#verse: the negate

[bambayah]

In light of the new Vivre Cards, (will totally ignore the power-scaling shizz happening)

Landscape photographer!Shanks x Farmer!Mihawk (but actually the owner of the lands he tills)

Shanks going out of the city to find inspiration again only to find it in a quaint and seemingly abandoned mansion with vast lands with only an eccentric farmer as its caretaker.

Seeing Mihawk, Shanks’ thinking of changing careers and be a model photographer instead with how effortlessly breathtaking the other man is even if the subject of the photo is the garden he takes care of and Mihawk just happens to be in the picture.

Down in the dumps photographer Shanks finds his muse in a grumpy, borderline misanthropic farmer.

[disscog]

What Can Be Said (Ontology's a Drag) - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem using an apophatic (αποφατι��οζ) or negation approach – the not knowing, (as opposed to a cataphatic (καταφατικα) or positive approach – the knowing/affirming). For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – MTB – Meet The Bar Positively Through Negation Image by Nick Kirtoki from Pixabay “The rose has no Why?…

[missallanea-archive]

@willowdied: ❛ will i see you again? ❜ orpheus to persephone?

For some, the question would've been met with a teasing boastfulness -- she could already hear the words she'd have uttered echoing in the back of her mind: long as this earth keeps on spinnin', I'll be here, child. Sure as the sun falls and rises. Orpheus seeks not godly promises or wisdom, but something smaller. Something far more personal than Persephone is used to offering to mortals, even those who she would consider to be her champions.

She reaches out thoughtfully, tracing a hand along his cheek in an almost motherly fashion. He sought comfort, and while it was not always in her habit to give it, she can afford a bit of kindness to him. He had more than earned it.

"If you need me, Orpheus. Anywhere the summer sun is shinin', you know I'll be 'round."

various question sentence starters

[sylviareviar]

"God. And here I was getting all worked up thinking I'd need to intervene. People are wild in this time..."

"ARE YOU TELLING ME THE ANCIENT EVIL CALLED ORICHALCOS CAN BE NEGATED WITH A FUCKING SNICKERS--?!"

[palestinian-from-gaza-and-proud]

Trumps wants to take over and settle Gaza, drive out and expel the Palestinians from it to neighboring countries. The lion of the desert, the legendary Omar Mokhtar, answered this question over a century ago when the Italians made the same threats.

Here is what the Qur’an says in Ch. 60, verses 8-9, regarding such aggressive actions:

Qur'an 60:8-9

{Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes – from being righteous and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly (8) Allah only forbids you from those who fight you because of religion and expel you from your homes and aid in your expulsion – [forbids] that you make allies of them. And whoever makes allies of them, then it is those who are the wrongdoers (9)}

لَّا يَنۡهَاكُمُ ٱللَّهُ عَنِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَمۡ يُقَٰتِلُوكُمۡ فِي ٱلدِّينِ وَلَمۡ يُخۡرِجُوكُم مِّن دِيَٰرِكُمۡ أَن تَبَرُّوهُمۡ وَتُقۡسِطُوٓاْ إِلَيۡهِمۡۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلۡمُقۡسِطِينَ.إِنَّمَا يَنۡهَاكُمُ ٱللَّهُ عَنِ ٱلَّذِينَ قَٰتَلُوكُمۡ فِي ٱلدِّينِ وَأَخۡرَجُوكُم مِّن دِيَٰرِكُمۡ وَظَٰهَرُواْ عَلَىٰٓ إِخۡرَاجِكُمۡ أَن تَوَلَّوۡهُمۡۚ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّهُمۡ فَأُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ

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[kakashixhatakesxwhore]

been kinda ready to [REDACTED] so... let's think about secretadmirer!kakashi rn...

this isn't spellchecked btw :3

secretadmirer!kakashi who sees you in the market square one day and suddenly feels his throat constrict and his ability to form cogent thoughts leave him entirely...

