Valediction Puns

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Listening now, Forsaken is one fine way to open an album!

Also full marks on the AngryMetalGuy review, hard to not get overexcited. :D

The links:

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/obscura-a-valediction-review/

https://www.deezer.com/en/album/236523352

Idan Dershowitz recently published a work called The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book where he re-evaluates the authenticity of Dead-Sea Scroll-like fragments discovered at the end of the 19th century. They were dismissed as forgeries at the time. Idan argues they are authentic.

He posted the book to academia.edu here.

• Do you think the fragments are authentic? (i.e., are you convinced by Idan's assessment)
• What does this mean for Biblical scholarship? (i.e., what's the TLDR of the significance?)

Thanks!!!

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From their Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=359489645539289&id=100044347693183

"OBSCURA announce new studio album "A Valediction" for November 19th

After recently finishing the recordings in Gothenburg for our sixth studio album to date and the follow-up to 2018's "Diluvium", we're now announcing the title of our upcoming album to be "A Valediction". Thematically dealing with final farewells, the album will be a very personal record, as Steffen Kummerer reveals:

“A Valediction” unfolds OBSCURA in its purest form and showcases the band at new heights and offers immediacy with a rather personal touch. We cannot wait to perform this album on stage and celebrate each and every song live with our loyal fans around the globe. This record goes to eleven, so watch out for the first single dropping in July and worldwide tour dates to be announced soon."

The album, graced by a cover artwork painted by internationally renowned artist Eliran Kantor, will consist of 11 new studio tracks and the tracklist reads as follows:

1. Forsaken

2. Solaris

3. A Valediction

4. When Stars Collide (feat. Björn 'Speed' Strid)

5. In Unity

6. Devoured Usurper

7. The Beyond

8. Orbital Elements II

9. The Neuromancer

10. In Adversity

11. Heritage

Mixed and mastered by award-winning producer Fredrik Nordström, "A Valediction" is due to be released on November 19th, and we're already preparing further plans for this autumn which are soon to be announced. The first single of the OBSCURA's new chef d'oeuvre will see the light of day in July, so stay tuned for further information on the song, the album pre-order and an upcoming European tour!"

Any suggestions for Grateful Dead themed, but maybe not so obvious, valedictions in a professional email? I thought it would be a nice way to subtly let my freak flag fly at work.

I think it is a bit too overpowered for pre-Devourer.

.annotation) Due to Reddit's 20 images restriction, I had no choice but to divide the whole text into multiple posts.

the reason I'm not using Imgur link or any other substitution is I just wanted to show you guys how I /or Korean fans read this text and what we felt it as a whole same form.

I just hope that my lack of English skills make this text distorted. and I also hope you guys feel the same emotions I felt when I was read this as the Korean language.

This Text was originally wasn't divided, so I really recommend to read the whole article from a stretch when it's done.

Great Thanks to 신불해 in PGR21.com who wrote this text which is very touching for me and also allowed me to translate it and post it here.

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Original text link (Korean)

In the old-time of LOL scene, the most well-known Chinese teams in Korea were team WE, and IG.

As Korean claimed that they are the best region of League of Legends when they defeated the 2013 Chinese All-star Team which made of a coalition of team IG and WE, the Most Popular Chinese Players in Korea was Team WE's WeiXiao, Misaya, and IG's PDD.

[LOL] I Can't wait to see Royal team ADC Uzi at the Quarterfinal

>Seems that he's Extreme ADC who only known by geeks. Even that WeiXiao can not compare to him. Royal Club team has been called Uzi's One man team, but they just SMASHED OMG 3:0 at the Last Game! -_-;; This Worlds is So FUN LOLOLOL

[Royal Club takes place in the Semi-Final. 'Eyes On AD Carry Uzi!'](https://preview.redd.it/yrruzf0snh351.jpg

As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did, and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.

On the night we never should have met, the starlight twinkled in your eyes, and I was consumed. I loved you so hard, I thought I might die. And then I did.

I drowned myself in your light until you were soaked into my essence, and now my heart is sun-bleached by your memory. You breathed warm spring air into my chest, and as I took my first breath, I suffocated.

I grieve the death of us, to live as strangers when we were once everything the other knew. Perhaps we were never meant to circle each other’s gravities, compasses with no common fixed foot. But now you and I must live in the shadow of the spark that we created, brightened by impermanence.

I have lost you, and will never find you, but then you were never meant to be found. I will search for you in others, content myself with your likeness in different faces and names. But I can never forget the way the starlight twinkled in your eyes on the night we never should have met.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away,

And whisper to their souls to go,

Whilst some of their sad friends do say

The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise,

No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;

'Twere profanation of our joys

To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,

Men reckon what it did, and meant;

But trepidation of the spheres,

Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love

(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit

Absence, because it doth remove

Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,

That our selves know not what it is,

Inter-assured of the mind,

Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,

Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,

Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so

As stiff twin compasses are two;

Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

To move, but doth, if the other do.

And though it in the center sit,

Yet when the other far doth roam,

It leans and hearkens after it,

And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,

Like th' other foot, obliquely run;

Thy firmness makes my circle just,

And makes me end where I begun.