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Hello, this is the Harboring Light. I'm Mary. I give
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a conservative perspective about the world around me. Feedback is
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I appreciate all the listeners out there. You know, someone
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them know about the Harboring Light. Okay, so, on to
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the topic of choice. So, I'm going to wrap up
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Chapter 9 of American Gods. Here we go. Okay, so
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with the second part, other half of what's going on
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in the book in Chapter 9, it starts to go
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into more of the specifics of Shadow reconnecting with the
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Buffalo Man. And the Buffalo Man is supposed to be either...
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You can look at him and his disposition in a
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lot of different ways, literally. Not literally, but from a
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literary point of view here. So he could be metaphorically
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saying that he is showing himself, the Buffalo Man is
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connecting with him, especially in a dreamscape, to get Shadow
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to be in tune with his roots, his American roots
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at that. And also the fact that he happens to
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be Native American is centering itself around the aspects of America,
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of which it is with everything with the tradition is
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what it said about the Native American roots, right? And
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so there's a long, I would say if you're being
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really honest about the situation, there's a long, twisted representation
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of Native American people in their place, right? I say like,
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I see it from this point of view. I see
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it like anything else as far as it comes from
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traditions and heritage for people who have set a route
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here or who have immigrated into America, okay? I think
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it's best to see it not from what is being
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presented as something to be true, right? So what do
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I mean by this? Okay, so How is it they say, well,
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you know, Native Americans have skills, survival skills, where, you know,
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they can hunt everything that is territorial to being able
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to survive in nature, right? Knowing how to have these
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various skills. But at the same time, when it comes
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to The aspects of, well, it always has to be
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the same where it says white people are involved with
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being nefarious in business relations. That doesn't even make sense
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and that's not the case. You say it's just one
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of those things where there's a lot of missing holes
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and people aren't wanting to tell the truth about what
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actually happened. right, with the aspects of the foundation and
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how everything developed in America, right? All right, so it's
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the thing where they say with Native Americans, you know, getting,
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taking advantage of, and the same thing with African Americans
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and so forth, getting, having all these skills but being
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taken advantage of in the most Asinine way, okay? So, again,
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with Neil Graham writing this book, he's pointing out the
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specifics about why is that, right? That's what I see
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from my point of view. He's saying, well, especially how
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he introduces the buffalo man At certain places in the book.
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And then reintroducing him again. In this chapter. In chapter 9.
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In the other half of chapter 9. He is methodically saying.
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Well you know. You. You need to be. You need
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to be able to connect to. What matters. And really
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see something. And. The best way to really see something
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and pay attention is when you're unconscious, right? So this
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goes without saying, this could go one or two ways.
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It could be either taking advantage of a person when
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they're most vulnerable, when they're sleeping, right? Or it's a
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supplement to that person to be able to re-entune with
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themselves and understand better because of them being asleep and
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being able to, having no choice but to focus and
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center themselves of what visually they're looking at, right? And so,
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that's one thing to look at and come across and
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pay attention to in this chapter. And then Shadow, you know,
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he is being, in the waking world, he is becoming
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more and more observant of people. It seems like he's
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progressively becoming more and more observant of things and situations.
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that he was and how he was shown in previous chapters. Right.
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So a really good example of this is when he's on,
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you know, he has his job to go, uh, find
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a certain person and he gets on the bus and
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he is very observant of, uh, The bus driver is
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observant of these girls that are in the bus. And
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it also is reflecting of the aspects of what these
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two girls represent. It's the aspects of... Well, you know,
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you can take it from what you will, but this
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is how I see it from my point of view.
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The two coins... of morality. There's one girl of innocence too.
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There's one girl she's simply talking about her interest in
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animals and just being a girl. And the other girl
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feels it's the opportunity to be vulgar. To say, well,
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you know, to corrupt, right? And Shadow is noticing these things,
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and he's saying, well, you know, and then when you
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listen to it from your end, and from what I
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take it as, too, is that to the moral destruction
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finding itself, right? And the best way to avoid issues,
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especially when it comes to breaking down the destruction of
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a society, is stopping it at its root with young people, right?
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And it's this thing where it's getting him Self aware
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of things. To. In himself. Not be. A bystander. Person anymore. Because. Before. Now.
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Chapter 9. Even though Shadow was. Collectively involved. In his life.
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He at the same time. Was. Not. as proactive as
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he could be in his life because most of the
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things that happened to him as far as him going
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to prison and all these other things, right? You can
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see it from this point of view. They happened because
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either he thought he had to do what, follow the
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crowd and do what is expected Or he... was bystanding
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and saying well you know my actions might help but
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standing aloof or being back towards it other issues happen, right? So,
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and it becomes even more apparent when his wife is
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resurfaced or some thoughts about his wife is shown. And
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about his wife is shown again in chapter 9, right? So,
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He reconnects again. With. And. Again with the. Buffalo man.
