Hey Joel! July 19, 2022, there is an episode that talked about Audrey Herron and her missing Jeep in NY. But then the next story is about Kelly Dae Wilson. At the end of the Kelly story, you mention Audrey’s missing jeep and her never being found. I was wondering, what that a mistake? Did you mean to mention Audrey again?

We were in the second half of chapter 13 tonight(false prophet)
Been doing a study on Revelation for a few months now, recently been on how Satan is a imitator, demonstrated by the “satanic trinity.” Also in the service, it was spoken on to be wary of false preachers, or “healers”, such as megachurch preachers(not that their all bad, but he more or less said that “be extra wary of ‘megachurch’ pastors, while not all are bad, some are just in for the money”). “You can often tell what a pastor values after just one service”
Another quote from him. “If I end up as rich and famous as, let’s say, Joel osteen, then I have done something wrong and have failed as a pastor.”
Feel free to comment any questions you have, and I’ll try to answer

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Thousands of protesters descended to the streets of the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan amid heavy security presence, in the 34th consecutive Friday of demonstrations against the Islamic Republic.
Ahead of the weekly protests, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of Zahedan used his sermon to denounce the pressures exerted on lawyers and the work of parliament members, and said that the right to hold peaceful demonstrations should be recognized.
Molavi, Iran's most prominent Sunni cleric, has been a key dissenting voice inside Iran since the eruption of nationwide protests in September 2022 demanding fundamental economic, social and political changes.
The city has been rocked by protest rallies every Friday since September 30, when security forces killed nearly 100 people in the deadliest incident in the widespread demonstrations.
Iranian security forces have responded to the women-led protest movement with brutal force, killing more than 520 people during demonstrations and unlawfully detaining over 20,000 others, including dozens of journalists and lawyers, activists say.
The protests and clampdown on dissent have been particularly intense in western Kurdish areas and Sistan and Baluchistan.

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https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2022/03/unless-those-days-were-shortened.html

"Unless those Days were Shortened"

What can the Bible teach us about the Great Tribulation?
Of it, Jesus said; "And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened." (Matt.24:22) [To see that the locusts of Joel 1:4,6; 2:2,25,32; Rev.9:2-3 are responsible for the Great Tribulation; please see: (https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-greatest-tribulation-why.html)][time shortened: (Rev.12:12; Rev.20:3 NIV ) Why necessary? Amos 7:2; Isa.1:9; Rom.9:27-29; Micah 4:7-8,9-10] (See the connection between Matt.24:22 and its context in Matt.24:8 of the same chapter and conversation, and the connection between tribulation and labor pains)... John16: 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.... (Ps.126:5-6; Luke 8:11,15; 3John 1:4; 1Thess. 2:19-20) ...21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world." Rev.12: "Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. 5 She bore a male Child who was to *rule all nations with a rod of iron.* And her Child was caught up to God and His throne."Rev.2: "26 And he who overcomes, (1John 5:4) and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— 27 ‘He shall *rule them with a rod of iron;*They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have received from My Father"
Rev.3: 21 "To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne."
Eph.2: "6 He has raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus"
This great "tribulation" comes from a word that means to sift wheat. Satan has demanded to test all those slated for eternal life (Luke 22:31 ESV ). That tribulation is a test that Christ encourages all of us to overcome. In the time of the End (Matt.24:3; 1Cor. 15:24), the demonic, oppressive testing, takes on an intensity and effectiveness, never before experienced (Matt.24:21-22). Unless God limits that test, "no one could be saved". "No flesh being saved" is not speaking of the physical. The flesh is against the spirit, and represents our practice of sin (Gal.5:17). Those who live by the flesh, are not saved (Rom.8:13; Gal.6:8). Being saved in the flesh is of no value, according to Jesus (John 6:63; Matt.10:28). It is the spirit that needs to be saved (1Cor. 5:5; Matt.24:22). Only by the intervention of God, is salvation made possible (1Cor. 6:9-11; Rom.7:24-25; 8:2).--(https://pearl-copingwithsin.blogspot.com)The disciples asked Jesus; "Who really can be saved?" (Matt.19:25-26). They asked this about a rich man, who left off following Jesus... not about a physical threat. Jesus replied by saying that "with men, salvation is not possible, but with God, all things, (including salvation), become possible."
During the Great Test/tribulation; the saints are conquered and taken captive to demonic teaching (Dan.8:24; Rev.13:7,10; Col.2:8; Luke 21:24)(1Tim. 4:1; Rev.16:13-15; Dan.8:11-13; Rev.11:2; Luke 21:24; Rev.20:7-9; Luke 21:20). --(https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/09/trample-how-does-it-happen.html)If God did not limit that test, none would achieve salvation. But God does limit Satan's final test.--(https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-must-satan-be-released-from-abyss.html)If it were not for God "cutting short" those days of deception...(Matt.24:22; 2Thess. 2:4,9; Dan.11:36-37; 8:11-12; Rev.12:9; 13:11,14; 14:8), ...no flesh would be saved (Luke 13:23-24; 1Pet. 4:18; Rom.9:29; Isa.1:9; 10:21-22; 30:28; Rev.14:20 NIV ) (Eze.17:22; 36:8; Mark 13:14; Psalm 72:16; Luke 12:42-43) (LINK).To allow His deceived people more of a choice, God does cut this sifting tribulation by Satan short, limiting it's lethal effects for some.(Luke 22:31; Amos 4:11; Isa.48:9; Mark 13:20).
YHVH God restricts the damage, just as a log is snatched out of a fire, for the sake of His Holy Name (Eze.36:22; Dan.12:1; Zech.3:2-3,4; (Rev.19:8) Zech.2:12; Jude 1:23; Rev.9:14).
What is it that saves the remnant from being drowned by this flood of Satanic lies? (Rev.12:15)-- see >(http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/earth-swallows-satans-river.html)
How are His people given one more chance at life?
Along with this plague of horsemen (including a spiritual famine - Rev.6:8; Amos 8:11; Hosea 4:6); He limits their ability to harm/destroy totally, the "olive oil and the wine". (Isa.65:8-9; John 15:5)Rev.3:20A remnant will be awoken spiritually (Matt.25:6-7; Luke 12:37; Rev.9:14; 11:3-4). These will have the resolve to base their teachings upon Holy Spirit, despite Satan's persecution and the wrath of the Wild Beast (John 15:4-5; 16:2; 1John 2:28; Rev.13:15; Mark 8:35; Rev.11:7; 20:4) The fruit the faithful bear, will remain (John 15:16; 1Cor. 3:13,14). The "blessing within it" (Isa.65:8), will become manifested (Matt.13:43; Dan.12:3; 11:33,35; 12:10; Prov.4:18; 11:30). Please check out what the source of the Great Tribulation is during the end time, by seeing how the Bible interprets that greatest spiritual test upon those belonging to Christ:--(https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-greatest-tribulation-why.html)

After 11 years in the trade, I've finally achieved one of my goals: being a triple-certified JW/Instrument Tech/HV cable splicer! Feels good.

• Bold means the film received at least 1 Oscar nomination (47)
• Bold and italic means the film was only nominated in the Best International Feature category (17)
• Coin means the film won Best International Feature (7)
• Trophy means the film won Best Picture (1)

Year	Palme d'Or	Grand Prix	Jury Prize
1975	Chronicle of the Years of Fire	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1976	Taxi Driver	Cría Cuervos 🪢 The Marquise of O
1977	Padre Padrone
1978	The Tree of Wooden Clogs	Bye Bye Monkey 🪢 The Shout
1979	Apocalypse Now 🪢 🪙The Tin Drum🪙	Siberiade
1980	All That Jazz 🪢 Kagemusha	My American Uncle	The Constant Factor
1981	Man of Iron	Light Years Away
1982	Missing 🪢 Yol	The Night of the Shooting Stars
1983	The Ballad of Narayama	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	Kharij
1984	Paris, Texas	Diary for My Children
1985	When Father Was Away on Business	Birdy	Colonel Redl
1986	The Mission	The Sacrifice	Thérèse
1987	Under the Sun of Satan	Repentance	Shinran: Path to Purity 🪢 Yeelen
1988	Pelle the Conqueror	A World Apart	A Short Film About Killing
1989	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	🪙Cinema Paradiso🪙 🪢 Too Beautiful for You	Jesus of Montreal
1990	Wild at Heart	The Sting of Death 🪢 Tilaï	Hidden Agenda
1991	Barton Fink	La Belle Noiseuse	Europa 🪢 Out of Life
1992	The Best Intentions	The Stolen Children	Dream of Light 🪢 An Independent Life
1993	Farewell My Concubine 🪢 The Piano	Faraway, So Close!	The Puppetmaster 🪢 Raining Stones
1994	Pulp Fiction	🪙Burnt by the Sun🪙 🪢 To Live	La Reine Margot
1995	Underground	Ulysses' Gaze	Don't Forget You're Going to Die 🪢 Carrington
1996	Secrets & Lies	Breaking the Waves	Crash
1997	The Eel 🪢 Taste of Cherry	The Sweet Hereafter	Western
1998	Eternity and a Day	🪙Life Is Beautiful🪙	Class Trip
1999	Rosetta	Humanité	The Letter
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Devils on the Doorstep	Blackboards 🪢 Songs from the Second Floor
2001	The Son's Room	The Piano Teacher
2002	The Pianist	The Man Without a Past	Divine Intervention
2003	Elephant	Distant	At Five in the Afternoon
2004	Fahrenheit 9/11	Oldboy	The Ladykillers 🪢 Tropical Malady
2005	The Child	Broken Flowers	Shanghai Dreams
2006	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Flanders	Red Road
2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	The Mourning Forest	Persepolis 🪢 Silent Light
2008	The Class	Gomorrah	Il divo
2009	The White Ribbon	A Prophet	Fish Tank 🪢 Thirst
2010	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Of Gods and Men	A Screaming Man
2011	The Tree of Life	The Kid with a Bike 🪢 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Polisse
2012	🪙Amour🪙	Reality	The Angels' Share
2013	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Inside Llewyn Davis	Like Father, Like Son
2014	Winter Sleep	The Wonders	Goodbye to Language 🪢 Mommy
2015	Dheepan	🪙Son of Saul🪙	The Lobster
2016	I, Daniel Blake	It's Only the End of the World	American Honey
2017	The Square	BPM (Beats per Minute)	Loveless
2018	Shoplifters	BlacKkKlansman	Capernaum
2019	🪙🏆Parasite🏆🪙	Atlantics	Bacurau 🪢 Les Misérables
2021	Titane	Compartment No. 6 🪢 A Hero	Ahed's Knee 🪢 Memoria
2022	Triangle of Sadness	Stars at Noon 🪢 Close	The Eight Mountains 🪢 EO
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	The Zone of Interest	Fallen Leaves

• Bold means the actor received an Oscar nomination (23)
• Bold and italic means the actor was nominated in a non-acting category (1)
• Trophy means the actor won the Oscar (6)

