HUGE entry with fandom update, theology ramblings, and RL update.

[luciazephyr]

Whoo, long time, no entry. Few things have happened, both in fandom life and real life. Let's begin the debriefing.

Fandom Life:

1- Forgive me for being a heartless traitor, people, but if I were stranded on a deserted isle and could only watch one show until I die, it's House, M.D., FOX's hit medical dramedy. It's the best show ever, bar none. Dr. Greg House is a misanthropic bastard but a genius diagnostician with a leg infraction, giving his chronic pain and one hell of a limp. My favorite character, though, is House boyfriend co-worker, Dr. James Wilson, the man of the many marriages. He's the Boy Wonder oncologist who frequents House's cases thanks both to his expertise and his friendship with House.

What to know who those to are exactly like? Crowley and Aziraphale. House is the demon with a spark of goodness in him, Wilson the angel who's just enough of a bastard to be worth liking. That's them and their relationship in a nutshell. Also? The TPTB hand us Wilson/House slasher evidence on a fuckin' silver platter. It so weird. Like, in 1.05, rather than going home to his wife for Christmas, Wilson spends the night at House's apartment where they eat take-out Chinese and listen to House play the piano. In 1.09, Wilson attends House's court appearance and sits behind him, trying to talk him out of something stupid. In 1.07, House takes constant snipes at Wilson for buying a new, green silk tie. ("You want to look pretty. At work. *sing-songy* Wilson's got a girlfriend!" "Sh-shut up! I do not!")

They are my new OTP to End All OTPs. *happy sigh*



2- I'm routinely pissed off at SG's TPTB. We're only a few months off the revival of the season and we have details on only three episode AND no episode title list?! WTF?!



3- Left Behind book series. Holy shit, these are cool books. Yes, I know, I'm a militant agnostic reading a Christian series, shame on me. But have you guys read Revelations? Awesome stuff. John the Baptist had a dream of what would happen in the world's last days. It was full of showy imagery (you could well show a dude from that time a motorcyclist and say "That's War, dude." a la Good Omens.)

So I decide to read this series. Pure curiousity. Is some of it hype? Meh, no more than any other good book. About 10%. But the rest is just because it's an amazingly done series. I'm at the end of book three, Nicolae, and will be picking up Soul Harvest by tonight.

The story is, at it's base, the aftereffects of the Rapture (to you non-Christians, that's Jesus coming back to bring the believers to heaven so they won't deal with the coming events), the rise of the Antichrist (in this case, the Secretary-General of the UN, Nicolae Carpathia who's the coolest bad guy ever), and the Tribulation (a series of Judgements on those who weren't taken in the Rapture. Some left on earth are newly-found Christians, some are still non-believers) and some of the Judgements are nasty.



Let's see... First are the seal judgements, called such cause they occur as Jesus breaks the Seals of a scroll in the imagery.

First is 'the conqueror', the Antichrist rising up and uniting the world under a false peace.

Second is the Horseman of War, which would be like World War III and stuff.

Third, directly after War, is Famine, who'd strike and destroy the world's food output and put us in Deep Shit economically.

Fourth, of course, is DEATH. Cause where there is War, there is DEATH.

The fifth seal is the 'cry of the martyrs', which we lowly humans wouldn't see. In heaven, the martyrs get bitchy at God for continuing the killing of the good guys. God pats them on the head tells them to be patient and gives them shiny white robes. Martyrs grumble and put on the bland clothing.

The sixth seal judgement is an earthquake. A world-wide, category Holy Shit earthquake.

The seventh seal is very mysterious. No one knows what it could be. All that is said is that (quoting from my NKJV bible) "there was silence in heaven for about half and hour". That's it. That's all we know. I've been thinking about what could cause that and, after the Earthquake of Doom, nothing comes to mind. Maybe I should read deeper into the fact that it said "silence in heaven" rather than earth, but I have no idea.

Then are the really bad ones: The Trumpet Judgements. Apprently, seven angels show up, each with a trumpet that, when blown, causes one of the Judgements.

First of the seven is, what I figure, a fire storm. Seriously. It says (Rev. 8:7-8) that "hail and fire followed, mingled with with blood and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up." That sounds like it'd be a firestorm. So food output takes another hit.

