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Surveying Severance
wiles, as in clever as a serpent.
The break room represents confession and atonement. They even have to say, “None may atone for my actions but me.” I think the goats are sacrificed in a way that’s connected to it, paralleling goat sacrifice instructed in Leviticus, that “he who comes to know his sins” should bring a goat for sacrifice.
A lot of the handbooks quotes and the way they’re repeated mirror the teachings of Jesus as well:
“And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages. Your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am ten centuries demised.”
“Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.”
Not sure it’s an allegory, because I don’t think it’s the meaning of the text. I think the allegory is about mega corps exploiting workers. I think the stuff about religion is in service of that, a comment on the way mega corps deify their founders, and expect absolute fealty to corporate structures.
… If it wasn’t obvious before discovering Helly’s true identity in the finale: Child of boss father elects to voluntarily lose identity for purpose of authentic experience as common person. Finds experience unbearable. Attempts symbolic sacrifice of own life and is miraculously brought back to life. Returns to boss above to report abuse in the system below and horrific injustice committed against people down there.
[deleted] at reddit
Love this. There are definitely religious symbols and allusions through this, and agree with comments in other subs this site can be read as a critique of organised religion and corporations. The employees are “checking their brains in at the door.” (a common critique of religion) and speaking of and worship and expressing devotion to Keir as to God, strict rules, following a book.
The show is chock-full of Christian allusions, including Compliance Handbooks that mirror the exact layout of Bibles and characters who frequently quote Eaganas scripture. Eagan’s nine core principles are also eerily similar to the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians, and like the Christian God, Eagan, too, calls his followers “children.”
If Severance is akin to salvation, whereby the pure is separated from the impure, then the result of two separate personas means that one cannot be saved without losing one’s identity. Maybe our sins are what makes us who we are, and by removing our impurities, we become someone else altogether.
Rose Amburose, “Praise Kier: Religious symbolism in ‘Severance’” at Technician (Jan 21, 2025)
The severed floor is clearly trying to model the human brain. Both with its maze like design and departments: – MDR is the Inferior Parietal Lobes (Math/Calculation/Numbers)
djjmciv at Reddit
– O&D is the Non Dominant Inferior Parietal Lobes (Art/Creativity)
– Mammalians Nurturable is the Amygdala (Primitive Nature)
– Admin is the Prefrontal Cortex (Rules/Logic). I believe the floor below, where Mark’s wife is trapped, is trying to represent the Thalamus (relay station for all emotion) What’s the point? Perhaps Kier is alive but brain dead and they are trying something unique here to learn how to stimulate brain reactivation.
Severance
wiles, as in clever as a serpent.
The break room represents confession and atonement. They even have to say, “None may atone for my actions but me.” I think the goats are sacrificed in a way that’s connected to it, paralleling goat sacrifice instructed in Leviticus, that “he who comes to know his sins” should bring a goat for sacrifice.
A lot of the handbooks quotes and the way they’re repeated mirror the teachings of Jesus as well:
“And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages. Your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am ten centuries demised.”
“Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.”
Not sure it’s an allegory, because I don’t think it’s the meaning of the text. I think the allegory is about mega corps exploiting workers. I think the stuff about religion is in service of that, a comment on the way mega corps deify their founders, and expect absolute fealty to corporate structures.
… If it wasn’t obvious before discovering Helly’s true identity in the finale:
Child of boss father elects to voluntarily lose identity for purpose of authentic experience as common person. Finds experience unbearable. Attempts symbolic sacrifice of own life and is miraculously brought back to life. Returns to boss above to report abuse in the system below and horrific injustice committed against people down there.
[deleted] at reddit
Love this. There are definitely religious symbols and allusions through this, and agree with comments in other subs this site can be read as a critique of organised religion and corporations. The employees are “checking their brains in at the door.” (a common critique of religion) and speaking of and worship and expressing devotion to Keir as to God, strict rules, following a book.