Year	Best Actor	Best Actress
1975	Vittorio Gassman – Scent of a Woman	Valérie Perrine – Lenny
1976	José Luis Gómez – Pascual Duarte	Dominique Sanda – The Inheritance 🪢 Mari Törőcsik – Mrs. Dery Where Are You?
1977	Fernando Rey – Elisa, My Life	Shelley Duvall – 3 Women 🪢 Monique Mercure – J.A. Martin Photographer
1978	🏆Jon Voight – Coming Home🏆	Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman 🪢 Isabelle Huppert – Violette Nozière
1979	Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome 🪢 Stefano Madia – Dear Father	🏆Sally Field – Norma Rae🏆 🪢 Eva Mattes – Woyzeck
1980	Michel Piccoli – A Leap in the Dark 🪢 Jack Thompson – Breaker Morant	Anouk Aimée – A Leap in the Dark 🪢 Milena Dravić – Special Treatment 🪢 Carla Gravina – La terrazza
1981	Ugo Tognazzi – Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man 🪢 Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire	Isabelle Adjani – Possession 🪢 Qaurtet 🪢 Elena Solovey – Faktas
1982	Jack Lemmon – Missing	Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak – Another Way
1983	Gian Maria Volonté – The Death of Mario Ricci	Hanna Schygulla – The Story of Piera
1984	Alfredo Landa 🪢 Francisco Rabal – The Holy Innocents	Helen Mirren – Cal
1985	🏆William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman🏆	Norma Aleandro – The Official Story 🪢 Cher – Mask
1986	Michel Blanc – Ménage 🪢 Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa	Barbara Sukowa – Rosa Luxemburg
1987	Marcello Mastroianni – Dark Eyes	Barbara Hershey – Shy People
1988	Forest Whitaker – Bird	Barbara Hershey 🪢 Jodhi May 🪢 Linda Mvusi – A World Apart
1989	James Spader – Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
1990	Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac	Krystyna Janda – Interrogation
1991	John Turturro – Barton Fink 🪢 Samuel L. Jackson – Jungle Fever	Irène Jacob – The Double Life of Veronique
1992	Tim Robbins – The Player	Pernilla August – The Best Intentions
1993	David Thewlis – Naked	🏆Holly Hunter – The Piano🏆
1994	Ge You – To Live	Virna Lisi – La Reine Margot
1995	Jonathan Pryce – Carrington	Helen Mirren – The Madness of King George
1996	Daniel Auteuil 🪢 Pascal Duquenne – The Eighth Day	Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
1997	Sean Penn – She's So Lovely	Kathy Burke – Nil by Mouth
1998	Peter Mullan – My Name Is Joe	Élodie Bouchez 🪢 Natacha Régnier – The Dreamlife of Angels
1999	Emmanuel Schotté – Humanité	Séverine Caneele – Humanité 🪢 Émilie Dequenne – Rosetta
2000	Tony Leung Chiu-wai – In the Mood for Love	Björk – Dancer in the Dark
2001	Benoît Magimel – The Piano Teacher	Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher
2002	Olivier Gourmet – The Son	Kati Outinen – The Man Without a Past
2003	Muzaffer Özdemir 🪢 Mehmet Emin Toprak – Distant	Marie-Josée Croze – The Barbarian Invasions
2004	Yūya Yagira – Nobody Knows	Maggie Cheung – Clean
2005	Tommy Lee Jones – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Hanna Laslo – Free Zone
2006	Roschdy Zem 🪢 Bernard Blancan 🪢 Jamel Debbouze 🪢 Samy Naceri 🪢 Sami Bouajila – Days of Glory	Carmen Maura 🪢 Lola Dueñas 🪢 Blanca Portillo 🪢 Yohana Cobo 🪢 Chus Lampreave 🪢 Penélope Cruz – Volver
2007	Konstantin Lavronenko – The Banishment	Jeon Do-yeon – Secret Sunshine
2008	Benicio del Toro – Che	Sandra Corveloni – Linha de Passe
2009	🏆Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds🏆	Charlotte Gainsbourg – Antichrist
2010	Javier Bardem – Biutiful 🪢 Elio Germano – Our Life	Juliette Binoche – Certified Copy
2011	🏆Jean Dujardin – The Artist🏆	Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
2012	Mads Mikkelsen – The Hunt	Cristina Flutur 🪢 Cosmina Stratan – Beyond the Hills
2013	Bruce Dern – Nebraska	Bérénice Bejo – The Past
2014	Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner	Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars
2015	Vincent Lindon – The Measure of a Man	Emmanuelle Bercot – Mon Roi 🪢 Rooney Mara – Carol
2016	Shahab Hosseini – The Salesman	Jaclyn Jose – Ma' Rosa
2017	Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here	Diane Kruger – In the Fade
2018	Marcello Fonte – Dogman	Samal Yeslyamova – Ayka
2019	Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory	Emily Beecham – Little Joe
2021	Caleb Landry Jones – Nitram	Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
2022	Song Kang-ho – Broker	Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Holy Spider
2023	Kōji Yakusho – Perfect Days	Merve Dizdar – About Dry Grasses

• Bold means the film received at least 1 Oscar nomination in a corresponding category (9)
• Bold and italic means only the film was nominated, but the awarded filmmaker wasn't (8)
• Coin means the film won Best International Feature (4)

Year	Best Director	Best Screenplay
1975	Michel Brault – Orders 🪢 Costa-Gavras – Special Section
1976	Ettore Scola – Down and Dirty
1977
1978	Nagisa Ōshima – Empire of Passion
1979	Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven
1980		La Terrazza – Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Ettore Scola
1981		🪙Mephisto🪙 – István Szabó
1982	Werner Herzog – Fitzcarraldo	Moonlighting – Jerzy Skolimowski
1983	Robert Bresson – L'Argent 🪢 Andrei Tarkovsky – Nostalgia	Voyage to Cythera – Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra
1984	Bertrand Tavernier – A Sunday in the Country
1985	André Téchiné – Rendez-vous
1986	Martin Scorsese – After Hours
1987	Wim Wenders – Wings of Desire
1988	Fernando Solanas – Sur
1989	Emir Kusturica – Time of the Gypsies
1990	Pavel Lungin – Taxi Blues
1991	Joel Coen – Barton Fink
1992	Robert Altman – The Player
1993	Mike Leigh – Naked
1994	Nanni Moretti – Dear Diary	Dead Tired – Michel Blanc
1995	Mathieu Kassovitz – La Haine
1996	Joel Coen – Fargo	A Self Made Hero – Jacques Audiard, Alain Le Henry
1997	Wong Kar-wai – Happy Together	The Ice Storm – James Schamus
1998	John Boorman – The General	Henry Fool – Hal Hartley
1999	Pedro Almodóvar – All About My Mother	Moloch – Yuri Arabov
2000	Edward Yang – Yi Yi	Nurse Betty – James Flamberg, John C. Richards
2001	Joel Coen – The Man Who Wasn't There 🪢 David Lynch – Mulholland Drive	No Man's Land – Danis Tanović
2002	Paul Thomas Anderson – Punch-Drunk Love 🪢 Im Kwon-taek – Painted Fire	Sweet Sixteen – Paul Laverty
2003	Gus Van Sant – Elephant	🪙The Barbarian Invasions🪙 – Denys Arcand
2004	Tony Gatlif – Exils	Look at Me – Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
2005	Michael Haneke – Caché	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Guillermo Arriaga
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel	Volver – Pedro Almodóvar
2007	Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	The Edge of Heaven – Fatih Akin
2008	Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Three Monkeys	Lorna's Silence – Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne
2009	Brillante Mendoza – Butchered	Spring Fever – Mei Feng
2010	Mathieu Amalric – On Tour	Poetry – Lee Chang-dong
2011	Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive	Footnote – Joseph Cedar
2012	Carlos Reygadas – Post Tenebras Lux	Beyond the Hills – Cristian Mungiu, Tatiana Niculescu Bran
2013	Amat Escalante – Heli	A Touch of Sin – Jia Zhangke
2014	Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher	Leviathan – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin
2015	Hou Hsiao-hsien – The Assassin	Chronic – Michel Franco
2016	Olivier Assayas – Personal Shopper 🪢 Cristian Mungiu – Graduation	🪙The Salesman🪙 – Asghar Farhadi
2017	Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled	The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou 🪢 You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay
2018	Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War	3 Faces – Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar 🪢 Happy as Lazzaro – Alice Rohrwacher
2019	Jean-Pierre 🪢 Luc Dardenne – Young Ahmed	Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Céline Sciamma
2021	Leos Carax – Annette	🪙Drive My Car🪙 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
2022	Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave	Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh
2023	Tran Anh Hung – The Pot-au-Feu	Monster – Yuji Sakamoto

It all started sometime in Aug 2022 last year when I first contracted COVID. After a week of recovery from COVID, I've started to get some rashes on my penis. Went to a GP and he gave me Augmentin for 5 days. Took the whole course and it was still there. Went back and he gave me another 5 days of Augmentin and, this time added a steroid cream. The steroid cream was added because I've started to have some cuts to the foreskin on my penis. He thought it was balanitis. Applied the cream and took the whole course again but not only did it not go away, but made it worse. 4 weeks later, decided to go see another GP who prescribed me tons of medication. I did a blood test as well and it showed nothing. He couldn't figure out what was wrong but kept giving me all kinds of med. On the 6th week, felt a heaviness on my testicles. Felt like a rock was tied to it and pulling it. Finally went to a specialist who diagnosed me with Orchitis (having some excruciating pain in my testicles). Gave me Cipro (500mg to be taken twice a day) and on the 5th day, I could feel numbness in my fingers and pains all over my body. I decided to stop it. Prescribed me another type of antibiotics (10 days course). On the 10th day, I could feel the pain going further down to below my testicles and radiation near my ass. Decided to go and visit another specialist as the current one seemed to not be interested anymore. The next specialist did some test (MRI, blood works again, Ultra sound, etc) and diagnosed me with Prostatitis. I was put on Levo for 1 month. Pain did subside for 2 weeks and then it came back agsin. Was ask to finish my course and put on Levo for another month. Did not work either and he then diagnosed me with CPPS. Told me to have a strong mind and do some yoga. Not knowing what thie actually is, and even the doctors couldnt figure this out, i went into deperession. Was having sleepless nights, as I could not go a day without not feeling the pain constantly, and could not even sit properly. It was a terrible time for me. Sometime in early Dec 2022, I went online and discovered this amazing forum. Read about what CPPS was and although was skeptical at first, decided to try it anyways cause I've got nothing to lose. Followed the UPON strategy to recovery and even consulted a Psychiatrists to overcome my depression. I was on xanax for a while and after reading some comments here, tried to get off it as soon as I can (I got to say, it was difficult as first but managed to get off it eventually). It's been nearly 6 months now and my pain has completely gone away. What else did I do? 1) Got spiritually stronger and prayed. This got my mind stronger as every night before I sleep, I would listen to a sermon who did help me tremendously. This also managed to get my sleep back and overcome the reliance of the anti depressants that I was taking. 2) Got into Yoga. At first, started my yoga lessons and did it twice a day. Specifically on pelvic floor stretches. I'm the stiffest bloke around and trust me, this was not easy for me! Continued it no matter what, although I did face some issues along the way of over stretching, etc. But learnt from this (what I could do and what I cant) and continued to do this diligently. 3) dropped 5kgs and ate healthy. Decided its time to eat healthy and drop my weight to overcome this. 4) increased my supplement intake. Will share with you personally if anybody wants what I took. I believe I did mention it before in a previous post. 5) started to swim 3 times a day, 25 laps. Started slowly first and then increased my laps. 5) consulted a PT specialist. Didn't have to use the wan either and just dry needling. Did this every week at first, and slowly cut down to once in 2 weeks and now, just once a month.
I would like to thank those here who gave me some great advice and encouraged me when I needed the help the most. I will never ever forget the kindness some of you showed me in the most lowest time of my life and I will never forget this. I'm here to return the favor anytime if someone needs any advice ftom me. Please PM me if needed.

This is an example of one of those random things where I start notice a pattern of some kind, then wonder how far back I can continue it. In this case... 11 meetings over 27 years.
Some notes:

• Only games from the quarterfinals onward were considered.
• In years where they only had semifinals, only the semifinals onward were considered.
• In years where there was more than one phase of round robin, those meetings are not included here.
• Summaries are given for later years since I remember those games more clearly.

1996 Quarterfinals: Canada 3, Finland 1
2000 Bronze Medal Game: Finland 2, Canada 1
2004 Quarterfinals: Canada 5, Finland 4 (OT)

• Dany Heatley scored the game winner at 65:33. Roberto Luongo made 37 saves in the win.

2006 Bronze Medal Game: Finland 5, Canada 0

• Little did Canada know that 15 years later, in this same building...

2007 Gold Medal Game: Canada 4, Finland 2

• Canada had a 3-0 lead with less than 10 minutes left. Kontiola and Miettinen would close the gap to 3-2 with 2:16 left, before Rick Nash iced it about a minute later.

(My research started from 2010, then went back. Since I knew from 2011-13, Canada lost to Russia, Slovakia and Sweden in the QFs respectively, so I knew they didn't face Finland in any of those years)
2014 Quarterfinal: Finland 3, Canada 2

• This was the last of a string of four very painful quarterfinal losses for Canada (2011-14), in which
  • Each loss was by 1 goal...
  • ... to four different teams (2011 vs RUS, 2012 vs SVK, 2013 vs SWE, 2014 vs FIN)...
  • ... after Canada had held a lead at some point in each game.
• Iiro Pakarainen scored the eventual game winning goal at 56:52
• In the Finnish net, Pekka Rinne stopped 36 shots

2016 Gold Medal Game: Canada 2, Finland 0

• Finland was chasing history in this game. With a win, they'd become the first team to win gold at all three IIHF men's tournaments
• In addition, a win in regulation would have given Finland a perfect 10-0-0-0 tournament, as well as the Infront Team Jackpot of CHF 1,000,000 that comes with it - a jackpot Canada won the year before.
• The only thing standing in their way was a Canadian team that they had already beaten once, 4-0, in the preliminary round.
• Connor McDavid scored at 11:24 to give Canada a 1-0 lead... that they successfully defended for the entire game.
• Brad Marchand added an empty netter at 59:59.1 to seal the victory.
  • That 0.9 seconds at the end of the game, was the only 0.9 seconds of the entire tournament where Finland had trailed by more than one goal.
• In an amusing sight, Canada had celebrated after the empty net goal, throwing their equipment in the air as championship teams usually do. However, with 0.9 seconds still on the clock, they had to clean everything up, and five Canadians had to put their equipment back on for the final faceoff.

