Vinland Saga 1x18
Added 2024-06-05 12:45:44 +0000 UTCThe KING ARRIVES?
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This episode (or really series in general I guess) was completely life-changing to me. I was in a horrible mental state when I started it, not yet having suicidal ideation but not really being too far away either. This show has taught me what it means to live, and has given me the will to make the most of it. The entire sequence about love and discrimination just lit something up within me. I'm the farthest thing from a christian you could imagine, but the idea of something "embodying" love just spoke to me on a fundamental level. Because in a sense, how could you describe yourself as truly loving if you're willing to throw away a life to safe another? If you mean to love, you must embrace it. Learn to love someone *in spite* of something, not *because* of something. Learn to love those who did you wrong, just like those who didn't. Learn to love as though you had nothing to love anymore. Obviously, this is impossible to truly achieve as a human. Even I myself accept that. But we should still love eachother regardless of one's shortcomings or actions. That's just my view though I guess.
Erjon Sejdijaj
2024-06-05 18:04:11 +0000 UTCThere's really not an exact english word for it. We say "love" to mean so many different things that some of the meanings have kind of fallen to the wayside because they dont have distinction. But the christian love you're talking about we'd use the greek word if anything "agape" - empathetic, unconditional, universal love. This is what the christian love is supposed to be. Love your enemies; love strangers; love everyone. Because if you only love someone close to you then it means you'll choose them over others and the cycle of violence and hatred starts again right there. As long as you only love a few you choose to fight others. This is of course fundamentally impossible for humans. Humans will always choose their friends and family. We're a tribalistic species. As long as humans exist there will always be conflict because of it, and that's kind of Knut's viewpoint by the end of the episode too. If it's impossible for humans to do then why would you be faithful to a god that allowed such a perpetual condition but demanded perfection anyways
FullHeart
2024-06-05 13:42:37 +0000 UTC
