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Hello, this is The Harboring Light. I'm Mary.
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I give a conservative perspective about the world around me.
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Feedback is immensely important. Feel free to reach out to me.
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feel free to reach out to them and tell them
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about The Harboring Light. Alright, so on to the topic
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of choice. I'm focusing in on Chapter 10 of American Gods.
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Here we go. Okay, so in this chapter, now.
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We're focusing in on Shadow reflecting and realizing that he
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wants to be a part of something that's smaller. He's
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getting more in tune into his identity of being more
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connected to something outside of.
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What he's.
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Assigned to do and he gets he starts to understand
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and realize the benefit of being in a small town
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and everything with that and what is accounted to him
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and is the local sheriff that's a part of the
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town and so now i'm going to get more into
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the specifics of that here we go Okay, so getting
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back to it.
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So, Chad.
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Let me pull his name up here.
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Alright. Alright. Thanks a lot. Hold on.
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I have it right with me. Okay, Chad Mulligan, right? So,
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he is an officer in Lakeside. That's where Shadow... is
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and how it's describing describing how cold it is again
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and it's talking about how shadow in itself is being
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more aware of his surroundings and how isolated he feels
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right and how it's really starting to drag on him
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and so chad mulligan um Comes to him and he says, well, hey, buddy,
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what's going on with you? He's talking to him. And
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he's explaining to him, you know, his situation, Shadow. And
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then he finds out that Chad is the officer for
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the Lakeside police officer.
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And he's giving him help.
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And he said, well, you know, think about this, consider
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this as something as a warm welcome for you. Where
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your other eyes wouldn't get, you know, if you were
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in a larger city. He's pointing it out because you
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start to realize that Chad was, Going through a similar situation.
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Especially when you think about the point of view. Of
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how horrific that can be. And.
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God bless them. People who work in the line of service.
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And.
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Where it be.
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Civic duties as a police officer. EMTs. You know all
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of that.
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All of that. And so he's saying you know. When.
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You're in a city versus being in a small town.
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As far as crime is considered, everything is significantly different.
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The largest event he was talking about that you would
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get as far as issues when it comes to unrest
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is somebody being fed up with something and doing something
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they wouldn't usually do. In this case, he was talking
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about how it, um, the, the, this one eccentric guy
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in the town, you know, him, um, pointing out, uh,
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what he did. And then, you know, again, they're back
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in the situation where, uh, the environment, um, is very
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subtle to amplify, uh, what they're talking about, you know,
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them being in a cafe and it's cold again. And, um,
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you know, the different waitresses that are there saying, well,
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you know, her disposition where she feels offended by, you know,
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this guy, how he is, like, you know, he's not
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very stable, but, you know, and then his off-colored humor,
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especially on his wheelchair, because apparently he is wheelchair-bound, or
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that might be a reason for you know, his issues
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and everything, right? And you can tell, you know, the
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difference night and day between, you know, a setting which
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would be, you know, people who are used to activities
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that go on in the city, bigger parts of the
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city versus smaller towns. You know, they don't, they want
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things a certain way. And then, you know, he was
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explaining to her, you know, he's like, well, the, uh, waitress,
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the first waitress, he was like, well, you know, he
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means well, so, like, you know, he, he was just,
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he had a bad moment, right? And, um, Shadow can
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relate to that a lot because of his situation, right?
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And so, Shadow is just starting to take all these
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things in, right? And he's saying, well, there's something about
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that starting to be more reflective. There's something about the
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hospitality that is there for you when you are in
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a smaller part of town. And everything is starting to
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come together for him, right? And so, even so with
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his disposition, he's starting to become more aware of himself. Because,
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for instance, so he goes into... this store and um
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it's one of those things about the unique charm of
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um some small towns depending on the size and the
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variety you know and i've been uh a witness to
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that and seen certain towns where if it's small enough
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um and those who know what i'm talking about you
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know what i mean where um there's a one-stop shop
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where you can get Everything you need in one place, right?