secretadmirer!kakashi who has to wait until he happens upon you the next day to strike up a conversation, all too beguiled by your beauty to spit any game, but who is quite remiss to be curtly turned away as you continued your way down the street to... wherever...

secretadmirer!kakashi who wracks his brain to figure out just why on this gracious green would you reject him? was he too forward? not forward enough? it couldn't be that you outright disliked him... that would be absurd...

secretadmirer!kakashi who can't negate the spark that sizzles in the root of his heart... don't you feel it too?

secretadmirer!kakashi who leaves a bouquet of hand-picked wildflowers from his favourite valley near Hokage Rock, paired with a neatly inked poem that took him an excrutiating swath of time to conjure up, on you doorstep the next day...

secretadmirer!kakashi who sees you walking on air as you go about the village in the days following and feels a genuine smile tugging at his lips for the first time in a while...

secretadmirer!kakashi who resolves to leave those two little gifts on your doorstep every time he returns from a mission...

secretadmirer!kakashi who talks himself up to physically hand you this bouquet, after months of leaving his heart on your doorstep... but who, when it comes down to it, still can't find it in him to stay to even watch your reaction...

secretadmirer!kakashi who kicks himself when he next returns to the village after a long mission and sees you out on what looks very much like a date with some random jonin...

(he did more than kick himself - but he'd never want you to know about the poor trees caught in the path of his kunai as he visualized the gnarled bark to resemble that stupid guy's stupid face)

secretadmirer!kakashi who skips the flowers and keeps his latest poem for himself - to save you from any conflict with your beau, of course...

secretadmirer!kakashi who spends the entirety of his next mission with a sharp pain in his chest...

...but who is dead chuffed to find out that your relationship had dissolved before he got back to the village, because secretadmirer!kakashi (while empathetic) is exceedingly selfish when it comes to you.

who decides all bets are off, that he really does need to make his move before another nobody comes along to waste your precious time, because secretadmirer!kakashi (though an anxious procrastinator in the most trivial times) knows that you deserve somebody proactive and confident in their admiration.

secretadmirer!kakashi who collects his largest bouquet to date, with only the most flawless flowers that the valley had to offer him, and writes the most gorgeous verse, each word dedicated to you...

secretadmirer!kakashi who gathers up his confidence and strides up to your door - he raises his hand, with every intention of knocking...

secretadmirer!kakashi who swallows thickly and shakes his head, bending to leave the flowers and folded paper on your doorstep, because he is your secret admirer who is scared to death that you would reject his admiration if it weren't a secret...

[religious-extremist]

Mistranslation by the KJV, Luke 11:28

27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman called out from the crowd and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

King James Version

28 But Jesus said, “Yes, rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

Eastern Orthodox Version

28 But Jesus said, “Yes, and more than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

The Greek word menounge (μενοῦνγε), translated above in the text of verse 28 as “yea, more than that,” but rendered inaccurately in the KJV as "yea, rather," is the same word which occurs in Phil. 3:8, where the KJV gives Yea, doubtless, and in Rom. 10:18, where the KJV gives Yes, verily.

The force of menounge is that it corrects the previous statement, not by negating it, but by amplifying it.

Philippians 3:8 “Yes, without a doubt, I consider all things as loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things. I consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ.”

Romans 10:18 “But I say, did they not hear? Yes, most certainly: Their sound went out into all the earth, Their words to the ends of the world.”

Evangelicals and opponents of traditional Christianity often frame this statement of Christ as proof that His Mother was not holy or deserving recognition, that she was merely a vessel with little importance, and this perspective directly results from a mistranslation of Christ’s words.

Indeed, blessed is she who contained the Uncontainable: Christ our God.

Understand that Luke’s Gospel was originally written in Greek, so perhaps we ought to study the original language that the scriptures were written in to have a better understanding of Christ’s life-giving message.

Edit: I made a Part Two, I might make it a series. The second part is linked below!

