jueves, 12 de febrero de 2009
Hercules Not Completed Task
Hercules was set the task to go to the Amazons he had to bring the girdle of the heart of the amazons. The Amazon was full of indigenous people, women and men that were very warlike. Men ruled and let the women take control of the children and the harvest, but when it came to the girdle, then they would be very protective. They would do anything to me able to keep it safe with them. The women of the Amazon took their land, their forest as part of their own, and they deeply believe in the Curupira, the spirit of the forest that protected it from all kinds of thread. Juno decided to transform into one of the Amazonian women to take the girdle, but the Curupira was aware that she was not an Amazonian women so when Juno was walking towards the girdle suddenly she fell in a hole full of ants and was eaten by them, making it impossible for Hercules to complete his task.
Hippolyta?
If the play was inspired in the real Amazons I think that Hippolyta would not be the noble person and wealthy that is represented in the play. On the other hand, it would be kind of poor, in a sense that in the amazons there is not really a lot of money, for anyone. The indigenous people were everything but noble, they are adventurous and take care of the children of the house. In the Trojan Women, Hippolyta is going to marry the man she wanted to, in the amazons we were able to visit a group of Indians, the Marubos, and they told us that women were set to marry the person that their father wanted them to, not anyone they wanted to.
There was no Queen of The Amazons, not one guide or native talked to us about any queen. Since the Amazons was thought to be the land of women, maybe that’s why the play is thought for Hippolyta as a character.
There was no Queen of The Amazons, not one guide or native talked to us about any queen. Since the Amazons was thought to be the land of women, maybe that’s why the play is thought for Hippolyta as a character.
domingo, 18 de enero de 2009
3 Predictions
Krishna is the God
Arjuna will believe deeply in him and follow his teachings
Krishna will go to he battle with him and help him win it.
Arjuna will believe deeply in him and follow his teachings
Krishna will go to he battle with him and help him win it.
Vocabulary-Gita
Equanimity
-Noun.
1. Mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium
Resolutely
–Adjective
1. Firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion
2. Characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions, etc.
Conches.
-Noun
1. The spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.
2. Any of various marine gastropods.
3. The fabled shell trumpet of the Tritons.
Omens
-Noun
1. A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.
2. Prognostication; portent: birds of ill omen.
Kinsmen
–Noun, plural -men.
1. A blood relative, esp. a male
2. A relative by marriage.
3. A person of the same nationality or ethnic group.
Contemplation
–Noun
1. The act of contemplating; thoughtful observation.
2. Full or deep consideration; reflection: religious contemplation.
3. Purpose or intention.
4. Prospect or expectation.
Relinquishing
1. To retire from; give up or abandon.
2. To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended).
3. To let go; surrender.
4. To cease holding physically; release: relinquish a grip.
www.dictionary.com
-Noun.
1. Mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium
Resolutely
–Adjective
1. Firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion
2. Characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions, etc.
Conches.
-Noun
1. The spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.
2. Any of various marine gastropods.
3. The fabled shell trumpet of the Tritons.
Omens
-Noun
1. A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.
2. Prognostication; portent: birds of ill omen.
Kinsmen
–Noun, plural -men.
1. A blood relative, esp. a male
2. A relative by marriage.
3. A person of the same nationality or ethnic group.
Contemplation
–Noun
1. The act of contemplating; thoughtful observation.
2. Full or deep consideration; reflection: religious contemplation.
3. Purpose or intention.
4. Prospect or expectation.
Relinquishing
1. To retire from; give up or abandon.
2. To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended).
3. To let go; surrender.
4. To cease holding physically; release: relinquish a grip.
www.dictionary.com
5 Questions While Reading
What are actions?
What is the goal of this book?
Who is Krishna?
What/Who does Arjuna represent?
I am disciplined? What is it to be disciplined?
What is the goal of this book?
Who is Krishna?
What/Who does Arjuna represent?
I am disciplined? What is it to be disciplined?
Lines That Stand Out
“When the light of knowledge
shines in all the body’s senses,
then one knows
that lucidity prevails.”
(Fourteenth Teaching)
“Knowledge is better than practice,
meditation is better than knowledge,
rejecting fruits of action
is better still—it brings peace.”
(Twelfth Teaching)
“Persistence in knowing the self,
seeing what knowledge of reality means—
all this is called knowledge,
the opposite is ignorance.”
(Thirteenth Teaching)
“You are bound by your own action,
intrinsic to your being, Arjuna;
even against your will you must do
what delusion now makes you refuse.”
(Eighteenth Teaching)
shines in all the body’s senses,
then one knows
that lucidity prevails.”
(Fourteenth Teaching)
“Knowledge is better than practice,
meditation is better than knowledge,
rejecting fruits of action
is better still—it brings peace.”
(Twelfth Teaching)
“Persistence in knowing the self,
seeing what knowledge of reality means—
all this is called knowledge,
the opposite is ignorance.”
(Thirteenth Teaching)
“You are bound by your own action,
intrinsic to your being, Arjuna;
even against your will you must do
what delusion now makes you refuse.”