2019 Gold Medal Game: Finland 3, Canada 1

• No NHL goals this season on your roster? No problem! The Finns brought a roster that had two then-NHLers on it (Juho Lammikko and Henri Jokiharju), neither of which scored a goal in the NHL that year. The roster reveal was... not well received by the media, if I remember correctly.
• I wasn't going to take a look into Finland's quarterfinal and semifinal games in this post, but I think to understand the context of the gold medal game, I had to include those games.
• Quarterfinals:
  • Finland, after finishing the preliminary round with a loss to Germany, faces a heavily favoured Swedish team.
  • Sweden held a 4-3 lead with under 2 minutes to go... enter the legend of Marko Anttila.
  • Anttila scores to tie the game with 1:29 to go. After a Swedish challenge for offside, the goal is confirmed.
  • Finland then wins in OT on a goal by Sakari Manninen.
• Semifinals:
  • Finland faces an even more heavily favoured Russian team who, entering this game, were just 2 wins away from that 10-0-0-0 record and the jackpot that comes with it.
  • For 50 minutes, Finland withstands a furious Russian attack.
  • Coming up clutch again, Marko Anttila scores at 50:18 to give Finland a 1-0 lead... and they make it hold up as that would ultimately be the only goal of the game.
• Gold Medal Game:
  • Canada vs Finland was the first game of the tournament, and it would end up being the last game of the tournament. The Finns won the opener by a score of 3-1.
    • People say that Canada was favoured in this game, but I don't see how, given the Finns had won the first meeting.
  • Canada takes a 1-0 lead after one period... and that's the last you'd hear of the Canadian goal song ("High on Life") for the tournament.
  • Marko Anttila continues his tear in the medal round by scoring the game tying and eventual game winning goals, exactly 20 minutes apart (22:35 and 42:35).
  • Harri Pesonen scores an insurance goal at 55:54, and the tournament ends the exact same way it started - with Finland beating Canada by a score of 3-1.
  • Kevin Lankinen made 43 saves in the Finnish net.

2021 Gold Medal Game: Canada 3, Finland 2 (OT)

• Check out my post here, for a deeper look into Canada's run to gold in this tournament. Long story short: It felt like something out of a sports movie. In fact, you could probably make a movie out of Canada's 2021 run.
• After running into... every possible obstacle imaginable, including not even making it to the quarterfinals on their own, Canada somehow, some way, makes it to the gold medal game, against a Finnish team that had beaten them in a shootout (and sent Canadians and their fans into a nervous wait) to end the preliminary round.
• This time, however, the Canadians are better prepared, going back and forth with Finland, including scoring a goal in a way that would have been legal had it taken place just one game later.
  • The IIHF had instituted a rule change to go into effect in 2022 where for the purposes of offside, the blue line was to become a 3D plane - i.e. a skate that was directly above, but not touching the blue line would still be considered onside.
  • Canada scored a goal that would be called off after a review had shown that a Canadian skate was in that 3D plane, but not touching the actual blue line on the ice. Had this gold medal game happened in 2022, the goal would have counted. But since the 2021 gold medal game was the last game with the old offside rule, it did not.
• Canada pushes the Finns to OT, in what would be the first OT at the Men's Worlds, under the new rules where gold medal games cannot go to a shootout - continuous 20 minute, 3 on 3 OTs until there is a winner.
• And just over 6 minutes into OT, enter Nick Paul and Connor Brown...

2022 Gold Medal Game: Finland 4, Canada 3 (OT)

• Ask any Canadian or Finn: This game had to be one of the worst officiated gold medal games the IIHF has ever seen, both ways.
• Looking to get revenge from the OT loss a year earlier, Canada takes an early 1-0 lead before, in the second period, Mikael Granlund scores two powerplay goals only 1:44 apart to give Finland a 2-1 lead.
• Joel Armia gives the Finns some insurance, with a 3-1 lead with under 5 minutes to go.
• With the extra attacker, Zach Whitecloud (57:48) and Maxime Comtois (58:36) score for Canada to tie the game, just 48 seconds apart.
• ... resulting in a second straight overtime between these two.
• In OT, Thomas Chabot takes a hooking penalty...
• ... and just over halfway through their powerplay, Sakari Manninen scores the golden goal for Finland to give them a gold medal victory on home ice in Tampere.

2023 Quarterfinal: Canada 4, Finland 1

• After finishing second in their preliminary round group in Riga, Latvia, Canada returns to Tampere for a quarterfinal against the host Finns. Finland returned 14 players from the team who played in that gold medal game a year earlier. Canada returned... none.
• But perhaps it was for the better as this time, Canada's fortunes at Nokia Arena would turn in their favour, as they'd slowly but surely build up a 3-0 lead that would stand up.
• Finland would score a late goal to get on the board, but the Canadians would add an empty netter to give the noted 4-1 final score.

The Indie Ink Awards announced their winners today! Here are the finalists, runners up, and winners for each awards, listed below:
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Best Audio finalists:

A Surplus of Light by Chase Connor Along the Razor's Edge by Rob J. Hayes Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash His Ragged Company by Rance D. Denton In Solitude's Shadow by David Green Never Die (Mortal Techniques #1) by Rob J. Hayes Night Warrior by Jordan J. Scavone Shadow Of The Wicked by Douglas W.T. Smith Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore Wyrd Gods by Susana Imaginário 

Runner Ups:
Along the Razor's Edge by Rob J. Hayes
Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore
His Ragged Company by Rance D. Denton
Winner: Never Die (Mortal Techniques #1) by Rob J. Hayes
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Best Book Cover finalists:

Birthright by M.A. Vice Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Night Warrior by Jordan J. Scavone Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino Undergrounder by J. E. Glass 

Runners Up:

Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Undergrounder by J. E. Glass 

Winner: Birthright by M.A. Vice
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Best Debut finalists:

Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Ghost River by Chad Ryan His Ragged Company by Rance D. Denton Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee Undergrounder by J. E. Glass 

Runners up:
Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves
The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee
Undergrounder by J. E. Glass
Winner: Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost
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Best Friendship finalists:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows Bonkpocalypse by L. A. Guettler Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Heroes by Ashley Hutchison The Garden of the Golden Children by Ashley Hutchison The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino 

Runners Up:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele 

Winner: The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee
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Best Interior Illustrator finalists:

A Bargain with the Fae King by Megan Van Dyke APPRENTICE - a story from the Road to Xibalba by Joaquin Gil Afterlands: After the Harrowing by Boots Heroes by Ashley Hutchison In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson METANOIA The Fifth Yanai: Book One by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald Second Star to the Left by Megan Van Dyke The Call for Finis: Pride by A.J. Torres The Crows by C.M Rosens The Unraveling of Luna Forester by Marisa Noelle Vietato by Bailey Elizabeth Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore 

Runners Up:

In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno The Crows by C.M Rosens A Bargain with the Fae King by Megan Van Dyke Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson 

Winner: The Call for Finis: Pride by A.J. Torres
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Best Light Read finalists:

A Sea of Pearls & Leaves by Rosalyn Briar Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Heroes by Ashley Hutchison In Solitude's Shadow by David Green Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson Second Star to the Left by Megan Van Dyke Soulmate, Stage Right by Bixby Jones The Case Files of Sheridan Bell: The Vanishing Beast by Em Rowene Why Odin Drinks by Bjørn Larssen 

Runners Up:

The Case Files of Sheridan Bell: The Vanishing Beast by Em Rowene Second Star to the Left by Megan Van Dyke Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash 

Winner: Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
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Best Mentor Character finalists:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Bloody Spade by Brittany M Willows Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Gloria by Katherine Shaw Heroes by Ashley Hutchison In Solitude's Shadow by David Green In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno Perception Check by Astrid Knight Soul Wizard: Awakening by Wesley CP Spirits of Vengeance by Rob J. Hayes Untouched by Jayme Bean 

Runners Up:

Untouched by Jayme Bean Spirits of Vengeance by Rob J. Hayes In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno 

Winner: Perception Check by Astrid Knight
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Best Morally Gray Character finalists:

A Canticle of Two Souls by Steven Raaymakers Ghost River by Chad Ryan Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Case Files of Sheridan Bell: The Vanishing Beast by Em Rowene The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee 

Runners Up:

The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee 

Winner: A Canticle of Two Souls by Steven Raaymakers
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Best Setting finalists:

His Ragged Company by Rance D. Denton Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Case Files of Sheridan Bell: The Vanishing Beast by Em Rowene The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Garden of the Golden Children by Ashley Hutchison The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies 

Runners Up:

Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle 

Winners:

Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies 

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Best Use of Tropes finalists:

Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson Night Warrior by Jordan J. Scavone Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Perception Check by Astrid Knight Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore 

Runners Up:

Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Perception Check by Astrid Knight Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves 

Winner: Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost
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Best Villain finalists:

Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Ghost River by Chad Ryan Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle Night Warrior by Jordan J. Scavone Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino 

Runners Up:

Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves 

Winner: The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino
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Funniest Book finalists:

Bonkpocalypse by L. A. Guettler Double-Crossing the Bridge by Sarah J Sover Duckett & Dyer: Dicks For Hire by G.M. Nair Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson Perception Check by Astrid Knight Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty Soulmate, Stage Right by Bixby Jones The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino Why Odin Drinks by Bjørn Larssen 

Runners Up:

Double-Crossing the Bridge by Sarah J Sover Perception Check by Astrid Knight Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson 

Winner: Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
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Most Optimistic finalists:

Bonkpocalypse by L. A. Guettler EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Heroes by Ashley Hutchison In Solitude's Shadow by David Green Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea Perception Check by Astrid Knight Soul Wizard: Awakening by Wesley CP The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August 

Runners Up:

In Solitude's Shadow by David Green The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson 

Winner: EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon
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Prettiest Book Interior finalists:

Adrift in Starlight by Mindi Briar Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Heroes by Ashley Hutchison In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Reign & Ruin by J. D. Evans Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty Soul Wizard: Awakening by Wesley CP 

Runners Up:

Adrift in Starlight by Mindi Briar Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson 

Winner: In the Orbit of Sirens by T.A. Bruno
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Prettiest Prose finalists:

EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Garden of the Golden Children by Ashley Hutchison The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee 

Runners Up:

The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves 

Winner: The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee
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Shadiest Character finalists:

A Bargain with the Fae King (Courts of Faery Book 1) by Megan Van Dyke Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash Ghost River by Chad Ryan Gloria by Katherine Shaw Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Path of War Perception Check by Astrid Knight Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker 

Runners Up:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Cleansing Rain by Holly Ash 

Winners:

Perception Check by Astrid Knight The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker 

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Side Character MVP finalists:

Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Heroes by Ashley Hutchison His Ragged Company by Rance D. Denton Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee Voice of War (Threadlight Book 1) by Zack Argyle Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore 

Runners Up:

The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker Voice of War (Threadlight Book 1) by Zack Argyle Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost 

Winner: The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee
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This Book Made Me Hungry/Thirsty finalists:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar Nightfall by M.A. Vice Path Of War by David Green Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise 

Runners Up:

EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar 

Winner: Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
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Wiliest Character finalists:

Birthright by M.A. Vice Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows Ghost River by Chad Ryan Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele 

Runners Up:

Heroes by Ashley Hutchison The Feast of the Innocents by Colin Harker Birthright by M.A. Vice Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows 

Winner: Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost
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Wittiest Character finalists:

Along the Razor's Edge by Rob J. Hayes Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Bonkpocalypse by L. A. Guettler Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Heroes by Ashley Hutchison Nightfall by M.A. Vice Perception Check by Astrid Knight Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino Why Odin Drinks by Bjørn Larssen 

Runners Up:

The Trials of Ashmount by John Palladino Along the Razor's Edge by Rob J. Hayes Perception Check by Astrid Knight 

Winner: The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies
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Next up: Writing the Future We Need Awards!
Asexual Representation finalists:

Adrift in Starlight by Mindi Briar Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows Breaker by Amy Campbell Children by Bjørn Larssen Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle Nightfall by M.A. Vice Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn Perception Check by Astrid Knight The Living Waters by Dan Fitzgerald The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell 

Runners Up:

Perception Check by Astrid Knight Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows 

Winner -- Judge's Favorite: Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn
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Asian Representation by an Asian Author finalists:

Sons of Darkness by Gourav Mohanty Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost
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Bisexual Representation finalists:

A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest A Sea of Pearls & Leaves by Rosalyn Briar Amulet of Wishes by Rita A. Rubin Empire's Heir by Marian L Thorpe Falling Through the Weaving by Leia Talon Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn Paper Forests by Tegan Anderson The Wall by Sarah Jane Singer Untouched by Jayme Bean 

Runners Up:

Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Falling Through the Weaving by Leia Talon Untouched by Jayme Bean 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: A Sea of Pearls & Leaves by Rosalyn Briar
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Black Representation by a Black Author finalists:

Bones to the Wind by Tatiana Obey Elemental: Shadows of Otherside Book 1 by Whitney Hill Elevated Inferno by Carlotta Ardell Heard: How Loss Led Us to Love by Ligia Cushman Mud Crab Kingdom: The Soft-Shelled Prince by Dr. Joel Anthony Hamilton She Steals Justice by J. Clark The Brother's Curse (The Brother's Curse Saga Book 1) by Christine M. Germain The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele 

Runners Up:

Mud Crab Kingdom: The Soft-Shelled Prince by Dr. Joel Anthony Hamilton The Gatekeeper's Staff by Antoine Bandele Bones to the Wind by Tatiana Obey 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Elevated Inferno by Carlotta Ardell
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Disabled Representation by a Disabled Author finalists:

A Feeling Like Home by Haleigh Wenger Birthright by M.A. Vice Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn Speechless in Achten Tan by Debbie Iancu Haddad The Stars Will Guide Us Back by Rue Sparks The Unraveling of Luna Forester by Marisa Noelle When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair by Ryan Rae Harbuck Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore 

Runners Up:

Birthright by M.A. Vice Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn
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Gay Representation finalists:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson METANOIA The Fifth Yanai: Book One by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald Mazarin Blues by Al Hess Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Odder Still by D.N. Bryn Perception Check by Astrid Knight Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson The Oracle Stone by Talli L. Morgan 

Runners Up:

