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I got a theory whenever you're watching a TV show or a movie and somebody's stuck on a cliff or a ledge or some little spot halfway down a precipitous drop and the heroes are coming to save them or whatever. I think that's supposed to be a metaphor. I think that is usually used as a way to explore the question of what happens when we push this character to the brink,

to the very edge, because that's going to tell us the truth about who they really

are in their heart and maybe the character doesn't even really know who they really are in their heart and maybe the character doesn't even really know who they really are in their heart until they get pushed to the very brink and then we discover those things and so in those very literal cliffhanger kind of moments, not like the end of his show where it gets cut off and then there's a part two.

I mean, literally somebody hanging from a cliff kind of moments, the real point isn't whether or not the person is going to fall into the abyss.

The point is who are these characters when they're pushed to the very, very brink.

And as a result, and now we're getting to my complaint as a result a lot of times

once the rescue happens and everybody has learned all the lessons that they need to learn

they don't show you how they get off of the cliff. Does this bother you?

And if it doesn't bother you, why does this not bother you? But it's such a common thing to just skip the part where somehow you scale this thing?

I mean, there's only one rope or is a helicopter going to get in there?

How does this even work? But once the character tension is is resolved I guess that's all we really

needed and the people who make these TV shows and these movies they assume that we

understand everything just went to plan we got what you needed to get out of the scene.

Likewise, it seems like we get the exact same treatment on the seam here between

Nehemiah Chapter 5 and Nehemiah Chapter 6, because the last of the great challenges has been overcome here at the end of

Nehemiah chapter five and there have been a lot of challenges to this problem of

the walls of Jerusalem being in ruins the gates being all burned out, the people are in disarray,

they have no leader.

Nia Maya hears about it, halfway across a known world in Susan, and he decides to make Jerusalem's

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