[w0rmsmeatofme]

Is this anything or

made a chart go crazy go stupid

[killer-queen-k]

The line in the Telemachus verse of Hold Them Down where Antinous sings “Hold him down while I slowly break his pride, his trust, his faith, and his bones” sounds a lot like he’s threatening to rape Telemachus before killing him, inside his father’s palace and (unknowingly) in front of his father no less. This could maybe be an allusion to how some versions of the Illiad say that Achilles raped (or at least attempted to) Apollo’s kind of-son Troilus in Apollo’s own temple, which put Achilles at the very top of Apollo’s shit list. This might have been part of why past that point Antinous was so doomed it seemed like even the gods had it out for him and maybe why the suitors were spared no light or viability in the palace because the illiad established that (even threatening )act as something that would earn Apollo’s ire. Presumably this might’ve been what made Apollo forgive Odysseus for his crew having eaten his cow because he was like “nah man I get it, go tear their asses to shreds #sponsored” therefore negating Epic! Odysseus’ need to go appease Apollo and letting him spend the rest of his years happily with his family.

TW: Sexual Assault

I think this is a really interesting interpretation! I don't know much mythology outside of Epic but you've definitely made me want to go read up on that. (Damn fuck Achilles tho fr).

I think it is interesting how some animatics have chosen to portray Telemachus' murder scene which somewhat aligns with what you've mentioned. Most visuals include Antinous with his hand over Tele's mouth, pinning him down and other things commonly associated with the visual of sexual violence.

And then in the song Odysseus the way Telemachus says the line "Get off me!" also (to me at least) once again evokes the idea of sexual violence. Begging someone to get off of them.

One "Hold them Down" animatic that I thought was really interesting was an animatic where there's a visual of a flower wilting (representing Telemachus' innocence being deflowered). And there was another one where Antinous carved an A into his cheek before licking his tears/the wound.

Antinous in the musical is sexually violent throughout the musical and I think it's an interesting choice in animatics when they choose to have that aspect spill over in the Telemachus verse of the song.

I think there's an interesting parallel to toy with the Apollo idea too.

Sorry that has been my mini tangent but yes.

[shadowsndaisies]

dogfighting 101 - 01: let's make it interesting

wc: 1.3k

synopsis: harvard is a good friend (and petty on your behalf)

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athena-verse master post

a/n: hi friends! hope you're all doing well, have some more top gun maverick athena plot.

You got lucky on the first pairing.

“Athena! Harvard and Yale! You're up!”

“Let's go boys, we got a fossil to take down,” you smirk.

Harvard rolls his eyes, throwing an arm over your shoulder, and quietly to you he whispers, “that fossil raised you.”

“Exactly why I get to say it,” you tease, leaning into your friend for a moment.

Harvard shakes his head and pulls you out on to the tarmac. You pause briefly, looking out as Payback and Fanboy pass by, tapping at your shoulders, wishing you luck. Your eyes focus on Bradley though, doing push ups as Hondo counts them. You know the tarmac is blazing, you can feel it through your gear, you can imagine having to do push-ups right now would be miserable. You can even see the strain on his face.

“You remember the rules?” Yale asks as he catches up to the two of you, but you know both of the men caught where your gaze was focused. Harvard’s arm is still tight around your shoulders, and he gives you a squeeze.

“I remember, do you?” you ask, swallowing your thoughts and turning back to the pair.

“Well there was this pilot at Top Gun with us, she gave us so much shit, but hand to God if she isn't the best pilot I’ve ever flown with. She had these rules up in the air, how to focus in, what we leave on the ground, she drilled them into us, really. But, she made us better aviators, hands down,” he teases and you shake your head, happy that these two were your partners for the first go. Brigham turns you with a smile, pushing you toward your jet.

“I think you give me too much credit, Logan,” you muse as you stop beside your jet, grabbing a hold of the ladder.

“Not possible. Show ‘em what this nepo-baby’s made of,” Harvard negates with a teasing tone, tapping your shoulders.