Odder Still by D.N. Bryn Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Mazarin Blues by Al Hess
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Indigenous Representation by an Indigenous Author winner: Ope' by Yulu Ewis
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LGBTQ+ Representation finalists:

Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle Path Of War by David Green Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson String of Stardust by J.H. Rose The Iron Crown by L L Macrae The Oracle Stone by Talli L. Morgan Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore 

Runners Up:

The Oracle Stone by Talli L. Morgan Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore The Iron Crown by L L Macrae Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon
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Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine Author finalists:

Cradle of Sea and Soil by Bernie Anés Paz EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Heard: How Loss Led Us to Love by Ligia Cushman Hurricanes 2007 by Darío Aguilar Peregrina 

Runner Up: Cradle of Sea and Soil by Bernie Anés Paz
Winner -- Judges' favorite: EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon
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Lesbian Representation finalists:

Amulet of Wishes by Rita A. Rubin Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Path Of War by David Green Ringlander: The Path and the Way by Michael S. Jackson The Iron Crown by L L Macrae The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell Undergrounder by J. E. Glass Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore 

Runners Up:

Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Path Of War by David Green The Iron Crown by L L Macrae 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore
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Mental Health Representation finalists:

A Canticle of Two Souls by Steven Raaymakers Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1 by Lucy A. McLaren Children by Bjørn Larssen Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson Odder Still by D.N. Bryn Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Perception Check by Astrid Knight The Garden of the Golden Children by Ashley Hutchison The Iron Crown by L L Macrae The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee Untouched by Jayme Bean 

Runners Up:

The Rarkyn's Familiar by Nikky Lee Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Untouched by Jayme Bean 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Perception Check by Astrid Knight
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Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent Author finalists:

Children by Bjørn Larssen Each Little Universe by Chris Durston METANOIA The Fifth Yanai: Book One by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald Mazarin Blues by Al Hess Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn Path Of War by David Green Perception Check by Astrid Knight The Case Files of Sheridan Bell: The Vanishing Beast by Em Rowene The Old Love And The New by Alistair Caradec The Unraveling of Luna Forester by Marisa Noelle Untouched by Jayme Bean 

Runners Up:

Children by Bjørn Larssen Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn Perception Check by Astrid Knight 

Winner -- Judges' favorite: Untouched by Jayme Bean
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Nonbinary Representation finalists:

A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest Adrift in Starlight by Mindi Briar Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride by SJ Whitby Jati's Wager by Jonathan Nevair Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn Perception Check by Astrid Knight The Fable of Wren by Rue Sparks The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August 

Runners Up:

Jati's Wager by Jonathan Nevair Perception Check by Astrid Knight Adrift in Starlight by Mindi Briar The Fable of Wren by Rue Sparks 

Winner -- Judges' Favorite: Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn
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Trans Representation finalists:

EXODUS 20:3 by Freydís Moon Mazarin Blues by Al Hess Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea Odder Still by D.N. Bryn Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn Perception Check by Astrid Knight Structural Integrity by Tabitha O'Connell The Fable of Wren by Rue Sparks 

Runners Up:

Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea Odder Still by D.N. Bryn Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) by Sarah Chorn 

Winner -- Judges' Favorite: Perception Check by Astrid Knight
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Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you so much to all the judges!
You can check them all out (with buy links and links to Goodreads/Storygraph) here: https://indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-awards-2022

• Bold means the film received at least 1 Oscar nomination (47)
• Bold and italic means the film was only nominated in the Best International Feature category (17)
• Coin means the film won Best International Feature (7)
• Trophy means the film won Best Picture (1)

Year	Palme d'Or	Grand Prix	Jury Prize
1975	Chronicle of the Years of Fire	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1976	Taxi Driver	Cría Cuervos 🪢 The Marquise of O
1977	Padre Padrone
1978	The Tree of Wooden Clogs	Bye Bye Monkey 🪢 The Shout
1979	Apocalypse Now 🪢 🪙The Tin Drum🪙	Siberiade
1980	All That Jazz 🪢 Kagemusha	My American Uncle	The Constant Factor
1981	Man of Iron	Light Years Away
1982	Missing 🪢 Yol	The Night of the Shooting Stars
1983	The Ballad of Narayama	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	Kharij
1984	Paris, Texas	Diary for My Children
1985	When Father Was Away on Business	Birdy	Colonel Redl
1986	The Mission	The Sacrifice	Thérèse
1987	Under the Sun of Satan	Repentance	Shinran: Path to Purity 🪢 Yeelen
1988	Pelle the Conqueror	A World Apart	A Short Film About Killing
1989	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	🪙Cinema Paradiso🪙 🪢 Too Beautiful for You	Jesus of Montreal
1990	Wild at Heart	The Sting of Death 🪢 Tilaï	Hidden Agenda
1991	Barton Fink	La Belle Noiseuse	Europa 🪢 Out of Life
1992	The Best Intentions	The Stolen Children	Dream of Light 🪢 An Independent Life
1993	Farewell My Concubine 🪢 The Piano	Faraway, So Close!	The Puppetmaster 🪢 Raining Stones
1994	Pulp Fiction	🪙Burnt by the Sun🪙 🪢 To Live	La Reine Margot
1995	Underground	Ulysses' Gaze	Don't Forget You're Going to Die 🪢 Carrington
1996	Secrets & Lies	Breaking the Waves	Crash
1997	The Eel 🪢 Taste of Cherry	The Sweet Hereafter	Western
1998	Eternity and a Day	🪙Life Is Beautiful🪙	Class Trip
1999	Rosetta	Humanité	The Letter
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Devils on the Doorstep	Blackboards 🪢 Songs from the Second Floor
2001	The Son's Room	The Piano Teacher
2002	The Pianist	The Man Without a Past	Divine Intervention
2003	Elephant	Distant	At Five in the Afternoon
2004	Fahrenheit 9/11	Oldboy	The Ladykillers 🪢 Tropical Malady
2005	L'Enfant	Broken Flowers	Shanghai Dreams
2006	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Flanders	Red Road
2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	The Mourning Forest	Persepolis 🪢 Silent Light
2008	The Class	Gomorrah	Il divo
2009	The White Ribbon	A Prophet	Fish Tank 🪢 Thirst
2010	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Of Gods and Men	A Screaming Man
2011	The Tree of Life	The Kid with a Bike 🪢 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Polisse
2012	🪙Amour🪙	Reality	The Angels' Share
2013	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Inside Llewyn Davis	Like Father, Like Son
2014	Winter Sleep	The Wonders	Goodbye to Language 🪢 Mommy
2015	Dheepan	🪙Son of Saul🪙	The Lobster
2016	I, Daniel Blake	It's Only the End of the World	American Honey
2017	The Square	BPM (Beats per Minute)	Loveless
2018	Shoplifters	BlacKkKlansman	Capernaum
2019	🪙🏆Parasite🏆🪙	Atlantics	Bacurau 🪢 Les Misérables
2021	Titane	Compartment No. 6 🪢 A Hero	Ahed's Knee 🪢 Memoria
2022	Triangle of Sadness	Stars at Noon 🪢 Close	The Eight Mountains 🪢 EO
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	The Zone of Interest	Fallen Leaves

• Bold means the actor received an Oscar nomination (23)
• Bold and italic means the actor was nominated in a non-acting category (1)
• Trophy means the actor won the Oscar (6)

Year	Best Actor	Best Actress
1975	Vittorio Gassman – Scent of a Woman	Valérie Perrine – Lenny
1976	José Luis Gómez – Pascual Duarte	Dominique Sanda – The Inheritance 🪢 Mari Törőcsik – Mrs. Dery Where Are You?
1977	Fernando Rey – Elisa, My Life	Shelley Duvall – 3 Women 🪢 Monique Mercure – J.A. Martin Photographer
1978	🏆Jon Voight – Coming Home🏆	Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman 🪢 Isabelle Huppert – Violette Nozière
1979	Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome 🪢 Stefano Madia – Dear Father	🏆Sally Field – Norma Rae🏆 🪢 Eva Mattes – Woyzeck
1980	Michel Piccoli – A Leap in the Dark 🪢 Jack Thompson – Breaker Morant	Anouk Aimée – A Leap in the Dark 🪢 Milena Dravić – Special Treatment 🪢 Carla Gravina – La terrazza
1981	Ugo Tognazzi – Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man 🪢 Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire	Isabelle Adjani – Possession 🪢 Qaurtet 🪢 Elena Solovey – Faktas
1982	Jack Lemmon – Missing	Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak – Another Way
1983	Gian Maria Volonté – The Death of Mario Ricci	Hanna Schygulla – The Story of Piera
1984	Alfredo Landa 🪢 Francisco Rabal – The Holy Innocents	Helen Mirren – Cal
1985	🏆William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman🏆	Norma Aleandro – The Official Story 🪢 Cher – Mask
1986	Michel Blanc – Ménage 🪢 Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa	Barbara Sukowa – Rosa Luxemburg
1987	Marcello Mastroianni – Dark Eyes	Barbara Hershey – Shy People
1988	Forest Whitaker – Bird	Barbara Hershey 🪢 Jodhi May 🪢 Linda Mvusi – A World Apart
1989	James Spader – Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
1990	Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac	Krystyna Janda – Interrogation
1991	John Turturro – Barton Fink 🪢 Samuel L. Jackson – Jungle Fever	Irène Jacob – The Double Life of Veronique
1992	Tim Robbins – The Player	Pernilla August – The Best Intentions
1993	David Thewlis – Naked	🏆Holly Hunter – The Piano🏆
1994	Ge You – To Live	Virna Lisi – La Reine Margot
1995	Jonathan Pryce – Carrington	Helen Mirren – The Madness of King George
1996	Daniel Auteuil 🪢 Pascal Duquenne – The Eighth Day	Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
1997	Sean Penn – She's So Lovely	Kathy Burke – Nil by Mouth
1998	Peter Mullan – My Name Is Joe	Élodie Bouchez 🪢 Natacha Régnier – The Dreamlife of Angels
1999	Emmanuel Schotté – Humanité	Séverine Caneele – Humanité 🪢 Émilie Dequenne – Rosetta
2000	Tony Leung Chiu-wai – In the Mood for Love	Björk – Dancer in the Dark
2001	Benoît Magimel – The Piano Teacher	Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher
2002	Olivier Gourmet – The Son	Kati Outinen – The Man Without a Past
2003	Muzaffer Özdemir 🪢 Mehmet Emin Toprak – Distant	Marie-Josée Croze – The Barbarian Invasions
2004	Yūya Yagira – Nobody Knows	Maggie Cheung – Clean
2005	Tommy Lee Jones – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Hanna Laslo – Free Zone
2006	Roschdy Zem 🪢 Bernard Blancan 🪢 Jamel Debbouze 🪢 Samy Naceri 🪢 Sami Bouajila – Days of Glory	Carmen Maura 🪢 Lola Dueñas 🪢 Blanca Portillo 🪢 Yohana Cobo 🪢 Chus Lampreave 🪢 Penélope Cruz – Volver
2007	Konstantin Lavronenko – The Banishment	Jeon Do-yeon – Secret Sunshine
2008	Benicio del Toro – Che	Sandra Corveloni – Linha de Passe
2009	🏆Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds🏆	Charlotte Gainsbourg – Antichrist
2010	Javier Bardem – Biutiful 🪢 Elio Germano – Our Life	Juliette Binoche – Certified Copy
2011	🏆Jean Dujardin – The Artist🏆	Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
2012	Mads Mikkelsen – The Hunt	Cristina Flutur 🪢 Cosmina Stratan – Beyond the Hills
2013	Bruce Dern – Nebraska	Bérénice Bejo – The Past
2014	Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner	Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars
2015	Vincent Lindon – The Measure of a Man	Emmanuelle Bercot – Mon Roi 🪢 Rooney Mara – Carol
2016	Shahab Hosseini – The Salesman	Jaclyn Jose – Ma' Rosa
2017	Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here	Diane Kruger – In the Fade
2018	Marcello Fonte – Dogman	Samal Yeslyamova – Ayka
2019	Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory	Emily Beecham – Little Joe
2021	Caleb Landry Jones – Nitram	Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
2022	Song Kang-ho – Broker	Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Holy Spider
2023	Kōji Yakusho – Perfect Days	Merve Dizdar – About Dry Grasses

• Bold means the film received at least 1 Oscar nomination in a corresponding category (9)
• Bold and italic means only the film was nominated, but the awarded filmmaker wasn't (8)

