Friendly and open to any question, Aaron explained that this year's convention was rather special and exciting as, according to their beliefs, it marks 100 years since Jesus Christ began ruling God's Kingdom in 1914.
They include cosmogonical tales of the genesis of the gods and the world out of Chaos, the successions of divine rulers, and the internecine struggles that culminated in the supremacy of Zeus, the ruling god of Olympus (the mountain that was considered the home of the gods).
Ra was connected with the local deity Sobek to form Sobek-Ra; with his fellow ruling god, Amun, to form Amun-Ra; with the solar form of Horus to form Ra-Horakhty; and with several solar deities as Horemakhet-Khepri-Ra-Atum. On rare occasion, even deities of different sexes were joined in this way, producing combinations like Osiris-Neith and Mut-Min.
The ruling gods of movie screenwriting, at least in American movies, are terseness, elision, functional macho, and heartfelt, fumbled semi-articulateness.
Serendipity has always been one of the ruling gods in Merce Cunningham's dance universe, especially when it comes to his staging of events.
What surprised me in Denby's meticulous parsing of Sorkin's moral and narrative strategies, though, is his aside about the pleasures that Sorkin's language provides in contrast to that of the dialogue in movies these days: The ruling gods of movie screenwriting, at least in American movies, are terseness, elision, functional macho, and heartfelt, fumbled semi-articulateness.
The nightmare scenario — ruling out, God forbid, a Trump victory — is that Clinton wins with a slim majority and the G.O.P. holds the House and the Senate.
His father closed it by ruling that God did offer people a genuine freedom of choice but, being omniscient, always knew what they would choose.
Jesus died before heaven came down to earth, and this, coupled with the Resurrection appearances, led his followers to expect him to return in the near future, ushering in the kingdom and ruling in God's stead.
When the villages combined into city-states ruled by kings, the gods gradually become more majestic, with a major god ruling over a royal court of lesser gods.
He thought of nothing but ruling England, for God.