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And so essentially, Shadow is going into a store like
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that where he is now. And he's starting to be
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more reflective of his disposition about morality. And this is
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where he lies heavily in the contradictions between him and Wednesday,
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which is Odin. And so this is another reflection which
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I think the author is trying to pinpoint specifically, all right,
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that when implicated, right, if gods were to take human shapes,
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where were their, uh-uh, no ma'am, where would the morality
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of their decisions lie and what would they do? And
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it becomes more and more apparent that shadow him being
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a person. And it becomes more and more apparent with
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the characters who are human. They didn't just take shape
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of being a human because of certain situations. If they
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were taking the form of a human because of a
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god or in his case of his deceased wife, you know,
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walking the earth as a zombie, so to speak, you know,
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the way in their dispositions of how they view things
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is vastly different. And so this pinpoints a lot into
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bringing more of, again, that taboo elephant in the room
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situations to why is it you know that um again
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this is merely my reflections about it right why is
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it that you know particularly certain gods and goddesses are
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good it feels.
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Better or you know.
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Mentioned and sometimes even revered and You know, what is
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that a reflection to? Well, most of the time, you know,
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when we think about, you know, in the case of
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Odin or in the case of um um she's i'm
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trying to think about athena uh let's see uh uh
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nike and uh aphrodite the list goes on you know
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you know they uh pinpointed and and um talked about
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in certain light to where you know it's uh.
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Their foibles, you.
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Know, so to speak, their flaws, I guess you can say,
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which is weird to say something like that when there's,
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you know, immortal beings, you know, beyond that, right?
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They're, you know, immortal beings.
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They do not have any sense of morality when it
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comes to most of their decisions that they chose to
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choose to make right and um odin and himself is
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constantly showcasing that and reflecting that that you know merely
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here we have to see us you know things have
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to be shown for what we are what we do
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you know what our purpose is right but at the
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same time it's odd because um which is interesting when
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you think about it because that, you know, that can
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be metaphorically speaking about history and the implication and, and
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the importance of really understanding your history and your cultural
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heritage and roots with all that mixed together. Right.
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Of, uh, how do you want to be remembered and
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what do you want to be remembered for? All right.
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So, um, um, the, uh, uh, I'm thinking back from memory.
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The Yagas, you know, that represents Slavic traditional histories of,
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you know, everything that these sisters are representing.
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Day, night, you know, all these kind of things, right?
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And also with the aspects of certain Slavic and... Where
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it be the traditions that are showcased and thought about
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when it comes to America and how they implement themselves, right? Okay,
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so here's the thing, how I feel is another key
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point when it comes to What I think about history
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and what I think the author is making a reference
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towards history here.
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Okay?
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So, I think it's very important if you are really
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interested in understanding.
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I'm sorry about that, y'all. I don't know. Sometimes problems
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can be something else. It just.
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Simply bear with me with y'all this for some reason
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it won't the interface won't let me decline the call
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so anyhow.
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Um luckily i stopped.
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Uh anyhow right so case in point right um i
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am an advocate of saying and actually believing this You
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are reflective of.
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Where you came from.
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And also, if you do not pay attention to history,
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you're bound to repeat it, right? And that it's far
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better to, you know, let things unfold the way they
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are instead of just censoring something for your own agendas.
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And that's what the problem is, especially today, where it's
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more and more acceptable for people to big, have an
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outlet and be on the forefront to saying, well, I
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don't like particularly how you feel and what you think
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about certain things. So I'm just going to omit something
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because it, it's not very, I, I don't feel, um,
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that it's, um, comfortable for me to, um, think about
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that or talk about that.
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Right. You know, uh, When it comes to certain subjects. Here.
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In the mainstream. Zagos. You can say. Cultural landscape here. Right. And.
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When you look at this particular chapter here.
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With.
