No Fate
But What We Make for Ourselves
"Babies are sort of like public property, weirdly enough, too—sort of like pregnant women.
People often treat pregnant women sort of like they’re public property, too—in a positive way.
They do all sorts of cute things."
You might say,
' How good a job do you do of encouraging your children to live in Truth? '
That’s part of the answer to this question.
The answer likely is,
'You don’t do as good a job of it as you could.'
It works out quite well, but you don’t know how well it could work if you did it really well, or spectacularly well, or ultimately well, or something like that.
You don’t know.
People have an intimation of this.
One of the things that’s really cool about having a young baby…
There’s two things you don’t know…There’s a lot more than two. There’s three things you don’t know until you have a baby.
The first one is that you didn’t grow up yet.
You actually don’t grow up until someone else is more important than you.
You can’t.
People think they grow up if they don’t have children, but they don’t.
They just think they do.
Now, there are some people who make Sacrifices of other sorts, but this is a whole different ball of wax, as far as I’m concerned.
It’s not a very elegant metaphor, but…
You learn that it’s kinda a relief not to be the center of attention.
That’s cool—that you can sit back, because, of course, your child, in your family, and in society, is immediately the center of attention.
Unless you’re narcissistic,
then you allow that to happen.
And then you learn all sorts of really good things about Other People.
Other People really like babies.
It’s so cool.
I lived in Montreal when we had our first child.
I lived in a pretty rough neighbourhood, by Montreal standards.
It’s like, Montreal’s such a great city, like Toronto.
Even the rough neighbourhoods are more like charming with a little dark underbelly.
Something like that.
But there were some rough characters in our neighbourhood, and it was pretty poor, and we’d push her around in her stroller.
These grizzled, wrecked, old guys would come by, look at her, and just light up.
They’d come over and smile at her, and you just saw the positive element of their humanity well worth.
There has to be something seriously wrong with you if you don’t respond that way to a baby.
That’s Not Good.
But it was so cool to see these people, who you’d generally kind of walk around on the street, and, all of a sudden, the layers that were on them would just fall off.
The babies are sort of like public property, weirdly enough, too—sort of like pregnant women. People often treat pregnant women sort of like they’re public property, too—in a positive way. They do all sorts of cute things.
The reason I’m telling you that is because there’s a strong impulse in people to know that there’s something miraculous about the existence of a new human being.
The miraculous element is all the potential that’s there.
Potential is all that is there.
With every birth, there’s the potential for something remarkable to be introduced in The World.
One of the things I’ve thought, too, is that babies are generic until you have one.
Your baby isn’t a generic baby, at all.
Instantly, it’s a person with whom you have a relationship that’s closer, perhaps, than every relationship you’ve ever had, and that you can keep Perfect, right?
Most of the relationships that you’ve had already are with people who are screwed up in 50 different ways, and so are you, but here you’ve got this baby.
It’s not ruined, yet.
You have this possibility of maintaining this relationship that starts out—
That baby really likes you, and generally that continues for quite a long time.
They’re two years old, you come home, and they’re really happy to see you.
It’s kind of like having a puppy.
It’s like, they’re thrilled when you come home.
How many people are thrilled when you come home?
It’s like, oh, it’s you again.
No, not a little kid.
A little kid is thrilled when you come home, and you can keep that going.
There’s this pristine element to the potential relationship between parents and children that’s terribly devalued in our society.
It’s almost as if we’re willfully blind to it.
I think it’s an absolute catastrophe, because there’s very little in life that can compare to establishing a proper relationship with a child.
They make great company if you keep your relationship with them pristine.
It’s worthwhile.
The reason I’m telling you this is because
people look at infants and they think this could be the potential
Saviour of Mankind.
That is What They Think.
That’s How They Act,
so
That’s How They Think.
The thing is, it’s also True.
Now, how True it is, I don’t know.
But that’s, I think, probably because people don’t dare to find out.
That’s how it looks to me.
"In Christ’s case, however
—as He sacrificed Himself—
God, his Father, is simultaneously sacrificing His Son.
It’s for this reason that the Christian sacrificial drama of Son and Self is archetypal.
Nothing greater can be imagined.
That’s why it’s an archetype:
You Can’t Push Past it.
That’s the very definition of ‘archetypal.’ That’s the core of what constitutes ‘religious.’
The Greatest of All Possible Sacrifices is
Self and Child.
Of that there can be no doubt."
Pain and Suffering define The World.
Of that, equally, there can be no doubt.
The person who wants to alleviate suffering—who wants to bring about
The Best of All Possible Futures;
Who wants to create Heaven on Earth—
Will therefore Sacrifice
Everything He Has
to God—
To Life in The Truth."
I Do.
You know, I’m 1500 years old.
I’ve killed twice as many enemies as that.
And every one of them would have rather killed me than not succeeded.
I’m only alive because Fate wants me alive.
Thanos is just the latest of a long line of bastards, and he’ll be the latest to feel my vengeance.
Fate Wills it So.
And what if you’re wrong?
Well, if I’m wrong, what more could I lose?
I could lose a lot. Me, personally? I could lose a lot.
" So I do feel that there are profound differences between the sexes in terms of emotions, in terms of communication patterns.
My father used to say that he could never follow women’s conversations.
He said 'Women don’t even finish sentences',
[ Because they don't have to ]
that women understand immediately what the other woman is saying.
