Posted in Christianity, Love, Quotes, Saints, Spirituality, tagged Joy, St. John of the Cross on March 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
[People] obtain more joy and recreation in creatures through the dispossession of them. They cannot rejoice in them if they behold them with possessiveness, for this is a care that, like a trap, holds the spirit to earth and does not allow wideness of heart.
– St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mt. Carmel
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Posted in Art, Fantasy, Game of Thrones, Religion, Television, Video, tagged Daenerys Targaryen, History, Secularism on March 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
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For parts one and two, click here.
So I ended the last installment on this note:
I hope to communicate my disagreement diplomatically, with a due regard to what the G.O.T. story gets right. We’ll get to that next time.
What our show runners “get right” in terms of historical perceptiveness is precisely what many G.O.T. fans felt they got wrong story-wise.
Like I said, the winning of the Great War and the death of Melisandre suggest something of the actual historical movement (more…)
