("behind" in which sense?)
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Replying to @Jesin00 @perdricof and
Hey look you can take your "phrasing!" jokes to Jesus himself okay
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
No I meant like, is it in whatever sense that phrase originally meant (which I have heard in zero other contexts)? Or is it in the sense of "I'm behind you all the way" meaning "I'm in your corner"? Maybe I'm just confused because I don't understand the old sense of the word.
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Replying to @Jesin00 @perdricof and
In context it means "go away", like "Let me keep walking and leave you behind" It's a pretty shocking moment in the Gospels -- Jesus is telling the apostles his prophecy that his fate is to die and be martyred and Peter gets upset and says he doesn't have to let that happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Jesin00 and
Peter starts going off about how if they know what's going to happen they can stop it, and Jesus snaps at Peter -- his most loyal disciple and best friend -- "Get behind me, Satan!" Because in that moment Peter is speaking Satan's words (possibly literally possessed by Satan)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Jesin00 and
It's like the moment in Ibsen's Enemy of the People when the guy's father-in-law confronts him, asking him if it isn't *possible* his whistleblowing about the pollution of the hot springs the town economically depends on might be *mistaken*, if there's any chance he might recant
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Jesin00 and
And Stockmann has a real, serious moment of temptation, of thinking he might be wrong and it might be easier to just give in and give up his crusade And then very quietly says "Morton, when I look at you, I swear I see the Devil"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Jesin00 and
The "Get behind me, Satan!" quote is very commonly invoked in this context When someone who thinks they're meaning well are tempting you with the very idea you've spent your whole life resisting and you know you must not give in to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Jesin00 and
(On Twitter it appears to have mutated into the more general "Not today, Satan" when you refuse to get drawn into something you would normally be drawn into)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Jesin00 and
("Look, I don't mean to be a pest but every time we try to make plans lately you end up canceling I understand you're busy, but can you please let me know before the day of? And can we set up a day that does work? Just hearing 'Not today' all the time makes me feel bad"
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"Love, Satan")
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