The show is chock-full of Christian allusions, including Compliance Handbooks that mirror the exact layout of Bibles and characters who frequently quote Eaganas scripture. Eagan’s nine core principles are also eerily similar to the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians, and like the Christian God, Eagan, too, calls his followers “children.”
If Severance is akin to salvation, whereby the pure is separated from the impure, then the result of two separate personas means that one cannot be saved without losing one’s identity. Maybe our sins are what makes us who we are, and by removing our impurities, we become someone else altogether.
Rose Amburose, “Praise Kier: Religious symbolism in ‘Severance’” at Technician (Jan 21, 2025)
Severance
wiles, as in clever as a serpent.
The break room represents confession and atonement. They even have to say, “None may atone for my actions but me.” I think the goats are sacrificed in a way that’s connected to it, paralleling goat sacrifice instructed in Leviticus, that “he who comes to know his sins” should bring a goat for sacrifice.
A lot of the handbooks quotes and the way they’re repeated mirror the teachings of Jesus as well:
“And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages. Your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am ten centuries demised.”
“Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.”
Not sure it’s an allegory, because I don’t think it’s the meaning of the text. I think the allegory is about mega corps exploiting workers. I think the stuff about religion is in service of that, a comment on the way mega corps deify their founders, and expect absolute fealty to corporate structures.
… If it wasn’t obvious before discovering Helly’s true identity in the finale:
Child of boss father elects to voluntarily lose identity for purpose of authentic experience as common person. Finds experience unbearable. Attempts symbolic sacrifice of own life and is miraculously brought back to life. Returns to boss above to report abuse in the system below and horrific injustice committed against people down there.
[deleted] at reddit
Love this. There are definitely religious symbols and allusions through this, and agree with comments in other subs this site can be read as a critique of organised religion and corporations. The employees are “checking their brains in at the door.” (a common critique of religion) and speaking of and worship and expressing devotion to Keir as to God, strict rules, following a book.
The show is chock-full of Christian allusions, including Compliance Handbooks that mirror the exact layout of Bibles and characters who frequently quote Eaganas scripture. Eagan’s nine core principles are also eerily similar to the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians, and like the Christian God, Eagan, too, calls his followers “children.”
If Severance is akin to salvation, whereby the pure is separated from the impure, then the result of two separate personas means that one cannot be saved without losing one’s identity. Maybe our sins are what makes us who we are, and by removing our impurities, we become someone else altogether.
Rose Amburose, “Praise Kier: Religious symbolism in ‘Severance’” at Technician (Jan 21, 2025)
Severance
wiles, as in clever as a serpent.
The break room represents confession and atonement. They even have to say, “None may atone for my actions but me.” I think the goats are sacrificed in a way that’s connected to it, paralleling goat sacrifice instructed in Leviticus, that “he who comes to know his sins” should bring a goat for sacrifice.
A lot of the handbooks quotes and the way they’re repeated mirror the teachings of Jesus as well:
“And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages. Your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am ten centuries demised.”
“Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.”
Not sure it’s an allegory, because I don’t think it’s the meaning of the text. I think the allegory is about mega corps exploiting workers. I think the stuff about religion is in service of that, a comment on the way mega corps deify their founders, and expect absolute fealty to corporate structures.
… If it wasn’t obvious before discovering Helly’s true identity in the finale:
Child of boss father elects to voluntarily lose identity for purpose of authentic experience as common person. Finds experience unbearable. Attempts symbolic sacrifice of own life and is miraculously brought back to life. Returns to boss above to report abuse in the system below and horrific injustice committed against people down there.
[deleted] at reddit
The show is chock-full of Christian allusions, including Compliance Handbooks that mirror the exact layout of Bibles and characters who frequently quote Eaganas scripture. Eagan’s nine core principles are also eerily similar to the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians, and like the Christian God, Eagan, too, calls his followers “children.”