“Yes, sir,” you muse rolling your eyes before climbing up into your jet.

You spot Harvard and Yale as they walk past Rooster. You see the tap Harvard does, stopping Yale, and you watch as he pulls his phone out. The two stopping to snap a photo, undoubtedly teasing him in the process. Yale shakes his head as they walk, and as if feeling your gaze, Harvard turns back meeting your eyes. You know he can see your frown, but all he does is tap at his chest and point at you.

FLASHBACK: TOP GUN

“Why haven’t you emailed him back?”

Brigham’s question catches you off guard, you’d been sat in the Naval Aviator’s lounge at Top Gun. Your laptop open as you switched between Bradley’s most recent email, and a text chain you had running with Amelia about going sailing on your day off over the weekend.

”What?” you ask, turning to look at Brigham.

You liked Brigham, and Logan. They were a good team, and smart aviators. Talented and clever, its makes sense why they got invited to Top Gun. They were also the only two of your class that you actually enjoyed spending time with. They were the only two who didn’t make nepotism jokes as soon as someone realized you were a legacy, that your old man was a Top Gun graduate. They were a solid team, solid aviators, and solid people, you were quickly starting to consider them friends.

”You’ve had that email open on and off the last few days,” he notes casually as he sits down across you.

”You’re a snoop, Lennox,” you deflect with a flat look.

”Guilty, I got two older sisters, snooping was a part of the job, and you make for an easy target, Mitchell,” he shrugs in response. “But it doesn’t answer my question.”

”Not that it’s any of your business, but I never email him back,” you admit honestly.

”Bradshaw, I recognize the name, he’s an aviator too, came through Top Gun last year? Or was it the year before?”

”Yeah something like that, goes by Rooster,” you confirm.

”So what’s the story?” Harvard’s pokes.

”Doesn’t matter,” you shrug off.

”Oh, I get it,” he decides smirking, leaning back as your eyes narrow. “Hook up gone wrong.”

You choke on that, an incredulous look taking over your features. “Ew, no! God,” you scoff.

”Then what?” there’s a challenging smirk still on his lips and you decide that making friends might have been overrated.

”We grew up together. Something happened when he was 18, set him back, made him mad. He blames my dad,” you nutshell.

”So he blames you too?”

“He did. Said some fucked shit, and I decided distance was for the best.”

“That bad?”

“I was raised by a naval aviator for a dad, Harvard. I spent deployments in the PACFLEET Commander’s home. And in every other moment until what happened, I spent with Brad and his mom. What he said, it wasn’t something he gets to walk back by trying to email me life updates,” you bite back, venom in your voice.

Harvard’s hands go up in a second, surrender, he mimes. Your shoulders drop and you look at the roof before taking a breath. “Sorry,” you apologize. “I… I try not to be mad, it was a long time ago.”

“Respectfully, I’ve only known you since we got here, but, if you’re still mad, if it still hurts, then I think it’s justified,” Harvard offers.

“Like I said, it was a long time ago,” you repeat, shaking your head.

“Maybe, but you don’t seem like one to hold grudges, Athena. Whatever he did and said, and you don’t have to tell me, it’s enough for me to know that I don’t think I like him very much.”

You smile softly despite yourself. Just a little quirk of the lip from the blind support you’re being offered. It was so different than the ‘maybe you should reach out’ and ‘hasn’t it been long enough?’ that Sarah, Ice, and Viper would drop, and it’s not their fault you never told them what Bradley said, but you weren’t ready for that, not truly. Brigham in one conversation, had reaffirmed your belief, had brought a comfort that you never realized you needed.

“Thanks, Brig, really,” you say softly.

“Anytime, Athena. You practically kept Yale and I from being booted day one, what ever you need, we got your back, girl, always,” he promises.

You nod softly, willing yourself not to get emotional from the support.

“C’mon, Yale was looking for you earlier, I think he want’s to try that taco place we passed by on the way to the beach the other day,” Harvard offers, effectively ending the previous conversation.