(Eighteenth Teaching)
Lord Krishna
At the beginning of the book, it is believed that Lord Krishna is just a counselor that helps Arjuna go over his personal crisis, when he is debating on either going to battle or not. Krishna starts his long speech speaking about actions, discipline and duty. As the speech goes on, other topics are touched, such as faith, inner spirit, knowledge, lucidity, passion, discipline of action and of spirit and power. The speech is profound and meaningfully, Arjuna is the listener and is very attentive, seldom has he asked Krishna questions about what he is talking. As I read I thought of Ishmael. Krishna is the teacher, Ishmael and Arjuna is the listener, the pupil, the narrator of Ishmael. Krishna talks of him as superior, as the a god and as a lord and Arjuna worships him. At the end of the novel you see Krishna as The God and Arjuna, as the disciple.
“My nature has eight aspects: earth, water, fire, wind, space, mind, understanding, and individuality.” (Seventh Teaching)
This is one of the first signs of Krishna as a superior being. He practically states that he is everything, the basic of everything. God, the God we know, is known as everything and he being the beginning of all, the basis of all creation.
“If he is devoted solely to me, even a violent criminal must be deemed a man of virtue, for his resolve is right.” (Ninth Teaching)
He is saying, just like Jesus said, and just like God has insinuated through all of his messiahs of the Bible: If you are faithful to God, then you are going to Heaven (“for his resolve is right.”) for being good, and doing the right thing. And even the evilest of all will be forgiven. (“a violent criminal must be deemed a man of virtue”).
I was not aware of a religion based on the Bhagavad-Gita in India or in any where in the world. The literal translation is “Song of God”, Krishna is the God and his speech is the song. The book is the religious book of the Hinduism, kind of like the Bible for the Catholicism. IT is considered as the God himself speaking, and so it is proven.
“I am the source of everything, and everything proceeds from me; filled with my existence, wise men realizing this are devoted to me”(Tenth Teaching)
“I am the infinite spirit’s foundation, immortal and immutable, the basis of eternal sacred duty and of perfect joy” (Fourteenth Teaching)
It is very self-explanatory.
Sources:
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
“My nature has eight aspects: earth, water, fire, wind, space, mind, understanding, and individuality.” (Seventh Teaching)
This is one of the first signs of Krishna as a superior being. He practically states that he is everything, the basic of everything. God, the God we know, is known as everything and he being the beginning of all, the basis of all creation.
“If he is devoted solely to me, even a violent criminal must be deemed a man of virtue, for his resolve is right.” (Ninth Teaching)
He is saying, just like Jesus said, and just like God has insinuated through all of his messiahs of the Bible: If you are faithful to God, then you are going to Heaven (“for his resolve is right.”) for being good, and doing the right thing. And even the evilest of all will be forgiven. (“a violent criminal must be deemed a man of virtue”).
I was not aware of a religion based on the Bhagavad-Gita in India or in any where in the world. The literal translation is “Song of God”, Krishna is the God and his speech is the song. The book is the religious book of the Hinduism, kind of like the Bible for the Catholicism. IT is considered as the God himself speaking, and so it is proven.
“I am the source of everything, and everything proceeds from me; filled with my existence, wise men realizing this are devoted to me”(Tenth Teaching)
“I am the infinite spirit’s foundation, immortal and immutable, the basis of eternal sacred duty and of perfect joy” (Fourteenth Teaching)
It is very self-explanatory.
Sources:
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
The Beginning Of Meditation
“Renouncing all actions with the mind,
The masterful embodied self
Dwells at ease in its nine-gated fortress—
It neither acts not causes action.” (Fifth Teaching)
“Renouncing to all actions” is as if doing nothing, understanding that too many actions bring too many consequences, yet doing nothing is also doing something.
“in its nine-gated fortress”, what could be understood from a fortress? A fortress is something that keeps you from going inside something, or somewhere. Keeping yourself from doing actions keeps your “embodied self” to yourself, ergo; you can keep on searching for tranquility. At least that’s what I understood with the line, it might probably mean something else, but things are written to be interpreted the way each reader can. Bhagavad-Gita has a very similar point of view as The Tao Te Ching. Tao’s view is to clear your head form everything and be able to focus on letting live pass you by you applying the values learned, following the Tao.
“Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.” (TWO TTC).
“Doing nothing” = “Renouncing to all actions”.
Actions, as showed in Bhagavad-Gita, are the physical actions that bring negative consequences. When you kill a person, for example, it is then believed that you go to jail, or are brought into justice. This is a more literal example of the concept, because I can’t find a better one.
“He is said to be mature in discipline
When he has renounced all intention
And is detached
From sense objects and actions.”(Sixth Teaching)
When you are in total discipline and mature then there is no need for actions, or material things. I picture this in my head as the Buddha. He lasted meditating, I don’t know for how long, and there was no need for any actions, or what so ever. The Renouncing of the Actions is the beginning of meditation, there is no need to do actions to be in inner peace.
The masterful embodied self
Dwells at ease in its nine-gated fortress—
It neither acts not causes action.” (Fifth Teaching)
“Renouncing to all actions” is as if doing nothing, understanding that too many actions bring too many consequences, yet doing nothing is also doing something.
“in its nine-gated fortress”, what could be understood from a fortress? A fortress is something that keeps you from going inside something, or somewhere. Keeping yourself from doing actions keeps your “embodied self” to yourself, ergo; you can keep on searching for tranquility. At least that’s what I understood with the line, it might probably mean something else, but things are written to be interpreted the way each reader can. Bhagavad-Gita has a very similar point of view as The Tao Te Ching. Tao’s view is to clear your head form everything and be able to focus on letting live pass you by you applying the values learned, following the Tao.
“Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.” (TWO TTC).
“Doing nothing” = “Renouncing to all actions”.
Actions, as showed in Bhagavad-Gita, are the physical actions that bring negative consequences. When you kill a person, for example, it is then believed that you go to jail, or are brought into justice. This is a more literal example of the concept, because I can’t find a better one.
“He is said to be mature in discipline
When he has renounced all intention
And is detached
From sense objects and actions.”(Sixth Teaching)
When you are in total discipline and mature then there is no need for actions, or material things. I picture this in my head as the Buddha. He lasted meditating, I don’t know for how long, and there was no need for any actions, or what so ever. The Renouncing of the Actions is the beginning of meditation, there is no need to do actions to be in inner peace.
sábado, 17 de enero de 2009
What You Are Taught To Do
I strongly believe in discipline. My mother is my perfect role model in terms of a disciplined person. Her head is full on “to-do” lists and she is able to accomplish them all, even the ones that she invented to be primordial (and actually aren’t). I, since very little, understand what it is to be disciplined, the strong will it takes, and the importance for you own success. I know that without a routine, a discipline to follow, everything ends up going to chaos. Reading the books I am assigned, writing the blogs I am supposed to, waking up early, doing a diet, got o the gym and not missing my dance lessons are all part of being disciplined. But there is a whole other face of discipline, the mental discipline. Thinking positively, setting goals, and reaching them, finding peace, have no greed, sticking to your values.
Following any kind of “religion” (if so can be named, Confucianism, Taoism, or Bhagavad-Gitaism) requires a lot of discipline. The concept of discipline as the Bhagavad-Gita says is very broad and complex.
“Earlier I taught the two fold
basis of good in this world-
for philosophers, disciplined knowledge;
for men of discipline, action.” (Third Teaching)
The world could not keep on spinning if there would be no discipline, either of knowledge or of action. Lord Krishna appears to be the most influential character of the book, Arjuna, is the listener. Krishna is strong about discipline, he is narrow-minded ain terms of the obligation to be disciplined, and instills it in Arjuna.
“So sever the ignorant doubt
In your heart with the sword
Of self-knowledge, Arjuna!
Observe your discipline! Arise!” (Fourth Teaching)
He will not led Arjuna to stay still and do nothing, he knows that Arjuna has potential, as a man of action, “a man of discipline” and is determined to let him know what is he supposed to do, to follow him, to follow Krishna.
Following any kind of “religion” (if so can be named, Confucianism, Taoism, or Bhagavad-Gitaism) requires a lot of discipline. The concept of discipline as the Bhagavad-Gita says is very broad and complex.
“Earlier I taught the two fold
basis of good in this world-
for philosophers, disciplined knowledge;
for men of discipline, action.” (Third Teaching)
The world could not keep on spinning if there would be no discipline, either of knowledge or of action. Lord Krishna appears to be the most influential character of the book, Arjuna, is the listener. Krishna is strong about discipline, he is narrow-minded ain terms of the obligation to be disciplined, and instills it in Arjuna.
“So sever the ignorant doubt
In your heart with the sword
Of self-knowledge, Arjuna!
Observe your discipline! Arise!” (Fourth Teaching)
He will not led Arjuna to stay still and do nothing, he knows that Arjuna has potential, as a man of action, “a man of discipline” and is determined to let him know what is he supposed to do, to follow him, to follow Krishna.
Shame or Death
As a matter of fact, death is not that bad. Once you are dead, you have no idea what happens next and you experience no negative feelings. For example, mothers say that loosing a child is far worse than loosing your life. There should not be any kind of argument for this. It is obvious, when you loose a child you have to keep on living with the pain of not having him(her) with you. Some people prefer everything else than death. Would you prefer a life full of shame than a death of success?
“People will tell
of your undying shame,
and for a man of honor,
shame is worse than death.” (Second Teaching)
How upsetting it would be to live your life knowing that you could have done better. It would be constantly killing you as a huge bag resting on top of your back. Why not better die for once? This is then called suicide, and suicide has way too many subjects around it to cover it in one blog entry. How it is then possible to live in peace? To care less about so many irrelevant matters, and not lead to suicide, to be self-secure, self-confident. The Tao Te Ching, the Analects and Bhagavad-Gita have all, this goal. To find your inner self, and then you can be all that, all those complex words and terms that all of us want to reach.
“When he shows no preference
in fortune or misfortune
and neither exults nor hates,
his insight is sure.” (Second Teaching)
Have no desires, but yet have goals, one of them is to have no desires. So many things you have to remember to live the spirit and “embodied self” and be tranquil, to be a gentleman, to follow the Tao, that probably you are forgetting that you have to LIVE.
“People will tell
of your undying shame,
and for a man of honor,
shame is worse than death.” (Second Teaching)
How upsetting it would be to live your life knowing that you could have done better. It would be constantly killing you as a huge bag resting on top of your back. Why not better die for once? This is then called suicide, and suicide has way too many subjects around it to cover it in one blog entry. How it is then possible to live in peace? To care less about so many irrelevant matters, and not lead to suicide, to be self-secure, self-confident. The Tao Te Ching, the Analects and Bhagavad-Gita have all, this goal. To find your inner self, and then you can be all that, all those complex words and terms that all of us want to reach.
