...the next generation

Not sure who invented it, but presently, it has been a number of years ago now that I have heard someone express that "a generation is about 3 years". Although that context was meant to apply to people, based on the release rate of the next ______ phone. But, I have suspicions that it isn't so much the people themselves will necessary have what is known as micro-evolution and necessarily be changed a lot physically; moreover the circumstances people are exposed to can shape them and the expressive statement likely is meant to convey the correlation in how quickly people's circumstantial changes also in turn modify the people. 

So let me transition something that is considered more "timeless":

[ https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205&version=NIV ]

Originally, I thought about naming this blog as "...the blogging continues" which would be inspired by a paraphrase of "the legend continues" [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103460/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_kung%2520fu%2520the%2520le ] but there must be various factors or "circumstances" throughout the week that have altered both what the subject matter and title might be including another passage of the same text that has been a recent theme for my internet usage, particularly in the last 24 to 48 hours after I've read verse(s) from the https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201--Genesis%202&version=NIV portion after they came to mind. 

For anyone who might be reading this post decades or more into its future, I want to bring up the factual, large scale, global event, otherwise known as the Covid-19 pandemic that brought big circumstantial changes for a lot of people around 5 years ago. 

"It's time for the Avengers..." -J

[Post in Progress] 

Although as humans, some events can subjectively feel like it was only yesterday, I recall watching the very first non animated creation of this movie series 

[1 John 2:11–17]

One thing that remains constant is like the principle expressed in 1 John above, everything eventually comes to an end. Regardless of whether its something typically associated with being longer term like a marriage or shorter lived like smoking a cigarette, everything eventually has a conclusion of some sort. I recall the ironic experience of once chewing a piece of chewing gum so long that whatever chemical compound that prevented my saliva from disolving it earlier eventually ran out and the gum just disolved like other candies composed to powder except at a much expedited rate! 

X _ _ _ ?

 Traditionally celebrated on December 25th according to the gregorian calendar. And if you've ever done a bit of background research into why the holiday is named X-mas, you'll discover that the X comes from two possible sources both in folklore and a second from another alphabet.

Let me briefly explain by listing them 

_ _ _ _ Christmas [ _ M _ ]

I don't think I am the first one to do this possibly but definetly have been doing these "Christian friendly" editions for some time now and I was thinking about this while driving earlier to put things into perspective...

_ _ _ _ Christmas....

One Christmas, I gave _ _ _ my heart...

But the very next chance, _ _ _ tucked it away...

Last year to save me from F.E.A.R.s, I gave it to the Jesus Special....

Once smitten and never shy...

I kept my distance but _ _ _ still caught my eye...

Tell me sister, do you say prayers for me...?

It's been almost a year, have God surprise me...

"Merry Christmas" I manned up and asked you about it...

Noted to myself the "love you" was resented....

Now I know what a μωρῷ  I've been 

And if you kissed M _ now, I'm tempted to " Μωρέ " again.

Last Christ _ _ _ , I gave _ _ _ my heart...

and the following Sunday, it was spoilers displayed...

This year, Jesus collected my tears y

καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ =)

One Christmas, I gave _ _ _ my heart...

But the very next chance, _ _ _ tucked it away...

This year to save up mY tears, I'll give it to someone καθαροὶ

.....

A full on Zoom, friends with no good byes...

Are you hiding from me and think it's a _ _ _ _ of _ _ _?

Jesus , I thought _ _ _ was a name to rely and carry on...

Christ... much more than a shoulder to lean on...

A face of a lover with the cry in the heart...

A man with a cover but now it's no longer καρδίᾳ ...

Jesus....

God is the one real love , don't be a μωρῷ again...

Last Christ _ _ _ , I gave _ _ _ my heart...

and the following Sunday, it was spoilers displayed...

This year to save up mY tears, I'll give it to someone καθαροὶ ...

A face of a lover with the cry in the heart...

A man with a cover but now it's no longer καρδίᾳ ...

Maybe next year,

They'll also find the one who's Special..., the one who's Χριστὸς ...

The Last temptation of Christ is NEXT...

I will not publish the other entry where I am working on the actual review for this website yet as per the academic constraints that surround it also being a two-fold purpose that I am recommitting to doing at least one popular culture film review a month again while simultaneously doing other things I do to try to reach people with the message and love of the One Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ...

"Everything I do, I do for You.." -https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119223/characters/nm0000160?ref_=tt_cl_c_1 recontextualization...

[POST IN PROGRESS]

Boy, it has been a long time since I last saw this movie and even seems like even longer since I really thought abouts its contents. The trailer on the imdb.com website defintely isn't full of spoilers and I'm curious how much I'll remember based on its contents. And although it is a narrative commonly read in some courses that examine English literary works. I personally can't recall whether the written form of this narrative was read more throughly by myself throughout my academic history.

Many movie reproductions of novels do not match the plotline of the original text it is derived from in certain details of the way the narrative ends up portrayed in the movie reiteration. This can be especially true in certain contexts and if produced by certain industries such as those in "Hollywood". It is also somewhat natural that people making these decisions regarding the plot are more audience centred in their decision making on what they think will produce the most audience members and revenue and we live in a very consumer focused society that very much likes to sell into people's natural desires to things like sex.

