One Weird Trick (Transcript) - Revision history

Jemaleddin at 15:15, 28 February 2025

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	'''Chris Sims:''' "He said, 'Don't be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you. Be very strong.' As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said 'Let my Lord speak, for you have strengthened me.'"		'''Chris Sims:''' "He said, 'Don't be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you. Be very strong.' As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said 'Let my Lord speak, for you have strengthened me.'"

	Hello everybody, and welcome to Apocrypals. It's the podcast where two non-believers read the Bible but aren't, you know, jerks about it. My name is Chris Simms and with me as always is my co-host, the other set of footprints, Benito Cereno. Benito, how are you today?		[Music: "Shadrach" by Beastie Boys]

			'''C:''' Hello everybody, and welcome to Apocrypals. It's the podcast where two non-believers read the Bible but aren't, you know, jerks about it. My name is Chris Simms and with me as always is my co-host, the other set of footprints, Benito Cereno. Benito, how are you today?

	'''Benito Cereno:''' Great, Chris. Thank you for asking, and how are you?		'''Benito Cereno:''' Great, Chris. Thank you for asking, and how are you?
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	'''B:''' And also with you.		'''B:''' And also with you.

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Jemaleddin at 21:08, 8 January 2025

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	'''Chris Sims:''' "He said, 'Don't be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you. Be very strong.' As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said 'Let my Lord speak, for you have strengthened me.'"		'''Chris Sims:''' "He said, 'Don't be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you. Be very strong.' As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said 'Let my Lord speak, for you have strengthened me.'"

Jemaleddin at 22:42, 23 February 2023

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	'''C:''' Yeah, that is for another time. But I was kind of excited to see what weirdness was gonna be in Nebuchadnezzar's dream that was going to require him to enlist the aid of a medium, of prophets, really gotta get to the bottom of this. It doesn't seem, like I had a dream last night that seems to be more interesting than this dream that he has. How common is dream interpretation here in 500 BCE?		'''C:''' Yeah, that is for another time. But I was kind of excited to see what weirdness was gonna be in Nebuchadnezzar's dream that was going to require him to enlist the aid of a medium, of prophets, really gotta get to the bottom of this. It doesn't seem, like I had a dream last night that seems to be more interesting than this dream that he has. How common is dream interpretation here in 500 BCE?

	''':''' Very common. Actually, dreams would have been a big deal for ancient people, not just here in Babylonians. The Greeks, it's a big deal. There's a famous Greek book that's all about the interpretation of dreams. Yeah, dreams were considered to be generally prophecies. They were supposed to be messages from the other side, right? It's a major element. And say, for example, Virgil's Aeneid, where the gate of dreams is in the underworld. It's actually the shades of people in the past who travel out through these dreams. There's two gates, the gates of true dreams and the gates of false dreams. Yeah, there's a real connection between the afterlife, the dead, and dreams. You have Aeneas is warned in a dream by Hector. It's actually the ghost of Hector who wakes him up during the siege of Troy and not just the siege but the sacking, the storming of Troy. And he wakes him up and says, "Yo, get your family and get out of here." Dreams were considered to be very powerful, very important things for ancient people. Yeah, so it's not just a – although, yeah, from our modern perspective, to look at the Book of Daniel, it does seem to be a lot of someone going, "Let me tell you about this weird dream I had," even though it does seem like that, yeah, it would have been very important, especially, yeah, here in the genre of the apocalypse. Yeah.		'''B:''' Very common. Actually, dreams would have been a big deal for ancient people, not just here in Babylonians. The Greeks, it's a big deal. There's a famous Greek book that's all about the interpretation of dreams. Yeah, dreams were considered to be generally prophecies. They were supposed to be messages from the other side, right? It's a major element. And say, for example, Virgil's Aeneid, where the gate of dreams is in the underworld. It's actually the shades of people in the past who travel out through these dreams. There's two gates, the gates of true dreams and the gates of false dreams. Yeah, there's a real connection between the afterlife, the dead, and dreams. You have Aeneas is warned in a dream by Hector. It's actually the ghost of Hector who wakes him up during the siege of Troy and not just the siege but the sacking, the storming of Troy. And he wakes him up and says, "Yo, get your family and get out of here." Dreams were considered to be very powerful, very important things for ancient people. Yeah, so it's not just a – although, yeah, from our modern perspective, to look at the Book of Daniel, it does seem to be a lot of someone going, "Let me tell you about this weird dream I had," even though it does seem like that, yeah, it would have been very important, especially, yeah, here in the genre of the apocalypse. Yeah.

	'''C:''' So Nebuchadnezzar has a dream and he wants somebody to interpret it, but, and this is the thing I think is kind of great about Nebuchadnezzar in this scene, he needs, he needs somebody who can do magic.		'''C:''' So Nebuchadnezzar has a dream and he wants somebody to interpret it, but, and this is the thing I think is kind of great about Nebuchadnezzar in this scene, he needs, he needs somebody who can do magic.

Jemaleddin at 16:25, 23 February 2023

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	'''Chris Sims:''' He said, "Don't be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you. Be very strong." As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said "Let my Lord speak, for you have strengthened me."		'''Chris Sims:''' "He said, 'Don't be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you. Be very strong.' As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said 'Let my Lord speak, for you have strengthened me.'"

	Hello everybody, and welcome to Apocrypals. It's the podcast where two non-believers read the Bible but aren't, you know, jerks about it. My name is Chris Simms and with me as always is my co-host, the other set of footprints, Benito Cereno. Benito, how are you today?		Hello everybody, and welcome to Apocrypals. It's the podcast where two non-believers read the Bible but aren't, you know, jerks about it. My name is Chris Simms and with me as always is my co-host, the other set of footprints, Benito Cereno. Benito, how are you today?

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