If Severance is akin to salvation, whereby the pure is separated from the impure, then the result of two separate personas means that one cannot be saved without losing one’s identity. Maybe our sins are what makes us who we are, and by removing our impurities, we become someone else altogether.
Rose Amburose, “Praise Kier: Religious symbolism in ‘Severance’” at Technician (Jan 21, 2025)
Severance
wiles, as in clever as a serpent.
The break room represents confession and atonement. They even have to say, “None may atone for my actions but me.” I think the goats are sacrificed in a way that’s connected to it, paralleling goat sacrifice instructed in Leviticus, that “he who comes to know his sins” should bring a goat for sacrifice.
A lot of the handbooks quotes and the way they’re repeated mirror the teachings of Jesus as well:
“And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages. Your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am ten centuries demised.”
“Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.”
Not sure it’s an allegory, because I don’t think it’s the meaning of the text. I think the allegory is about mega corps exploiting workers. I think the stuff about religion is in service of that, a comment on the way mega corps deify their founders, and expect absolute fealty to corporate structures.
[deleted] at reddit
The show is chock-full of Christian allusions, including Compliance Handbooks that mirror the exact layout of Bibles and characters who frequently quote Eaganas scripture. Eagan’s nine core principles are also eerily similar to the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians, and like the Christian God, Eagan, too, calls his followers “children.”
If Severance is akin to salvation, whereby the pure is separated from the impure, then the result of two separate personas means that one cannot be saved without losing one’s identity. Maybe our sins are what makes us who we are, and by removing our impurities, we become someone else altogether.
Rose Amburose, “Praise Kier: Religious symbolism in ‘Severance’” at Technician (Jan 21, 2025)
Severance
The show is chock-full of Christian allusions, including Compliance Handbooks that mirror the exact layout of Bibles and characters who frequently quote Eaganas scripture. Eagan’s nine core principles are also eerily similar to the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians, and like the Christian God, Eagan, too, calls his followers “children.”
If Severance is akin to salvation, whereby the pure is separated from the impure, then the result of two separate personas means that one cannot be saved without losing one’s identity. Maybe our sins are what makes us who we are, and by removing our impurities, we become someone else altogether.
Rose Amburose, “Praise Kier: Religious symbolism in ‘Severance’” at Technician (Jan 21, 2025)
“Love Is Love” Isn’t Love
Love is a many splendored thing: It is blind, nay “blindness”; it is a song, nay a sonnet; it is patient, kind, unfailing; it is never shaken by the tempest; it is the greatest commandment. And, one might think, in virtue of the fundamental logical law of identity, a is an and “love is love”. This was the slogan of the most successful rhetorical campaign of our generation, ushering in widespread acceptance of same sex relationships and same sex marriage licenses. But this apparent truism is false. The slogan is not meant to be a meaningless tautology or an empty platitude. What then is it supposed to mean? Nobody objects to love in principle, nor to loving anyone and everyone; “the freedom to love who you love” is a given. Jesus enjoins us as his greatest commandments to love God and to love our neighbor, indeed, even to love our enemy. No, “love is love” cannot mean that kind of love. Upon examination in context, “love is love” is a euphemism, coyly substituting the term “love” for “sex”. The underlying claim is, I posit: “Sex is sex.” More specifically, it is a claim that, insofar as marriage is concerned, same sex behavior is equivalent to sex, that is to coitus, between a man and a woman. But, if this is the claim, the claim is false. Often, sexual acts are not loving at all, and, not all sexual acts are the same in all the ways that matter.
The phrase is meant to highlight that same-sex relationships should be treated with the same respect, honor, and dignity as heterosexual ones.
