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Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” Isaiah 6:8

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This movie tripped me up when I saw it. I was around 13–14 years old. I went a solid year thinking my life could be a TV show and everyone else is in on it.

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“Not to desire material things is to know the freedom of spirituality; and to desire them is to suffer the limitations of matter”

Tao Te Ching

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“Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake. The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there is the surface of the lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.

You don't resist change by mentally clinging to any situation. Your inner peace does not depend on it.”

- The Power of Now

I am almost done with this book. I highly recommend it to anyone, but I specifically recommend it to anyone who can’t find meaning in life, are quick to anger or become annoyed, or who seem to be controlled by their emotions.

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Every. Single. Time.

The mysteries of the Bible will never be fully figured out. I’m sure there’s still many “Easter eggs” to be discovered.

On the page directly previous to that, in Luke, Jesus told his disciples that he speaks in allegory specifically so that people won't understand. While that exorcism wasn't explicitly stated as allegorical, I think it was, because of both its placement and the things it says. What Jew would have a herd if pigs? Pigs only serve one purpose for Jews, and that's to represent uncleanliness. They don't keep them around. Then there's the demon saying "we are Legion" - that's very specific. Legions are what Rome uses to subjugate people and extort taxes. A legion isn't anything else. And then the possessed pigs ran into the water and drowned. Where is Rome, compared to Israel? Physically, Rome is to the west, across the water. Legions ran away and drowned in water... That seems to mean the invaders will leave. But there is also a spiritual meaning for both water and the west. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Remember the morning star, which rises in the east? It represents resurrection. And the sun setting represents death. To go to the west is to die. Water, meanwhile represents uncreated, unconscious potential. When Jesus walked on water, you're meant to think of Genesis, the Spirit hovering over the water.

In summary, that story means that the invaders are unclean, they are pigs, and they will run down to the west and die, returning their uncleanliness to the water, where they may be remade into something clean. Demons, in this case, could (not saying definitely) be a useful tool of rhetoric - and this is the classical world, so rhetoric features strongly as one of the seven classical liberal arts - the subjects of study for education. I'm not saying it didn't happen - idk - but I don't think the purpose was to tell us about demons.

Interesting perspective. As with many Bible verses, there’s many meanings to each verse. I still believe demons to be as real as angels.

I agree. But demons are mentioned. One of the miracles of Jesus Christ was casting demons out of a possessed person and sending them into pigs that proceeded to run off a cliff.

I don’t believe so. But they do seem to pop up here and there.

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