“When he shows no preference
in fortune or misfortune
and neither exults nor hates,
his insight is sure.” (Second Teaching)
Have no desires, but yet have goals, one of them is to have no desires. So many things you have to remember to live the spirit and “embodied self” and be tranquil, to be a gentleman, to follow the Tao, that probably you are forgetting that you have to LIVE.
The Undying Cycle Of Killing
I have always asked my self, how the soldiers, criminal and murderers are able to kill a person. I imagine that they are full of rage and that they probably are not thinking straight, I imagine that they were taught to do so and that they believe that it is the right thing to do. But for me, the action of taking somebody’s life is unimagible. Sometimes killing someone can be seen as ending a problem. As a common expression, my friends and I say “OH! I want to kill him/her!” or “I will kill myself”, without taking into consideration the real meaning of it.
Nowadays killing someone has not so much to do with duty or honor as it did hundreds of years ago. War and victory were seen as the ability to kill the most amounts of people possible and not getting yourself killed. In the East World wars and battles were held as in any other part of the world, but the fighting was held for honor, and success, yet ironically the East World was full of peace thoughts and inner self finding for tranquility. There is the debate between doing your duty or following the righteous way.
“I do not want to kill them,
even if I am killed, Krishna;
not for kingship of all three worlds,
much less for the earth!” (First Teaching)
Bhagavad-Gita shows the two points of view, Arjuna, the great warrior does not want to fight, he is frustrated and depressed, he does not want to be himself the killer of someone else. What is him to do? If he is taight to be the warrior, he is the role models for so many, but has no desire to fight. He prefers to stay still “even if I am killed, Krishna” , his death minds him less than the the killing of the others, which happen to be his family (who he is supposed to fight).
“The greed that distorts their reason
blinds them to the sin they commit
in ruining the family, blinds them
to the crime of betraying friends.” (first teaching)
It is quite interesting the “greed” blind you, distorts you, ruins you. It is not a new concept, it is repeated in almost every book, or piece of writing we have read in this class, the desire is unnecessary and useless. As I stated previously, the ones that kill are “full of rage, that they probably are not thinking straight”, or I better say, “full of greed, that they probably are not thinking straight”.
Nowadays killing someone has not so much to do with duty or honor as it did hundreds of years ago. War and victory were seen as the ability to kill the most amounts of people possible and not getting yourself killed. In the East World wars and battles were held as in any other part of the world, but the fighting was held for honor, and success, yet ironically the East World was full of peace thoughts and inner self finding for tranquility. There is the debate between doing your duty or following the righteous way.
“I do not want to kill them,
even if I am killed, Krishna;
not for kingship of all three worlds,
much less for the earth!” (First Teaching)
Bhagavad-Gita shows the two points of view, Arjuna, the great warrior does not want to fight, he is frustrated and depressed, he does not want to be himself the killer of someone else. What is him to do? If he is taight to be the warrior, he is the role models for so many, but has no desire to fight. He prefers to stay still “even if I am killed, Krishna” , his death minds him less than the the killing of the others, which happen to be his family (who he is supposed to fight).
“The greed that distorts their reason
blinds them to the sin they commit
in ruining the family, blinds them
to the crime of betraying friends.” (first teaching)
It is quite interesting the “greed” blind you, distorts you, ruins you. It is not a new concept, it is repeated in almost every book, or piece of writing we have read in this class, the desire is unnecessary and useless. As I stated previously, the ones that kill are “full of rage, that they probably are not thinking straight”, or I better say, “full of greed, that they probably are not thinking straight”.
jueves, 1 de enero de 2009
2009’s To-Do-List, from Thomas.
•I will not taste death, I will do the interpretation of the sayings.
•I will seek and find and reign and rest.
•I will have a kingdom in me.
•I know myself and am going to be the famous “daughter”.
•I will the first and last.
•I will hide nothing and find everything that was buried and see the things in front of my face.
•I will fast and pray and see everything that was hidden.
•I will become the lion, and the human.
•I will have good ears and listen to the large fish, not the small ones.
•I will be the seed that fell on the good soil.
•I will eat the dead and make them live.
•I will go to James the Just.
•I am going to be a fair messenger and a wise philosopher, not the teacher.
•I will eat and not fast, and be condemned for praying.
•I will give peace, and not cast war.
•I will see what no eye has seen, I will hear what no ear have heard, I will tough what no hand was touched.
•I will be at the end where the beginning is, and not taste death being at the beginning.
•I will know the five trees that don’t change in paradise.
•I will go to heaven.
•I will not let the robbers get me.
•I will enter the kingdom being one and not two.
•I will be one in a thousand.
•I will protect my fiends.
•I will remove the timber off my eye, so that I can remove the timber off another eye.
•I will not be empty.
•I will not be afraid.
•I will not be like the Pharisees.
•I will produce good for what I’ve stored.
•I will have the evidence in motion and at rest.
•I will look to the living one and live.
•I will have two hears to listen better!
•I will be congratulated because of being poor and hungry.
•I will see the likeness and be happy.
•I will seek and find.
•I will give God what belongs to God.
•I will live from the living one and not see death.
•I will seek and find and reign and rest.
•I will have a kingdom in me.
•I know myself and am going to be the famous “daughter”.
•I will the first and last.
•I will hide nothing and find everything that was buried and see the things in front of my face.
•I will fast and pray and see everything that was hidden.
•I will become the lion, and the human.
