You're welcome.

I just really appreciated when you said that.

And something to do with Marlene's question about Yahweh never promised to come and save us at those times.

He was loving us by staying away.

But Christianity built up this expectation.

So then it diluted our trust in him when it really wasn't him at all.

So just relabeling that was really, really cool.

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At first, I couldn't hear anything except for this, like, static a little bit.

But then I'd start hearing something, this weird faraway singsong voice calling my name.

My name is Edwin, and here is Sarah Beth's True Scary Story.

I've had unexplainable experiences as far back as I can remember.

The first one that I remember is when I was seven years old.

I was home alone.

My mother was still working.

As

we mentioned, at some point, True Blood just kind of stopped trusting the main antagonist, the vampires, to carry the show.

Now, granted, a lot of this stuff still happened in the books.

But I think they were trying to make their own thing away from the books in a way, but yet still pull bits and pieces out of it.

Because, like I said, each book had a new thing happening.

So maybe she would add a new thing each season or each book.

So you had a new mystery.

do you think the show is saying something serious at a certain point or just using those themes to make the story more interesting?

Well, what if they weren't there? Okay, you're just looking through the perspective that you have right this minute, but it could be, potentially it could be a whole lot worse if those protections were not in place, okay? So just kind of keep that in mind.

Okay, so something was presented or came across my path, and it was by a Christian, so I was like, oh, that's interesting.

But they said one thing that I thought, I was hoping you could de-Christian, um, when they were trying, they were getting all excited about the book of Ruth and how it wasn't just a love story.

It had to hold this thing in connection to the whole kinsman redeemer and they were all excited.

And then the one piece they said that I don't remember ever hearing before was they connected that to Yeshua coming in the flesh, being born of one of the tribes and then acting in the place of kinsman redeemer.

Does that make, Any sense?

This gives me an example that he understands what it's like to be us, okay? And that human experience side of him was what got to have that conversation, right?

Okay, so your answer to Wayne sparked another question.

Yeah, like I don't have a way of I don't think I wanted to like like come up off of it.

No, but they knew they had accomplished a goal and they knew they had to work together.

So so, you know, we have and Ronnie is determined to protect Will while worrying about Hank.

And Marge is grieving Rich while trying to finish what he helped start.

And by staying together, they resist Pennywise's usual tactics of isolating his victims and use the fear against them.

Then we go on to Leroy seeking Halloran's help.

Dick.

Yeah.

So, I mean, everyone was different, but it wasn't like you have the one black friend who embodies all of those different personalities because that's what that's usually how

that happens.

So then which the comedy just, of course, help make everything blend in together pretty seamlessly, I think.

Yeah.

Instead of taking it.

Yeah.

I really enjoyed the fact that it was a horror comedy instead of just a straight up horror.

That if they were watching that as a movie, they'd be telling them, don't split up or don't investigate that.

He, he's a collector.

He studies.

He knows what they want deep down inside.

He knows kinda like their true selves, and he knows how to use that against them, which is, again, his job.

He doesn't play, you know, he doesn't always need to, you know, use his claws.

You know, he uses his smarts to get just the right off- and sometimes he'll, like, offer them just the simplest things, like you said earlier, love, escape, your arm back, you know? Like, and stuff like that.

That makes him more interesting than a basic demon villain.

they had, like, a lot of, I don't know, wood and pebbles