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 "Buy the next round, we'll call it even."

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Roswell Bounce purchases redemption easily enough. He goes from sinner to righteous with the purchase of a round of whiskeys. From Preterite to Predestined, as Pynchon might say.

Yeah, yeah. I know you can't go from Preterite to Predestined, theologically! The whole point is that each is already decided before you were even born! But, being that human beings are incapable of attaining that knowledge in life, they can still go from believing they're saved or lost from any moment to the next. Obviously they'll never actually know until they die. Although, they won't really know then either because they'll be, you know, dead. Non-existent. Back to the material from which they came. Deletion of the ego. The end. Kaput. That's all she wrote, folks.

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 In an ignorance black as night, he understood only that he had struck at her grievously, and that neither his understanding nor his contrition would save them.

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Lew knows not what he did so he can't apologize for it. But even if he did know what he did, an apology wouldn't be enough. Whatever sin Lew committed cannot be rectified. He is a sinner without hope of repentance. He is lost even to Jesus.

Isn't that what Judas's sin was? Believing he had sinned so greatly that he was beyond repentance? Which is why his suicide may have been ironic depending on if I understand the definition of irony. But, as we know, nobody is beyond repentance! That's why Jesus said that thing about letting the person without sin throw rocks at the person with sin. What Jesus meant was that the death penalty was wrong because it denies a person a chance at repentance. And so he's basically saying, "Look. We're all sinners. And if you're still around to throw a stone to kill a guy, it's because you were allowed to live and repent for whatever sin you committed. Wouldn't you give every sinner the same chance?" By killing somebody, you take away their chance at redemption. And since Jesus's whole thing was dying for people's redemption, he really frowned on people killing people without giving them the chance to repent. Unless that was Gandalf talking to Frodo about Gollum? Sometimes I get my religious texts confused.