Internationaal Terrorisme Zonder Wapens? Re:28-3


'myDie-LoveStory in optima forma'


"INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM
NOW &
THEN"

NOW
it is on the whole
more convenient to keep history and theology apart?
A large proportion of the 'Christian' world believes that Yeshu
was an 'incarnation' of that "G*D" of all the Earth
whom the Jew first recognised!
The myDi-historian,
if he is to remain historian,
can neither accept nor deny that interpretation?
Materially Yeshu appeared in the likeness of a man,
and it is as a man that the historian must
deal with
him?

~+~

HE
appeared in Judea
during the reign of Tiberius Caesar.
He was a 'prophet':
he preached after the fashion of the preceding Jewish prophets.
He was a man of about thirty,
and we are in the profoundest ignorance of his manner of life
before his preaching
began ...

~+~

OUR
only direct sources of information
about the life and teaching of Yeshu
are the four 'gospels'?
ALL four agree
in giving us a picture of a very definite personality ....
One is obliged to say:
"HERE was a MAN!
THIS could not have been
invented?"

~+~

BUT
just as the personality
of Gautama Buddha has been distorted
and obscured by the stiff squatting figure,
the gilded idol of
later Buddhism,
SO one feels
that the lean and strenuous personality
of Yeshu
is much wronged by the unreality and conventionality
that a mistaken reverence has imposed upon
HIS figure in modern
Christian art
...





YESHU was
a penniless teacher,
who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea
{Israel, Jordan, Galilea, Lebanon?},
living upon casual
gifts of food;
YET he is
always represented clean,
combed, and sleek,
in spotless raiment, erect,
and with something motionless about him
as though he was
gliding thru
the air ............
THIS alone
has made him unreal
and incredible
to many people
who cannot distinguish
the core of the story
from the ornamental and unwise
additions
of the unintelligently
devout?!

~+~

WE ARE LEFT,
if we do strip this record
of these difficult accessories,
with the figure of a being, very human,
very earnest and passionate,
capable of swift anger,
and teaching a new and simple and profound doctrine - namely,
the universal loving Fatherhood of G*D and the coming
of the Kingdom of
Heaven ...

~+~

HE was
clearly a person -
to use a common phrase -
of intense personal magnetism?
He attracted followers and filled them with love and courage?
Weak and ailing people were heartened and healed by his presence ...
YET he was probably of a delicate physique,
because of the swiftness with which
he died under the pains of
crucifixtion?

~+~

There is
a tradition
that he fainted when,
according to the Roman custom,
he was made to bear his cross
to the place of
crucifixion.

~+~

He went about
the country for three years
spreading his doctrine and then he came to Jerusalem and was accused
of trying to set up a strange kingdom in Judea;
he was tried upon this charge,
and crucified together with
two others 'rebels' or
thieves ...

~+~

Long before these two were dead his sufferings were over ...?!

~+~

The 'doctrine'
of the Kingdom of Heaven,
which was the main teaching of Yeshu, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought?
IT is smaal wonder if the world of that time failed to grasp its full
significance,
and recoiled in dismay from even a half apprehension
of its tremendous challenges to the established
habits and institutions
of mankind!

~+~

For this doctrine
of the kingdom of heaven,
as Yeshu seems to have preached it,
was no less than a bold and uncompromising demand for a complete change and cleansing of hte life of our struggling race,
an utter cleansing. without
and within ...

~+~

To the gospels
the dear and beloved myDi-reader/writer must go for all that is preserved
of this tremendous teaching; here, right now, we are 'only' concerned
with the jar of its impact upon established ideas?
Our myDi, almost as real as real life,
in all its virtual electonic cyberdimensions,
is only a tool to express our different feelings,
ideas & experiences from day to day, week to week,
month to month, or even thru the years,
SO all we have is all kinds
of fragments of our
myDi-lives?

~+~liefdesverdrietverliefdgemeenverwardgaap!bah!nahnahverdrietigcool!erg vrolijkknipoogvrolijkverliefdliefdesverdriet

And I'm
taking my aha-fastbreak
again while the raindrops keep falling on my head,
I don't know how to love her,
she's only just a woman,
in oh so many
ways?

~+~
engel


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