Jamie123

I understand where you are coming from and I don't hate or mock Uzzah by any means. He made a mistake I could easily see myself making in a similar situation. However, he still made a mistake, hence the punishment from God.
And it depends on who you ask about ark steadying with Martin Luther. If I were to ask a Catholic, I bet they'd say Martin made a huge mistake that shattered the church due to his own arrogance😊. Now Protestants and myself look at it differently of course, and in many churches I would agree that this would be a tough question to pose about when you should intervene and when you shouldn't. But in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as you know we believe our Prophet and 12 Apostles are the literal mouthpieces of Christ. When we try to "fix a problem" or '"steady the ark", if we have a testimony, we are making the same mistake Uzzah did. We know God has said he can take care of his church, but we choose to disbelieve him because we "know" better. Doesn't mean we are anymore evil than Uzzah, but we would still be wrong. Of course you have to believe we are actually lead by prophets and apostles for that analogy to work, so I don't blame a non member for looking at it differently, but that's how we see it.

Yeah I always thought it was weird to use Oedipus's name for that complex. Not only for the reasons your daughter mentioned, but because when he heard the prophesy he was terrified and left home right away to avoid hurting his mom and dad, the couple who had adopted and raised him. He had no way of knowing who his real parents were. But like you said people frequently misuse classical metaphors.

The natural man part of me would have wanted to try and steady it. I would hope my spiritual sensitivity would have been strong enough to resist that urge, all of the Israelites and especially the Levites knew God had said he would protect the Ark, but the flesh is often weak. But then that is the point of the story. We have to learn in life to avoid "steadying the ark" in situations where, just like Uzzah did, we "know" God's church is failing and we are the only one's who can fix it. I put know in quotation marks to represent that we are wrong but are convinced we are right. That's what makes ark steadying such a tempting sin and why the Lord was so clear in warning us against it.

I would hope I’d have had the spiritual sensitivity and foresight to have excused myself from the scene long before then.  Israel—from the top down—was messing up big time with what it was doing (see https://medium.com/@eriknmanning/was-god-being-cruel-for-striking-uzzah-dead-for-touching-the-ark-of-the-covenant-e54532f85326); and the fact that David pitched a hissy fit when Uzzah died only goes to show how far from God’s will—and how scripturally illiterate—he was.  Modern commentators are often so enamored of the secular power David wielded, that they are either blind to or gloss over the many poor choices David made and the sufferings his people endured as a result.

2 Samuel 6.
I didn't provide context because I thought "steadying the ark" was a common idiom for LDS.

I just thought I'd say something nice about my own country for a change! (I'm usually the biggest moaner in the world when it comes to British justice and law enforcement.)

2 Samuel 6.
I didn't provide context because I thought "steadying the ark" was a common idiom for LDS.

Well, I definitely wouldn't have dived into the flood waters and tried to straighten it up.  I imagine it did FAR more than wobble when the rains came down.
 
(As far as the Ark of the covenant, with the instructions and restrictions, wait and see what happens.  Probably see some guy called Uzzah try to steady it instead.  The better idea was probably to try to secure the ark of the covenant more securely before transportation so that it would not have tilted like it might fall off the cart in the first place.

I just thought I'd say something nice about my own country for a change! (I'm usually the biggest moaner in the world when it comes to British justice and law enforcement.)

I don't know...I wasn't listening! 😝

I just thought I'd say something nice about my own country for a change! (I'm usually the biggest moaner in the world when it comes to British justice and law enforcement.)

As noted before, if acquitted, you can have that expunged so it no longer remains on the record.  And, yes, the fact that it doesn't happen automatically is not right.  But we're working on that.
ITMT, remember that such label is only visible for people with proper clearance.

Disclaimer: I am no lawyer, nor do I even play one on the internet. So my statements could be wrong. Consider them as the non-legally binding understanding of a reasonably informed but non-lawyer American citizen.
False. I don't know whether the police can confiscate your license or not in some states—for example, if they determine you are driving drunk—but they certainly cannot void your license. Only the courts (and possibly the DMV) can do that.
Blatantly untrue. A criminal record is created when you admit to or are found guilty of criminal conduct. You may possibly be confusing a criminal record with an arrest record. Sure, if the cops arrest you, they produce an arrest record. Any free society will have this basic step. I can't imagine that it's any different in the UK. Maybe in China they don't bother with arrest records.
This is sort of true, as I understand things. Police can seize your vehicle, for example, as part of a criminal investigation, and that investigation can seem interminable. Such laws can obviously be abused, which is often cited as an example of police corruption. (For the record, I doubt the many, or perhaps any, Americans deny the existence of such corruption.)
I am not sure what you're saying. I doubt there is much substantial difference between American police and UK police on this point. A policeman is empowered to act within the constraints of the law and the confines of his duties. If he acts outside those bounds, he can be subject to discipline, and in some cases to court action. The fact that he is a cop can protect him from individual prosecution as long as he was "following the rules", but if he stepped outside those boundaries, he is as subject to individual prosecution or other personal court action as any other public servant who criminally abuses his authority.
Keep in mind that people like me and your wife aren't cops and aren't lawyers. If your wife has chosen to live in the UK rather than the US, it seems pretty likely that there's a reason for that. Maybe that reason is you, or maybe you're only part of the reason. If your wife is predisposed to look with narrowed eyes on American policy or practice, then my suspicion is that you're getting a biased report.

