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A Perspective on Perspectives

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Photo by Yuvy Dhaliah on Unsplash Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. -Joshua 2:1 Perspective is important. Even more important is knowing the others' perspective. I watched Zack Snyder's 2006 film, 300 , in the theatre and loved it, especially the reveal at the end. Everyone else, from critics to friends, lambasted the film for being unhistorical, fantastic, unrealistic,.... I couldn't understand their criticism of the movie, since I was assuming they had seen the same ending I had. It wasn't Clue . It seemed, though, they had missed the significance of the ending. The final scene of the movie provides the perspective for the entire rest of the movie. Nothing we had been watching was an historical reenactment of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae. It was, inste