Love this! Especially the end. I wish more people would remember Jesus (Christ??!!!) was a Jew. Then three's this - NATHAN: I don't know much about God, David, any more than you do, but I don't think he's generally impressed by melodramatic displays of self-abasement. and what's astonishing is the manner in which self-abasement goes hand in hand w/ furious and brutal power world-wide. O, thinking of sacrifice or those leaders now, on the verge of being deposed, calling elections illegal or fraudulent or fake, whatever. As if one couldn't possibly step down, as if the commons didn't exist, etc. etc. There's something in our primate skulls that not only seeks power but holds onto it at all cost, no matter the results. I keep thinking of Syria but I don't have to look any farther than gerrymandering here or the increased battle against women's rights, or the rights of people of color, or the rights of people to believe whatever they want, the rights at this point of just about everyone except straight white males - and to what end? Who's getting hurt? Rationality has nothing to do with it. I keep thinking as well of billionaires who never have enough money, etc. What do they think they need when they get up in the morning? That they don't have? I know too well how naive these questions are, but there's something nagging at the core of them. - Alan, mulling over your text. So much of the OT is just about how most people behave when they have a few weapons and the chance. Not so different in the NT, but the tone's different. That was forgot within a century or so. Then we Jews were caught out. Where I grew up in Wilkes-Barre, PA, they continued to be caught out in my lifetime. Self-abasement's a wonderful source of power. -
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:56 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > 'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of > Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval > Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of view of > a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't believe in > God, or can't work out what he's playing at. > > There are fourteen of these plays, and the eighth is now online: 'David > and Bathsheba'. > > http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/08davidandbathsheba.html (or for the > full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries) > > Edward Picot (http://edwardpicot.com) > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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