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artist-issues · 5 months ago

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You've talked about monster movies, and how they can be used to show the Truth, but from the posts I've seen (and I might have missed some, apologies if so) you haven't talked much about huge monsters, such as Godzilla. The bible mentions Dragons, Leviathan, and a huge fish capable of swallowing men whole, so there seems to be potential here. If you were given the ability to do so, would you make a movie, or tell a story, involving such a monster? What would the monster be And what would the story tell us?

Great questions!

Time to give you the key to unnerving me

I do not do large underwater predators, in general. I have galeophobia. Meaning I can’t even look at pictures of sharks without my body trying to do the fight-or-flight nonsense. I have grown up by the ocean, so my life policy is “punch it in the eye and keep on swimming,” it doesn’t keep me from going to aquariums or living life on the water. But it sure as heck has kept me from watching Jaws, The Meg, that sort of thing. I even flinch out of the room in the Jurassic World scenes with the Mososaur.

Sooo, it would be tricky for me to make a story revolving around a giant of the deep. I could maybe write about it. I don’t think I could direct or conceptualize anything visual for it.

Then again, I’ve never tried, and life’s about living despite fears.

But! Godzilla!

That’s different. That’s just a scowling underwater Reptar. I can do Godzilla. I just don’t see the appeal of Godzilla. (Rare subjective take.) A friend tried to get me to watch the originals, and I just sort of have the same problem with it that I do anime. Then the most recent remake, the one that spawned the Kaiju Cinematic Universe or whatever they’re calling it, came out, and that one was more my speed. But even still…

The thing is, when the monster is that big, it’s not what I’d call a monster movie. Characters aren’t really being preyed on by Godzilla, and he also isn’t strictly evil. Because he’s not out to just cause destruction for no reason, in that reboot. It’s more like calling a tiger evil for stepping on bugs.

It’s a natural disaster movie. It’s like watching Twister. Characters don’t really compellingly interact with The Danger. They just sort of …orbit around it, or try to get out of its path.

That said, there are some things about Godzilla or even King Kong that are monster-story-esque. The ones where the creature is representative of a massive problem caused by human hubris, which can’t be contained or controlled. Those are monster-y traits. But again, the fact that the monster isn’t always “out to get” humans, per se, is what tends to get in my way when I try to classify it as a monster movie. That, and the fact that the monster gets anti-hero or semi-heroic traits.

#Godzilla #kaiju

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noctivagawitch · 6 months ago

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༓࿇༓ 𝔱𝔶𝔭𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔣𝔲𝔩 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔰 ༓࿇༓

PART 3

(se você fala portugues BR, sinta-se livre para enviar DM ou pedir tradução de um post. boa parte vai estar em inglês, para facilitar minha vida e atingir mais pessoas.)

-`🕯 INTRO 🕯´-

This is based on my experience, the information I have gathered, and my personal take. This isn't a rule book, law, or scientific study. You can feel free to give your own opinions and experiences in the comments but make it respectful. Now, let's get ourselves on the same page: ❅ Spirits are conscious beings who no longer or never have possessed a biological residence, in other words, a body. They are condensed energy, in other words, they might reside in the material world, but not materially. ❅ Harmful Spiritual Creatures/Spirits are those who harm other spirits or living beings in general, whether they want to or not. Here, it is not taken different points of view as in the famous "it depends" to determine whether such actions are harmful or not, but rather the general consequences of their actions regardless of their motives or lack thereof. ❅ Witchcraft is the conscious manipulation of magic in the day-to-day life of a being. It doesn't have ethical or moral rules to follow, or a god that needs to be

