If Jesus Were Preaching In America Today Just As He Did In Palestine Two Millennia Ago, Here Is How He

If Jesus were preaching in America today just as he did in Palestine two millennia ago, here is how he would tell the story of the Good Samaritan.

There was a man who found a need to travel to another side of town, and on his way there, he fell into the hands of a gang. They beat him, robbed him, and left him unconscious in an alleyway.

A pastor drove by him, saw him, and rolled his eyes. "I'm so sick of all these drug addicts passing out on our streets and getting free narcan," he said. "I hope he's found and arrested for his illicit drug use."

Next a bishop drove by. He had a more compassionate reaction, but he also did not help the man. He lived in a safe suburban neighborhood, and never stepped foot down in a bad part of town if he could help it. He said a silent prayer for the man and kept driving.

Along came a group of undocumented Mexican immigrants on their way home from working in the local orchards, driving an ancient, rattling truck with a fake driver's license. They'd just been paid their week's wages, a pittance really, under-the-counter in cash due to their undocumented status. When they saw the man, they pulled over and went to see what the deal was. Finding him unconscious but alive, they lifted him together and got him into the truck, and then drove to the nearest emergency room. Speaking broken English, they managed to explain that they didn't know him and had found him unconscious. He had no money or form of ID, having lost it in the robbery, and his insurance information was unknown. The group of immigrants pooled their hard-earned wages to cover the copays for his emergency treatment, and went home. The next day, the group came back to the emergency room and asked how the man was, and were relieved to learn that he was stable, conscious, and had insurance for the rest of his medical bills.

Which of the people in the story was a friend to the man?

Angelic Subspecies

A massive upload, celebrating the completion of this long-running project of mine. Started back in 2019, lied dormant since 2020, and finally with Justice's arrival, the five Virtues are whole and complete and ready to run the Silver City!

During the RoS expansion of Diablo 3, we have come across sub-categories of the Wisdom angels, now all twisted Reapers. Their journal entries had all eluded to their past roles in the High Heavens, which eventually gave me the idea to give five sub-species to all Virtues of the Angelic Hosts, to make it a slightly more functioning society as a whole.

Despite working through Wisdom, Valor, Hope and Fate fairly quickly, Justice unfortunately would wait for a long while. I am not entirely sure what held me back, perhaps I got scared by the names chosen and I couldn't think of designs for them. Weird. Regardless, now the Big Five is finally done and finished, and hopefully they will all have their opportunity to shine in my Diablo fanfic, That First Spark, or perhaps in a future spinoff of it. :)

Except for the Anarch, Maiden, Sage and Exarch from Wisdom and for Bravery and Scout from Valor, ALL of these subspecies belong to me, they are my idea and my addition to the worldbuilding! You are not allowed to use them without permission!

2023.04.08

Angels yet again

thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

Watching something about conspiracy theories like:

-that’s nazi propaganda

-that’s been proven to be not true

-you might be on to something, but you need to bring it back about two or three notches

Diver