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He talks to him. And connects with him. In his
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unconscious when he's sleeping. And so he's starting to be. More.
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Visually aware. Of things. And. Being able to confront things more.
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And so. He sees visually in his dream, him sleeping,
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about his wife and her lineage of what happened when
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her parents were together. Well, and unfortunately, at the demise
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of her father's death, and then what her mother did
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after her father died. You come to realize this is
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connecting and having him become more self-aware of his wife
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than he was before and more self-aware of himself than
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he was before. Because all this information is explaining why
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his wife had certain dispositions when she was alive towards
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him and then towards her mother. Because her mom, you know,
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when her mom was introduced, when he went to the
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funeral and his wife's sister was there, you know, how
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they were antagonizing towards him. It goes back and says, well,
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the reason why her mom was that way in explaining
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and helping him kind of see that a little bit
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more is because her mother felt like she had to
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take on all of the responsibility of the family, right?
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To where she and herself I felt it was an
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unhealthy means of saying over to the point of her
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not understanding she's being very possessive of her children to
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where they can't live their own lives, right? They can't
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be their own selves. And And then you start to understand,
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because of Shadow seeing this, that the reason why, it
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kind of makes sense, but it makes more sense. The
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reason why his wife, well, his late wife, even though
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she comes to him, well, her dead body, I guess
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you can say she's kind of like a zombie, because
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I guess if you want to go there, when she
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is talking to Shadow, because, again, somebody summons her to
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be part of the living world, even though she's dead,
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and she says all these things to him. And she's
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constantly saying, well, you know, you necessarily didn't have to
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take those actions in order to protect me, right? And
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then he's saying, well, I had to because I thought
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that was the right means in order to protect you
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and keep you safe, right? And then going back to
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her mom, you start to realize from these dreams that
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she has so much resentment towards Shadow because she's in
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actuality jealous of him because he in himself is taking
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over her territory, right? And giving her daughter a different
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reality than what she was you know, raised in. And
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her mom, from her point of view, thought that she
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was doing things in order to help her children when
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she was actually hurting them. And this is how, in itself,
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this elephant in the room here happened of, you know,
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her daughter being caught up in this lifestyle that she
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doesn't need to be in. And then also with the aspects,
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it explains a lot in the disposition of Shadow why
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they didn't have a good relationship because he always felt
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as if he had to take care of her in
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a way in which is not healthy to where him
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not realizing, him kind of realizing it, but not being
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honest with it, he's actually taking care of her as
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if she was a child, right? And over, and because
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of that, this actions took away his ability to make
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the best moral judgments, right? And then all of these
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dreams in itself get Shadow to understand that now he
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has a second chance to make choices and decisions that
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is His own. Instead of what he feels like he
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has to do. In the moment. Or overreacting. Or something
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like that. And then it ends with. Samantha Crowe. Which was.
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She was. She was. In the ways in which she
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met Shadow. At Hitchhiking. And you find out that. You know,
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she's in tune. What am I talking about? Her father
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and all of that, he was Native American. So she was,
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you know, she's half Native American, half white. And then
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she goes into the story and talk about how her
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father resented her because, you know, her being a mixed breed.
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And all of these things. She grew up with this. Essentially.
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I guess you could say. Maybe a chip on her shoulder. And.
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It got her. But at the same time. Not really.
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Because she saw. What she was missing. As an advantage.
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To herself. And then when she was talking. To Shadow.
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Initially with Amity. Amity. she helps him in order to
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understand the placement in which, you know, gods are aligned
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in his work, right? And they both help each other
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make sense of things. And then she resurfaces again in
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this chapter because there's, These two informants are looking for
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Shadow and they're trying to pretend as if they're agents. But,
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you know, there's more to it involved in that. And
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she sees him writing on the wall and she jerks
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him around. She says, well, I don't really know. And
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then this thing. And then you. It ends where it's
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on a cliffhanger to where it looks like Shadow has
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to come and put himself in danger again in order
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to protect. But let's see what happens in Chapter 10.
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All right, so this reaches the end, and I would
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like to know what you all think. Feel free to,
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if you feel free to want to get the conversation going,
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extend the conversation, email me, or always make comments on YouTube.
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All right, so this reaches the end of The Harmony Line.
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Tune in, turn up, and definitely take care. Bye-bye for now.