Year	Best Director	Best Screenplay
1975	Michel Brault – Orders 🪢 Costa-Gavras – Special Section
1976	Ettore Scola – Down and Dirty
1977
1978	Nagisa Ōshima – Empire of Passion
1979	Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven
1980		La Terrazza – Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Ettore Scola
1981		🪙Mephisto🪙 – István Szabó
1982	Werner Herzog – Fitzcarraldo	Moonlighting – Jerzy Skolimowski
1983	Robert Bresson – L'Argent 🪢 Andrei Tarkovsky – Nostalgia	Voyage to Cythera – Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra
1984	Bertrand Tavernier – A Sunday in the Country
1985	André Téchiné – Rendez-vous
1986	Martin Scorsese – After Hours
1987	Wim Wenders – Wings of Desire
1988	Fernando Solanas – Sur
1989	Emir Kusturica – Time of the Gypsies
1990	Pavel Lungin – Taxi Blues
1991	Joel Coen – Barton Fink
1992	Robert Altman – The Player
1993	Mike Leigh – Naked
1994	Nanni Moretti – Dear Diary	Dead Tired – Michel Blanc
1995	Mathieu Kassovitz – La Haine
1996	Joel Coen – Fargo	A Self Made Hero – Jacques Audiard, Alain Le Henry
1997	Wong Kar-wai – Happy Together	The Ice Storm – James Schamus
1998	John Boorman – The General	Henry Fool – Hal Hartley
1999	Pedro Almodóvar – All About My Mother	Moloch – Yuri Arabov
2000	Edward Yang – Yi Yi	Nurse Betty – James Flamberg, John C. Richards
2001	Joel Coen – The Man Who Wasn't There 🪢 David Lynch – Mulholland Drive	No Man's Land – Danis Tanović
2002	Paul Thomas Anderson – Punch-Drunk Love 🪢 Im Kwon-taek – Painted Fire	Sweet Sixteen – Paul Laverty
2003	Gus Van Sant – Elephant	🪙The Barbarian Invasions🪙 – Denys Arcand
2004	Tony Gatlif – Exils	Look at Me – Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
2005	Michael Haneke – Caché	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Guillermo Arriaga
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel	Volver – Pedro Almodóvar
2007	Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	The Edge of Heaven – Fatih Akin
2008	Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Three Monkeys	Lorna's Silence – Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne
2009	Brillante Mendoza – Butchered	Spring Fever – Mei Feng
2010	Mathieu Amalric – On Tour	Poetry – Lee Chang-dong
2011	Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive	Footnote – Joseph Cedar
2012	Carlos Reygadas – Post Tenebras Lux	Beyond the Hills – Cristian Mungiu, Tatiana Niculescu Bran
2013	Amat Escalante – Heli	A Touch of Sin – Jia Zhangke
2014	Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher	Leviathan – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin
2015	Hou Hsiao-hsien – The Assassin	Chronic – Michel Franco
2016	Olivier Assayas – Personal Shopper 🪢 Cristian Mungiu – Graduation	🪙The Salesman🪙 – Asghar Farhadi
2017	Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled	The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou 🪢 You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay
2018	Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War	3 Faces – Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar 🪢 Happy as Lazzaro – Alice Rohrwacher
2019	Jean-Pierre 🪢 Luc Dardenne – Young Ahmed	Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Céline Sciamma
2021	Leos Carax – Annette	🪙Drive My Car🪙 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
2022	Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave	Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh
2023	Tran Anh Hung – The Pot-au-Feu	Monster – Yuji Sakamoto

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Roughly 7 years ago u/TheGreatZiegfeld did an experiment of a post to determine what the best films of each year would be from 1940 to 2011 (before the 2012 S&S polls).
With the recently updated TSPDT and the 2022 S&S list, I decided to do the same from 1940 to 2021 regarding what critics thought were the best of each year.
Keep in mind this is all from a critics' poll, not from one specific critic's list. Also no short films or miniseries (meaning no Twin Peaks or Meshes of the Afternoon), as well as those from 2022 and beyond because of the last S&S poll.
With all that in mind, let's begin.
1940
Winner: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
Other nominees: The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin), The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford), The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch), The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
1941
Winner: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Other nominees: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges), Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges), The Maltese Falcon (John Houston), How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
1942
Winner: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Other nominees: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles), To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch), The Palm Springs Story (Preston Sturges), Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
1943
Winner: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
Other nominees: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer), Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock), I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur), Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
1944
Winner: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Other nominees: Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger), To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
1945
Winner: Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
Other nominees: Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini), Brief Encounter (David Lean), I Know Where I'm Going (Powell and Pressburger) Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
1946
Winner: It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Other nominees: A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger), Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock), My Darling Clementine (John Ford), Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
1947
Winner: Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
Other nominees: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur), Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin), The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1948
Winner: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Other nominees: The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger), Letters from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls), Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
1949
Winner: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Other nominees: Late Spring (Yasujirō Ozu), Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford), White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
1950
Winner Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Other nominees; Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel), In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
1951
Winner: The River (Jean Renoir)
Other nominees: Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson), Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica), Early Summer (Yasujirō Ozu), Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1952
Winner: Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
Other nominees: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica), The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Quiet Man (John Ford)
1953
Winner: Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu)
Other nominees: Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Earrings of Madame de (Max Ophüls), The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli), Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
1954
Winner: Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Other nominees: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock), Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini), La Strada (Federico Fellini), Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1955
Winner: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Other nominees: The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton), Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray), All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Kirk), Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
1956
Winner: The Searchers (John Ford)
Other nominees: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson), Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk), Aparajito (Satyajit Ray), Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
1957
Winner: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Other nominees: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini), Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
1958
Winner Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Other nominees: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles), Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
1959
Winner: The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Other nominees: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder), North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks), Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
1960
Winner: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
Other nominees: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini), L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni), The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1961
Winner: Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
Other nominees: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais), La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni), West Side Story (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
1962
Winner: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Other nominees: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford), Jules and Jim (François Truffaut), Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda), L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1963
Winner 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
Other nominees: Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard), The Leopard (Luchino Visconti), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga)
1964
Winner: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Other nominees: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy), Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
1965
Winner: Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Other nominees: Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov), Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda), Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
1966
Winner: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Other nominees: Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson), The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo), Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1967
Winner: Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Other nominees: Mouchette (Robert Bresson), Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville), Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel), The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
1968
Winner: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Other nominees: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone), Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski), Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea), Faces (John Cassavetes)
1969
Winner: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Other nominees: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), Kes (Ken Loach), My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer), Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1970
Winner: The Conformist (Bernado Bertolucci)
Other nominees: Wanda (Barbara Loden), Performance (Nicholas Roeg), Husbands (John Cassavetes), Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
1971
Winner: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Other nominees: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
1972
Winner: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Other nominees: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog), Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel), Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1973
Winner: Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
Other nominees: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache), The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice), Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg), Badlands (Terrence Malick)
1974
Winner: The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Other nominees: Chinatown (Roman Polanski), A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
1975
Winner: Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)
Other nominees: Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky), Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), Nashville (Robert Altman), Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
1976
Winner: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Other nominees: News from Home (Chantal Akerman), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders), In the Realm of Senses (Nagisa Oshima), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
1977
Winner: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Other nominees: Star Wars (George Lucas), Close Encounter of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg), Eraserhead (David Lynch), The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
1978
Winner: Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Other nominees: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi), In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1979
Winner: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Other nominees: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky), Alien (Ridley Scott), Manhattan (Woody Allen), All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
1980
Winner: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Other nominees: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick), The Empire Strike Back (Irvin Kershner), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino), The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
1981
Winner: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Other nominees: Possession (Andrzej Żuławski), Blow Out (Brian de Palma), Mad Max 2 (George Miller), An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
1982
Winner: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Other nominees: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg), The Thing (John Carpenter), The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
1983
Winner: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Other nominees: L'Argent (Robert Bresson), Videodrome (David Cronenberg), Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky), A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
1984
Winner: Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
Other nominees: Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Love Streams (John Cassavetes), Amadeus (Milos Forman), Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
1985
Winner: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
Other nominees: Come and See (Elem Klimov), Ran (Akira Kurosawa), Vagabond (Agnes Varda), Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
1986
Winner: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Other nominees: The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer), The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky), Aliens (James Cameron), Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
1987
Winner: Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Other nominees: Where is the Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami), The Dead (John Huston), Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson), Yeelen (Souleymanne Cisse)
1988
Winner: My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Other nominees: Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris), Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
1989
Winner: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Other nominees: A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen), When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
1990
Winner: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
Other nominees: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai), An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion), Paris is Burning (Jessie Livingston)
1991
Winner: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Other nominees: Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash), The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski), The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
1992
Winner: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Other nominees: The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice), Orlando (Sally Potter), Life, and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami), Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
1993
Winner: The Piano (Jane Campion)
Other nominees: Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg), Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
1994
Winner: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Other nominees: Satantango (Bela Tarr), Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai), Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Through the Olive Tree (Abbas Kiarostami)
1995
Winner: Heat (Michael Mann)
Other nominees: Underground (Emir Kusturica), Safe (Todd Haynes), Casino (Martin Scorsese), Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
1996
Winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
Other nominees: Fargo (Joel Coen), A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh), Crash (David Cronenberg)
1997
Winner: Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Other nominees: Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai), Lost Highway (David Lynch), Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
1998
Winner: Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
Other nominees: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick), The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen), The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg), Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
1999
Winner: Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
Other nominees: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson), The Matrix (Wachowskis), Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
2000
Winner: In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
Other nominees: Yi Yi (Edward Yang), The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda), Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr), In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)
2001
Winner: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Other nominees: Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel), A.I: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg), The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
2002
Winner: City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Other nominees: Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing), Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar), Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sukurov), Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
2003
Winner: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Other nominees: Dogville (Lars von Trier), Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola), Elephant (Gus van Sant), Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
2004
Winner: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Other nominees: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry), The Intruder (Claire Denis), Before Sunset (Richard Linklater), Sideways (Alexander Payne)
2005
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Other nominees: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu), Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), The New World (Terrence Malick), Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
2006
Winner: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Other nominees: Inland Empire (David Lynch), Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro), The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
2007
Winner: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Other nominees: No Country for Old Men (Coens), Zodiac (David Fincher), Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas), 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2008
Winner: The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Other nominees: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton), Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman), The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan), Hunger (Steve McQueen)
2009
Winner: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Other nominees: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard), Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold), Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino), Avatar (James Cameron)
2010
Winner: Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Other nominees: Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman), The Social Network (David Fincher), Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz), Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2011
Winner: The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Other nominees: A Separation (Asghar Farhadi), Melancholia (Lars von Trier), The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2012
Winner: Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
Other nominees: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer), The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson), Amour (Michael Haneke), Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
2013
Winner: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Other nominees: The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino), Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche), Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski), 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
2014
Winner: Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
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2015
Winner: Mad Max; Fury Road (George Miller)
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2016
Winner: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Other nominees: Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade), American Honey (Andrea Arnold), Arrival (Denis Villeneuve), Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
2017
Winner: Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Other nominees: Zama (Lucrecia Martel), Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson), You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay), Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
2018
Winner: Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
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2019
Winner: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
Other nominees: Parasite (Bong Joon-ho), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino), Atlantics (Mati Diop), First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
2020
Winner: Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)
Other nominees: Time (Garrett Bradley), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hitman), Days (Tsai Ming-liang), Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)
2021
Winner: Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma)
Other nominees: The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion), Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Titane (Julia Docournau), Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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I found some really interesting and informative articles written by historians about the cause of anti- Welsh prejudice in early Saxon England. If you don't want to read the whole post, there's a TLDR and a quote summary.
I've quoted from the various articles and essays and linked the full articles at the end.
(As you are probably aware 'Welsh' is the name given by the Saxons to native Britons. The terms 'native Briton' and 'Britons' and 'Welsh' are used interchangeably in the articles, but mean the same thing. The Norman invasion worsened prejudice against the Welsh living in Wales, but their prejudice against the Welsh was rooted in a different motivation.)
This refers to the era from when the Saxons first came to Britain and Britons/ Welsh lived in English society up until the 10th century, after which 'Welsh' people were no longer recognised as a separate group in England.
TLDR:

• Anti- Briton/ Welsh prejudice in this era was caused by a belief system that justified the Saxons colonising and replacing the Briton/ Welsh population during the 5th century. It included religious elements such as believing the Britons were 'fallen people underserving of their land' and the Anglo- Saxons where 'chosen people' sent as a divine retribution to punish the Britons and to take their land. Essentially the 'Welsh' were demonised and 'othered' in order to justify treating them badly and taking their land, and to elevate the Saxons- '

the British (Welsh) needed to be very evil, perpetrators of terrible sins and devoid of moral scruple, for the English treatment of them to be unproblematic' 1

• Briton language and culture was quickly replaced by Saxon language and culture in England.
• Surviving Briton people in England were slaves and were assimilated.
• Laws which valued Saxon/ English life more than a 'Welshman'.
• Negative stereotypes were rife in Anglo Saxon writing, Britons/ Welsh people frequently portrayed as 'dark' in contrast to the Saxons.
• Brittonic/ Welsh language portrayed as 'demonic,' 'gibberish'.
• 'Welsh' went from meaning 'Romanised foreigner' to 'slave' and other uses such as 'inferior' (i.e 'Weala win' meaning inferior wine), 'strange', 'impudent', 'shameless'
• Anglo-Saxonism (a racial superiority belief system that began in the 19th century) was used by some as a way to justify colonising other countries and the treatment of Native American people.

Summary of the attitudes of the Saxons/ English towards the native Britons/ Welsh. This is taken from an essay written by English historian Dr Debby Banham.

