![]() ![]() Facing off against him, Paul blinded him, & won the local leader to his side. He traveled to Cyprus, where he met a sorcerer named Elymas. His career began after his conversion, & after he recovered from the blindness of seeing Christ. ![]() Paul was a disruptive force when he came to town like Ghandi, he was a sweet old man who could undermine the authority of the establishment, & he spent a lot of time in jail as a result. Had he known we’d be reading his words, he’d have written an official document for public consumption, & no doubt would be known as even more radical than he was. When he baptized new converts, he would say: “For there is no longer Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” To the extent that he counseled obedience to Roman traditions, which he despised, it’s only because he believed he was the last generation. Women were church leaders in his day: they hosted his meetings (much like the pic above) & funded them, since they also ran the households & kept the books. Only half of his letters were actually written by him, & there were alterations in later years to conform with less tolerant views, so it’s hard to pin down Paul’s views exactly, but today’s scholars regard him as much more progressive than history depicts. He enjoyed Greek theatre, & even quoted Euripides in his letters. In Greece, they called him The Messenger, because they believed he was Hermes, the messenger of the gods. He was a formidable intellect who could argue with the best minds of his day. Paul changed the world with his message of unconditional love, & used his own forgiveness by Christ as proof of it. So I’ll just briefly discuss his impact on the show, & my story. It’s problematic, though, & difficult to discuss in social media bites. He’s a fascinating figure who was viewed very differently in his time than he is nowadays by his own church. I had a very long thread for tonight about my thoughts on St. Australian director Peter Weir used Pachelbel’s Canon in D as the temp track for Jarre’s score.įirst, I’ll post the link to the scene itself, the most famous one from the film, if you want to see it in context, with a light synthesizer arrangement. Maurice Jarre wrote the score, with synthesizer for the scene, but he also wrote a version for full orchestra, which I think sounds much more like how #Xena composer Joseph LoDuca would arrange it. As the day progresses, he bonds with the others, & starts to realize their simple way of life makes a lot of sense after all. Ford is asked to join in, & since he’s a carpenter in real life, he does rather well. One day, a couple marries, & the community gathers to build them a barn, in just a few hours, by working together. He goes to their village, & doesn’t seem to fit in, nor does he seem welcome. It’s an orchestral piece that comes from the 1985 movie Witness, starring Harrison Ford as a big city detective who’s protecting an Amish eyewitness to a murder. I needed something I could listen to everyday that invoked their community, its simplicity & its majesty. To end this week’s topic, I’ll post a music video that to me represents the ideals of the Elijian movement. This whole project is like an illustration of her journey. I’ll talk more about this next week, but my research into the roots of violence, & the treatment for it, was key to my understanding of Livia’s nature, her backstory, & her recovery. Violence is only a small part of action, & suspense. Most of the Indiana Jones movies are nonviolent. A lot of the action on #Xena is nonviolent in nature. I’m fairly certain that doesn’t sound appealing to anybody, but I disagree. ![]() ![]() A more colorful Olympus, & as a Valley Mom rather than a Valley Girl, I’d love to see Alexandra Tydings return as a wiser Queen Aphrodite!įinally, I’d like to talk about the Elijians’ pacifism. I think the God of Love causes a paradigm shift in human affairs, & this reverberates with them, because as people change, so do gods.Įxactly how do I imagine that? That’s a story for a different time, but I see a colorful future for a revival, if it happens. The Olympians would still play a role, but would look different. The most recent RenPic series to date, Ash Vs the Evil Dead, is a bit like how I imagine it, except with more elaborate cosmology after Paradise Lost, & other sources. We kind of see something like this in the 6 th & final season of #HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys. First, my belief is that had #Xena Warrior Princess continued on several more seasons, we would have seen her story move more into a gothic sensibility, something more resembling the roots of the Evil Dead series. There is so much more to talk about when it comes to Elijian beliefs & how they’re intertwined with the show, but I’ll just make 2 more points. ![]()
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