chapter 01
Gideon vs. 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. EQ.
“No it wasn’t. That’s simply impossible.”
“Let us remember that language is an evolving creature and at the time of the writing of this book, the world was different, or let us say, our understanding of the world was different.”
“Go on then.”
Was the word ignite. There are those who speculate that if we evolve with the machine that eventually we will reach what might be called the singularity. Where all is one. And at this point we, it, would have the wherewithal to create a universe.
“If we don’t kill ourselves first.”
“We won’t. It isn’t our nature. Our nature is the nature of the universe.”
This is a nice speculation but let us approach it from an angle that would be plausible from John’s perspective. He knew nothing about the calculating power and potential intelligence of computing mechanically.
So here’s the thing. Let us assume, for interpretation sake, that John wasn’t a complete moron.
“Should we go so far.”
“For the sake of understanding.”
In the beginning of the beast coming into awareness of the world was the words. The language. Before they, we, started creating the world, not the planet, but our world, we needed to communicate. And that was with the word. And it was our great advantage over the rest of the animal world. Not one thing in all the things we created was without language.
“Does that change anything.”
“No, it explains the importance and vitality of the word. Our language. We can multiply our understanding and pass on all we have learned to the following generations.”
“Or we can write mind manipulating random laws and call it religion.”
“Even that holds the word.”
Can we go so far as to say that language is God. Or the holy spirit. It is what makes us what we are.
Now this doesn’t mean the lawyers and priests are not to be thrown down from their high places. It only means that language has the power. The word is what makes us.
Maybe John meant something else. Maybe he didn’t mean anything.
GNB vs. 17: God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18: No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. EQ.
Moses, for those uninformed, was a vile murdering, plundering dictator of genocide. A woman-hating prick. He dictated to the ignorant what random rituals they were to perform or get their heads hacked off or get stoned by friends and family.
Jesus was the peace maker. His mission was to get people to understand. To teach using language. Have heaven in the here and now.
Anyfish. We start with John the Baptist. He’s down by the river baptizing them. Cleaning away the sins that the laws of Moses gave them. And some came to ask who he was.
Gideon vs. 23: He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord… EQ.
Again, you narrator wants to propose that we must rethink what Jesus Christ is. There are those who see him as a retelling of a story from the Egyptians. There are those who think he represents the sun. The light. I would like to propose that Jesus Christ is the direction in which we are going, not a hero from the past. Jesus Christ is a state of mind. He, a he entity that isn’t literally real, and won’t literally save you from your sins. Sins are a concept. Given to us by religious law. Jesus Christ is enlightenment. Awakening to the here and now. It ain’t a flying up into the sky. Rather it is a landing on the earth.
“Jumping Jesus. We are here. We made it in. That was a hell of a ride.”
GNB: vs. 31: I did not know who he would be, but I came baptizing with water in order to make him known to the people of Israel.” EQ.
If we are talking about the story, this simply is not true. The mothers of John and Jesus were cousins and friends. They were both raped by the same Lord. Your narrator tends toward Herod but it hardly matters.
If we remember that Simon and Andrew are not strangers to Jesus we can see that the story is purposely misleading.
“Could one say, mumbo jumbo.”
“You can say whatever you want.”
“Your mother’s a slut.”
So Nathanael meets Jesus and Jesus remembers her from under the fig tree and she is impressed and says he must be the Son of God and Jesus says, ‘Bitch, you ain’t seen nothing yet’.
Now it is necessary, especially as we work through John, for he drops many hints, that we notice that there was sex happening.
Vs. 51: And he said to them, “I am telling you the truth: you will see heaven open and God’s angels going up and coming down on the Son of Man.” EQ.
“Well, fuck me.”
chapter 02
GNB vs. 1: Two days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in Galilee, Jesus mother was there, 2. And Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. EQ.
This wedding is little talked about. It wasn’t mentioned in the other gospels and in this telling of it we are always told to marvel at the miracle of turning water into wine.
This did not happen. It is a distraction to the story. For those still not informed. Wine is usually made from grapes. And the wine usually contains alcohol from the fermenting of the juice that is kept for a time. There is new wine that is palatable and refreshing but most of it is kept for years before it is served. And if John tells us Jesus took jugs of water and turned them into wine, he is telling us either nothing at all or something else.
The thing we seldom stop to question is why was the mother of Jesus telling Jesus the wine had run out and why were all the brothers and other disciples there.
“It was the wedding of Jesus.”
Now there is no way to prove this but we should take time out to remember that Jesus was a Rabbi, meaning teacher. What it means is that he would most likely be married. For at the time it was the unquestioned custom that a Rabbi be married.
Jesus wasn’t one to follow all customs but there is a bloody good chance that this story is of his marriage. And other evidence collected in the rest of the gospels would suggest that his wife’s name was Mary Magdalene.