-`🕯 THE LIST 🕯´-

❅ TAR SPIRITS share some traits with haunters and obsessors, but the difference here is that they are much less rational and conscious of themselves. They crave destruction, pain, evil, and chaos more than any other creature. Such spirits can be created by other evil entities such as Apep, but they can be the result too of humans who have given in to their immense cruelty. To be simply put, tar spirits are crazy, they are maniacs, but thankfully weak. Of course, if there are many, they get stronger. They can possess humans, but the symptoms tend to be very subtle and by the end of the possession, usually when the human vessel is close to death, they leave the body. Also, these spirits are liars, they usually act as if they are a god, saint, demon, or angel. They often try to convince humans to have sex with them in order to create other tar spirits. Yet, this makes rarely ever lasts for long. Here you can find more info about them. Personally, from my experience, they are pretty annoying and stupid. ❅ STRIFE/HATRED/DECEIT DEITIES just, why the hell would you want to contact them? Unless you're looking for trouble, don't These deities don't think twice about hurting and manipulating other beings, so I don't recommend contacting them at all. Some of them are Eris, Loki, and Apep. ❅ DEMONS. Now, calm down, not every demon is an dickhead cruel bastard, but their tactics, in general, tend to be quite painful and difficult for humans to cope with. So, be careful, not every demon likes humans and some of them hate humans, while others love humans and are more than willing to help with your work by slowly introducing you to their ways, which is to not kill the ego, but rather to tame it so you don't lose your personality. Thus, be careful when contacting them, and make sure to contact Lucifer, Satan, Leviathan, Lilith, or Ashtoreth first as they are the high kinds and queen of hell.

-`🕯 OUTRO 🕯´-

I hope to have helped y'all with this long ass post that has 3 parts. Still, remember please that this is just my experience and result of study. Remember to always ward your place when practicing the craft and to have a well stablished protective/cleansing routine.

link to part 1, link to part 2

#spirituality #demons #witchcraft #evil spirits #spirits #witch #ghosts #haunting #exorcism #purification #witchcore #witches #spiritualpath #left hand path #harmful spirits #harmful spirit #harm #types of harmful spiritual creatures

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mephist0phallus · 4 years ago

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Character Tag Game

Rules: list 10 different female faves from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people

I was tagged by @inwiste ily but as soon as you tagged me I forgot every piece of media ever. I have Definitely forgotten some ppl to list, such is the nature of the game and my goldfish brain. I’m not even sure these all count as fandom, per se, but they’re from media I like. RIP.

I’m tagging @all-about-thebees @galsinspace @arofili @tolkienblackgirl @whoracefitz @skyeventide @quixoticanarchy @fromthemouthofkings and literally anyone who wants to participate!

My answers are as follows, in no particular order: (under cut bc super long)

1. Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings)

I felt Seen by one depressed and self-destructive lady on a horse, okay? Also, her speech about her place being to be left and burnt in the house when the men no longer had need of it? ouchie

2. Miriel and Indis (The Silmarillion)

They are tied because they are both No-Character-Development Queens and their relationships with finwe and each other are queer bc i said so. No hate in this house bc Miriel has two hands to hold, ok? I felt Seen by the depressed lady with a loom.

3. Deryn Sharp (Leviathan Series)

as a child reading this series, I took one look at Deryn’s complicated relationship with gender, said “so we don’t have time to unpack all that” and now I’m queer.

4. Lavinia (from Ursula K. LeGuin’s novel of the same name)

we love a queen with good characterization who wasn’t thrown under the narrative bus for the male lead.

5. Anahita (Anahita’s Woven Riddle)

Witty women, loving families, nomadic pastoral culture, persian poetry, what’s not to love about this book?

6. Aziza (The Dovekeepers)

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Prepare to cry. And in hindsight I’m surprised it took me so long to figure out why transgressive gender performance is so appealing to me.

7. Sophie (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Book and Movie Sophie both have different good qualities, but in general the themes about age and beauty were so refreshing.

8. Bedelia Du Maurier (NBC Hannibal)

She’s not a good person. She is cowardly, she is violent, she honestly turns my stomach. Good stuff. Also she has immaculate strap energy.

9. Katara (ATLA)

I think there were in-show writing issues that she took the brunt of, and fandom isn’t always so kind to her, but I love how complex she is as a character.

10. Hilda (from the Netflix show of the same name)

She is so sweet, so stubborn, so good-hearted. I love a character whose good traits are also their bad traits. She’s a very realistic 12 year old.