He stands, gently shutting your laptop with a pointed look before offering a hand to pull you up.

You take it gratefully, and pause once you’re on your feet, pressing a sweet kiss to his cheek, “you’re a very good friend, Brigham Lennox, and I am very grateful,” you tell him.

“Let’s go, we gotta get out of here for a bit,” he says dismissively, cheeks pinking slightly.

You nod, and walk in front, he follows after you, handing your laptop back with a smile.

...

You’re brought back from the past as your name is called, giving you the 'all clear' to start take-off protocols. You take a breath and remember the rule, leave it on the ground, a clear head for clear skies and soon enough the three of you were in the sky over the training range.

...

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[yieldfruit]

What does the Bible mean when it tells us to fear not?

The Bible’s commands to “fear not” are plentiful and occur in a variety of contexts. As God’s people, we are not to be fearful. We have no reason to live in fear.

The Bible often says things like, “Do not fear,” “Do not be afraid,” and “Fear not.” Of course, these commands do not contradict the command to “fear God” (1 Peter 2:17). The fear of God keeps us from sin; the fear of man leads to sin, and that is what we are to avoid: “The fear of man brings a snare” (Proverbs 29:25, NKJV). Also, the biblical command do not fear does not negate the need for prudence and caution in this world. We are not to be cavalier but prayerful in the face of danger.

The fear that the Bible tells us to avoid is concern mixed with anxiety or dread; it is the feeling of alarm we have when we expect trouble or danger. Followers of Christ are not to live in a state of anxiety. We have higher expectations than simply anticipating trouble. In fact, we have the means to rise above fear: “God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control” (2 Timothy 1:7, ESV).

God’s command to “fear not” is applied in several ways in the Bible. For example, the fear of what other people think should never prevent us from obeying the Lord (see 1 Samuel 15:24; John 9:22). We should not fear lacking provision in this world (Luke 12:6–7). We are not to fear the plans of the wicked, even when they rise to power (Psalm 37:1–2, 9–17, 35–38).

When the Bible tells us, “Do not fear,” it means we are not to allow anxiety or fretfulness to rule our lives or take root in our hearts. We are not to be people of panic. We are to be people of faith.

Having been justified by God, we need not fear divine condemnation (Romans 8:1). Having been chosen by God, we need not fear His rejection (Ephesians 1:4–6; Luke 12:32; Jude 1:24). With Christ as our Shepherd, we need not fear the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4). With the Maker of heaven and earth watching over us, we need not fear anything (Psalm 121).

Psalm 91 speaks of the one who “dwells in the shelter of the Most High” and who says of God, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust” (verses 1–2). Those who trust in God can live fearlessly: “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you” (verses 5–7). There is a direct correlation between faith and the confidence to face the dangers of life: “If you say, ‘The Lord is my refuge,’ and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent” (verses 9–10). We rest in God’s promise: “‘Because he loves me,’ says the Lord, ‘I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble’” (verses 14–15).

Matthew’s account of the resurrection of Christ presents two very different results of that miracle. When the angel descended to the tomb and rolled the stone away, “the guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint” (Matthew 28:4, NLT). The angel let them lie there. But later, the angel spoke to the women who visited the tomb: “Don’t be afraid! . . . I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead” (verses 5–6, NLT). With one group, God takes away their fear; with the other group, He allows fear to overwhelm them. The difference was one of belief versus unbelief.

[queerpodcastnoises]

I absolutely loved Arthur's speech in episode 51. It's a similar thesis to that of The Silt Verses. The end result doesn't negate the effort and it mattered because it existed.

