Jeebus, 'Adultresses' and Small Towns

This, of course is pure conjecture, but worth mulling over...


Many of us have, prehaps at one point or another, and perhaps even used the phrase, "Let ye who is without sin, cast the first stone". And still fewer of us have ever heard or read where this reference comes from. It's an interesting story, I think and it's been on my mind for quite some time now. (No, I am not a christian anymore, but it doesn't mean that I have thrown out the baby with the bathwater ;-} )
That saying comes from a passage in the book of John, chapter 8 verses 1 through 11. The religious people at the time came to Jesus with a woman who was allegedly "caught in aultery". They wanted to try and "trap" him in his own words to make Jesus look bad and have, what they tought in their collective narrow train of thought, "solid" evidence to discredit him.

"Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" they asked.

Now here's the odd part...

"But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger"

They kept pestering him, so this is what happens next...

" 'When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them', "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground' "

The religious buggers' response?

"At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there."

And here's where a little imagination, a little conjecture and a little bit of common sense comes into play...

I think Jeesus was writing the names of the so-called "town's 'adultresses' and 'whores' ", at least according to the minds of the would-be accusers AND THE NAMES OF SOME THE MEN IN THE CROWD THAT THE WOMEN HAVE "BEEN WITH" AT SOME POINT OR ANOTHER. What makes me believe this? Here's where the idea of small towns comes to mind...

I imagine small towns as places where, among many other things, EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYBODY'S ELSES' BUSINESS. Any one of my readers who live in small towns can perhaps attest to this. But then how does Jesus become privy to this knowledge? Because he was "god"? Because he had some special powers? No and no. He got the news from the townsfolk, themselves. How? Well, let's say that chances are he did indeed have one VERY "special power"... He LISTENED to them. You see, one of the things that overly religious people have a tough time doing is listening. Not a few of us have had this experience to one degree or another with our current-day religious friends and acquaintances. Well, things weren't so much diferent back then, I'm sure one would agree. Jesus hung out with the unheard, with people that were considered "bad" and or "evil" by those who regarded themselves as "holy" and or "above the riff-raff".

So, I imagine that Jesus listened... and he REMEMBERED. And he used that bit of knowledge at the right place and at the right time: to save the life and dignity of a persecuted woman...

"Jesus straightened up and asked her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?'"

(If the character of Jesus ever existed, I think he had a sick, coy and wonderfully TWISTED sense of humor. It was obvious they were all gone but he still asks).

"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Essentialy we now see that the last statement was not a judgement or condemnation for he just finished saying "Then neither do I condemn you". So then what? Again, here's more conjecture and all that other good stuff... I think that Jesus did the equivalent of "buny-rabbit-ears-air-quotation marks" that we use today in our gesturing that indicates "as if". For I think that as a man of peace, he also wanted to calm the woman's fear in her distress. Imagine: you are pulled out of you home by an angry mob intent on killing you - you'd be shittin' and peeing your pants. Jesus, I'm sure was sensitive enough to catch that and wanted to calm her fears by injecting a bit of well-timed, very good-natured sarcasm.

"Hey, your accusers are gone so I guess I won't condemn you either. You can leave your 'awful life o' sin' now." And very relieved and very alive, she goes on ner merry way, no worse for wear and maybe a little better for meeting such a cool guy.

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It had occurred to me that Jesus needed not to have known who in particular did what with whom in order to have the self-righteous bastards fleeing with tucked tails from the scene which they'd created. He could have simply been writing something like this: wonder how ideed these men "know" what this woman had done if they themselves have not done the same and very possibly with this very woman? Just who do these rats think they're fooling?" And then he gets up and it it said that in the language the verse is written he literally says: Okay. The first one of you who hasn't commited THIS KIND of particular kind of sin with this woman, you ar free to go ahead and throw the first stone.

You know the rest.