COVID may have delayed the release, but it's still coming!  Only fake trailers so far, though.  

The music and the lyrics are sad and depressing, which only helps to emphasize the "eucatastrophic" moment when By-Tor appears. (Oddly enough in the previous album - Fly By Night - By-Tor was the villain, not he hero. I can't explain that.)
There's a similar effect in the Marillion album Misplaced Childhood - near the end of Side 2, when the exceptionally dark Blind Curve segues into Childhood's End. That album has always moved me to tears.

Just as well. You avoided the nightmare scenario: "THAT'S MY BOY PLAYING OEDIPUS!" Mom shrieked, while the people around her slowly backed away.

It depends which version you go with. It's a while since I read Sophocles, but I seem to remember he makes Laius the aggressor: Laius tries to stab his son as his chariot passes, whereupon Oedipus retaliates. Later he justifies his parricide by saying "I killed a man who sought my death."
In other versions Oedipus is a sadist for sure: he waylays his father and "just to be a jerk" has his own horses drag him to death. (Rather like the dog in National Lampoon's Vacation.) Nasty nasty.

Having thought it over some more I'm finding this more interesting than ever. The Israelites looked forward to the promised land, knowing full well that none of their generation would enjoy it. The adults of Childhood's End had an inkling of what their children would become but feel nothing but despair. What is the difference? I think the difference is continuity - the Israel that left Egypt was not the same as the Israel that crossed the Jordan, but the one merged gradually into the other. Family relationships were not severed. Of course in the book the sudden severing of the adults from the evolving children was the only way the Overlords could protect humanity from destruction but the tragedy and sense of loss remain. It's rather like what Paul would describe as "birth pangs". That's what makes Childhood's End such a powerful book.

Was your mother cheering you on?

It depends which version you go with. It's a while since I read Sophocles, but I seem to remember he makes Laius the aggressor: Laius tries to stab his son as his chariot passes, whereupon Oedipus retaliates. Later he justifies his parricide by saying "I killed a man who sought my death."
In other versions Oedipus is a sadist for sure: he waylays his father and "just to be a jerk" has his own horses drag him to death. (Rather like the dog in National Lampoon's Vacation.) Nasty nasty.

@Jamie123  You do know that the most complete definition of a Freudian slip is - when you say one thing but you mean your mother. 
 
The Traveler

A deeply sad moment when he passed.
 
The best from Caress of Steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7omle21cL3s
 

I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but I just found out. Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Rush, died this January past. (Shows how much I keep up with things!) He was only 67!
As a teenager I was transfixed by his songs. I could (and probably still can) recite most of his songs. I think my all-time favorite has to be The Fountain of Lamneth cycle from Caress of Steel - one people don't talk about much, and more subtle than the later and better-known 2112 and Hemispheres. But I loved all of them. Tom Sawyer, Spirit of Radio, Subdivisions. I'll always associate Subdivisions (and the whole Signals album) with my first year at college.
Music is cheap these days. You just download it for a small fee or naughty-naughty listen to it for free on YouTube (until the copyright owner has it taken down). In those days it wasn't. You had to save up for weeks and weeks to buy an album, and you agonized over which one to spend your money on. I'd think: "I really want my own copy of Hemispheres - I love listening to that at my friend's house - but...but...If I get that I can't afford to get the Archives collection..." etc.
But anyway, rest in peace Neil. You were a great man, and a big part of my adolescence.

My 15-year-old daughter made an interesting observation the other day: Isn't it ironic that Sigmund Freud - when looking for a name for this condition (wanting to have sex with your own mother) - named it after a man who slept with his mother by accident, and when he learned what he'd done, was so disgusted that he blinded himself? He'd have done better to have called it the "Totally-The-Opposite-Of-Oedipus" complex.
P.S. This is not the only place where classical metaphors are misused: a few years ago, people were using the term "Cassandra" to describe someone who falsely inflates the seriousness of a particular problem, causing attention to be misdirected away from other more important concerns. That is totally the opposite of what Cassandra (daughter of Priam of Troy) did - her warnings WERE real, but she was cursed such that they were NEVER ACTED UPON.