The second is a space rock into the ocean, I think. A huge "something like a great mountain" is thrown into the sea. A third of the ocean becomes blood, all living stuff in the water dies, and a third of the ships are destroyed. Aren't you glad God loves you?

Thirdly, another space rock, or rather, multiple rocks, since this strike a third of the world's rivers. The bible called it a star and names it Wormwood.. A third of the waters become wormwood and people are poisoned by it. Fun.

Fourth is really freaky. The heavens themselves get hit, destroying a third of the sun, moon, and stars. It darkens the world by one-third. Again, crops would suffer I think.

Fifth is bugs. At this point, I'd hope I died cause I HATE bugs. *has phobia of wasps and bees and stuff* Apollyon/Abaddon (depending if you speak Greek or Hebrew respectively), the Chief Demon of the Abyss, leads an army of locusts. But not just any locusts, ones that are like scorpions that attack people rather than plants. Anyone who isn't a believer gets attacked by them. Eek.

Sixth is kinda vague. Johnny saw a bunch of horsemen, over two hundred million, killing a third of the population with "fire and the smoke and brimstone from their months". I have no idea what that could mean. A super-volcano, maybe multiple eruptions? *shrugs*

Seventh is a superstorm. Lightning, thunder, an earthquake, and bunch of hail.

The Bowl/Vial Judgements. Seven angels are given seven golden bowls filled with God's wrath to pour onto the world.

First is sores. Really nasty ones given to those who bear the mark of the beast (Antichrist) and worship him. I'm think it means a form of disease that appears on the skin. Maybe a fast-moving skin cancer?

The second is an angel pouring all the blood of the dead into the seas and oceans, turning the oceans completely to blood. Yuck.

The third is the same to the rest of the water.

The fourth is the sun heating up. It gets so hot, people are scorched.

The fifth is only to the the Antichrist's people apprently ("poured his bowl on the throne of the beast"). They suffer darkness and pain. Keep in mind they are still scorched and have the sores. My guess is that the people are blinded. Or a disease that cause blindness and agony.

The sixth is a two-parter. The Euphrates dries up completely. Also, the bad guys (I think) go to the hill of Megiddo. Megiddo was an ancient battleground that many wars took place at. Now, it's more often called Armageedon.

The last of the Bowl Judgements is the final Judgement too. And it sucks. One, a mega earthquake that topples the cities and moves mountains. Two, a tidal wave (probably result of the earthquake) so big, islands disappear under it. Three, another superstorm that rains HUGE hailstones onto people.

Whoo. That was fun. I like this theology/mythology stuff. Fun to play with. Anyway, that's just the Judgements themselves. Apprently to get the Antichrist stuff, I have to read Ezekiel or Daniel. I'm still in John, but he's boring. No end-of-the-world visions or anything. After all, I'm not a Christian. I just find it interesting.



Real Life:

1- Redecorated the entire den. Phew, hard work. Hoshi was over that day and Grandma made her work too, poor thing. *pets Hoshi*


2- I'm... going to church. *hides from thrown tomatoes* Don't kill me! It's just... I have a friend who works with my mother, Roger, who's been on us for ages to go to the Saturday service at his Baptist church. We finally agreed to it. Wow. I was impressed. It wasn't all Bible-Thumpage. That's saved for the Sunday service I suppose. The Saturday one is more laid back and, surprisingly, funny. Genuinely humorous. The preachers make jokes as they talk about your basic psychology stuff. No bible-reading or anything like that. They talk about people. Recently, a guest speaker came with a degree in Psychology who spoke about people who get divorced a lot. And he made sense and was very funny. I liked him. And he's a nice guy. I'm going back tomorrow. I'm hoping it'll be good.


3- Driving test later today. Well, the written one anyway. I'm shooting for getting a motorcycle rather than a car actually. Anyone have any advice for me?


That's it for now. I have laundry to do. And I'm starving. Going fourteen hours without food does that to a person.

Comments

[emily-rona.livejournal.com]

Hello Lu just wondeirng if you heard of teh new SG game that's comming out?
also thoese book's soundintersting as umm hell

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Of course I heard. I doubt it'll be any good. But it's very pretty. They have a website now if you want to google it.