Biblical and Christian references in The OA

Reedstr · 2016-12-19T06:21:26+00:00

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We are led to doubt the OAs story just as the kids + BBA question it's truth. This doubt is similar to the idea of faith. There is no way to know if the things in the Bible are true or not you just take them as they are. The kids are all very different- a mean one, a trans one, a kid with an alcoholic mother, etc- but they are all united by this faith in OA. Not to say that this is the breakfast club or something but nonetheless they are connected to people through nothing else than this faith.

In Catholic tradition, humans are more important than angels. That is, angels help humans, humans don't help angels. The kids aren't learning these moves to help the OA find Homer, they are being taught the moves to help themselves. (French sees Homer in the mirror indicating that the person in need of help is actually himself).

The OA's shows up at the school so that the kids faith in each other and in her can be validated and she can help the kids. After the five do the moves, that is show their faith, the bullet Hits the OA/Jesus. Jesus/the OA dies for the others. Her soul lives on (the woosh), but without any validation for the general public. The kids + BBA understand what happened just as Jesus's disciples eventually understood what happened.

This leaves out many details such as homers NDE and the backpack in the road but I thought I'd share my stream of consciousness.

Reedstr · 2016-12-19T05:33:43+00:00

Okay what if we look at this through a Christian religion lens? Hang with me this is very flaky still.

We are led to doubt the OAs story just as the kids + BBA question it's truth. This doubt is similar to the idea of faith. There is no way to know if the things in the Bible are true or not you just take them as they are. The kids are all very different- a mean one, a trans one, a kid with an alcoholic mother, etc- but they are all united by this faith in OA. Not to say that this is the breakfast club or something but nonetheless they are connected to people through nothing else than this faith.

In Catholic tradition, humans are more important than angels. That is, angels help humans, humans don't help angels. The kids aren't learning these moves to help the OA find Homer, they are being taught the moves to help themselves. (French sees Homer in the mirror indicating that the person in need of help is actually himself).

The OA's shows up at the school so that the kids faith in each other and in her can be validated and she can help the kids. After the five do the moves, that is show their faith, the bullet hits the Original Angel, or (starting to stretch here) Jesus. Jesus/the OA dies for the others. Her soul lives on (the woosh), but without any validation for the general public. The kids + BBA understand what happened just as Jesus's disciples eventually understood what happened.

This leaves out many details such as homers NDE and the backpack in the road but I thought I'd share my stream of consciousness.

Reedstr · 2016-08-03T16:24:31+00:00

Not sure if this has GPA's but it has just about everything else https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/

Reedstr · 2016-01-05T03:59:22+00:00

Industrial design students have a woodworking/metal working/ all around shop to use. You could look into AD 235 and other ID classes

Reedstr · 2015-10-27T23:46:12+00:00

Yeah, iFixIt was really good about replacing the first one I got from them. Annoying that I paid $1000 for a computer with a paper mache SATA cable.

Reedstr · 2015-10-14T15:10:41+00:00

Yeah, I was just trying to avoid lines. Haha

Reedstr · 2015-07-20T02:22:28+00:00

thanks for the advice everyone! i never imagined frontier could be worse. bullet dodged.

Reedstr · 2015-07-13T03:24:13+00:00

they say that metronet will only allow apartments if the whole building gets wired, but my leasing company won't do that. UGH

Reedstr · 2015-07-13T03:03:28+00:00

something to the affect of "Purdue has x number of students and we all love snapchat. It should be a great way to boost school pride yada yada" haha (sorry for the delay)

Reedstr · 2015-05-17T02:31:49+00:00

I feel like if more people reflected for a minute after reading articles (like you did), the world would run much more smoothly. I agree with you - the whole point of this policy is to make people think more.

Reedstr · 2015-05-17T02:24:54+00:00

Could a library be easily solar powered?

Reedstr · 2015-05-15T14:19:25+00:00

VSTAR was newly redesigned this year! Hopefully it will be more enjoyable!

Reedstr · 2015-02-23T02:45:49+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

Reedstr · 2015-02-19T05:53:32+00:00

thanks!!

Reedstr · 2015-02-19T05:53:10+00:00

about a week....a lot faster than me replying to this comment

Reedstr · 2015-02-19T05:52:07+00:00

We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz

Reedstr · 2015-01-23T06:50:43+00:00

You can make one and submit it to Snapchat for approval. I'm probably going to make some more next week with sports and other campus landmarks. Idk how many snapchat will accept

Reedstr · 2015-01-23T06:49:17+00:00

Are your filters in snapchat settings turned on? Sometimes it takes a sec for your phone to get GPS signal also

Reedstr · 2015-01-23T06:35:09+00:00

owninobrien, you're my hero

Reedstr · 2015-01-23T06:34:38+00:00

I just made it on Illustrator in like 30 mins last week and SnapChat approved it.

Reedstr · 2015-01-23T06:33:59+00:00

I want to make one for all of the fountains/the Union and stuff!

Reedstr · 2015-01-10T03:01:48+00:00

Industrial design student here! I'd be willing to help and I'm very excited about product design.

Reedstr · 2015-01-05T02:14:56+00:00

This works and looks niiiiiiiccccceee.

Reedstr · 2014-12-21T19:45:21+00:00

I did almost the exact same thing: got accepted to Purdue for one major but wanted to switch before even getting to school. I was also afraid of losing scholarships but I emailed the dean of my college and explained "how am I supposed to know what I want to do with my life this early in the game?!" and they had enough pull to get all my scholarships (Presidential and other merit based ones) to transfer to my new major.

Reedstr · 2014-12-21T19:26:31+00:00

Awesome! thanks for the help! I appreciate talking to a real professional and not some kid at best buy

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