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Everything unfolding. And I'll get to chapter 11. On Monday. Um.
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It's very clear that that is the case. So when,
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needless to say, you know, Odin doesn't necessarily make his decision-making,
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Shadow's decision-making, but it's apparent where Shadow lies as far
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as choices. It's very apparent when Wednesday is there and
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when he's not.
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There, right?
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And so when he comes back Wednesday and he talks
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to Shadow and he says all these things and then
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Shadow sees his wife again. He's saying, well, he starts
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to have.
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It starts to... You know, it's like this....
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For instance, all of us, if we admit it to ourselves,
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they have delayed responses towards something, right? And it seems
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as if the way it's described and talked about, as
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far as his wife, I don't know if it's on purpose,
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there's a meaning towards that.
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Or what happened.
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Particularly in this case, when we're talking about chapter 10,
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When he sees her again, it's sort of as if
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he's having a delayed response and a very.
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Coherent.
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It's not necessarily he didn't have a coherent reaction to her,
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you know, initially when he's seen her before Chapter 10.
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But now he's starting to be... The empathy....
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For her, it's starting to draw in his mind. You know,
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because he's starting to say to himself and realize, well, geez,
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you know, that's got to be awful for her to
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be just here on earth when she's already passed on.
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And she is sort of like she's damned or something
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because she can't, you know, just move on and go
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somewhere else.
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She's just stuck here, right?
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And then he starts to reflect and think back to
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Matt Sweeney. When Matt Sweeney, you know, is talking to
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him in his last breath or his last time that
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he's on Earth. And, you know, Matt Sweeney in itself
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is the true form of a leprechaun. And Matt Sweeney
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is talking about, well, oh, this is essentially my fault
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because I gave you the wrong coin. And so to speak,
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when you think about that wrong coin... And then what
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Matt Sweeney represents, luck and charm. So, essentially, you know,
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misfortune and a curse, right? And then, you know, and
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then itself with him being, having that title, Matt Sweeney,
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those two dynamics, you know, ruling in his mind, you know, essentially,
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he didn't know how to... find his path and way
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and his purpose you know as a um nor Celtic
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um I guess um Celtic folklore tradition and so he
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was just stuck in a rock and a hard place
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literally he was you know like you know he was
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just stuck and then in this aspect it was being
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very honest and reflecting towards um derail a situation of, well,
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here's an example of, not necessarily a god, but folklore,
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and taking on a personification, him taking on a personification,
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and what he did, of how, if you're not careful,
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and you don't know your place, and you're not preserving,
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you know, what you're meant to be, and how you're
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meant to be, and culture, particularly in the American culture,
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with Celtic traditions, you're going to be thrown to the
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wolves and Odin in his disposition is saying well hey
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look I am going to revere myself and know what
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I know to be true to myself so I don't get.
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Disposition like this and it seems like for me from
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my point of view is why to.
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Explain Odin's disposition right So Odin goes on Mr.
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Wednesday. He goes on and saying.
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Well, you know, I have these, um, I get, he says,
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traits or charms that I picked up while I have
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been here, right, on earth, I'm gonna tell you, and
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he's telling Shadow subtly at a time, and, uh, he
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starts to become, Shadow starts to become more reflective and
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connecting towards Odin right because he understands that Odin has
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picked up these you know as you can say advice
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for life so to speak from his point of view
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in order to help him figure out where he's supposed
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to be and what he's supposed to do in America
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right his place in order for them To understand his traditional.
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Attributes to America. Right.
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And. This in itself. Is reflecting. Towards Shadow's disposition. In
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his place. In his new. Line of work. And what
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he can do. To transition all these things. Of what's
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bestowed upon him.
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So those are my. Brief thoughts, right, about this chapter.
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I would like to know what you all think. If
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you want to continue the conversation, feel free to reach
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out to me either through email or YouTube comments. Alright,
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so this reaches the end of the Heart Wind Life.
