I am not here to help.

I want to start this little endeavor by warning you about the way I communicate. I have been told, even when I was in my teens that I have this weird tendency to go off on seemingly random tangents.

The problem is, they aren't random.

I was raised in a very, strange, religious family. Though my family was nominally fundamentalist in nature, my dad also believed that the Christian god was not the only one. He would cited the ten commandments of all things, pointing out that they said, "You shall have no gods before me," not "There are no other gods."

My dad still thought Jesus and his father were the winning team though, and I was encouraged to study all kinds of religious works to understand them. I started this with the New Testament, thinking as all children do that my parent was right, and figuring that starting with the 'best' source was probably the way to go.

I learned a lot from reading Jesus' communication style. He talks a lot in parables, and always begins the story with a tangent.

As an example, the tax scene, Jewish leaders try to get Jesus to say not to pay their taxes, so they can have him executed, he asks for a coin and points at it, asking about the picture.

Take a second and think about that scene, the Jewish leaders had to be thinking "wtf? Is this kid an idiot?"

If you haven't guessed it, this is the "Caesar to Caesar, God to God" scene.

I read the entire bible, New Testament first, and I noticed something about how he did these parables. Jesus always tried to show how something you already know applies somewhere else. Like the story of the Good Samaritan.

See if you read the story, it goes, guy gets beat up and robbed, first guy to see him walks by, second guy to see him walks by, Samaritan guy helps him, who's the good guy? The Samaritan.

Oh, by the way, the Jews of that age hated the Samaritans. That scene is kind of like getting a bunch of Klansmen to say, "I guess even a n* can be a good person..."

See, I am telling you this to say something fundamental about humans, there is no such thing as a good one. People ask philosophical questions like, "Are we fallen angels, or risen apes?"

People are slime molds that have evolved the capacity for self righteousness. I am no different.

This blog is not intended to be uplifting. I do not care if I inspire or repulse you. My intention is simply to put to writing, things that I do not have the strength to say elsewhere.

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