I couldnt stop at 10 so honorable mentions to: Wolf (Kipo and the age of Wonderbeasts), Hawkeye (FMA:B), Gwen and Morgana (BBC Merlin), and Theodora Crain (Haunting of Hill House)

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remnantoforario · 6 years ago

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Ok then...

So a little while ago I did a post about my thoughts on the newest RWBY manga. It was mostly a bunch of scattered ramblings, but essentially i broke down why I believe it was better than the show (at least starting out).

I originally wanted to do all the chapters up to now in that post, but since I spent so much time on the first chapter alone, I thought it best to just do a post for each chapter as I reread them. You guys seemed to like my thoughts on the first one, so here we go with chapter two.

Heads Up: This will not be a review of the chapter itself per se, it will be a comparison between the manga and original source material. As such I will be spending most of the time going over the character interactions, slight world-building changes, and anything else I see different. Cool? Let’s get started then...

So chapter 2 of the starts out just as chapter 4 of the show did, though with a noticeable change in Ruby’s attitude.

In the original she was practically bouncing off the walls, excited by the prospect of fighting monsters. Here she is much more somber, reflecting on what happened the previous day, as well as expressing apprehension with teaming up with what are essentially a bunch of strangers.

I like this change very much honestly. It makes Ruby a much more relatable and realized character, which is something the show didn’t readily do until way later. She’s in a completely new environment (one she still feels she doesn’t fully belong in), and her first interactions with people that aren’t her sister have been less than positive. It makes sense that she would be worried.

I think Yang also comes off a bit better in these scenes. Before she was kind of treating Ruby as a bit of a pest. Sure she wants her to be more sociable, but there it seemed more like out of a desire to not have her little sister “cramp her style” while here she’s doing her best to encourage her. So good job there.

Next we get a better look at Jaune (who briefly appeared in chapter one) and are formally introduced to Pyrrha. Not much to say here since the scene is pretty much the same, but I will point out that Jaune speaking french was a nice little touch given his character origin.

Ruby’s face is also great here. Really makes her feel like an outsider looking in.

I also wanted to highlight this little nugget:

The fact that anyone is jealous of Jaune about anything is hilarious.

The next crucial scene is when Weiss and Ruby meet in the Emerald Forest. Now the way this happens in canon is fine for what it is, but how this plays out in the manga speaks more to the characters.

Weiss (like in the original) walks away, but instead of chasing her, Ruby simply lets her go; and is relieved to have done it, telling herself that they didn’t see one another. Remember, so far established in the story these two DO NOT like each other. To Weiss, Ruby is nothing more than a child that lucked her way into Beacon, and to Ruby, Weiss is a stuck-up, rich jerk. It makes sense that they would not want to pair with one another. They just can’t get along. It’s the same as in the series, but the manga does it much better in my opinion because of one thing: consistent character arcs.

Ok this is going to get a little long (too late). When Ruby is first introduced into the series, she had a Flat Character Arc (at least from what I perceived). For those who don’t know, a Flat Character arc is one in which said character does NOT change for better or worse; they are well...flat. They have come to terms with themselves and thus have been fully realized before the story even starts. So if they will not change, the world instead changes around them in an attempt to challenge or reinforce those beliefs. Examples of this are Son Goku and Saitama from One Punch Man.

The main crux of the flat arc is “The truth that the character believes”. It is a truth that they know to be real and will not waiver from, no matter what the plot throws at them.

Goku’s truth for example, is that he can always be better than he was yesterday. That no matter how strong he gets, there will always be someone stronger to fight. That is why he trains and how he overcomes his problems, through this truth to be better and force of will.

Ruby’s truth was that no matter what she would be a hero. She would protect people and become a Huntress like in her stories.

Which would have worked fine...if the show kept to that ideal.

In the beginning, Ruby was flat. She never really experienced any setbacks, she was never in the wrong, and she was never really challenged by anyone. Her team pretty much went along with everything she did without question and she never really had a problem in any fight she was put in. She was essentially...a mary sue (even chibi pointed that out). She didn’t have to learn how to overcome her prejudices like Weiss, face her past like Blake, or even shoulder the familial burdens that Yang had to (who was also kind of flat but thats another discussion). Ruby pretty much had nothing to worry about, until V3.