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Tune in, turn up, and definitely take care.
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Hello, this is The Harboring Light. I'm Mary.
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I give a conservative perspective about the world around me.
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Feedback is immensely important. Feel free to reach out to me.
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about The Harboring Light. Alright, so on to the topic
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of choice. I'm focusing in on Chapter 10 of American Gods.
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Here we go. Okay, so in this chapter, now.
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We're focusing in on Shadow reflecting and realizing that he
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wants to be a part of something that's smaller. He's
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getting more in tune into his identity of being more
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connected to something outside of.
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What he's.
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Assigned to do and he gets he starts to understand
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and realize the benefit of being in a small town
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and everything with that and what is accounted to him
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and is the local sheriff that's a part of the
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town and so now i'm going to get more into
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the specifics of that here we go Okay, so getting
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back to it.
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So, Chad.
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Let me pull his name up here.
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Alright. Alright. Thanks a lot. Hold on.
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I have it right with me. Okay, Chad Mulligan, right? So,
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he is an officer in Lakeside. That's where Shadow... is
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and how it's describing describing how cold it is again
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and it's talking about how shadow in itself is being
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more aware of his surroundings and how isolated he feels
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right and how it's really starting to drag on him
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and so chad mulligan um Comes to him and he says, well, hey, buddy,
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what's going on with you? He's talking to him. And
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he's explaining to him, you know, his situation, Shadow. And
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then he finds out that Chad is the officer for
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the Lakeside police officer.
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And he's giving him help.
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this as something as a warm welcome for you. Where
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your other eyes wouldn't get, you know, if you were
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in a larger city. He's pointing it out because you
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start to realize that Chad was, Going through a similar situation.
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Especially when you think about the point of view. Of
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how horrific that can be. And.
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God bless them. People who work in the line of service.
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And.
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Where it be.
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Civic duties as a police officer. EMTs. You know all
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of that.
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All of that. And so he's saying you know. When.
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You're in a city versus being in a small town.
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As far as crime is considered, everything is significantly different.
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The largest event he was talking about that you would
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get as far as issues when it comes to unrest
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is somebody being fed up with something and doing something
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they wouldn't usually do. In this case, he was talking
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about how it, um, the, the, this one eccentric guy
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in the town, you know, him, um, pointing out, uh,
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what he did. And then, you know, again, they're back
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in the situation where, uh, the environment, um, is very
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subtle to amplify, uh, what they're talking about, you know,
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them being in a cafe and it's cold again. And, um,
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you know, the different waitresses that are there saying, well,
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you know, her disposition where she feels offended by, you know,
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this guy, how he is, like, you know, he's not
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very stable, but, you know, and then his off-colored humor,
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especially on his wheelchair, because apparently he is wheelchair-bound, or
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that might be a reason for you know, his issues
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and everything, right? And you can tell, you know, the
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difference night and day between, you know, a setting which
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would be, you know, people who are used to activities
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that go on in the city, bigger parts of the
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city versus smaller towns. You know, they don't, they want
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things a certain way. And then, you know, he was
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explaining to her, you know, he's like, well, the, uh, waitress,
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the first waitress, he was like, well, you know, he
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means well, so, like, you know, he, he was just,
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he had a bad moment, right? And, um, Shadow can
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relate to that a lot because of his situation, right?
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And so, Shadow is just starting to take all these
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things in, right? And he's saying, well, there's something about
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that starting to be more reflective. There's something about the
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hospitality that is there for you when you are in
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a smaller part of town. And everything is starting to
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come together for him, right? And so, even so with
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his disposition, he's starting to become more aware of himself. Because,
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for instance, so he goes into... this store and um
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it's one of those things about the unique charm of
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um some small towns depending on the size and the
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variety you know and i've been uh a witness to
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that and seen certain towns where if it's small enough
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um and those who know what i'm talking about you
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know what i mean where um there's a one-stop shop
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where you can get Everything you need in one place, right?