•I will have good ears and listen to the large fish, not the small ones.
•I will be the seed that fell on the good soil.
•I will eat the dead and make them live.
•I will go to James the Just.
•I am going to be a fair messenger and a wise philosopher, not the teacher.
•I will eat and not fast, and be condemned for praying.
•I will give peace, and not cast war.
•I will see what no eye has seen, I will hear what no ear have heard, I will tough what no hand was touched.
•I will be at the end where the beginning is, and not taste death being at the beginning.
•I will know the five trees that don’t change in paradise.
•I will go to heaven.
•I will not let the robbers get me.
•I will enter the kingdom being one and not two.
•I will be one in a thousand.
•I will protect my fiends.
•I will remove the timber off my eye, so that I can remove the timber off another eye.
•I will not be empty.
•I will not be afraid.
•I will not be like the Pharisees.
•I will produce good for what I’ve stored.
•I will have the evidence in motion and at rest.
•I will look to the living one and live.
•I will have two hears to listen better!
•I will be congratulated because of being poor and hungry.
•I will see the likeness and be happy.
•I will seek and find.
•I will give God what belongs to God.
•I will live from the living one and not see death.
The Son of Star
Once upon a time there was this self, thing, spirit, whom people called Star. And Star was the beginning of everything, without Star there would be nothing. And John came to this world, in this lightness. He was a witness, John, he said "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.” And John was not the prophet, not the Elijah, not the Christ, but, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."
One day, the Son of Star came to John and asked him to wash the sins of his away. John realizes that he, indeed, is the son of Star, Jeremiah, this incredible man was born because Star had send him. Andrew and Simon, two nice humans, start being the first followers of Jeremiah. People ask him what he is, and Jeremiah answers that he is the Son of Star and is in the world to believe in him and starts pouring water on people to forgive all the bad things they have done, as well as John, John is then not angry, but happy that he is baptizing with the greatest of all. In Samaritan Jeremiah encounters some women and he speaks with them, but they don’t really understand the sophisticated words he uses and figures of speech. And when they understand him, as being the Christ, the chosen one, they believe in him. Jeremiah starts doing miracles everywhere he goes and people get angry at him, and angrier with the fact that he claims to be “The Son of Star.” They envy him, they don’t like that he has so much fame. But he does not give up to his truth.
When he is going back to Galilee, after being away preaching, a very big crowd of people go to him searching for him to talk to them and Jeremiah is able to feed about 5,000 people with only loaves of bread and two fish! And not only that! The disciples, the loyal folloers of his, while they are crossing the Sea of Galilee, find Jeremiah walking on top of the water! And another big crowd of people comes to him and he teaches them not to judge by the appearance but with the right judgment... The authorities, the ruling people don’t want him to be the king; they don’t trust him and don’t think that he is the Son of Star. They bring a disloyal women so to trick him, they ask him if she is guilty or not, and he asks them instead if they are capable to throw a stone to her, but nobody dares to, so he silences them. He starts blaming the crowd to be sinners and not worthy of Star, they get very mad and throw even stones at him. In the way Jesus cures a man that was blind, some people realize that he had actually cured the blind, and get upset that he is making such drama about him being so celestial, Jeremiah calls them to be blind! He warns them, the Pharisees that he is the only one that can save them all.
As time passes again the authorities get him and ask him whether or not he is the Son of Star, and he obviously defends his own truth, and is obligated to escape to Jerusalem. Here Mary, his mom is taking care of Lazarus, her brother, but he dies. Jesus comes and takes him back to life. The authorities then want to kill them both.
Jeremiah has a meal with all the Apostles and calls the meal, Sedar meal, or the Last Supper, he predicts his death and he tells all his twelfe apostles that they have to continue to be faithful because after his death they will be persecuted but their salvation is to be loyal. Jesus gives a speech on Star and the faith that is needed, and that he was to conquer the world with the faith. He prays to Star so that all the faithful are protected.
He is arrested and crucified by the governor of Roma, Pontius Pilate, a very mean guy. He is crucified, violently, without any mercy and his apostles, Joseph and Nicodemus bury him after his death. Three days later, Mary Magdalena goes to his grave and finds no one and Jeremiah appears to her and she announces his resurrection.
As time passes the apostles keep on spreading all what Jeremiah taught them, the believes, the faith in Star, and today, thousands of years later there are many people that believe in Jeremiah’s story and the great spirit of Star, they call it God, and believe that he lays in the sky, like a Star.
John.
One day, the Son of Star came to John and asked him to wash the sins of his away. John realizes that he, indeed, is the son of Star, Jeremiah, this incredible man was born because Star had send him. Andrew and Simon, two nice humans, start being the first followers of Jeremiah. People ask him what he is, and Jeremiah answers that he is the Son of Star and is in the world to believe in him and starts pouring water on people to forgive all the bad things they have done, as well as John, John is then not angry, but happy that he is baptizing with the greatest of all. In Samaritan Jeremiah encounters some women and he speaks with them, but they don’t really understand the sophisticated words he uses and figures of speech. And when they understand him, as being the Christ, the chosen one, they believe in him. Jeremiah starts doing miracles everywhere he goes and people get angry at him, and angrier with the fact that he claims to be “The Son of Star.” They envy him, they don’t like that he has so much fame. But he does not give up to his truth.