In Anglo-Saxon society, the killing of Britons was less harshly punished than killing Anglo-Saxons, the British had to live under English law, and British ethnic identity was identified with unfree social status, in a world where social inferiors were believed to be literally lower or worse people than their superiors. To summarise Anglo-Saxon attitudes to the British as represented by the documentary and linguistic evidence, it seems that Anglo-Saxon writers could make almost any derogatory generalisation about the Britons, represent them as objects rather than social agents, blame them for their own defeat, and depict their territory as up for grabs. Can Anglo-Saxon attitudes be described as racist?1
They believed that one race, their own, was superior to another, the British. They were antagonistic, and their antagonism resulted in, or served to justify, the subordination of the British and their eventual absorption. I have no hesitation in identifying these attitudes as racist.1
I see a continuity in English racism from the Anglo-Saxon landings, through the establishment of English hegemony, up to the present day. Belief in their own superiority has always served the English well in their expansionist aims. They did not need the Empire to make them racist. They could manage it quite well when they had only the British to practise on.1
Anglo- Saxon attitudes: The origins of English racism

Brief history
Briton tribes lived all over the British isle.
Before and during the Roman occupation, Britain was raided and invaded by several groups including the Irish and the Scots (the Scoti were a tribe from Ireland who colonised the north and created Scotland later on). It's even mentioned in the Declaration of Arbroath that the Scots had 'thrown out the Britons and completely destroyed the Picts '(Picts were a tribe living in north Britain).
After the Romans left Britain the island was left undefended and Scots invasions continued to get worse. The Romans had banned weapons so the Britons were not used to warfare.
The Saxons ended up in Britain, there are a few theories of how - one theory is that the Britons hired Saxon mercenaries (which was quite a common thing to do back then) to fight off the Scots invaders, but the Saxon mercenaries turned against the Britons and began raiding the island and encouraged others from the mainland to come to Britain.
Over time, Saxons, Angles (Angleland= England) and Jutes arrived in Britain and warred with the Britons with the intention of taking their land. And the Scots took land too- this is why there are so many Welsh sounding names in Scotland, Yr Hen Ogledd became part of Strathclyde
The Britons/ Welsh gradually lost more and more land and England was established, the land we now call 'Wales' is all they could keep hold of.
There has been a long debate about the fate of the native Britons, and this archeology article discusses the 2022 DNA study and what it likely means in terms of 'population replacement' of the native Britons. And would go to explain why Brittonic language and culture was replaced so quickly by Saxon culture. And why the Britons/ Welsh disappeared in England.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle details the many of the wars between the Saxons and native Britons from the 5th century. And this a more comprehensive list. It details the actions and attitudes of the Saxons towards the Britons- wars, 'taking towns and wealth', describing the Britons as 'worthless'.
Attitudes of the Saxon settlers towards the native Britons.
Gildas was a Romanised Briton monk who lived AD 450/500 – 570 and lived in Ystrad Clud, or where we now call Strathclyde. He wrote about the events leading up to the Saxons coming to Britain.
Bede (AD 672/3 – 735) was an English monk and author and lived in where we would now call Tyne and Wear. He is seen as the 'Father of English history'.
He wrote extensively about the Saxons arrival in Britain in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He also wrote a lot about the Briton people.
He is credited as creating a common identity for the English nation. He believed that the Saxons were justified in colonising Britain and replacing the native Briton population and saw the Saxons as divine retribution for the 'wickedness' of the Briton people.

When the Anglo-Saxons arrived in what was to become England, they no more entered an empty wilderness than did the first Israelis in Palestine, or the first European settlers in America. 1
It is questionable whether they would have been able to use it as effectively if they had believed that the indigenous British had a right to live on their land.1
For Bede, a believer in a loving and forgiving God, the British needed to be very evil, perpetrators of terrible sins and devoid of moral scruple, for the English treatment of them to be unproblematic, let alone a suitable subject for his glorifying narrative. 1
Bede is as far as we know the originator of this idea: he created a common identity for the Germanic settlers, and provided them with a history to be proud of. He defined his 'people' to a large extent by contrast with other groups in Britain.1
But it is the British, with whom the English had most contact, who most consistently act as a foil for them, by lacking precisely those virtues the English are supposed to possess. Where the English are industrious and brave, they are lazy and cowardly; where the English are God-fearing and obedient to Rome, the British, even when Christian, behave like pagans, and obstinately cling to their doctrinal independence. They are incapable of doing anything for themselves except fall into vice.1
For Bede, the function of the British is to be invaded, by the Romans, the Picts and Scots, and finally the English. 1
It was not only legitimate, but necessary to feel and to propagate hatred for the enemy.1

This is from the Anglo Saxon Chronicle

They (the Saxons) described the worthlessness of the Britons, and the richness of the land.

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Bede suggests that the status of the English as a chosen people is conditional on the English staying faithful to God. He uses the example of the Britons' fall from grace into heresy to illustrate the penalty of breaking this (unwritten) covenant. Bede situates the chosen people in its very own promised land, an idealised Brittania overflowing with God's gifts. The English initially arrive in Britain as an agent of divine retribution against the Britons, whom Bede represents as a fallen nation and a failed chosen people. The English are represented as the Britons' successors, a 'foreknown' people. Their kings are represented as guardians of a covenant, responsible for protecting the people, not only from military threats but also from apostasy and spiritual decay. 2
Bede's representation of the English as a chosen people is clear from the very beginning of Historia ecclesiastica. Bede begins his history by establishing Brittania as an echo of the promised land of Canaan, and its original inhabitants, the Britons, as unworthy keepers of that land. Following the sixth-century British author Gildas, he represents the Britons as a chosen people gone astray, having fallen into heresy, lethargy and vice. He departs from Gildas by picturing the English not as a mindless barbarian horde, but as the successors to the British. 2
Gildas is often referred to as the British Jeremiah, a prophet crying out against the iniquities of his own people. For Gildas, the Britons failed to maintain their covenantal relationship with their creator, so the blessing of the 'promised land' is threatened with destruction.
Bede takes up Gildas' criticism wholeheartedly. For Bede, the Britons were nothing less than rebels against God:
They cast off Christ's easy yoke and thrust their necks under the burden of drunkenness, hatred, quarrelling, strife, and envy ... [They] could not be awakened from the spiritual death which their sins had brought upon them."
This judgement sets the stage for the arrival of the Saxons as retribution for the Britons' waywardness, "ordained by the will of God so that evil might fall upon those miscreants." 2
Bede saw the English as the new Chosen People. 8

Interestingly, Bede praised the Irish

Bede represents the British as a failed nation; their punishment was to be overthrown and outshone by the invading English, and as Bede elucidates here, they continue (at the time of Historia ecclesiasticals completion) to dwell apart from the true church. The Irish, on the other hand, were chosen as one of the "worthier heralds" who would bring the gospel to the English, and as a result were forgiven for their heterodox ideas about Easter and the tonsure.2

Villainising the Britons for defending themselves against Saxon colonisers

Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd is presented as little short of a monster. His resistance to Edwin of Northumbria, who had conquered his people, is represented as rebellion, and is described as 'more savage than a pagan', 'barbarous in temperament and behaviour'. 1
The justification for this is that 'he (Cadwallon) was set upon wiping out the whole English people in Britain'. If this were a true portrayal of Cadwallon's motivation and actions, it would hardly be surprising, but it reads more like a projection onto their victims of the English attitude to the Britons.1

How the native Britons/ Welsh were portrayed in Anglo Saxon literature
In Felix' Life of Guthlac, St Guthlac encounters demonic apparitions, and they are portrayed as 'speaking Brittonic' i.e the Welsh language.

In this society, the assimilating Britons may well have been seen as ‘guests from elsewhere’ (while obviously indigenous) in the Anglo-Saxon households or communities that integrated them as people belonging to a different category – socially and ethnically, but also perhaps racially. Indeed, the Britons are treated as racial others in both Felix’s Vita Guthlaci and Guthlac A. As Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues, ‘Guthlac’s colonization of the demons’ cherished home’ (the Fenlands, much like the home of the Grendelkin) not only ‘re-enacts in miniature the dispossession of that very territory’ by the Germanic tribes settling there in the fifth century. 3
In a chapter entitled in the Old English translation ‘Hu þa deofla on brytisc spræcon’ (How the devils spoke in Brittonic), the Vita Guthlaci narrates that just as the Welsh are invading Mercia from the west during the reign of King Coenred, in the Fens a crowd of demons ‘impersonates a band of British marauders and sets fire to Guthlac’s dwelling, attacking him with spears’. Guthlac chants a psalm and the demon-Britons vanish ‘velut fumus’ (like smoke), potentially a symbolic parallel to the ‘powerful and attractive group fantasy’ of a Mercian ‘manifest destiny’ entitling it to conquer British lands while their inhabitants simply vanished.3

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His settlement enacts a fantasy of manifest destiny, displacing the ethnic violence at Mercia's border to an internal space where a triumph can be spectacularly staged over external and internal difference simultaneously. Representing the Britons as banished demons and Guthlac as a man singularly in possession of himself offers a culturally useful fantasy of a male body whose identity is uncomplex, internally imperturbable. Guthlac's stabilitas -- his immobile, granite-like, and unconflicted subjectivity -- embodies everything Anglo-Saxon England in general and eighth century Mercia in particular as potentially corporate identities were not. .4

How the Anglo Saxons racialised the native Britons in literature/ riddles as 'dark' and demonic and animalised

The Britons are clearly racialized in the Anglo-Saxon imaginary, belonging to a system of racial categorization in which several categories intersected: bodily distinction (Britons described repeatedly as sweart [dark]), language (Welsh as demonic speech in Guthlac or as incomprehensible gibberish in Ælfric*), and social status (according to the Laws of Ine and the economic consequences thereof, also evident in the very term wealh and its entire lexical field of derogatory connotations). 3
Nina Rulon-Miller brought to light the constellation in which the few Welsh personae to appear in the Exeter Book riddles are placed – it consists of oxen, the concepts of yoking or fettering, dark skin, and the borderland. For instance, in Riddle 72, an ox tended by a ‘sweart hyrde’ (dark herdsman) – compare the ‘sweart ond saloneb’ (black and dark-faced) servant in Riddle 49 – is ‘bunden under beam’ (bound under yoke) and treads the ‘mearcpaþas Walas’ (the paths on the Welsh march). In Riddle 12, swarthy Welsh men are tightly fettered with ox-leather bonds, and a dark Welsh woman works on an object made of ox-hide. RulonMiller proposes as the most likely solution to Riddle 52 ‘yoke of oxen led by a female slave’, since the riddle subjects are associated with binding as well as with a female Welsh slave or ‘Wale’. The association with oxen is thus quite transparent: both Britons and oxen are perceived in the riddles as servile creatures, physically or socially fettered, even if not all wealhas are slaves. But their description as ‘dark-skinned’, coupled with their association to animality, points to their essential otherness, with the potential of sliding into something that is so different to the ideal audience of the riddles as to be almost inhuman. 3
By the time the Exeter Book riddles were inscribed in their extant forms, when the Welsh kingdoms no longer posed an immediate military threat and the Britons on Anglo-Saxon territories had been integrated as slaves, servants, or brides, this discourse could have developed nto a condescending (rather than outright monsterizing) linkage of the wealhas with animality, bondage, and dark skin. 3
These texts (riddles that depict Britons as 'dark' and with negative traits etc) represent mainstream Anglo-Saxon thought. 1

*(We see attitudes towards the Welsh language as being 'evil' in the Blue Books report- 'It is not easy to over-estimate it's evil effects. It is the language of the Cymri', an anterior to that of the ancient Britons.' and 'It distorts the truth, favours fraud, and abets perjury')
Britons/ Welsh discriminated against in Anglo Saxon law
In the Laws of Ine of Wessex (AD 694,) in the Wergild system (monetary compensation for injuring or killing someone), 'Welshmen' were clearly defined as being 'lesser' in law, due to the wergild payment for an Anglo Saxon was 2 to 5 times higher than that of a 'Welshman'.
There are some theories on why this discrimination was made-

The imbalance in wergelds between the two groups may hold within it the very key to the disappearance of the Britons. The wergeld provided the basic honour price for an individual and represented the compensation that would be paid to his kin on his death. Other legal compensations, for injury to self or property, however defined, were computed as a proportion of one’s wergeld. The long term effects of Britons being valued at about half the wergeld of their English counterparts was that, in the normal course of things, large amounts of property would gradually pass from the British community to the English. 5
If, for example, a hypothetical English and British nobleman each owning five hides of land got into a series of disputes with one another and were dealt with fairly by the courts, sometimes giving judgement in favour of the one and sometimes of the other, then all compensations paid by the Briton to the Englishman would be twice the value of those paid to him by his opponent. The end result would be that the property and finally the land would pass to the Englishman. 5

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The early Anglo-Saxon laws give some indication of the circumstances under which the British lived in Anglo-Saxon society. The law-code of Ine of Wessex, originating in the late seventh century, but preserved as an appendix to the ninth-century Laws of Alfred, gives three levels of wergild (compensation for killing a family member) for free Welshmen, all lower than the wergild of a West Saxon peasant 1
It has also been pointed out that differential scales of wergild were a common method of reinforcing the balance of power between conquered and conquering peoples throughout medieval Europe 1
it would have been an important means of cultural assimilation: successful Britons 'became' English, while remaining British was a sign of failure to prosper.1

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The inferior social position of the free Wealh is further shown in Ine's Laws, where a man charged with stealing or harbouring stolen cattle had to produce an oath of sixty hides if he were accused by a Wealh, whereas if the accuser were English the oath required was doubled. 9

The usage of 'Welsh' and derogatory associations
'Welsh' originally meant 'Romanised foreigner'. But the meaning changed over time to mean 'slave' and other derogatory association.
Britons were often slaves in Anglo Saxon society to the point that 'Welsh' also meant 'slave'.