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that where he is now. And he's starting to be
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more reflective of his disposition about morality. And this is
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where he lies heavily in the contradictions between him and Wednesday,
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which is Odin. And so this is another reflection which
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I think the author is trying to pinpoint specifically, all right,
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that when implicated, right, if gods were to take human shapes,
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where were their, uh-uh, no ma'am, where would the morality
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of their decisions lie and what would they do? And
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it becomes more and more apparent that shadow him being
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a person. And it becomes more and more apparent with
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the characters who are human. They didn't just take shape
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of being a human because of certain situations. If they
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were taking the form of a human because of a
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god or in his case of his deceased wife, you know,
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walking the earth as a zombie, so to speak, you know,
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the way in their dispositions of how they view things
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is vastly different. And so this pinpoints a lot into
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bringing more of, again, that taboo elephant in the room
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situations to why is it you know that um again
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this is merely my reflections about it right why is
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it that you know particularly certain gods and goddesses are
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good it feels.
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Better or you know.
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Mentioned and sometimes even revered and You know, what is
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that a reflection to? Well, most of the time, you know,
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when we think about, you know, in the case of
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Odin or in the case of um um she's i'm
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trying to think about athena uh let's see uh uh
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nike and uh aphrodite the list goes on you know
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you know they uh pinpointed and and um talked about
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in certain light to where you know it's uh.
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Their foibles, you.
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Know, so to speak, their flaws, I guess you can say,
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which is weird to say something like that when there's,
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you know, immortal beings, you know, beyond that, right?
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They're, you know, immortal beings.
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They do not have any sense of morality when it
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comes to most of their decisions that they chose to
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choose to make right and um odin and himself is
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constantly showcasing that and reflecting that that you know merely
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here we have to see us you know things have
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to be shown for what we are what we do
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you know what our purpose is right but at the
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same time it's odd because um which is interesting when
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you think about it because that, you know, that can
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be metaphorically speaking about history and the implication and, and
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the importance of really understanding your history and your cultural
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heritage and roots with all that mixed together. Right.
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Of, uh, how do you want to be remembered and
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what do you want to be remembered for? All right.
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So, um, um, the, uh, uh, I'm thinking back from memory.
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The Yagas, you know, that represents Slavic traditional histories of,
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you know, everything that these sisters are representing.
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Day, night, you know, all these kind of things, right?
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And also with the aspects of certain Slavic and... Where
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it be the traditions that are showcased and thought about
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when it comes to America and how they implement themselves, right? Okay,
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so here's the thing, how I feel is another key
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point when it comes to What I think about history
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and what I think the author is making a reference
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towards history here.
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Okay?
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So, I think it's very important if you are really
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interested in understanding.
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I'm sorry about that, y'all. I don't know. Sometimes problems
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can be something else. It just.
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Simply bear with me with y'all this for some reason
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it won't the interface won't let me decline the call
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so anyhow.
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Um luckily i stopped.
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Uh anyhow right so case in point right um i
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am an advocate of saying and actually believing this You
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are reflective of.
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Where you came from.
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And also, if you do not pay attention to history,
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you're bound to repeat it, right? And that it's far
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better to, you know, let things unfold the way they
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are instead of just censoring something for your own agendas.
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And that's what the problem is, especially today, where it's
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more and more acceptable for people to big, have an
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outlet and be on the forefront to saying, well, I
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don't like particularly how you feel and what you think
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about certain things. So I'm just going to omit something
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because it, it's not very, I, I don't feel, um,
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that it's, um, comfortable for me to, um, think about
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that or talk about that.
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Right. You know, uh, When it comes to certain subjects. Here.
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In the mainstream. Zagos. You can say. Cultural landscape here. Right. And.
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When you look at this particular chapter here.
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Everything unfolding. And I'll get to chapter 11. On Monday. Um.