Just For Kids (Written Wednesday, May 10th, 2006)

Just For Kids

i'll bet that there is one kid out there who feels really bad for the trix rabbit...

and i'll bet that that kid has a pet rabbit...

and that he feeds that rabbit trix...

and found out the hard way why trix is for kids

the end

Embers in Space (originally - Tuesday, August 8th, 2006)

Embers in Space

Embers in Space

When we allow our minds to float into the all

We see ourselves for what we really are

Embers in space

Warmed by the sun and sparked into our every day lives

Cooled by the night, awaiting daylight's rays

To sparks us again

Whether dim or bright

We are all embers Sharing this moment

Remembering space

Our true beginning

We all started

As one

And in our minds

We remember

We will always be

One

A Man (originally written on Friday, October 12th, 2007)

''So those are my dreams, And these are my eyes, Stand tall like a man. Headstrong like a horse!'' - Orzibal (Tears for Fears)

A while back I wrote ''Boy Trapped In A Man's Body'' where I'd realised several years ago that there is a part of me that has is still a child, perhaps no older than about eight years old.

For some time now I have been tending to that boy. I had discovered that he had many wounds and many fears and had been in hiding all this time because he was afraid that someone would either injure him further or touch on the wounds already there, even if by accident.

As I have bee n finally tending to that part of me and helping to heal the wounds, the boy is beginning to allow himself to dream of finally becoming a True Man. A Man who is courageous, honest, kind, strong, loving, full of wisdom, very patient. A Man who takes full responsibility for his every word and his every silence; A Man who owns up to his every action and even his inactions. A man whose own child will never have to suffer what he had suffered.

He's finally dreaming of becoming A Man. And he loves the first glimpses of what he sees.

''So those are my schemes, And these are my plans'' - (same)

I Have Learned (originally posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007)

I have learned to lie from my father, And I became a liar

I have learned violence from my mothers and false fathers, So I became violent

I have learned sorrow and sadness from a lonely mother So I lived a depressed existence and dreaded being alone

Grandfather lived a sense of humor The main reason I still exist

And now?

I have, by needs, become my own mother

To nurture myself back to health

I have, by needs, become my own father

To bring myself to peace, dignity and integrity

So that I may LIVE

If You Want Something Done Right...

I'm looking forward to an orientation at a place called PerScholas this coming Monday morning. PerScholas is a non-profit company that sells refurbished pc's to needy schools and family at low cost. This same place trains qualified individuals towards their A+ Certification certificate: this is where I come in... I take the training, kick arse in course, get certified, and then get myself working on fixing other's folks pc's so they can play their video games and watch their porn and get paid decently for it. The decent pay, in turn, will help ensure that I can move on to my next learning endeavor - either continuing something in medicine... or electrical engineering.

Why medicine and electrical engineering? At some point in the very near future I would like to start my own family. I also want to have a home of my own somehwere where I can make my own additions that will help curb the cost of energy use of the house. This is where electrical engineering comes in (or something practical in the field of electricity). I will make the home as energy efficient as humanly possible. I will be looking into alternative forms of energy like solar and wind and any other that may crop up in the future.

As for medicine, it would be good to have an idea of what goes on with the human body and how to best take care of things such as the symptoms of the common cold, cuts, scrapes and bruises... The kinds of things that ail many a family in some form or another. That's another cost that would be curtailed by a bit of prevention and foreknowledge.

Doing these things will help me gain a sort of independence from the kinds of things that ails most families in this culture - arguing over money matters. This is a sort of forward thinking that I am only now just gaining at this point of my life. All a part of doing things right in my life, for a change, and doing them myself.

In theBeginning...

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - after this, therefore resulting from it: used to indicate that a casual relationship has been erroneously assumed from a merely sequential one. - American Heritage Dictionary

It dawns on me... Just because human beings seem to have a "defined beginning" does not necessarly mean that the rest of the world, much less the universe, functions in that manner.

I have been in the process of actively and proactively questioning every aspect of my own existence , transforming my inner Belief System (B.S. for short and from now on) from a dysfunctional one to a life that has true meaning and real purpose. Many of my prior assumptions and postulations of how life works have been challenged resulting in changes to how I see myself and the world around me.