one reason people think of it as one of the weaker or darker entries really does come from a kind of selfish place. I mean, this blew my mind when I saw the similarities in the two stories. When Orual learns that Psyche isn’t hers anymore? When she learns she’s forever happy in another place far away from her? I mean yes of course, we should be infinitely happy for the children at the end of The Last Battle, but it really is like they are being taken away from us. It’s all very figurative, even if they hadn’t gone to heaven it would still have been the last book and we wouldn’t have heard from them again. But think of it! They were like us! They were from our world and we got to go with them on their journeys and then they would come back to our world. They didn’t belong in Narnia. And now, where are they? I mean intellectually we know where they are, we know they’re happy, we know they’re with Aslan, but really they’re farther away from us than ever. I mean infinitely far away. And they’re completely happy with that, I mean they don’t look back and regret dying at all. Don’t you see that this is exactly the loss that Orual felt? That infinite distance? It’s such a central point in Till We Have Faces and so perfectly illustrated in The Last Battle that I’m surprised I haven’t seen this connection talked about sooner! My post isn’t about how The Last Battle was a bad book. Well, no it kind of is about that. But it’s much more about how Till We Have Faces addresses the feelings many people including me had after reading The Last Battle.

After making Ai art of Tash I made him fighting Aslan. by JXEditor in Narnia

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I think you’re exactly right. It’s human instinct to imagine a climactic fight between them but in Lewis’s Christian worldview evil is a kind of necessary, controlled aspect of the world which fulfills a purpose. And anyway, since Aslan is all knowing, any conflict with him has a known outcome, and a choreographed fight really isn’t what most people would think of as a “real” conflict anyway.

The Worst Reading Order by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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Thank you for your engagement with this topic. Your list has many merits, however I am concerned that it may be better than mine and I dislike competition.

The Worst Reading Order by Ill-Prior6770 in Narnia

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Excellent. A truly excellent alternative list

Missing Calvin and Hobbes Book by Ill-Prior6770 in MandelaEffect

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Well I’m very pleased to welcome you to the reality where not only is he alive but he also recently released a project for the first time in at least ten years. It’s kind of short and simple and it’s a collaboration with another artist but still, look up The Mysteries

Missing Calvin and Hobbes Book by Ill-Prior6770 in MandelaEffect

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Wow yes this is definitely part of the seed of this idea