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Pegra's avatar

Hello from Washington State where Cordyceps militaris is alive and well and growing all over the place and being consumed (usually in powder form) to enhance ... whatever. Anyway, back to Joel and Ellie. This, what? messianic story?, makes way more sense than the New Testament convoluted story of cannibalism that, after years of unease, I finally rejected. Joel makes sense. The Temple sacrifices ended. Enough blood was shed by innocent animals; but it didn't do a thing for the propensity of humans to sin, and sin boldly, or to alleviate the misery it caused. The ultimate responsibility for atoning for sin is placed on each human. I'm revolted by the mass of people committing grievous sins happy in the knowledge that somebody else is paying the bill and "Jesus has forgiven me". That's a BFD to the people we have harmed. Let's get back to reparations, dammit. Except nobody wants to take responsibility for the consequences of their sins.

Besides all that, Pedro Pascal floats my boat.🧓

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Michael Sheppard's avatar

That was a good read but I'm still disappointed in Joel and still a fan of the show. Thanks for your review.

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