The derogatory connotations attached to wealh or the adjective wilisc are plentifully attested, from ‘shameful person’ to ‘bad servant’, while Ælfric equates weala win with crudum uinum (rough, inferior wine) and has a sinner speak wealode mid wordum (‘strangely’, ‘impudently’). These associations survive in present-day British slang words such as ‘to welsh’ (to cheat) and ‘welsher’ (an untrustworthy person). As Ryan Craig and Victoria Davis demonstrate, such discursive practices are not divorced from material realities and are often used to reinforce and sustain material inequity by creating ‘a reality in which it is reasonable for a few to control and to possess the material at the sacrifice of the well-being of others’. 3

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That it has given us modern English 'Welsh' shows, however, that a parallel ethnic meaning continued in use. This dual meaning must have arisen in an intermediate period, in which 'Briton' and 'slave' were for practical purposes identical. 1
In the tenth century, the writer of the West Saxon gospels used weala to translate the Latin seruus in the parable of the good and evil servants.This seruus was not of British descent, so the Old English word must mean simply 'slave'.1
Between these two stages must have been a period when more or less all Britons were slaves. 1

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The verbal and adjectival forms derived from wealh reveal further extensions of its meanings and connotations. AEfric uses the verb with the meaning "to be bold, impudent, wanton":
"He cwae bat he nolde and wealode mid wordum "
He said that he would not and was insolent in his speech". Clearly related to this meaning is' walana.' translating Aldhelm's protervorum "shameless people" in the Old English gloss of unknown date contained in a tenth-century manuscript, and wealh "wanton" in 'Ic eom ondetta 6aet ic onfeng on minne mud wealworda' in a tenth-century fragment from a Latin liber poenitentialis. Finally, in the eleventh-century glossary which seems to have been compiled from a number of glossed manuscripts, the Latin barbarus, which has the sense "foreign, uncultivated or ignorant" and in the thirteenth century meant "barbarian", is glossed by walch siue ungerad. Ungerad usually has the sense "rude, unskilled, foolish, ignorant", so again the more negative aspects of wealh are stressed. 9

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The derogatory connotations of wealh spill over onto its derivative fonns. In his sermon for Ash Wednesday, Aelfric uses the verb wealian to mean "to be impudent, bold, or wanton": he cwatJ pat he no/de and wealode mid wordum, I and sade pat he wolde his wifes brucan I on pam unalyfedum timan 10

Analysing how Anglo Saxon texts contained ideas that normalised the justification for colonising other countries

The ideas that enable later colonial expansion are already present in Anglo-Saxon texts, in both the Anglo-Latin original and the Old English translation and adaptations.
Post-colonial criticism attends to power relationships and knowledge imbalances between colonizers and colonized. Post-colonial theory usually focuses on modern empires, on colonies or former colonies, and their subjects, on the notion of the ‘other,’ on who speaks on whose behalf. But it can also help to understand what happened when Angles and Saxons invaded Britain in the years following the Roman withdrawal and supplanted the native Britons in positions of influence and power. The Lives of Guthlac present that overthrow, as well as the subsequent battles between the ‘englisc,’ and the Welsh and Britons who continued to occupy the margins of Britain in Wales in the west as well as in the fens in the east, as legitimate, and in fact as being in no need of any justification.
Attending to the ways in which a text like the Life of Guthlac normalizes and naturalizes conquest and power imbalances illuminates the development of a world-view that enables later colonizing operations to be undertaken as if it were legitimate for the English to subdue the Irish and, later, the inhabitants of North America, China, India, and Africa. 6
There is abundant evidence in early English culture, in this case its literature, to show that the foundations of British racism, colonialism, and imperialism underpin Western approaches to both other humans and the environment. 7
The way in which early Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history can be viewed as an important ideological model for the later American concept of historical identity. It is only by looking closely at early nationalist movements—through the ecclesiastical and secular, the myths and histories, and the conflation of both—can the level of British, or English, influence on America’s myth of Anglo-Saxonism be properly understood. 8

Hope this is of some interest!
I would suggest reading the articles and essays I have linked to below. They are really interesting.
1.Anglo- Saxon attitudes: The origins of English racism
2.'The people whom he foreknew': the English as a chosen people in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica
3.https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/display/9781526136442/9781526136442.00018.xml
4.https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2006/04/guthlac-mercia-and-anglo-saxon.html

1. https://www.academia.edu/313138/Apartheid_and_Economics_in_Anglo_Saxon_England
   
2. Anglo Saxon Literary Landscapes
   
3. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmarticle/view/25925/31617
   
4. https://www.academia.edu/85951970/William_Bradford_and_His_Anglo_Saxon_Influences
   
5. The semantic development of Old English 'wealh'
   
6. https://dokumen.pub/beowulfs-wealhtheow-and-the-valkyrie-tradition.html
   

The “dark Welsh”: Color, race, and alterity in the matter of medieval Wales
Bede and the beginnings of English racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/26/us-praise-anglo-saxon-heritage-has-always-been-about-white-supremacy/
Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism

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• Kempny-Carlson 🟢
• Orlov🟢-Niskanen

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• Braden Holtby 🟢

"Core" Players drafted by Washington: 8/11 (73% of "core")
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Now what you've all been waiting for....

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New York Rangers 2022:

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• Chris Kreider🟢- Mika Zibanejad- Frank Vatrano
• Artemi Panarin- Ryan Strome- Andrew Copp

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• Adam Fox-Ryan Lindgren
• Jacob Trouba - K'andre Miller 🟢

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• Igor Shestyorkin 🟢

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"core" players drafted by New York: 3/11 (27% of "core")

• IF YOU INCLUDE RYAN LINDGREN AND ADAM FOX (Not drafted, but all GP in NYR Uni): 5/11

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New York Rangers 2023:

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• Chris Kreider🟢- Mika Zibanejad- Vladimir Tarasenko
• Artemi Panarin - Vincent Trocheck- Patrick Kane

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• Adam Fox- Ryan Lindgren
• Jacob Trouba- K'andre Miller🟢

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• Igor Shestyorkin🟢

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"Core" Players drafted by New York: 3/11 (27%) --- Including Fox/Lindgren: 5/11 (45%)
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What this means: The Importance of Homegrown Talent

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The "easy" conclusion to draw from this post is: "Homegrown talent wins you championships"
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In my opinion, not that simple.
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The more advanced takeaway from this is the importance of sticking to a rebuild and trusting the youth. Most players shown in this post played together for a LONG time. I think the chemistry between these players is a huge reason why they went on a run. It's hard to build chemistry when every trade deadline piece is thrown into a top 6/ PP role on this team like they were during this TDL
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A takeaway that you should not have from this post is that putting Alexis Lafreniere, Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, Brennan Othmann in the top-6 is immediately going to turn us into a contender. It's a start, but the point that needs to be made is the Rangers have to start trusting their young talent, putting them in a more defined role instead of making them Depth players on a team of rapidly aging stars. A takeaway you should have is that this whole "Steinbrenner" method of looking for the next hot toy every offseason/TDL does not win a team championships in the NHL.