When he is going back to Galilee, after being away preaching, a very big crowd of people go to him searching for him to talk to them and Jeremiah is able to feed about 5,000 people with only loaves of bread and two fish! And not only that! The disciples, the loyal folloers of his, while they are crossing the Sea of Galilee, find Jeremiah walking on top of the water! And another big crowd of people comes to him and he teaches them not to judge by the appearance but with the right judgment... The authorities, the ruling people don’t want him to be the king; they don’t trust him and don’t think that he is the Son of Star. They bring a disloyal women so to trick him, they ask him if she is guilty or not, and he asks them instead if they are capable to throw a stone to her, but nobody dares to, so he silences them. He starts blaming the crowd to be sinners and not worthy of Star, they get very mad and throw even stones at him. In the way Jesus cures a man that was blind, some people realize that he had actually cured the blind, and get upset that he is making such drama about him being so celestial, Jeremiah calls them to be blind! He warns them, the Pharisees that he is the only one that can save them all.
As time passes again the authorities get him and ask him whether or not he is the Son of Star, and he obviously defends his own truth, and is obligated to escape to Jerusalem. Here Mary, his mom is taking care of Lazarus, her brother, but he dies. Jesus comes and takes him back to life. The authorities then want to kill them both.
Jeremiah has a meal with all the Apostles and calls the meal, Sedar meal, or the Last Supper, he predicts his death and he tells all his twelfe apostles that they have to continue to be faithful because after his death they will be persecuted but their salvation is to be loyal. Jesus gives a speech on Star and the faith that is needed, and that he was to conquer the world with the faith. He prays to Star so that all the faithful are protected.
He is arrested and crucified by the governor of Roma, Pontius Pilate, a very mean guy. He is crucified, violently, without any mercy and his apostles, Joseph and Nicodemus bury him after his death. Three days later, Mary Magdalena goes to his grave and finds no one and Jeremiah appears to her and she announces his resurrection.
As time passes the apostles keep on spreading all what Jeremiah taught them, the believes, the faith in Star, and today, thousands of years later there are many people that believe in Jeremiah’s story and the great spirit of Star, they call it God, and believe that he lays in the sky, like a Star.
John.
Dear Mr. Tangen,
OH my God! There have been many things going on... and I was not able to talk to you in a long time, the last thing I wrote to you was that there was a priest named Zechari'ah, of the division of Abi'jah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth, but they have no children. And that an angel appeared and said to Zechari’ah that Elizabeth would have a son, John. Remember that he had not believe the angel Gabriel and Gabriel told him that he could not speak until all that Gabriel told him that was going to happen, happen. Yeah, well then Gabriel, the angel, went to a virgin called Mary and tell her that she was going to bear a son of God, and was going to be named Jesus… Since then, any things have happened and I will tell them to you.
John and Jesus were born, Jesus in Bethlem and John in Nazareth. And they both grow. Jesus is recognized as a kind of a saint… and he claimed the Church to be the house of his Father. Later on, John, the same John son of Elizabeth baptizes Jesus because he is John the Baptize in the desert of Judea. John is, unfortunately taken to jail by Herod, the king.
Jesus starts to do some miracles, exorcism, and preaching and attracting apostles to his believes, Simon peter, James, and John and later on other nine, making it twelve. The problem starts when Jesus starts having opponents, the Pharisees who don’t believe him being the son of God, yet Jesus keeps on attracting great crowds and he gives a speech of the mountain, telling the crowd to love the enemies and do well to then. Jesus keeps on going around the cities and preaches that his family is the people that believe the word of God above the others. And continues doing miracles! He calmed a storm and cured a women that had a hemorrhage also makes enough food for 5,000 people out of loaves. Peter, he tells Jesus that he is “TheMessiah” and Jesus then predicts that he is going to be killed.
Jesus wanted to go to Jerusalem and in the way to the city he taught the people the way to pray and that if they pray with faith then the prayer will be granted. In the way he also encounters the disbelievers and is able to pass through them. In Jerusalem Jesus warns the believers the Apocalypse and how the world is going to supposedly end, in The End of Days.
Finally, Jesus with his apostles have the Seder meal and practices the Eucharistic, which is, fi you don’t know, the whole celebration of wine symbolizing the blood and the bread symbolizing the body of Christ. Jesus knew that Peter was going to be disloyal to him, and then he is betrayed by Judas and arrested. And indeed, the traitor, Peter denies Jesus.
Jesus is crucified; he is nailed into a big wooden cross and dies, asking forgiveness for the ones that do this to him. Joseph buried him, as a loyal follower. Three days later Mary Magdalene and other women go to see his grave and find out that he is not there anymore. Peter then goes to the grave and reinforces what the women already had told him. Jesus goes to the apostles and instructs them to spread his religion, that is exactly what I am doing now, sending you this letter.
May God be with you,
Luke
John and Jesus were born, Jesus in Bethlem and John in Nazareth. And they both grow. Jesus is recognized as a kind of a saint… and he claimed the Church to be the house of his Father. Later on, John, the same John son of Elizabeth baptizes Jesus because he is John the Baptize in the desert of Judea. John is, unfortunately taken to jail by Herod, the king.