Volume 3 is where the story shifts. Our characters are met with an action that provides lasting consequences: The deaths of Penny, Pyrrha, and Ozpin, the destruction of the school, Yang losing her arm, Blake confronting Adam and running away to Menagerie, Weiss going home, etc.

In a flat character arc, Ruby would learn from these experiences and acquire a new skill (silver eyes) in which to reinforce her beliefs and defeat the Lie of the world (Salem’s forces)...but she doesn’t. Ruby waivers and does nothing while the Lie continues to spread, this is where her character begins to fail.

Her teammates (as well as everyone else around her) are experiencing their own arcs whether they be positive (Yang, Blake, Weiss, Jaune, Ren, Nora, etc.) or Negative (Emerald, Adam, Raven, and Salem). Ruby remains static, but not in a way that is compelling. She doesn’t change the world, she’s just in it. As such she remains stagnant.

Miles and Kerry wrote her arc in reverse. They started flat, but then tried to go positive. That doesn’t work because it challenges everything that came before it and in turn makes Ruby worse. Looking back, her progression from Volumes 4-6 was a (somewhat) good example of a positive character arc. She saw problems that changed her and allowed her to overcome (Tyrian, Battle of Haven, Brunswick Farm, Cordovin, and the Leviathan). The problem was that volumes 1-3 were spent with her being completely flat. The dichotomy only made things frustrating to watch from an audience perspective because the flat arc was not presented in the right way for the story to build on it.

Switching back to the manga (finally): Kinami instead switches things around and gives Ruby a positive character arc. This arc is all about “the Lie the character believes” as opposed to the Truth of the Flat Arc. In the manga, the lie Ruby tells herself is: “I don’t belong.”

She skipped two grades, was forced into a place she doesn’t know, and is constantly told by others that her dream is childish and she should go home. This is what leads to her more dour and self-deprecating personality (as well as her already socially awkward behavior). She is constantly challenged and thus continues to doubt herself, which strengthens the lie.

Weiss is not exempt from this either:

Upon leaving Ruby she tries to find a partner, leading her to Jaune (hanging from a tree as in the show) who she also refuses. In the show, she goes back to Ruby in another humorous moment, but in the manga she doesn’t. The Lie Weiss believes is that she must be perfect, and thus only the perfect partner (notably Pyrrha or someone similar) will aid in that Lie and let her achieve her impossible goals. Without perfection, she is nothing.

The conviction in the belief of this lie nearly leads to her death when she is ambushed by Grimm.

This leads to the most climactic moment of the chapter.

Ruby saves Weiss, but she still isn’t friendly with her. She tells her that she didn’t want to be her partner, but letting her die would not be right and she wouldn’t be the Huntress she wanted to be if she let that happen. That new resolve all stemmed from this moment earlier in the chapter:

Like Weiss, Ruby thought to leave and find her sister, but it was Yang’s words that made her rethink her action: “Remember what you’re here for. This is to become the Huntress you dream of being right?”

This is the first step towards Ruby’s positive character change. Again it turns a comedic scene serious, but its all in service of the characters and makes them better. She goes back to defend and team with someone she decidedly does not like, because it furthers her goal. It helps dissolve the Lie, and forces them to work together.

Chapter 2 is just as good, if not better than chapter 1. We get a much better look at the characters, but we also start to encounter the manga’s one major flaw; but we’ll get into that in the next part.

#RWBY #RWBY manga #Shonen Jump #bunta kinami #Ruby Rose #Weiss Schnee #yang xiao long #Jaune Arc #Pyrrha Nikos

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rosffxiv · 6 years ago

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Incoming Hot Takes:

Blue Mage is a mixed bag.

It is fun trying to optimize your performance in Masked Carnivale. It is fun to twink out gear sets with easily attainable (when not screwed by RNG) raid gear. It is fun to run around town breathing fire, shooting eye beams, table flipping the ground, etc.

It’s not fun when the only thing you’re doing is one/two/three shotting things with 1K Needles to level to 50. It’s not fun when you’ve run the same dungeon thirty times for a single spell. It’s not fun when you’ve run the same primal a hundred times for a single spell.