And women tend to be more interested in
-or have been traditionally more interested in -
Soap Operas.
It’s not just that the women were home without jobs.
It’s that honestly, I believe that soap opera does reflect, does mirror, the way women talk to each other.
These communication patterns have been built up through women - The World of Women, which. . .
It made sense that there was a Division of Labor.
It wasn’t sexism against women that there was a Division of Labor.
The Men went off to hunt and
did the dangerous things.
The women stayed around The Hearth because you had
Pregnant Women
Nursing Women
Older Women
that were cooking and so on.
So I feel that these communication patterns that we’re talking about have been built up over the centuries.
Men had to toughen each other to go out.
The hunting parties of Native Americans. . .
They could be gone for two weeks when the temperature was below zero.
Many of them died.
[ Just as a lot of the women died in childbirth, too - that's equally dangerous ]
The idea that somehow. . .
‘Oh, any kind of separation of the sexes, or different spheres of the sexes, is inherently sexist’. . .
That is Wrong.
Luckily we’ve been, what would you call, invaded by stupid terrorists instead of smart terrorists, because a smart terrorist could do an unbelievable amount of damage in a very short period of time.
And it’s just God’s good graces that that hasn’t happened yet.
Paglia:
What will happen is that it’s The Men. . .
The Men will reconstruct Civilization
While The Women cower in The Houses
and
Have The Men go out and do all The Dirty Work.
That’s what’s going to happen again.
Only men will bring civilization back again.
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Walking ballsack. Wanna knock that idiot's teeth out.
Yeah, well, We don't need him anyway.
Yeah, that's right.
'Cause we have Maggie + Sasha + Jesus, here.
[Door opens]
Maggie:
And... Enid.
I need to see Maggie.
You're Here.
Are You okay?
I'm not.
But I Will be.
People told me you killed walkers and a car... with a tractor?
I couldn't sit by and watch.
Not again.
So I guess I sat and did something.
You're supposed to take it easy.
It wasn't hard.
It wasn't the first time.
There was this boy in high school.
You ran over The Boy..?
His car.
Oh.
[Chuckles]
It was a Camaro.
And then it wasn't.
[Laughs]
[Door opens]
Enid.
Hi. I -- I came to help.
You came by yourself?
Yeah. Have some dinner.
Why are there balloons on Abraham's grave?
I didn't have the heart to tell you.
Glenn would've.
He was a bad liar.
Sorry.
There's no need to be sorry.
Nothing wrong with balloons.
There's nothing marking the graves.
Nope.
I was gonna use this for Glenn's.
It was my Dad's.
He gave it to Him.
But I'm giving it to You.
We don't need anything to remember Him by.
We have Us.
♪♪
For this new morning, with its Light,
For Rest and Shelter of The Night,
For Health and Food,
For Love and Friends,
For Everything that Goodness sends.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Is that an apple pie?
Uh. How did you do that?
I could smell it from outside the door. [Sighs] Uh, you baked it? Some guy gave it to us for what we did. Mm. His little girl said you should run for President of Hilltop. [Chuckles] "Maggie for President." [Chuckles] Uh, do you want a plate? No, I'm good. Did Jesus give you those? Is he still around? There's some things I wanna add to his list before he goes out. The kids need something to write with -- pens, pencils. Are you already president? Mm. [Chuckles] I've just been talking to people.
[Chuckles]
Jesus left this morning.
He told me to tell you, but I-I forgot.
Okay. Next time.
I'm gonna get some milk.
Let me.
No, I'm good.
[Door creaks]
What?
Enid,
The Maid of Hilltop :
You're lying to Maggie about Jesus.
[ Insight+Intuition ]
What makes you say that?
Enid,
The Maid of Hilltop :
A Girl who lives in The House.
She was telling me about Everyone.
She said Jesus is a runner and that he left yesterday, not this morning.
[ Gossiping+Observation ]
It's for her own good.
Enid,
The Maid of Hilltop :
Why?
Sasha,
Spirit of Female Vengeance :
Because I need to do something,
and she'll want to help me.
[ To The Feminine Mind, words, purely verbal expressions of support and solidarity are at the very least as impactful and meaningful to for Women+Girls as actual practical action - and more-than likely, transcendently more so... ]
Enid,
The Maid of Hilltop :
[Scoffs]
You want to kill Negan.
[Sighs]
What if you have help?
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And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow.
A Man who would some day be King by his own hand.
One who would crush The Snakes of The Earth.
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Sasha,
Spirit of Female Vengeance :
If we had help
-- a lot of people --
then, I wouldn't be afraid to tell her, because
she'd know it wasn't on her to do it.
[ By default,female cognition will approach any new problem, challenge or situation initially from a presumptive attitude of Collective Responsibility. ]
But if it's just Me, then --
[ Then, Revenge is a Dish That is Best Served Cold... ]
Enid,
The Maid of Hilltop : It isn't just you.
You and Maggie aren't the only ones who want to take Negan out.
There's --
[ Women+Girls Do Not Raise Armies. ]
Sasha,
Spirit of Female Vengeance :
No, Enid.
That's not happening.
And if you care about her, you don't say anything about this.
[Sighs]
Enid,
The Maid of Hilltop :
We have to keep her safe.
You have to keep her safe.
It isn't just you.
Sasha,
Spirit of Female Vengence :
It sure looks like it.
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