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Episodes that don't correlate to a Tuesday broadcast

Episode 6

• Transcendent pattern set on high
• Authority of leadership
• Be careful of who you subordinate to
• Men are dependent on their wives

Episode 8

• Challenge of language, per Foreword
  • As ascending creatures, our word symbols are not perfectly aligned with the divine order.
  • Example: I love chocolate, I love my husband.
• The word subordination
  • Someone who has "control" over me? I might chafe at that!
  • This is imperfect understanding of subordination. There is a higher revelation of subordination.
  • Consider etymology: sub + ordination. There was ordination of the apostles.
  • A "submissive" position? A la Pauline Christianty? Not likely in that sense, seeing as there's a "Proclamation of equality" on high.
  • A "dependency?" Perhaps. The Son is "dependent" on the Spirit, so there is something reciprocal.
• A husband dependent on his wife?
  • As a long-time bachelor, Brad was living okay... but not thriving fully as a male of the species.
  • He just didn't have an instinct for what it takes to have a home.
  • Sandwiches? Flowers on the table? It's deeper than that. The spark of imagination at the root of such things. Or even deeper.
  • Just something mythologically correct about Genesis 2:24 (and its upholding in [167:5.7])
• The male as a leader, via Star Trek
  • Picard says "This way" when he doesn't really know. Which is not the same as saying "I know it's this way."
  • Ruthie likes this. Leaders sometimes have to direct without exactly knowing what's ahead.
  • But not to the point of arrogantly abandoning reason and consultation.
• We are perfecting creatures. We must be forgiving and patient.
  • Brad may make a directing move and it's a bad move. We have to be okay with that.
  • Ruthie may fail in a realm Brad depends on her for. We have to be okay with that.
  • When failures happen, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The system is not wrong, it participants merely are not perfect.
  • It's an artful balance. Trial and error? Sure. But also wisdom to look before leaping.
• Mutual interdependence is the pattern over and over.
  • Creator Son and Creative Mother Spirit? Full consultation on creative acts.
  • Adam and Eve? They fail precises when they work isolated from one another on "schemes for universe saving."
  • Joseph and Mary? They're a team. Even if Joseph "rules," they "reconcile" their differences.