However, this didn’t need to be a Limited Job. SE chose to implement it as is to keep the “feeling” of Blue Mage alive and I disagree with their stance 100%. It could have been kept as is and been made a full level 70 job. I’m going to run down a list of arguments a lot of the apologists are clinging to.

“Blue Mage is overpowered because of Missile/Tail Screw/Doom”.

There are already plenty of bosses, both in dungeons and trials and raids that straight up resist these. It would not be hard for SE to say that all monsters in current dungeons resist these spells straight up, barring them from being used to quicken your way through current dungeons.

“Blue Mage is overpowered because of Self-Destruct/Final Sting.”

These spells could have their potency reduced in dungeons, leaving them usable for Masked Carnivale as many of the times require the usage of these spells. Or, they could be given long cooldowns which reduces the ability to spam Self-Destruct for mass pulls. Three minutes would be more that sufficient.

“Someone could go into a dungeon without any spells and drag down the group.”

Vote kicking is already an option if someone goes into a dungeon and performs extremely poorly, is toxic, came in with broken gear, etc. Or, SE already has ilvl requirements for dungeons/trials. Placing a requirement to have X number of spells set to enter a dungeon/trial/raid is not out of the question.

“Blue Mage is too overpowered and would require too much balancing.”

Blue Mage on its own isn’t overpowered. They might have some spells that are just straight up gamebreaking (like casting Doom on Fate bosses), but this falls back to my first point. Blu is not very overpowered without all its bells and whistles. First of all, it requires Off-Guard to be up 100% of the time to increase damage dealt by 50%, a thirty second debuff. This is a lame attempt at a “rotation”. Peculiar Light inflicts a 30% magic debuff for ten seconds, and Moon Flute increases damage dealt by 50% but at the cost of making you incapable of doing anything for a full 15 seconds which is basically Machinists’ Overheat mechanic but longer. Then there’s Bristle which has a short cast time and makes the next attack deal 50% more damage as well, but it’s not optimal to be casting this every other cast. Very few of their standard spells have potency over 130, and the ones that do have oddball requirements like the target being Petrified or in Deep Freeze status effect which may or may not work if we’re balancing Blu for current PVE. Their Primals spells which do have potencies over 130 are on actual cooldowns (30, 60, and 90 seconds) and aren’t effected by Bristle because they’re abilities and not spells. Without all these things lined up perfectly, Blu damage isn’t that great when compared to the rest of the jobs synced down to level 50.

And the biggest thing going against this argument point is the fact that it’s the dev teams’ job to make these classes and figure out how to balance them. They are paid to design the game. With everything that they have made for this game, with the dozen+ jobs already under their belt, you really think they couldn’t figure out how to make this job work in-game for current content? They were so worried about making the class “feel like Blue Mage” that it feels like they didn’t even bother to try making it work for current content. Between that and not letting Blu queue into content through duty finder (set spell requirements), not letting them run dungeons with Squadrons (why?), not letting them progress ARR 2.1~2.5 MSQ (why?), not letting them run PotD (again, set spell requirements), and the other numerous limitations that they put on this job its like they gave us as little as they possibly could.

“Blue Mage is meant to be a solo job.”

Clearly it’s not because if you want a half a dozen spells, if not more, you’re going to have to party up with people. Primal spells are a pain in the ass. 5% learn rate according to data-miners. Then there’s the dungeon spells that require at least one other person to run with you. And yeah, you can party up with other Blue Mages but odds are you’re probably going to be asking a level 70 friend to speed run you through dungeons and trials. The Masked Carnivale is good content, but it’s way too short and as soon as you know the trick to clearing the stage that’s pretty much it. If this was truly meant to be a Solo-only job, the spells would have been much more overpowered, stat weights would be higher to compensate for being alone, and the Dev Team could have made more unique content. FFXI had “Mini-Trial by (Element)” fights for Summoners to obtain summons alone much earlier than the standard fights. These fights were challenging due to the low level but they were available. Where are our Mini-Trials, our solo Primal fights for Blu with some form of actual challenge and a higher learn rate for spells rather than getting x number of level 70 players and running fights in 30~90 seconds over and over and over? Leviathan Hard Mode can be cleared in 18 seconds, but it can still take two hours or more to learn the spell. I’d rather have spent two hours learning a tricky solo fight, trying to figure out if I had the spells and skill to do it than to queue ceaselessly into a braindead fight, being carried by the four people whose turn it was to carry the four Blus until they finally learn the spell by grace of RNG then start all over for themselves after swapping if the four people who just learned were kind enough to stay instead of bailing immediately. This is not a solo job.

