Ezekiel 25:17

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengence and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is The Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."



cool shit. in fact, so cool i thought it couldn't possibly be in the bible because i don't remember readin anythin half as cool when i last read it. and so i was proven right after a little research.

for the privileged lot of you who did catch tarantino's pulp fiction, get this; only the last sentence is actually written in any version of the bible. commentators note that it is actually a dramatised mixture of ezekiel 25:17 and psalm 23.

one step further than that, the passage is taken to mean "leave the lord to do justice for you, for if you do not, he will judge you before he judges those who wrong you" in the context of ezekiel 25. truly demonstrated by jules as he discovers the true meanin behind the verse the second time he said it.

digressin from the movie, in the face of a decision that requires aggression or even violence, do we;

a. let nature take its course, patiently let god avenge you, let things be and walk away the bigger person

or

b. fuck nature, fuck waitin for god, take matters into your own hands and administer revenge

even if you're not a person of an aggresive disposition, situations sometimes arise to test your faith in god (assumin of course, you do believe in god). do you really have the patience to wait for an act of divine retribution against he who wrongs you? the Lord guarantees avengement but he didn't say when -it could well be long after you die. so now, do you want to live to see this retributive act inflicted upon your enemy? what if your wait gets too long and your enemy rejoices with evil laughter that ring in your head for each passin day of your life? i'm sure this was the eventual thought that passed mr. miyagi's mind when daniel was pressurin him to teach him karate to beat up the bad guys in karate kid. now that was a situation where he could do somethin about it. consider the utter hopelessness of edmond dantes in the count of monte cristo when he was stuck in chateau d'if for years without any sign of freedom let alone retribution. in the movie, he was depicted to carve "god will give me justice" on his cell walls. imagine starin at that for years.

so now my thought is simply this;

is it enough for god, if one does believes in him and his eventual justice but nevertheless acts to pursue one's own because one genuinely believes that by not doin so one would suffer?

if not, a necessary corollary must be;

does god then intend for one to suffer this way?

perhaps this sufferin is to build character, to set examples or to build faith. blind faith -to show the lord that we love him above self.

can you love the lord above yourself?

ciao.

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Word Of The Wolf today is doyen \DOY-en; DWAH-yan\, noun:

1. The senior member of a body or group.
2. One who is knowledgeable or uniquely skilled as a result of
long experience in some field of endeavor.

doyenne \doy-(Y)EN; dwah-YEN\, noun:
A woman who is a doyen.

"Like the doyen of all professional waiters across Europe, Vincent Vega soundlessly places the cutlery on Marsellus' table, to which the underworld boss nodded approvingly."
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Doyen is from French, from Late Latin decanus, "leader or chief of ten persons," from decem, "ten."