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It's very clear that that is the case. So when,
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needless to say, you know, Odin doesn't necessarily make his decision-making,
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Shadow's decision-making, but it's apparent where Shadow lies as far
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as choices. It's very apparent when Wednesday is there and
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when he's not.
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There, right?
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And so when he comes back Wednesday and he talks
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to Shadow and he says all these things and then
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Shadow sees his wife again. He's saying, well, he starts
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to have.
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It starts to... You know, it's like this....
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For instance, all of us, if we admit it to ourselves,
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they have delayed responses towards something, right? And it seems
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as if the way it's described and talked about, as
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far as his wife, I don't know if it's on purpose,
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there's a meaning towards that.
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Or what happened.
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Particularly in this case, when we're talking about chapter 10,
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When he sees her again, it's sort of as if
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he's having a delayed response and a very.
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Coherent.
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It's not necessarily he didn't have a coherent reaction to her,
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you know, initially when he's seen her before Chapter 10.
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But now he's starting to be... The empathy....
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For her, it's starting to draw in his mind. You know,
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because he's starting to say to himself and realize, well, geez,
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you know, that's got to be awful for her to
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be just here on earth when she's already passed on.
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And she is sort of like she's damned or something
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because she can't, you know, just move on and go
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somewhere else.
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She's just stuck here, right?
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And then he starts to reflect and think back to
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Matt Sweeney. When Matt Sweeney, you know, is talking to
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him in his last breath or his last time that
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he's on Earth. And, you know, Matt Sweeney in itself
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is the true form of a leprechaun. And Matt Sweeney
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is talking about, well, oh, this is essentially my fault
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because I gave you the wrong coin. And so to speak,
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when you think about that wrong coin... And then what
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Matt Sweeney represents, luck and charm. So, essentially, you know,
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misfortune and a curse, right? And then, you know, and
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then itself with him being, having that title, Matt Sweeney,
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those two dynamics, you know, ruling in his mind, you know, essentially,
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he didn't know how to... find his path and way
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and his purpose you know as a um nor Celtic
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um I guess um Celtic folklore tradition and so he
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was just stuck in a rock and a hard place
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literally he was you know like you know he was
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just stuck and then in this aspect it was being
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very honest and reflecting towards um derail a situation of, well,
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here's an example of, not necessarily a god, but folklore,
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and taking on a personification, him taking on a personification,
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and what he did, of how, if you're not careful,
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and you don't know your place, and you're not preserving,
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you know, what you're meant to be, and how you're
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meant to be, and culture, particularly in the American culture,
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with Celtic traditions, you're going to be thrown to the
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wolves and Odin in his disposition is saying well hey
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look I am going to revere myself and know what
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I know to be true to myself so I don't get.
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Disposition like this and it seems like for me from
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my point of view is why to.
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Explain Odin's disposition right So Odin goes on Mr.
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Wednesday. He goes on and saying.
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Well, you know, I have these, um, I get, he says,
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traits or charms that I picked up while I have
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been here, right, on earth, I'm gonna tell you, and
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he's telling Shadow subtly at a time, and, uh, he
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starts to become, Shadow starts to become more reflective and
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connecting towards Odin right because he understands that Odin has
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picked up these you know as you can say advice
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for life so to speak from his point of view
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in order to help him figure out where he's supposed
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to be and what he's supposed to do in America
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right his place in order for them To understand his traditional.
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Attributes to America. Right.
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And. This in itself. Is reflecting. Towards Shadow's disposition. In
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his place. In his new. Line of work. And what
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he can do. To transition all these things. Of what's
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bestowed upon him.
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Alright.
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So those are my. Brief thoughts, right, about this chapter.
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I would like to know what you all think. If
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you want to continue the conversation, feel free to reach
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out to me either through email or YouTube comments. Alright,
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so this reaches the end of the Heart Wind Life.
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Tune in, turn up, and definitely take care.
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Bye-bye for now.