"Its brevity did not lessen its existence. Sometimes the things that were in our life for far too little time make the biggest impact"

I'm gonna be thinking about this sentence for a long time

[stormyrainyday]

took this tweet too seriously and made chigiri a beyblade congratulations chigiri hyouma for your Fury Fireblaze 125S

I am only well versed in metal fight beyblade, so all parts are from the hybrid wheel system section of the beyblade wiki. explanations below the cut like usual

Aims for this bey was 1. fast and 2. some attack power BUT prioritizing stamina, with of course theming with Chigiri's character in some way shape or form.

Facebolt/Energy Ring: Fireblaze (Phoenix)

Most people in Blue Lock have some flavor of trauma but Chigiri coming back to soccer after his knee injury is giving rebirth, argue with the wall. There are no cheetah or panther themed Beyblades in the Metal line and I dislike assigning beys purely on zodiac sign so Capricorn for a 12/23 birthday was out of the question (but! it'll come back shortly).

Furthermore, I am not caught up 100% on Beyblade X, the current fastest Bey is Blaze Fujiwara's Soar Phoenix, which adds a nice touch in linking the two series together. Blaze is also a very cunty long haired man with an obsession with speed just look at him.

(also an argument could be made for Kunigami having a similarly themed bey given his comeback following Wild Card so while I haven't designed one the potential for matching beys is keeping this as reasoning)

Fusion Wheel: Fury

Fury is intended to be used with Capricorn and has a goat motif. It's pretty lightweight to boost speed and helps balance out the poor attack stats in the rest of the build. However, the build still favors stamina (again, favoring speed and a lot of running around)

Spin Track: 125

A pretty standard spin track, not too tall, no gimmicks and no bonus features. Keeps it light weight, and negates the balance issues that a taller 145mm one would have, and the mediocrity seen in 135 (which has no ability to attack from above or below due to it's height falling in between what most beys are).

Performance Tip: Spike/Sharp (S)

Spike performance tip is small and pointed which reduces friction and favors speed and stamina, which fits neatly into the design. Metal spike was considered but rejected for a few reasons, including increased weight, less attack value, and interestingly, the illegality in tournament settings as it has a tendency to break the stadium. MS is used in Burn Fireblaze, though, and resembles the spikes found on the bottom of soccer cleats so an argument could still be made for it as well.

Last but not least, obligatory shitty edit of the bey below.

[audreyscribes]

Ω PJO MISC. DEMIGOD HEADCANONS: 💃TERPSICHORE: MUSE GODDESS OF LIGHT VERSE AND DANCE, CHORAL SONG AND DANCING🩰

a/n: I had to double back in mythology notes of which muse gave birth to which race/person for this one again. *puts head in hands* Mythology would not be what it is if they didn't have occasional lack of concrete details either.

[PJO MISC + MUSE DEMIGOD H/CS MASTERIST: [AO3] \\ [TUMBLR]

Alright out of all the muses’ demigods, you are the best dancer out of them and it’s not uncommon for you to dance while playing simultaneously. If you need a reference how well, look up Lindsey Stirling and how she dances while playing her violin.

That said, you are also known for really dancing even while fighting, in fact, if you are so inclined to, you may have the talent for Sword Dancing.

You can of course play the Lyre but in this case, Terpsichore is often depicted also playing with a Plectrum, which is basically a guitar pick. So in theory, you can also play the guitar like its second nature to you. You can also somehow play the lyre like it's a guitar or with the pick so there you go. Or any stringed instrument that uses a plectrum, like the Shamisen.

With your inhibited need to dance and move your body, the actions of your dancing help with exaggerated tones as you play your instrument. 

The Sirens are technically your half-sisters so you may also have the same ability like them or something similar to you; something along the lines of a  shared effect that your musical talents can provide those with a sort of enlightenment and can draw people in into a lull. Be careful when you’re performing as you sing and dance because you will be able to hypnotize your audience into a frenzy.

You don’t have to worry too much about your siren like qualities though because around your other muse cousins or those who are used to magical musical enchantments, i.e. Apollo kids, they’re used to this kind of thing and can gently nudge you into breaking the hypnotization. Most of the time though around them, their music helps negate the effects, though you can boost the effects if need be around them. 