The job was for the most part fun for the course of a week but it’s also bringing out some pretty toxic people into the Party Finder. There’s been good groups, there’s been bad groups, then there’s been the entitled pricks who quite frankly can go jump off a cliff. It’s just a shame that aside from walking around town and those oddball “let’s try running X with only Blu” it’s just not going to be touched until the devs decide to bump the level cap up to 60. I also know that I’m never running an ARR Primal again by choice. The mini-game meant to make players play old content more has done nothing but turn me off of it.

Until it’s relevant again, I guess it’s good for screenshots.

#ffxiv #blue mage #rant

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shalomelohim · 3 years ago

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- Shabbat Shalom à tous dans l’Amour et la Paix de Yahshua Ha Machia'h -

Shabbat Shalom au Peuple d’Israël et aux qehilot de la Diaspora

Qu’Elohim vous bénisse et vous protège au nom de l’Adon Yahshua.

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“ Veillez et priez, afin que vous ne tombiez pas dans la tentation; l'esprit est bien disposé, mais la chair est faible. “ (Matthieu 26:41)

1. Manifestations d’agriculteurs aux Pays-Bas (et un peu partout dans le monde) avec violences policières comme en novembre dernier. Voici le billet posté à ce moment-là pour rappel : Peine de mort rétablie en Europe en cas d’émeutes

2. Changements dans les journaux télévisés à prévoir

TF1 ne diffusera pas le JT de 20 h pendant la Coupe du Monde du 21 novembre au 18 décembre 2022 qui sera remplacé par un “Bulletin d’informations” de quelques minutes avant le début des matchs. Dates à retenir.

France 3 va progressivement supprimer ses journaux nationaux le midi et le soir à partir de la rentrée et ce jusqu’en septembre 2023 pour les remplacer par des éditions régionales.

Plus les bruits de guerres se précisent et moins il y aura de journaux télévisés même si ces médias censurent énormément, il y a tout de même quelques petites informations transmises.

A l’heure de la préparation d’une guerre mondiale, on va attirer l’attention des téléspectateurs sur les marchés locaux et autres festivités régionales pour sortir et se divertir.

A cela se rajoutent la probable censure à venir des réseaux sociaux pour celles et ceux qui disent la vérité.

Plus le plan de l’ennemi sera mis en lumière et plus il essaiera de le cacher afin d’éviter que trop de gens voient les émeutes, morts, épidémies, etc... ce qui laisse supposer l’ampleur des événements à venir.

“ Car il n’y a rien de caché qui ne doive être découvert, et rien ne se fait en secret qui ne doive paraître en public. “ (Marc 4:22)

Beaucoup d’actualités marquantes et d’intrigues vont avoir lieu en cascade.

Tout est savamment orchestré, comme :

le redémarrage de l’accélérateur de particule du CERN le 05/07,

la destruction des Georgia Guidestones le 06/07,

la sortie ce jour sur Netflix du film d’animation “The Sea Beast” (la bête de la mer) qui nous ramène à Apocalypse 13 avec le Leviathan (Job 40 et Psaume 104:25-26)

Réjouissons-nous car c’est le début de la chute de Babylone qui est enclenchée depuis peu.

Que Ton règne vienne et que Ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel.

Pour Ta seule Gloire Père, au nom de Yahshua, Maître du Shabbat et Notre Roi.

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Jérusalem - Western Wall live camera (Mur des Lamentations - Kotel en direct)

Et pour un Sabbat en musique, voici plusieurs web radios pour louer et adorer Elohim en Yahshua :

RadioYeshua

MessianicRadio

Hleradio

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