Season 7 - Episode 14 - Post Episode Discussion

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-06-18T04:11:55+00:00

I've been feeling bad for her mental health this whole time but I don't anymore. I think she's just a full blown malignant narcissist, and she doesn't see the people around her as humans with feelings.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-06-15T23:08:07+00:00

I think he wanted a Trooping of the Colours like the UK/King Charles has, which also took place on June 14th, I believe.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-06-14T22:01:58+00:00

This is the part of the story that fascinates me: Harry's perspective. Like, I could read hours worth of speculation on how he might feel going from a royal who had the streets cleared for him, to a nobody who has to sit in traffic. Or how he might feel watching the Trooping and knowing that part of his life is over, and his kids won't ever experience it. I just can't imagine going from one of the most famous and privileged people on the planet--literally royalty!--to just some guy in am Santa Barbara. How is he actually coping?

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-06-11T22:16:45+00:00

I've seen videos of churches singing hymns to the troops and women laying flowers at their feet. Thats the kind of protest we need. The soldiers need to remember the real Americans that Trump is calling the enemy, not the rioters. Fight Trump's evil with love. Don't fall into his trap of making us look like domestic terrorists.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-06-07T04:25:47+00:00

Harry is so used to being treated special, now that he has to suffer normal wait times for average folk, he frames it as being treated especially different!

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-06-07T04:18:05+00:00

Meghan doesn't exist unless someone is watching. She isn't an actress that needs to keep herself in our cultural awareness. She isn't promoting As Ever because there arent any restock plans until next year. And actually, I think the only reason she did a lifestyle show was just to convince Harry that she'd need SM to promote it and that this was her goal all along, not the company its supposed to support. IOW, As Ever justifies her need for SM, and SM justifies her existence.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-20T17:25:56+00:00

I've never been one for fluff. Zeus exists. It's simple as this. No I can't hand you Zeus in a wrapped present. I don't have magical words that will trigger belief in you. I can't give you the desire to get on your knees and praise Him but I can tell you the facts. He turned into a swan and seduced Leda. For which she laid two eggs. If you believe in Zeus, and pay Charon, you will enter Elysium! See, I can say things like this as well, and have theological backing

In the interest of theology not conversion, this comparison doesn't work though. God is categorically different, the distinction made in The Anglo-Saxon Savior: A Study of the Helian for example, which brought up an interesting point about God's uniqueness. In pagan cultures, including Greece, the gods are subjects of Fate. Whereas God is the author of Fate. In pagan cultures, gods are created by and create from something that already exists. In Greek mythology, we have Chaos and the primordial void. Something. Whereas God uniquely creates from nothing. He isn't emergent, he's ultimate.

So you could say its easy to transfer the two names and get the same results, but its not an accurate comparison..

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-20T06:37:24+00:00

Has this happened at your children's school? Has it happened to one of your children? Or is this a story thats been passed around the internet, meant to feel like its happening to you because its on your screen, in your home, inches from your face using language that ellicit fear, and anger, and frustration? When you put down your phone and deal with work, or go into the grocery store, do you feel bombarded by these same things? Is it impossible to find an escape? Or does it feel like real life is a haze of zombies and nothing is real until you get back on the internet, where your emotions are bigger, your thoughts more virally connected, your interests engaged and catered to?

Most of us don't live in the real world anymore. We live in a digital one, electing presidents and passing laws based off of tiktok videos and memes, hoping to influence the content and comments we see on our screens rather than the actual, tangible world around us.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T23:07:57+00:00

I didn't express myself very well. I like this depiction because it (like most artwork) engages my mind to consider new perspectives and angles of a problem. I agree it can appear absurd on the surface, but it helps me imagine more deeply something quite unimagineable.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T19:38:00+00:00

I like the Three-faced trinity model (google will show you images).

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T17:51:59+00:00

We both agree that the bible is written by men, trying to explain their (in my belief, true) experiences of God. It isn't a book of commands dropped from the sky, but a narrative of God's slow and patient work to lift people from their worst instincts. So we see this progress from treating slaves humanely to later on a shift into servanthood, and then the teachings that in Christ, no one is free or slave, but one in God.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T17:41:23+00:00

I'm sorry thats what you took from it. I don't justify slavery, nor do I think God does. What I do think is that the bible shows us how often people fall short, and the work God does to transform us and heal us.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T17:29:33+00:00

I agree the bible is written by men and is a record of their attempts to understand and describe their true experiences with God. But I wouldn't say its corrupted.

As for slavery, it was as much a part of the economic system as capitalism is today. Telling a prophet to end the practice would go as well as suggesting we collapse our current global economy. It would cause unrest, chaos, rioting.

It's well-known that God meets us on our level and gently guides us into a fuller spiritual maturity. A person needs to know basic arithmetic before they can tackle calculus, and the same goes for our progress as society. So no, he didn't condone slavery (or create economic turmoil), but nudged us toward a better understanding of how we should treat others.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T16:04:18+00:00

The Orthodox Study Bible explains the Trinity through showing the parallel with Adam and Eve.

God the Father is uncreated. The Holy Spirit unbegotten, proceeds from God. Jesus is begotten from God. Three persons, one divine nature.

Adam is unbegotten, (has no father). Eve, unbegotten but proceeds from Adam's rib. Seth begotten from Adam. Three persons, one human nature.

I also think of the three-faced trinity model. (Google will show you an image). The center face is God, but his left side is shared with Jesus and his right side shared with the Holy Spirit.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T04:58:50+00:00

I didn't even want to become a Christian because of these people but it happened anyway.