What no one says is that you might have a soft spot in the eyes of Persephone and in turn, Demeter or Hades, depending on the situation. This is because of the Sirens, who are Terpsichore’s children were Persephone’s handmaidens before the events of Hades. Therefore you can be found around the children of Demeter and the children of Hades. (Demeter was also the ones who turned the Sirens into bird-like beings to search for Persephone, so that’s why you don’t have any avian qualities). 

[saintmelangell]

i think a lot about how christians use the akedah as a foreshadowing of the crucifixion because god offers his son for a sacrifice as abraham does isaac. the problem with this idea is that its completely detached from its source material. i think the popular reading remains that abraham's faith in god was so complete that he would have killed isaac if it came to that, but there are some rabbinic readings that suggest abraham and isaac both knew god wouldn't follow through demanding isaac as a sacrifice. this is why abraham goes through with it up to the point that he does.

i think a lot about how christians use the akedah as a foreshadowing of the crucifixion because god offers his son for a sacrifice as abraham does isaac. the problem with this idea is that its completely detached from its source material. i think the popular reading remains that abraham's faith in god was so complete that he would have killed isaac if it came to that, but there are some rabbinic readings that suggest abraham and isaac both knew god wouldn't follow through demanding isaac as a sacrifice. this is why abraham goes through with it up to the point that he does.

i find this to not be as present in the paschal narrative. jesus does not seem aware of his resurrection. he speaks about glorification prior to the paschal narrative but seems unaware of how this will play out for him personally. nothing in his dialogues on the mount of olives or on the cross suggest to me someone who was aware that he was going to be resurrected. my caveat here is that both mark 8:31-33 and matthew 16:21 are obviously later redactions and i find it extremely doubtful that jesus ever said he would be raised in three days verbatim, especially since these verses are not spoken quotations from jesus.

my other caveat is that the notion of "complete faith" is deeply warped. jesus may have had complete faith in god, but this does not automatically signify that he understood the exact means of his glorification. (i also caution any christian from allegorizing his statement about the temple being rebuilt in three days given the problematic and antismeitic history of the book of hebrews.)

if we compare abraham and jesus' reactions to what god asks of them: abraham is calm and he isn't panicked. when isaac questions where they will get the sacrifice, abraham answers with certainty. jesus is far less composed even among his friends. he is deeply distressed throughout his experience, culminating in his dying statement: אֵלִ֣י אֵ֖לִי לָמָ֣ה עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי, my god, my god, why have you foresaken me? interestingly, midrash on psalm 22 says that esther uttered the same thing when facing king xerxes to intervene on behalf of the jews in babylon, because she felt the shekinah disappear. to my mind in addition to a further feminization of christ, this also implies that jesus may only have thought that he was intervening on behalf of the jews in captivity, like esther, rather than on behalf of the world, an idea supported by statements such as matthew 15:26, matthew 10:5, and matthew 5:7.

the main issue that i have with the linking of the pashal narrative with the akedah is one of intervention: the climax of the akedah is that god intervenes on behalf of those he loves so that no blood needs to be shed. a consistent motif in god's covenants is creativity, to negate destruction: first the noahide covenant, then the abrahamic (note that this takes place during a famine, when abraham is in a strange land, on a knife's edge; it is under this covenant that isaac is not killed) and then the law passed down on sinai. the institution of mosaic law systematized sacrifice so that through right adherence to the law, bloodshed would be controlled and the people saved from harm. where the law is contravened- when one steps out of the safety which the shadow of god's word, like the wings of a mother bird, provides to her children- there is danger.

