Sam was used, plain and simple, by Ruby. True, but the thing is that with Zachariah's comment that Sam might have to be 'nudged' the right way, it looks like he was being manipulated by the angels too. So it's not, in my opinion, like it was even necessarily possible for Sam to just listen to Dean, stop listening to Ruby, and everything would have been okay. The angels were playing the brothers against each other. In fact, I don't think ultimately that it was wrong for Sam to be using his mental powers to exorcise people rather than the knife. I think the angels just used that to be an issue between the two of them. Because first of all, it was Uriel who said it, and Uriel was on Lucifer's side. Secondly, Dean thought that if the angels said Sam shouldn't do it, it meants that God didn't want Sam doing it. But in fact "God has left the building", so I doubt that the almighty weighed in on the Sam mind thing before he left. Third, I know it can be interpreted different ways, but I believe that what Ruby said about it being Sam all along may have meant that he didn't need her demon blood to make him stronger, she just used it to addict him to her, but his powers would have gotten stronger on their own.
LOL! Jared probably picked out his own, and it's pink. :-)
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True, but the thing is that with Zachariah's comment that Sam might have to be 'nudged' the right way, it looks like he was being manipulated by the angels too. So it's not, in my opinion, like it was even necessarily possible for Sam to just listen to Dean, stop listening to Ruby, and everything would have been okay. The angels were playing the brothers against each other. In fact, I don't think ultimately that it was wrong for Sam to be using his mental powers to exorcise people rather than the knife. I think the angels just used that to be an issue between the two of them. Because first of all, it was Uriel who said it, and Uriel was on Lucifer's side. Secondly, Dean thought that if the angels said Sam shouldn't do it, it meants that God didn't want Sam doing it. But in fact "God has left the building", so I doubt that the almighty weighed in on the Sam mind thing before he left. Third, I know it can be interpreted different ways, but I believe that what Ruby said about it being Sam all along may have meant that he didn't need her demon blood to make him stronger, she just used it to addict him to her, but his powers would have gotten stronger on their own.
LOL! Jared probably picked out his own, and it's pink. :-)
YES!!!! And now I want to see them! *LOL*