Rebecca Bauer
Sex is not Sex
Sex between a man and woman is potent. Every consummation is pregnant with the possibility that a miracle of a new precious and vulnerable life will occur. Human organisms are comprised of many marvelous physical systems, from the respiratory system to the digestive system. All of these life sustaining systems are possessed in totality by each individual, with one exception: the reproductive system. It comes in two parts. Nobody can initiate a new precious human person on his or her own. When a man and woman unite, literally two halves of a single system become one. If conception occurs, a new life begins that kicks off an incredible array of complex and ingenious changes in the body of the mother and her child. By contrast, same sex acts, and acts in isolation, are impotent, sterile. Though there is fleeting pleasure in each case, these acts are fundamentally different.
Because sex between a man and a woman is so uniquely life-giving, creating children who will need a stable home and the provision and protection of their mother and father, societies across time and place have uniquely sanctioned and supported the marriage of a man and a woman. They understood that not all sexual behavior is of the same character. They understood that only coitus is intrinsically a marriage of two complementary parts and systems that together make a single whole. Sex between a man and a woman is uniquely the province of making a family. Because this fundamental aspect of reality is the grounds for marriage, the attempt to redefine marriage as merely a contract between willing individuals requires doublespeak, obfuscation.
It had always been the case that anyone of age could marry, and many with same sex attractions did in fact marry a sexual counterpart, sublimating some of their desires. Understandably, many yearned for other kinds of sexual relationships to have the same institutional sanction and societal approval as married relationships and lovemaking. Already, the stigma of pre-marital and extra-marital sex had waned in the wake of the sexual revolution. The United States boasts the tragic distinction of having the highest rate of single parent homes in the world. “Marriage Equality”,
as xxxyy asks:
Should we accept the proposition that “all forms of [romantic or sexual] love are valid and equal”? … What about love between a father and a daughter? Or love between an adult and a minor? Is love between humans and animals okay? What about multiple wives or husbands (polygamy)? What if causing or experiencing physical pain is part of one’s love life? What if a man or woman prefers to love an AI avatar rather than a real human being? Are we really prepared to say that each of these forms of “love” is just as valid as a traditional husband-wife relationship?
worldview Bulletin
the justify anything implications
What is Love?
True love is singing karaoke Under Pressure and letting the other person sing the Freddie
Mindy Kalig
Mercury part.”
In contrast to the empty notion of love offered up by the “marriage equality” campaign,
Love wins, we’re assured. But what is love?
Biblically, there has always been a clear understanding. Love is putting another above oneself. You first, instead of me first. And as Jesus Christ pointed out, love is most distilled when one gives their life for another. Not only that, but the Apostle Paul helpfully describes what putting others before oneself looks in the everyday.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7
#lastofus You will love me like I want to be loved. or Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Love is love, but sex is not sex
Beyond the vacuous truism — that x is x, blue is blue, and — is a true idea that love is love no matter whether it’s directed toward a man or a woman, a child, a sister or spouse, a Samaritan or a Jew. But of course, nobody objects to loving whomever you will. The issue is sex. And sex is not sex. We are not indifferent to spouse or sibling, adult or child when it comes to sex. And whether sex —or whatever you want to call it — is with someone of the same sex, that makes all the difference in the world. No as yet conceived child’s future hangs in the balance in such an event. Conflating these two issues is of course the purpos;evof the slogan.
“Love Is Love” Isn’t Love
Love is a many splendored thing: It is blind, nay “blindness”; it is a song, nay a sonnet; it is patient, kind, unfailing; it is never shaken by the tempest; it is the greatest commandment. And, one might think, in virtue of the fundamental logical law of identity, a is an and “love is love”. This was the slogan of the most successful rhetorical campaign of our generation, ushering in widespread acceptance of same sex relationships and same sex marriage licenses. But this apparent truism is false. The slogan is not meant to be a meaningless tautology or an empty platitude. What then is it supposed to mean? Nobody objects to love in principle, nor to loving anyone and everyone; “the freedom to love who you love” is a given. Jesus enjoins us as his greatest commandments to love God and to love our neighbor, indeed, even to love our enemy. No, “love is love” cannot mean that kind of love. Upon examination in context, “love is love” is a euphemism, coyly substituting the term “love” for “sex”. The underlying claim is, I posit: “Sex is sex.” More specifically, it is a claim that, insofar as marriage is concerned, same sex behavior is equivalent to sex, that is to coitus, between a man and a woman. But, if this is the claim, the claim is false. Often, sexual acts are not loving at all, and, not all sexual acts are the same in all the ways that matter.