these covenants are not vertical outpourings of divine grace on humanity: they are wholly reciprocal. in leviticus 22, for instance, the lord states: it is i the lord who makes them sacred" and again at the end of the chapter: "you shall not profane my holy name, that i may be sanctified in the midst of the israelite people- i the lord who sanctify you." notice the reciprocity with rings from this second verse. the lord is sanctified by the people: the lord sanctifies the people. one cannot exist without the other. this reciprocal relationship is arguably the central tent of jewish law. micah 6:8, which to many rabbis is the single verse which best summarizes the law, also rings of this idea: to do the activity of מִשְׁפָּט֙ (justice), to love חֶ֔סֶד (mercy), and walk with god with צנַע, humbly, with modesty. the two main attributes of god are justice and mercy: thus we are asked to model ourselves after him in our behaviour, and to do so with humility.

god's relationship with his people moves continually nearer and nearer the prevention of destruction. whether you read the story of jesus as messianic or not (and i no longer do), the only way in which this story makes sense to me if i am to place it as part of a continual tradition with the jewish tradition of which jesus himself is part is to assume that that the actual crux of this story was one of intervention. if jesus is indeed the second isaac the way christianity cliams, it makes no sense for god to have intended him to be killed if isaac was never intended to be killed. if god provided the sacrifice for abraham, and his relationship with the world is reciprocal, then if jesus is the son of god it would stand to reason that the world would provide the replacement sacrifice for god's son in return.

abraham's faith that god would provide a sacrifice is very different from the type of faith often modelled in christianity, where you have faith in your suffering up to and through that suffering even to your own destruction. and this model of faith, which i do hold to be at best destructive and at worst incorrect, continually enables suffering both created and perpetuated by christianity as an institution. if god's mercy is the defining trait of every covenant up to christ, and we are expected to act with mercy in kind, shouldn't the aim of christianity be not the transformation of suffering (not to glorify the crucifixion of jesus, not to ensure that it goes unwasted,) but to live in the knowledge that the suffering of jesus, like all suffering, has the capacity to be prevented? is eschatology gesturing towards a new heaven and a new earth without suffering, or is it more likely that god (who made the world and saw that it is good) is aware that we have the capacity to prevent suffering in this world, here and now, by doing what we are asked by god?

we are asked to have abraham's faith: but we are also asked to, like abraham, seize the opportunity to alleviate someone else's suffering (including our own) when god presents it to us. more than mercy, that is the mark of a just god.

[jennyfromthebes]

What other live alt lyrics do you like! I like the switch in pronouns for "you speak in smoke signals and I answer in code" even though its such a small thing

Ohhh that's such a good one. I am, similarly, really fond of negations and ifs to whens (as mentioned in my post lol) and tense changes. Some favorites right now, in no particular order:

Water Tower - "small hopes are seen to not be small ones" is always one of my very favorite alt lyrics. The negation changes the entire thing and it's so so good. this is a frequent line change, not always but at least half the time!

From The Nebraska Plant - "searching in the snow for someone in the distance" and "let the scavengers proclaim what its bones are worth". The change to someone makes the whole song more impactful, and "what its bones are worth" vs "how much it was worth" is something I forever have thoughts and feelings about. What its remains still are worth vs what it on the whole used to be worth...I could write an essay just about this one line change.

Only One Way - basically every live performance of this one has different lines (one time he joked "I hope someone is taping the night I finally get all the verses right", and to my knowledge it still hasn't happened), which I absolutely love, but a specific one I wrote down (from 2024-04-12) is "you're gonna learn to listen for the thunder / you're never gonna hear it in time". what a hell of a line oh my god.

No Children - "I hope you blink before I blink at you", which to my knowledge the only recording of that alt line is 2014-06-15, but that's been a favorite of mine for almost a year, and then at the Cleveland show in July he did that line again!

Alpha In Tauris - I know this line from 2014-04-20 but I know it's been done more than once; "yes I'm the model of composure out there / and I'm not even sorry later on!" With the original line being "but you oughta see me shaking later on", it's just a really really good contradiction/unreliable narrator moment and I love it.

I know there's more that I love but I haven't been listening to tapes as much lately so I'm blanking on more of the common alt lines. Thank you for asking this though!! I will come back and add more when I think of them!!!