Marzman315 here again for this year's edition of Defending the Draft
Disclaimer:
Well here we are again. Once again I am here to talk about the Cleveland Browns offseason and draft, and this means I will be talking about Deshaun Watson. While I am a Browns fan I am completely sympathetic to the negative feelings toward this player. However I am not responsible for his actions or the team's decision to sign him so don't waste your time insulting me and distracting from the discussion of this post to address his actions, instead use that time and energy to donate to the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center using the link below, as I will not engage in any discussion regarding the QB in any off field capacity:
https://clevelandrapecrisis.org/support/donate-now/
Brief Season Review:
The Browns entered 2022 with very ill-defined expectations. On one hand the roster looked fairly solid on paper, however the bizarre QB situation left many with the knowledge that success would be an uphill battle, and that inconsistent QB play would likely be our downfall.
And it most certainly was.
During Deshaun Watson's 11 game suspension, Jacoby Brissett took over as starting QB. He immediately became a fan favorite, as the Browns won their opening week game for the first time in seventeen years, and largely played fairly well in the opening weeks. Some poor performances against beatable opponents though saw the Browns as a pretty mid-level team as Watson made his debut.
To say he was underwhelming was an understatement. While flashes of the elite play that Watson has demonstrated in the past shone through at times, he was largely mediocre to poor for most of his abridged season, completing just 58% of his passes for 1,100 yards with seven touchdowns and five interceptions. He turned in decent games against Baltimore and Washington, and while most reasonable Browns fans expected him to have a bit of rust, it was hard not to be disappointed.
That being said there was still plenty of fun to be had during the Browns 2022 campaign as well. New receiver Amari Cooper performed as advertised, putting up an impressive 1,160 yards and 9 TDs, Nick Chubb was dominant once again rushing for over 1500 yards and 12 TDs, the offensive line continued to utterly dominate (including surprise breakout player Ethan Pocic). The defense regressed largely due to poor coaching and a down year from Denzel Ward (which could partially be blamed on said coaching) but another absolutely elite season from Myles Garrett, continued improvement from 2021 first round pick Greg Newsome and a fantastic year from third round rookie MJ Emerson kept things from being disastrous.
Coaching Staff and Front Office:
The major change to feature here was the welcome firing of defensive coordinator Joe Woods following the season. Woods' refusal to adjust his scheme to fit the skillsets of his players led to pretty poor results (hence the down year from Ward, an elite man coverage corner who played the vast majority of his snaps in zone coverage) and was replaced with veteran DC Jim Schwartz. Kevin Stefanski remains head coach and despite a few Browns fans losing faith in him, the 2020 NFL Coach of the Year remains a stable presence at a position the Browns have not had much stability in as of late.
Free Agency and Trades:
The Browns came into free agency this season with clear needs and GM Andrew Berry emphasized filling those needs immediately with the opening of free agency. Those three needs were Defensive Tackle, which the Browns basically had nobody playing, an edge defender opposite Myles Garrett, and a safety to replace the departing John Johnson.
The Browns opened free agency by signing Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, former Ram and Texan coming off two great pass rushing seasons, Dalvin Tomlinson, the solid and consistent defensive tackle from Minnesota, and Juan Thornhill, very good coverage safety from the Kansas City Chiefs. They then focused on re-signing players from their core like Ethan Pocic and Sione Takitaki, as well as rounding out their depth with more mid-level free agents at fair deals like Jordan Akins and Trysten Hill. Their final impact move before the draft was a trade for 23 year old slot specialist Elijah Moore from the New York Jets by exchanging their second round pick for the Jets third round pick. A low risk gamble for the high upside Moore who wanted to be featured in the offense a bit more and will be in the Browns offense.
Key Acquisitions/signings:
Dalvin Tomlinson, DT - Signed: 4 yrs $57 million
Juan Thornhill, DB - Signed: 3 yrs $21 million
Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, DE - Signed: 3 yrs $19 million
Jordan Akins, TE - Signed: 2 yrs $3.9 million
Sione Takitaki, LB - Re-signed: $2.4 million
Marquise Goodwin, WR - Signed $1.7 million
Michael Ford, DB - Signed: $1.5 million
Elijah Moore, WR - Traded from NY Jets for draft picks
Za'Darius Smith, DE - Traded from Minnesota for draft picks
Anthony Walker, LB - Re-Signed: 1 yr, $1.2 million
Rodney McCleod, DB - Signed: 1 yr, $1.3 million
Trysten Hill, DL - Signed: 1 yr, $1.2 million
Jordan Kunaszyk, LB - Signed 1 yr, $1.2 million
Key Losses:
Jacoby Brissett, QB - Signed with Washington in FA
Greedy Williams, DB - Signed with Philadelphia in FA
D'Ernest Johnson, RB - Signed with Jacksonville in FA
Taven Bryan, DT - Signed with Indianapolis in FA
Chase Winovich, DE - Signed with Houston in FA
(The following players' deals have expired but as of now they have neither re-signed or signed elsewhere)
John Johnson, DB - Very unlikely to re-sign, replaced by Thornhill/McLeod
Jadeveon Clowney, DE - Very unlikely to re-sign, replaced by Okoronkwo/Smith
Kareem Hunt, RB - unlikely to re-sign, injuries/reduced usage in 2022
Deion Jones, LB - uncertain to resign, average play in 2022, probably redundant with healthy Anthony Walker
Draft Season:
The Browns entered the draft season without any major holes on the starting roster, although their depth at defensive tackle and wide receiver was still lacking. This was good, considering the team had no draft picks until the 74th pick. The Browns have had some mixed success in the mid rounds but ultimately most reasonable fans trust Berry to put together the best roster possible.
The Draft:
Browns trade pick 42 to NYJ for WR Elijah Moore and pick 74.
3.74 - Cedric Tillman, WR Tennessee
Receiver is an interesting position for the Browns because there are a number of guys on the roster that its easy to get excited about but also easy to write off as non-contributors. 2020 sixth round pick Donovan Peoples-Jones was a fairly solid number two with 840 yds and 3 TDs, but struggled to contribute meaningfully late in the season barring a pretty good game against Cincinnati. Third round rookie David Bell had some decent games from the slot but is limited as an outside option, and Anthony Schwartz is good for one or two huge plays a year thanks to his speed but his terrible hands and poor route running simply doesn't justify them.
Enter Cedric Tillman. The big bodied, 6'3" 220 lb outside threat was dominant for Tennessee before injuries saw him limited in his final season. Tillman has huge potential and while he may not play a ton of snaps in 2023 he is auditioning to take over at #2 if Peoples-Jones leaves in free agency following this year.
3.98 - Siaki Ika, DT Baylor
While GM Andrew Berry aggressively attacked the defensive tackle in free agency, the depth of the position was still lacking going into the draft, particularly an adept run stuffer to man the 1T.
And then the 6'3" 335 lb monster Siaki Ika just falls into their laps. Ika was widely considered a first round prospect going into the season, however some reduction in his production in 2022 as well as a disappointing combine saw him fall out of favor a bit, plus the natural lack of value of the nose tackle position he plays. However his good tape is astounding, as it features a very nimble big man who can not only absorb double teams and disrupt run lanes, but positively contribute to pass rushing as well. He will have a role on the Browns from day one, even if he cannot replicate his pass rushing from college, he will be an effective presence on run downs immediately.
4.111 - Dawand Jones, OT Ohio State
The fall of Dawand Jones on draft day was shocking to some and expected by others. He is a prospect of very distinct strengths and weaknesses.
His strengths are obvious from looking at him. Dude's big. At over 6'8" and weighing in at 375 lbs with monstrous 36" arms he's the premier 'first off the bus' guy and has inherent advantages at the position. His tape was very impressive in 2022 and 21, albeit a bit inconsistent at times.
Jones started rubbing people the wrong way at the senior bowl, after an impressive first day he quit on the rest of the program, then showed up seeming a bit out of shape at the Combine. In the fourth round however he is a no-brainer. With Jedrick Wills approaching the last year of his contract and Jack Conklin (despite his recent extension) being somewhat injury prone, Jones has a path to the field early and is in the hands of one of the very best position coaches in the NFL in o-line coach Bill Callahan. A gamble to be sure, but a very worthwhile one.
4.126 - Isaiah McGuire, DE Missouri
The Browns have certainly had a type with their edge rushers as of late. With the exception of Okoronkwo the physical profile of our EDGE rushers is often very similar and McGuire fits that mold exactly. Highly productive at Missouri, McGuire logged over 20 QB hurries in 2021 and 2022 according to PFF. While he did get shut down at times against top level opponents like Georgia, he was a very effective pass rusher and run stopper with a tremendous physical profile, even if his athletic testing was a bit more modest. He will settle in as a rotational edge rusher immediately and compete with Alex Wright for snaps.
5.140 - Dorian Thompson-Robinson , QB UCLA
There have been few QBs in college football over the past five years as modestly dependable and effective as DTR. Passing for over 10,000 yds and 86 TD to 33 INTs over his long college career, with an additional 1800 yds and 27 TDs on the ground, DTR has a pro level arm, excellent mobility, and is a very intelligent passer with good instincts and the ability to progress through his reads. With a QB that has baggage, a dependable backup QB is a necessity.
5.142 - Cameron Mitchell, DB Northwestern
There was a scandal at one point this offseason where one of Cleveland's many dumbass media personalities pushed a rumor that Greg Newsome was unhappy and was demanding a trade. This was immediately rebuked by follow reporters, sources with the team, and Newsome himself, citing a charity program he launched in Cleveland within the few months prior while reiterating his love for the Browns. The reporter was justifiably made a fool of and issued a half-hearted apology soon after.
However just in case, the Browns went ahead and drafted Newsome's best friend just to make him a bit happier. Mitchell was a solid coverage presence at Northwestern, who had some great games against good passing teams including Ohio State. However his tendency to disappear at times as well as his being a better tackler than coverage player (not exactly what you want in a cornerback) saw him fall to the fifth round. He brings solid size and athleticism to the position, and is certainly a worthwhile project.
6.190 - Luke Wypler, IOL Ohio State
A real curiosity of the 2023 NFL draft was the fall of Luke Wypler. The number 54 player on PFF's big board and considered a solid day two choice by most, Wypler found himself falling all the way to the sixth round where he was a welcome addition by the Browns. Perhaps a bit undersized for his frame, he brings solid athleticism and two very good years of production to the position at one of the top programs in the nation. With the team having signed Ethan Pocic to an extension and Wypler's profile locking him to Center pretty much exclusively, his path to the field is not exactly clear (barring injuries) but a player of Wypler's caliber is not often available in the sixth round so that seems like a good problem to have.
Undrafted Free Agents:
Lonnie Phelps, DE Kansas
Mohamoud Diabate, LB Utah
Ronnie Hickman, DB Ohio State
Jeremiah Marin, DE Washington
Hassan Hall, RB Georgia Tech
Tanner McCalister, DB Ohio State
Charlie Thomas III, LB Georgia Tech
Thomas Greaney, TE Albany
Caleb Biggers, DB Boise State
I don't see anyone from this list contributing meaningfully in 2023 barring injury. The days of the Browns depending on starting snaps from UDFAs is thankfully over. That said I can see Phelps and Hickman potentially making the team, perhaps Hassan Hall as well due largely to the lack of depth running backs on the roster.
It was also following the draft that the Browns traded two fifth round picks for Za'Darius Smith, a sixth round pick and a seventh round pick. Smith is an excellent pass rusher who will provide the critical third veteran presence after Okoronkwo and Garrett, allowing the young, more raw guys like Alex Wright and Isaiah McGuire to be more rotational.
Going Forward:
Browns fans that I've spoken to are largely extremely pleased with this draft and offseason as a whole. We came in with clear needs, addressed them definitively in free agency, drafted with a clear BPA approach, and came out of draft season a better team on paper than going in. The depth of the receiving corps is still a bit uncertain, and while most Browns fans may wish we upgraded at DT a bit more I think that the guys that have been starting are better suited as backups anyway.
The season is hard to predict however for much the same reason last year's was; the massive uncertainty at QB. While Deshaun Watson played quite poorly last year it is impossible to predict how he will play with a full offseason with his teammates and coaching staff.
The division and conference is brutally hard but if this team plays to its full potential it is easily a contender for a deep playoff run. If Watson struggles and the defense doesn't improve with the new coaching it could be a long few years ahead. Only time will tell and most Browns fans are approaching the year with a familiar cautious optimism.
Projected 53 Man Roster:
OFFENSE:
QB - Deshaun Watson, Joshua Dobbs, Dorian Thompson-Robinson (3)
RB - Nick Chubb, Jerome Ford, John Kelly, Hassan Hall, (7)
WR - Amari Cooper, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Elijah Moore, Cedric Tillman, David Bell, Marquise Goodwin (13)
TE - David Njoku, Harrison Bryant, Jordan Akins (16)
OT - Jedrick Wills Jr. (LT), Jack Conklin (RT), Dawand Jones, James Hudson, (20)
OG - Joel Bitonio (LG), Wyatt Teller (RG), Colby Gossett (23)
C - Ethan Pocic, Luke Wypler (25)
DEFENSE:
DE - Myles Garrett, Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, Za'Darius Smith, Alex Wright, Isaiah McGuire (30)
DT - Dalvin Tomlinson, Sikai Ika, Perrion Winfrey, Jordan Elliot, Trysten Hill (35)
LB - Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, Anthony Walker, Sione Takitaki, Tony Fields, Jordan Kunaszyk (40)
CB - Denzel Ward, Martin Emerson, Greg Newsome, Mike Ford, AJ Green, Cameron Mitchell (46)
SFTY - Grant Delpit, Juan Thornhill, Rodney McCleod, D'Anthony Bell (50)
SPECIALISTS
K - Cade York (51)
P - Corey Bojorquez (52)
LS - Charley Hughlett (53)

EXPANDING ON RELEVANT POINTS Acts 2:14-47 Peter’s much discussed farewell speech to the Ephesians
(Min 22:20 in sermon The Day of Pentecost) Like many mainstream preachers Pastor Gary Hamrick talks about the parallel of the giving of the Law to Moses happening on Pentecost (but 3000 people died) and Peter’s speech also on Pentecost moved 3000 people to be saved. How momentous this giving of the Law versus giving of the Spirit, should be highlighted.
Pastor Matt Chandler states that this section of Acts, helps us understand how the early church multiplied.
Acts 2:42-47 used by Gracepoint to justify the culture
Personally emulating the characteristics of early church, (in rereading/listening to the Gracepoint’s mission statement, video narrative about being an Acts2 church) seems quite “myopic” to me now. I looked into the emphases that Gracepoint Church expounds : fellowship, daily sharing meals and possessions together, communal living, and came to these discussions:
Pastor Gary Hamrick in more than 1 sermon outlined that in the time of the early church, believers of Jesus are the minority and were ostracized — the majority of people “cancelled” them and refused to sell or buy goods and services from them. As such, the shared belief and common burdens of Jesus’ early followers united them, strengthened their resolve, and pooling possessions was a means of taking care of each other materially.
He clearly warns us that socialism where it would lead to people having no incentive to work since wealth is redistributed to others, is not what is being taught in the Bible. In fact the Bible teaches the virtues of hard work in many verses and we are not to expect other people to give you free stuff. It was survivalism, not socialism.
Hence, I conclude that it is wrong (ie. overblown threat, wrong culture) for Gracepoint leadership to teach a culture like the early church in the current times.
(Source: Four Foundations sermon, Pastor Gary Hamrick)
The following article https://hub.emmausroadsf.com/sermons/2022/1/23/why-we-are-devoted-to-one-another-acts-242-47 even succinctly states this on their website:
Now, Acts 2:42-47 is easily misread. It's misread when it is taken as prescriptive rather than descriptive. In other words, Acts 2 is not prescribing a formula for building the perfect church. Neither was it given to you by God as a rubric for criticizing the believers around you for and all the ways they fail to live up to your idea of a perfect church.
REFLECTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Is it alright amongst Christians to disagree?
Endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, Ephesians 4:3-13 (Min 2:37) Pastor Gary Hamrick speaks about Paul exhorting that Christians are to “endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace”. “Differences from a Christian perspective need to be brought together into the lordship of Jesus Christ so that God’s people can be in harmony. Now that does not mean that we will agree on everything, we won’t. But it does mean, that related to non-salvation issues and the baptism of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit..(truncated due to repetition).. we can have discussion, we can even have gentle debates but we should never have division..”
What can the rest of us do, and what can Ed Kang and Team do?
“..You are never more free than when you have no secrets..” Owning up to our desires, God knows what is in each of us, Pastor Matt of The Village Church exhorts (min 20:58 & 30:45) —
that we are to own up that we fall short. He goes on to say
“..if you live your life in such a way that if one of your friends, or your spouse or your child could come to you and go “ guess what I found..” And you got a bit of panic in you..
if you.. live in a duplicitous life..then you understand the weight of keeping quiet about your sin.. of hiding the truth about you.. of trying to pretend to be more than you are…(truncated) …you cannot fix yourself (like the rest of us)..”
Pastor Ed, why wouldn’t you take the lead and as an example admit that you have sinned/fallen short? That you and your team have made mistakes along the way in your ministry, starting with being humble.
To proclaim the gospel, we must urge repentance, isn’t it?
I have learnt that Church should be a community of truth and grace. And to emulate Jesus is to be compassionate and forgiving, isn't it? It sounds like you have not shown your ex-members and current members these traits since many years ago, based on their accounts.
Have you forgotten Jesus’ love for you? Don’t our hearts soften when we turn to Jesus?
Why call yourself Tentmakers when you cannot align to what Paul taught in Ephesus?
Sources: Acts 20:17-21:14 Skip Heitzig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA46ZLWGCM
Acts (Part 2) - The Church is Born - Matt Chandler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkpxOkC0Lqw
Lesson 5: The Sermon that launched the Church (Acts 2:14-41) https://bible.org/seriespage/lesson-5-sermon-launched-church-acts-214-41 Acts 1-7: Building a Great Church https://sfbicc.org/acts-1-7-building-a-great-church/
The Day of Pentecost - Acts2 - Gary Hamrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqit05EUbvI
Four Foundations of the Church - Gary Hamrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSSOvDzV2BY

So the youversion Bible is by far the most popular Bible and it really is not close, it has had hundreds of thousands of downloads and that is low balling it. It also supports other false teachers such as Joyce Meyer, Steven Furtick, Kenneth Copeland, Mike Todd, Beth Moore, Joel Osteen, Bill Johnson. It is also worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I am not joking it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And gets also millions of dollars every year in donations which then they use to support other false teachers. The Bible does not tell us to endorse false teachers but to call out false doctrine and this worries me. It also tracks your data for some reason, why in the world would a Bible app need to track your data?
I am not coming out here to be a party pooper or rude, I just am worried for the app and its users now (I used it until I found out this information recently) it just really is odd to me.
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I am posting the sources for my information below.
https://www.nirandfar.com/the-app-of-god-getting-100-million-downloads-is-more-psychology-than-miracles/
https://www.businessinsider.com/youversion-bible-app-has-100-million-downloads-2013-7#:~:text=YouVersion%20is%20part%20of%20the,poured%20%2420%20million%20into%20it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouVersion#:~:text=500%20million%20downloads.-,Controversy,as%20of%20April%202%2C%202022.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/why-so-many-android-christian-apps-have-unholy-privacy-policies/
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God Bless have a wonderful day :)