The phrase is meant to highlight that same-sex relationships should be treated with the same respect, honor, and dignity as heterosexual ones.
Rebecca Bauer
Sex is not Sex
Sex between a man and woman is potent. Every consummation is pregnant with the possibility that a miracle of a new precious and vulnerable life will occur. Human organisms are comprised of many marvelous physical systems, from the respiratory system to the digestive system. All of these life sustaining systems are possessed in totality by each individual, with one exception: the reproductive system. It comes in two parts. Nobody can initiate a new precious human person on his or her own. When a man and woman unite, literally two halves of a single system become one. If conception occurs, a new life begins that kicks off an incredible array of complex and ingenious changes in the body of the mother and her child. By contrast, same sex acts, and acts in isolation, are impotent, sterile. Though there is fleeting pleasure in each case, these acts are fundamentally different.
Because sex between a man and a woman is so uniquely life-giving, creating children who will need a stable home and the provision and protection of their mother and father, societies across time and place have uniquely sanctioned and supported the marriage of a man and a woman. They understood that not all sexual behavior is of the same character. They understood that only coitus is intrinsically a marriage of two complementary parts and systems that together make a single whole. Sex between a man and a woman is uniquely the province of making a family. Because this fundamental aspect of reality is the grounds for marriage, the attempt to redefine marriage as merely a contract between willing individuals requires doublespeak, obfuscation.
It had always been the case that anyone of age could marry, and many with same sex attractions did in fact marry a sexual counterpart, sublimating some of their desires. Understandably, many yearned for other kinds of sexual relationships to have the same institutional sanction and societal approval as married relationships and lovemaking. Already, the stigma of pre-marital and extra-marital sex had waned in the wake of the sexual revolution. The United States boasts the tragic distinction of having the highest rate of single parent homes in the world. “Marriage Equality”,
as xxxyy asks:
Should we accept the proposition that “all forms of [romantic or sexual] love are valid and equal”? … What about love between a father and a daughter? Or love between an adult and a minor? Is love between humans and animals okay? What about multiple wives or husbands (polygamy)? What if causing or experiencing physical pain is part of one’s love life? What if a man or woman prefers to love an AI avatar rather than a real human being? Are we really prepared to say that each of these forms of “love” is just as valid as a traditional husband-wife relationship?
worldview Bulletin
the justify anything implications
What is Love?
True love is singing karaoke Under Pressure and letting the other person sing the Freddie
Mindy Kalig
Mercury part.”
In contrast to the empty notion of love offered up by the “marriage equality” campaign,
Love wins, we’re assured. But what is love?
Biblically, there has always been a clear understanding. Love is putting another above oneself. You first, instead of me first. And as Jesus Christ pointed out, love is most distilled when one gives their life for another. Not only that, but the Apostle Paul helpfully describes what putting others before oneself looks in the everyday.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7
#lastofus You will love me like I want to be loved. or Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Love is love, but sex is not sex
Beyond the vacuous truism — that x is x, blue is blue, and — is a true idea that love is love no matter whether it’s directed toward a man or a woman, a child, a sister or spouse, a Samaritan or a Jew. But of course, nobody objects to loving whomever you will. The issue is sex. And sex is not sex. We are not indifferent to spouse or sibling, adult or child when it comes to sex. And whether sex —or whatever you want to call it — is with someone of the same sex, that makes all the difference in the world. No as yet conceived child’s future hangs in the balance in such an event. Conflating these two issues is of course the purpos;evof the slogan.