Then, a few days later, Jesus goes into the Temple and made a whip to drive out the cattle, sheep and pigeons. And the fuckers making big money selling them. Moses made it a law that the burnt offerings must have no flaws. That made it easy for the priests to sell their product by simply finding fault with any animals anyone brought with them. To burn as an offering for the fat ass priests.
Now here is a good rebuttal.
Vs. 18 The Jewish authorities replied with a question, “What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?” EQ.
Jesus replied with tear down the Temple and I’ll build it again. But he means, I’m gonna pretend to die on the cross and then be back to go fishing with my bothers.
A book of riddles. Made into the business of belief.
Alas, billions are shackled with these half told stories full of backwards meanings. We will take the ax to the rest of it. Less there are those who come after us and attempt to take the book literally.
“Gods forbid.”
chapter 03
The fact that war is the central business of plunder capitalism and that those who speak against it usually get killed is not an excuses to do nothing, obey and act according to their laws.
It is, in fact, cause for alarm and a rude. Very rude.
Awakening.
The third world already knows that they are our slaves. Our refusing to see it, acknowledge it and react with a new theater is not excusable.
And the rude awakening is better for us than the most beautiful opiate of lies. Lies, no matter how many creatures are slaughtered and enslaved in its wake, are lies.
The church is on fire.
We must get out.
Vs. 3: Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” EQ.
You can make that mean a great deal of things.
Let’s pick evolution and reincarnation out of the hat. There will be those who argue Jesus didn’t mean it literally but figuratively. As in you must be cleansed of your sins and awaken to a new life. That’s nice as well, as long as you don’t make it a religious ritual and miss the point of it. There are other customs in other cultures that have similarities. The custom of sending a 12 year old boy out alone in the woods to see if he will survive and come back a man.
But we are going to harp on the idea of reincarnation. Of course, just because a character in a book says you must be born again don’t prove anything. However, if we examine the universe and begin to understand it we will start to understand that there is only reincarnation. There is no other way for life to spring out of a closed system.
We can question how personal it is for there is a self that certainly dies but in purely physical reality, which is mostly space, movement, sound, energy, somehow perceived as matter, it is always, this being born thing, out of the same soup.
The conservation of energy. It is always changing form but it is always one.
vs. 13: “And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven.” EQ.
Well, this might seem crazy. And perhaps it is better left unexplained. For certain we should leave space ships and what not out of it.
“How you wanna explain it then. We are in a world with laws of physics.”
“How about we explain it as a science fiction kind of space trip. One where the wakefulness of a species was almost at hand at the end of the last house before the last house and over the gulf of time and space, that which was known, the connection to the gods, was transported through space during the 5 thousand years of darkness, when it was certain not to survive it’s infant state. And when the dark age of the fish came to an end, at the beginning of the spring of 2009, there was one that was guided to receive the message and the clarity that would allow the spread of the real awakening.”
“I’d buy it.”
Jesus laughed.
For a little more comic relief lets go to the next verse. This chapter is a gold mine.
vs. 14: As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the son of Man must be lifted up. EQ.
If you forget the snake on a stick story, it was in the desert when Lord Moses was being bitched at because the hungry, thirsty slave soldiers and their slave wives were being bitten by the fury of God in the form of fire breathing reptiles from hell. Or scorpions.
So Moses went and complained about the complainers to the Lord.
“People are dying here in the pile of human bile and vermin.”
“Well, Moses, why don’t you put a snake on a stick.”
“All righty.”
And that did it. Snake on a stick for snake bite remedy. It works in fiction. Not recommended for real bites from venomous snakes. Best consult a real doctor and fast. Do not use homeopathic remedies for real ailments.
“How does that relate to the Jesus story.”
“Everyone relates to the cross when they think of Jesus. Hung up like a snake. And the snake, or better said, the serpent, is a sign of rebirth from older religions that were demonized by the religions that murdered the people of that belief or made them into slaves. The cross is an astrological event, from earth’s point of view, up in the sky. Naturally it is random referencing but the stars are a map for where we are in the heavens. And Jesus on a cross is really the sun of our solar system on the cross. It was an icon that had to be remembered at any cost so that when the time was finally right, for that one night, Jesus could come down from heaven and land safely in his bathtub.”
“Okay.”
Verse 16 is a classic and every kid that only ever learns one verse of the bible learns this one.
Let’s modify it a little:
‘For the Gods so loved the world that they selected a bastard son to stand up and reject his ancestors religion and oppose the lies of the ages so that whoever could stop believing in him would understand that they already had every lasting life.
For the Gods did not send a messenger to judge the world but to set if free from their fucking idiotic belief in sin.’
“Amen.”
vs. 19: “This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light.” EQ.
Come to the light or die. This is also the law of cockroaches. Follow the light. It is also obvious for our time. Make it or break it point. Stop burning coal and oil and smarten the fuck up or get the fuck out.
Could make sense if we worked with it.
Pride is for monkeys.
Knock down the houses of religion. And read on.
john chapters 04 - 06
|