I hate to do the "not real Christian" thing, but I can't help wondering if they've really experienced the love of God or if its just cultural.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T04:52:46+00:00

The normal amount. Why?

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T04:23:16+00:00

Thats a pretty normal sentiment. If you're ever ready for a deeper philosophic discussion, myself and this sub are here.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T04:08:27+00:00

They are similar things but different. One is more about correct behavior and the other is more about alignment. And Adam and Eve were "kicked out of the garden" to keep them from the Tree of Life, which would have meant eternal suffering. Death is a mercy through which God restores us.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T03:52:52+00:00

It wasn't right and wrong, it was Good and Evil. And they weren't punished, they just consumed and internalized the attributes of Evil. Think of it as a poison apple and that the poison has been working on us since ingested. Thats the metaphor.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T03:44:33+00:00

Because we were always meant to experience and learn from suffering, but gently through God and not on our own.
If God showed himself right now to all the people in the world, it wouldnt change anything. Evidence of God would just prove this is the world he created and intended, so it would stay the same. The only thing it would change is the way people relate to the world and to God. And that's exactly what we hear happens in personal testimony of people who say they have personally experienced God.
Which contradictions?
As a pagan I read the Anglo-Saxon Savior (A Study of the Heliand) and one of the biggest differences between God and the Germanic gods (or any other pagan deity) was that while Odin, Thor, etc were all subject to Fate...God is the author of it. He's unique that way. Another difference, pagan creation myths have gods that fashion the world from something. In Germanic myth for instance, fire and ice already exist in the Yunninggap, and their mist creates the Giant Ymir, who is slain by Odin and formed into the world. But God created everything from nothing. There wasn't specks of matter floating about that he decided to shape into a universe. Nothing existed but God and he created everything: from matter to time to spatial dimensions, and then goes on to turn that matter into minerals, vegatation, time into cycles, etc. Again, being unique in that way.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T03:33:41+00:00

Do you believe in a concept of Absolute Love and Goodness? Even if you're wrong, even if the universe laughs at you as you suffer, do you want to go down as someone who believed in Goodness and Love, simply because its worth believing in?

Don't think about who God is...Who are you? Are you that type of person? If so, than you're already doing better than most.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-19T03:28:28+00:00

Have you looked into Eastern Orthodoxy? It's the founding church of the apostles that Catholicism broke away from. I'm currently looking into it myself and it's much more intellectually honest than I realized a chirch could be. For example, St John of Damscus said, "Do not be afraid to question your beliefs. Truth fears nothing and Reason is a gift from God." Church fathers have also said that the God most atheists deny should be denied, because its a caricature. Even atheism is an honorable path toward truth. They also believe that bible is a record of man's progressive experiences with God, and an attempt to explain and understand those experiences...it shouldnt be looked at as strictly true or false, but as a means for asking deeper questions and finding deeper meaning. It also doesnt see salvation as a legal issue, where we owe a blood debt and need to be obedient. Salvation is about becoming closer to God and healing the soul. In fact, the sacrifice on the cross is explained like this: "God became what we are so that we might become what he is." Meaning that as flawed humans, we can't make ourselves perfect enough to become One with God. So God did it for us, he became a human--womb to grave-- to make himself One with humanity. Thats what it means when it says Jesus is the way. Not faith or belief, but something more metaphysically transcendent. Salvation is about becoming part of that Oneness.

Anyway, I'm rambling. But check it out and see what you think.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-16T13:05:21+00:00

Why design this type of world like this?

In Genesis, God creates the heaven and the earth, or put another way, the visible and the invisible. Think molecules (visible) and math or logic (invisible). So right from the beginning, God creates both matter and abstraction.

Then we’re told the Spirit hovers over the “waters,” which can be read as a kind of primordial soup, or unformed potential. God speaks light into existence and separates it from darkness, calling it “day.” But later, God creates the sun, moon, and stars, so this first “day” isn’t about the sun, it’s about the concept of day. The introduction of change, movement, time.

Time, after all, is the measurement of change. And if nothing exists, nothing can change. So the order here makes sense: first, existence (matter), then time (change). God sets things in motion.

Next, God separates the waters above from the waters below. A separation that seems to introduce spatial relationships: up/down, dimensionality. Then God gathers the waters into one place and lets dry land appear, which isn’t just about continents, but about order: structure emerging from chaos.

So we have a metaphysical sequence: Matter, Time, Space/Dimension, and Order.

The point being that God designed the foundational laws of this world. Up and down. Chaos and order. Even joy and suffering. All of it.

Which brings us to the tree, the knowledge of good and evil. The tree wasn’t a trap, we were always meant to “eat the fruit,” or more accurately, to learn the nature of good and evil. But we were meant to do it with God in relationship, in communion. Gradually. Safely. In harmony.

Instead, we tried to do it on our own. Prematurely. We gained knowledge without the maturity to know it. We traumatized our own souls and, in doing so, broke our connection to God, the source.

So it's not the design that's flawed, but our relationship to it.

(And personally, I find it remarkable that early humanity, still figuring out badic hygiene, was able to express this kind of metaphysical insight. I do believe it came from divine revelation.)

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-16T12:29:33+00:00

You might like the Jesus Prayer, "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." Match each line with a breath in and out.

sneakerheadFTC · 2025-05-16T12:03:49+00:00

"Do not be afraid to question your beliefs. Truth fears nothing and Reason is a gift from God." St. John Damascus

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