Jesus starts to do some miracles, exorcism, and preaching and attracting apostles to his believes, Simon peter, James, and John and later on other nine, making it twelve. The problem starts when Jesus starts having opponents, the Pharisees who don’t believe him being the son of God, yet Jesus keeps on attracting great crowds and he gives a speech of the mountain, telling the crowd to love the enemies and do well to then. Jesus keeps on going around the cities and preaches that his family is the people that believe the word of God above the others. And continues doing miracles! He calmed a storm and cured a women that had a hemorrhage also makes enough food for 5,000 people out of loaves. Peter, he tells Jesus that he is “TheMessiah” and Jesus then predicts that he is going to be killed.
Jesus wanted to go to Jerusalem and in the way to the city he taught the people the way to pray and that if they pray with faith then the prayer will be granted. In the way he also encounters the disbelievers and is able to pass through them. In Jerusalem Jesus warns the believers the Apocalypse and how the world is going to supposedly end, in The End of Days.
Finally, Jesus with his apostles have the Seder meal and practices the Eucharistic, which is, fi you don’t know, the whole celebration of wine symbolizing the blood and the bread symbolizing the body of Christ. Jesus knew that Peter was going to be disloyal to him, and then he is betrayed by Judas and arrested. And indeed, the traitor, Peter denies Jesus.
Jesus is crucified; he is nailed into a big wooden cross and dies, asking forgiveness for the ones that do this to him. Joseph buried him, as a loyal follower. Three days later Mary Magdalene and other women go to see his grave and find out that he is not there anymore. Peter then goes to the grave and reinforces what the women already had told him. Jesus goes to the apostles and instructs them to spread his religion, that is exactly what I am doing now, sending you this letter.
May God be with you,
Luke
Dear Mr. Tangen
Here is my version of the facts, you are yet to believe the story as you want to, the truth is that back home many things changed after all this happened, I myself since the beginning wanted to be part of everything and maybe write a book. You tell me what you think of this.
Happened to be that after 14 generations of NewYorkers, Joseph an afroamerican was born, very fine-looking, well he was family of Abraham, remember him? The one everyone talk about to be so important to America and so on… Well Joseph was born and was kind of a boyfriend to Mary; she was an angel, considered to be THE holy virgin, so beautiful, everyone in the ghetto wanted to be with her, but she was such a good girl she would not do anything wrong. The thing was that Mary was pregnant, ok? This is for you to analyze and believe what you want, they never had sex, she was just simply pregnant because God wanted her to be the mother of a son of his. I am not sure if you are religious or not but the whole story turns around God. Joseph was, as you might think, very confused, he left her. As you might imagine at the time the fact that she was pregnant and they were not actually married, was seen very bad. He didn’t want her to feel ashamed. And then this angel appeared to him out of nowhere! And told him the following: “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; 21 she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. Bla blab la…" This made Joseph to change his mind, obviously. And he stayed with her.
After so many trouble and people whispering about them, the whole gossips and rumors about them, Joseph takes Mary and the baby is born to New Jersey. Of course, distanced to the whole society and people staring at them. The governor at the time was Bush The Great (I don’t believe him to be so great though) and heard from three whispers that because a “star” had appeared a “”King of NY “” was born. Bush didn’t like this, he sent them to go to New Jersey and see him, then come back so that he goes with them to “”Workship”” him, NOT! The three men go to New Jersey and know the intensions of the governor. They get to the place where the baby Jack was and workship him and give him three gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh…A little out of the ordinary. Then they don’t go back but go away.
Bush gives then orders to find all the babies in New Jersey and bring them to him, to kill them, can you imagine? That is kind of evil. So they go to California and wait for Busch to die or give up the power and come back and move to this place Hampstead near New York. And the baby grows. He is a good man, everybody starts loving him. John the Priest was there then, and Jack goes to him and he asks him to be baptized and God comes down from up there announcing that Jack is his son. Sound funny right? It happened.
Satan comes to the story, he wouldn’t miss it. And Jack fasts for forty days and nights and the he starts like threatened him but Jack is able to get his way out, wisely, because he very bright.
Then Jack starts doing what he does best, he teaches his believes, happened to be that Jack has like a whole thing with religion, and he wants people to believe in God and all the values around it. Slowly he collects the disciples, like followers, that are going to be with him for the rest of the teachings. Simon, who is called peter, Andrew and James are some of the earlier followers, after them comes a lot more.
Then he goes to this mountain, and gives a speech, a very long speech by the way, in which he preaches about the Ten Commandments, you know about them right? He talks about humility, love, what is right and what is wrong, about sins and punishment, bla, bla, bla, This, they called, The Sermon of The Mount. When Jack comes down the mountain he starts doing miracles and getting into people’s houses and curing the sick, the blind, the paralytic. And more and more people are then attracted by his teachings and believe in him, well who wouldn’t? After all the miracles he does, I was and still am very fund to him. Jack points to twelve disciples that they are going to “’work”” for him being his disciples and are going to heal the sick and above all to be loyal to him. The twelve disciples are Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James, and John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, James, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas. They accept the challenge.
The not-followers of Jack then attack him, telling him that he was among sinner, prostitutes, and they call him an alcoholic and glutton, my point of view is that they are kind of jealous. He responds with parables, respectfully until they left.
He continues on and does some miracles but people don’t believe him… So he decides to walk on water towards his disciples. And Simon then confesses that he is indeed, the Messiah, And Jesus then called him Peter and says to build a church in his name. And he continues preaching.
