HereComesTom

Nice! "Through Heaven's Eyes" was the "Let It Go" of Prince of Egypt!

You did a good job with the spoken lines at the beginning; I was a bit worried that they'd be unplayable, but you perfectly pulled it off!

Ooo thanks for posting this! I could hardly keep myself from singing along at the crescendo of the song when Moses sings "I am a sovereign prince of Egypt, the son of a proud history that shown, etched on every wall!" I also loved how this song was reprised for the Ten Plagues song, too!

Adding the narration was a nice touch! I never saw these cartoons. But I'm guessing they came and went through those doors, since the Bible covers over a millennium of events---they couldn't see it all on one visit!

I most certainly do believe in God, especially after the incident where I tore my pants at a bible study. It happened about ten years ago. This is a tale worth telling, but unfortunately, there's a lot of context going into it... First of all...when Moses was getting all those instructions from God in some of the oldest parts of the Bible, he wasn't just getting the Ten Commandments; he got tons of instructions, including blueprints for a mobile temple and for the Ark of the Covenant. That Ark was a representation of God's Throne, and an important part of the mobile temple was a giant curtain that separated the Ark's chamber from the rest of the temple. That curtain was meant to symbolize a separation between God's moral purity and the inherent corruption of human nature---God was separated from humanity because of sin, and every human has at least a little sin in them, ergo every human is separated from God. Yes, all that actually was important context for this story! You'll see why shortly... Anyhow...3500 or so year later, there was I, sitting in the basement of a church in a small group discussion, studying the Gospel of John for the first time in Bible Study Fellowship's history. (They'd had a rotation of about 7 different topics of study for decades, and they had suddenly added the Gospel of John to that rotation that year.) And something that isn't widely known outside of Christianity was that, at the moment Jesus died, the curtain in the temple was supernaturally torn in two: it was a curtain as thick as a human hand and 70 feet tall, and it ripped in half the moment Jesus died. The message of that torn curtain was intended to be "Now that the Sacrifice is complete and sin is atoned for, God is no longer separated from humanity." ...But at the exact second that we began discussing that in that small groups discussion, I crossed my legs just a little bit too fast, and I heard and felt a rip. And my butt against the metal chair felt just a little colder than it had felt a moment ago...I reached down, and felt skin instead of cloth. No one else at the discussion knew it, but I had ripped my pants. At the exact second we were discussing that torn curtain. It took a little while for me to realize that I was the butt of a divine jest, and it wasn't until I got home that I realized the full extent of that jest, or just how much God had put into it. Needless to day, I didn't stick around for the lecture after the small group discussion: I was running to my car with my notebook literally covering my butt, driving straight home, thinking to myself "I will never buy this brand of pants again!" ...Then when I got home, I actually looked at the label to see what brand it was. ...It was St. John's Bay. ...It was St. John's Bay. The Gospel of John. Go figure. ...It was St. John's Bay. ...I'm not sure I can comment on that and keep post this G-rated, here... The joke isn't over, folks. The label had two more lines: St. John's Bay Worry Free Pant Relaxed Fit. ...Yep... So...with all that context in mind: I was the butt of a joke three and a half millennia years in the making, and only God could've pulled this prank off. Reflecting on this event since then, I have had an epiphany: in the Kingdom of Heaven, I am basically the court jester!

Sometimes, the price of doing the right thing is just too high. For example: a corporation just bought a plot of land and found a rare, endangered species there, so now legally they can't build on it. But that corporation paid a fortune for that plot of land, and the corporation literally won't survive if they don't build on it...so they conveniently lose any communications saying that the endangered species is there, build anyway, and destroy a piece of nature. It's easy to imagine scenarios like this that apply to the level of an individual human being, too. When the price of doing the right thing gets unacceptably high, a person will do the wrong thing knowing it's the wrong thing. I'm not sure how many villains get created this way, but it brings up the question of how heroic a person is if they call the villain out on their villain, but still do nothing to help them mitigate the high cost.

I enjoyed it

I need to re-watch the episode with this in it...which episode was it?

I've discovered that depression can take a surprising number of forms---not just sadness, but also anger, or even just complete lack of motivation. I've had times when I had suicidal thoughts, and wished to act on them, but couldn't because I didn't have the emotional energy to do more than go through the motions of my daily routine. It's happened on and off, depending on what triggered me. But I made it a point never to tell anyone that I had suicidal thoughts, because I've seen videos of people being tackled to the ground and treated like criminals, all because they admitted they were suicidal. I figured it'd only make things a hundred times worse if I had actually told a living soul about my suicidal thoughts.

Good music, but the rhythm was a little off here and there...which reminded me of this:

Thanks for sharing this! I remember loving Babar when I was really, really little, but...shoot, I haven't seen it at all since.

I'd figured that Jeric had so much else going on that the Letters to Ponies video project got scrapped. I was okay with that; he's human, too, and...well, things come up in life from time to time. Plus, he's already done a lot, and the retrospective was beautiful.