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Hello, this is the Harboring Light. I'm Mary. I give
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a conservative perspective about the world around me. Feedback is
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immensely important. Feel free to reach out to me. Two
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ways to do this is, of course, email and YouTube. Alright, so,
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I appreciate all the listeners out there. You know, someone
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that is interested in my content, feel free to let
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them know about the Harboring Light. Okay, so, on to
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the topic of choice. So, I'm going to wrap up
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Chapter 9 of American Gods. Here we go. Okay, so
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with the second part, other half of what's going on
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in the book in Chapter 9, it starts to go
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into more of the specifics of Shadow reconnecting with the
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Buffalo Man. And the Buffalo Man is supposed to be either...
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You can look at him and his disposition in a
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lot of different ways, literally. Not literally, but from a
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literary point of view here. So he could be metaphorically
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saying that he is showing himself, the Buffalo Man is
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connecting with him, especially in a dreamscape, to get Shadow
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to be in tune with his roots, his American roots
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at that. And also the fact that he happens to
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be Native American is centering itself around the aspects of America,
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of which it is with everything with the tradition is
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what it said about the Native American roots, right? And
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so there's a long, I would say if you're being
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really honest about the situation, there's a long, twisted representation
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of Native American people in their place, right? I say like,
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I see it from this point of view. I see
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it like anything else as far as it comes from
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traditions and heritage for people who have set a route
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here or who have immigrated into America, okay? I think
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it's best to see it not from what is being
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presented as something to be true, right? So what do
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I mean by this? Okay, so How is it they say, well,
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you know, Native Americans have skills, survival skills, where, you know,
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they can hunt everything that is territorial to being able
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to survive in nature, right? Knowing how to have these
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various skills. But at the same time, when it comes
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to The aspects of, well, it always has to be
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the same where it says white people are involved with
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being nefarious in business relations. That doesn't even make sense
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and that's not the case. You say it's just one
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of those things where there's a lot of missing holes
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and people aren't wanting to tell the truth about what
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actually happened. right, with the aspects of the foundation and
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how everything developed in America, right? All right, so it's
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the thing where they say with Native Americans, you know, getting,
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taking advantage of, and the same thing with African Americans
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and so forth, getting, having all these skills but being
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taken advantage of in the most Asinine way, okay? So, again,
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with Neil Graham writing this book, he's pointing out the
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specifics about why is that, right? That's what I see
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from my point of view. He's saying, well, especially how
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he introduces the buffalo man At certain places in the book.
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And then reintroducing him again. In this chapter. In chapter 9.
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In the other half of chapter 9. He is methodically saying.
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Well you know. You. You need to be. You need
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to be able to connect to. What matters. And really
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see something. And. The best way to really see something
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and pay attention is when you're unconscious, right? So this
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goes without saying, this could go one or two ways.
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It could be either taking advantage of a person when
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they're most vulnerable, when they're sleeping, right? Or it's a
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supplement to that person to be able to re-entune with
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themselves and understand better because of them being asleep and
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being able to, having no choice but to focus and
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center themselves of what visually they're looking at, right? And so,
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that's one thing to look at and come across and
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pay attention to in this chapter. And then Shadow, you know,
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he is being, in the waking world, he is becoming
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more and more observant of people. It seems like he's
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progressively becoming more and more observant of things and situations.
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that he was and how he was shown in previous chapters. Right.
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So a really good example of this is when he's on,
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you know, he has his job to go, uh, find
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a certain person and he gets on the bus and
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he is very observant of, uh, The bus driver is
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observant of these girls that are in the bus. And
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it also is reflecting of the aspects of what these
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two girls represent. It's the aspects of... Well, you know,
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you can take it from what you will, but this
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is how I see it from my point of view.
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The two coins... of morality. There's one girl of innocence too.
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There's one girl she's simply talking about her interest in
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animals and just being a girl. And the other girl
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feels it's the opportunity to be vulgar. To say, well,
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you know, to corrupt, right? And Shadow is noticing these things,
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and he's saying, well, you know, and then when you
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listen to it from your end, and from what I
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take it as, too, is that to the moral destruction
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finding itself, right? And the best way to avoid issues,
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especially when it comes to breaking down the destruction of
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a society, is stopping it at its root with young people, right?
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And it's this thing where it's getting him Self aware
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of things. To. In himself. Not be. A bystander. Person anymore. Because. Before. Now.
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Chapter 9. Even though Shadow was. Collectively involved. In his life.