The Last Supper… So is called when Jack tells the disciples that Judas was betraying him while they eat bread and drink wine symbolizing the body and blood of Jack. And he then talks to his “father”, God, and asks him about the fate that lays in front of him, and finds out that there is no way out, and that he is going to be killed. Indeed he is then he is arrested by the Jewish court and convicted because of false claiming, they didn’t believe him to be the King of the New York or the Son of God or anything that he said he was, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of the state of California ask the people what to do… and they want him to be crucified. While he is being stick in a cross, many women where present, Mary Magdalena, the mother of James and Joseph, and others. Joseph buries him. Three days later they don’t find Jack in the tomb and an angel informs them that he had been “”reborn”” from the dead, and he is in Hampstead, there Jack asks his disciples to travel around the world and keep on preaching his believes.
I am obligated to tell you this story; it was quite a scandal here. Tell me what do you think, and if you get any letters from John, Mark or Luke… they might get another version from the facts.
Sincerely,
Matthew
Happened to be that after 14 generations of NewYorkers, Joseph an afroamerican was born, very fine-looking, well he was family of Abraham, remember him? The one everyone talk about to be so important to America and so on… Well Joseph was born and was kind of a boyfriend to Mary; she was an angel, considered to be THE holy virgin, so beautiful, everyone in the ghetto wanted to be with her, but she was such a good girl she would not do anything wrong. The thing was that Mary was pregnant, ok? This is for you to analyze and believe what you want, they never had sex, she was just simply pregnant because God wanted her to be the mother of a son of his. I am not sure if you are religious or not but the whole story turns around God. Joseph was, as you might think, very confused, he left her. As you might imagine at the time the fact that she was pregnant and they were not actually married, was seen very bad. He didn’t want her to feel ashamed. And then this angel appeared to him out of nowhere! And told him the following: “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; 21 she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. Bla blab la…" This made Joseph to change his mind, obviously. And he stayed with her.
After so many trouble and people whispering about them, the whole gossips and rumors about them, Joseph takes Mary and the baby is born to New Jersey. Of course, distanced to the whole society and people staring at them. The governor at the time was Bush The Great (I don’t believe him to be so great though) and heard from three whispers that because a “star” had appeared a “”King of NY “” was born. Bush didn’t like this, he sent them to go to New Jersey and see him, then come back so that he goes with them to “”Workship”” him, NOT! The three men go to New Jersey and know the intensions of the governor. They get to the place where the baby Jack was and workship him and give him three gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh…A little out of the ordinary. Then they don’t go back but go away.
Bush gives then orders to find all the babies in New Jersey and bring them to him, to kill them, can you imagine? That is kind of evil. So they go to California and wait for Busch to die or give up the power and come back and move to this place Hampstead near New York. And the baby grows. He is a good man, everybody starts loving him. John the Priest was there then, and Jack goes to him and he asks him to be baptized and God comes down from up there announcing that Jack is his son. Sound funny right? It happened.
Satan comes to the story, he wouldn’t miss it. And Jack fasts for forty days and nights and the he starts like threatened him but Jack is able to get his way out, wisely, because he very bright.
Then Jack starts doing what he does best, he teaches his believes, happened to be that Jack has like a whole thing with religion, and he wants people to believe in God and all the values around it. Slowly he collects the disciples, like followers, that are going to be with him for the rest of the teachings. Simon, who is called peter, Andrew and James are some of the earlier followers, after them comes a lot more.
Then he goes to this mountain, and gives a speech, a very long speech by the way, in which he preaches about the Ten Commandments, you know about them right? He talks about humility, love, what is right and what is wrong, about sins and punishment, bla, bla, bla, This, they called, The Sermon of The Mount. When Jack comes down the mountain he starts doing miracles and getting into people’s houses and curing the sick, the blind, the paralytic. And more and more people are then attracted by his teachings and believe in him, well who wouldn’t? After all the miracles he does, I was and still am very fund to him. Jack points to twelve disciples that they are going to “’work”” for him being his disciples and are going to heal the sick and above all to be loyal to him. The twelve disciples are Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James, and John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, James, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas. They accept the challenge.
The not-followers of Jack then attack him, telling him that he was among sinner, prostitutes, and they call him an alcoholic and glutton, my point of view is that they are kind of jealous. He responds with parables, respectfully until they left.
He continues on and does some miracles but people don’t believe him… So he decides to walk on water towards his disciples. And Simon then confesses that he is indeed, the Messiah, And Jesus then called him Peter and says to build a church in his name. And he continues preaching.
The Last Supper… So is called when Jack tells the disciples that Judas was betraying him while they eat bread and drink wine symbolizing the body and blood of Jack. And he then talks to his “father”, God, and asks him about the fate that lays in front of him, and finds out that there is no way out, and that he is going to be killed. Indeed he is then he is arrested by the Jewish court and convicted because of false claiming, they didn’t believe him to be the King of the New York or the Son of God or anything that he said he was, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of the state of California ask the people what to do… and they want him to be crucified. While he is being stick in a cross, many women where present, Mary Magdalena, the mother of James and Joseph, and others. Joseph buries him. Three days later they don’t find Jack in the tomb and an angel informs them that he had been “”reborn”” from the dead, and he is in Hampstead, there Jack asks his disciples to travel around the world and keep on preaching his believes.
I am obligated to tell you this story; it was quite a scandal here. Tell me what do you think, and if you get any letters from John, Mark or Luke… they might get another version from the facts.
Sincerely,
Matthew
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