Without yet having viewed other sources regarding the plot of this narrative, there are some plot development points I personally am able to recall. These include when Finn finds out the identity of his financial benefactor who also got him involved in gentleman's training, likely because he wanted to help him out in his pursuit of Estella when he was closer in physical proximity during that phase of Finn's life. Finn wanting to be with Estella throughout most of his life is also another major plot point of this narrative. The benefactor turns out to be the very same person Finn showed kindness to who needed some urgent assistance to help him escape from what Arthur Lustig considers to be his wrongful imprisonment.
Because of our English usage of the word, we often don't perceive of "erotic love", the way the ancient Greeks used the wording to describe romance in the same way they did. However, through this lens, I would also assert that the narrative's two main characters are also the personification of romance and wealth.
Based on the historical setting of some of these narratives, it would seem that the accumation of possessions and "wealth" and the marketing that these type of lifestyles are ideal has been going on for a long time, consider the following bible passage:
Luke 12:13-21, NIV The Parable of the Rich Fool 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2012&version=NIV]
The famous Jesus of Narazeth was frequently advocating that being "rich toward God" had little to do with how much affluence once has in life. And although if you've read some of the other entries in this webpage you will know I often draw parallels between movies and other narratives with scripture and aspects of the Christian life.
Finn's line I quoted as the title for this entry is the initial concept I wanted to discuss initially when it comes to the pursuit of financial providences. Perhaps not everyone in the audience shares his views. Others may try to increase and improve their finances not for trying to compete financially with his main love interest's competition in the narrative, but to indulge other interests.
Similar to other western romance narratives to address also this aspect of capitalist cultures that there is some tension between love for the other person and love for a certain minimum level of financial stability and other worldly passions that can be pursued with financial means in place. In this case, Finn also started out as what one might call a rat-scallion and then he had an experience analogous to the narrative found in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew where he received some training in how to be a proper “gentleman”.
Sadly, I feel that some Christians also live with this misconception that has roots formed from a performance emphasizing culture that we can apply conditions to what is meant to be an unconditional loving relationship with our loving heavenly Father. Well let’s try to address one topic at a time. Personally, after reading such scripture such as Genesis 1–Genesis 2 and 1 Corinthians 15, I don’t really believe we should try to apply what we consider to be our human understanding of “gender traits” to our almighty God. That is, we really shouldn’t apply stereotypes we might think are typical of a male human towards our infinite God. I personally believe when God declared in Genesis that we are made in “our image” that we ought *NOT* to solely think of “Jesus” as being a man because the Father happened to choose the gender that God felt was the most appropriate for the task at hand. I also feel Christianity has done heavenly love’s a bit of a disservice if we overly compare spousal love to Christ’s love for us. In no means trying to invalidate God’s love given to spouses; but when it comes to the details I think all spouses know that their relationship with their spouse does come up short at times relative to God’s heavenly love. Although I personally am not residing with a spouse, I confess that my own human relationships in other contexts we may universally simplify as “love”.

Let's get bacK to business...

 

The movie review I intend to include in this entry is pending a personal opportunity to view this Sound of Freedom film. I did a quick check and apparently I have been writing these reviews from a Christian perspective on many films starting more known Hollywood actors since the very first year I began writing posts regularly:

https://life-of-agent-k.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-crazy-nights.html

Although I am not in contention metaphorical adage of “put skin in the game”, I have found that not everything out there in the public that has access to publicly accessible information necessarily will react to the material posted the way I have intended at the moment it was written. However, what is read can never be reversed. As the synopsis and summary of the film to be reviewed in the above has specified it is a retelling of actual events or a real life narrative, I assume that unlike in some narratives that portray physics of science fiction, there is no ability to reverse the natural flow of time being mentioned. Likewise, despite the conflicts some of my posts here in the past might have caused whether internal or expressed between or resulting within the members of communities I have been involved with in the past, there's not a lot I can do to alter the memories of the readers who have already read things posted here in this space in the past.

Perhaps not as often during the remainder of this very eventful year I have been having so far. But I have committed before Jesus to be writing in this blog space more often to mostly use it as a platform to give my thoughts on productions or narratives not normally emphasized within the context of what most people traditionally refer to as "church". I do believe there is a place for people to see that even in productions, artwork, literature or other forms of creative expression not labelled as being affliated with Christianity that often a lot of the various creative minds behind such things do have some affinity to either Christianity or some other expression of the spiritual component of their lives. And it is on that premise that we can't deny there's always going to be an element in our lives that we cannot easily quantify with the process more universally known as "human logic" that I have committed to going back to offering my perspective of someone who does attest to having a relationship with an extraordinary God I reference as "Jesus" that I have recommitted to writing more reviews of productions I see and hopefully if my financial circumstances improve, more reviews over places of interest to most of the global population I am able to visit, etc....

Writing a conclusion and final draft of this post is pending as I have not yet had an opportunity to visually review the aforementioned film pictured in this entry.