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He at the same time. Was. Not. as proactive as
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he could be in his life because most of the
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things that happened to him as far as him going
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to prison and all these other things, right? You can
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see it from this point of view. They happened because
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either he thought he had to do what, follow the
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crowd and do what is expected Or he... was bystanding
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and saying well you know my actions might help but
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standing aloof or being back towards it other issues happen, right? So,
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and it becomes even more apparent when his wife is
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resurfaced or some thoughts about his wife is shown. And
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about his wife is shown again in chapter 9, right? So,
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He reconnects again. With. And. Again with the. Buffalo man.
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He talks to him. And connects with him. In his
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unconscious when he's sleeping. And so he's starting to be. More.
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Visually aware. Of things. And. Being able to confront things more.
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And so. He sees visually in his dream, him sleeping,
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about his wife and her lineage of what happened when
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her parents were together. Well, and unfortunately, at the demise
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of her father's death, and then what her mother did
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after her father died. You come to realize this is
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connecting and having him become more self-aware of his wife
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than he was before and more self-aware of himself than
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he was before. Because all this information is explaining why
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his wife had certain dispositions when she was alive towards
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him and then towards her mother. Because her mom, you know,
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when her mom was introduced, when he went to the
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funeral and his wife's sister was there, you know, how
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they were antagonizing towards him. It goes back and says, well,
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the reason why her mom was that way in explaining
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and helping him kind of see that a little bit
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more is because her mother felt like she had to
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take on all of the responsibility of the family, right?
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To where she and herself I felt it was an
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unhealthy means of saying over to the point of her
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not understanding she's being very possessive of her children to
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where they can't live their own lives, right? They can't
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be their own selves. And And then you start to understand,
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because of Shadow seeing this, that the reason why, it
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kind of makes sense, but it makes more sense. The
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reason why his wife, well, his late wife, even though
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she comes to him, well, her dead body, I guess
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you can say she's kind of like a zombie, because
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I guess if you want to go there, when she
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is talking to Shadow, because, again, somebody summons her to
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be part of the living world, even though she's dead,
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and she says all these things to him. And she's
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constantly saying, well, you know, you necessarily didn't have to
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take those actions in order to protect me, right? And
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then he's saying, well, I had to because I thought
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that was the right means in order to protect you
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and keep you safe, right? And then going back to
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her mom, you start to realize from these dreams that
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she has so much resentment towards Shadow because she's in
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actuality jealous of him because he in himself is taking
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over her territory, right? And giving her daughter a different
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reality than what she was you know, raised in. And
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her mom, from her point of view, thought that she
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was doing things in order to help her children when
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she was actually hurting them. And this is how, in itself,
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this elephant in the room here happened of, you know,
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her daughter being caught up in this lifestyle that she
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doesn't need to be in. And then also with the aspects,
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it explains a lot in the disposition of Shadow why
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they didn't have a good relationship because he always felt
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as if he had to take care of her in
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a way in which is not healthy to where him
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not realizing, him kind of realizing it, but not being
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honest with it, he's actually taking care of her as
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if she was a child, right? And over, and because
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of that, this actions took away his ability to make
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the best moral judgments, right? And then all of these
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dreams in itself get Shadow to understand that now he
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has a second chance to make choices and decisions that
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is His own. Instead of what he feels like he
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has to do. In the moment. Or overreacting. Or something
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like that. And then it ends with. Samantha Crowe. Which was.
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She was. She was. In the ways in which she
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met Shadow. At Hitchhiking. And you find out that. You know,
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she's in tune. What am I talking about? Her father
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and all of that, he was Native American. So she was,
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you know, she's half Native American, half white. And then
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she goes into the story and talk about how her
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father resented her because, you know, her being a mixed breed.
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And all of these things. She grew up with this. Essentially.
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I guess you could say. Maybe a chip on her shoulder. And.
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It got her. But at the same time. Not really.
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Because she saw. What she was missing. As an advantage.
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To herself. And then when she was talking. To Shadow.
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Initially with Amity. Amity. she helps him in order to
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understand the placement in which, you know, gods are aligned
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in his work, right? And they both help each other
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make sense of things. And then she resurfaces again in
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this chapter because there's, These two informants are looking for
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Shadow and they're trying to pretend as if they're agents. But,
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you know, there's more to it involved in that. And
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she sees him writing on the wall and she jerks
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him around. She says, well, I don't really know. And
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then this thing. And then you. It ends where it's
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on a cliffhanger to where it looks like Shadow has
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to come and put himself in danger again in order
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to protect. But let's see what happens in Chapter 10.
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All right, so this reaches the end, and I would
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like to know what you all think. Feel free to,
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if you feel free to want to get the conversation going,
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extend the conversation, email me, or always make comments on YouTube.
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All right, so this reaches the end of The Harmony Line.
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Tune in, turn up, and definitely take care. Bye-bye for now.
