some prep for the first gospel iteration

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+title: CleverTitles[TitleNum++];
+date: 2012-11-15
+techne: :wip
+episteme: :log
+---
+
+I've begun some serious work on my own gospel.
+
+I started collecting [Sayings][] about 2 years ago, and while I keep on adding to them, they were never meant to be the real meat. As a post-Marcionite, I've always looked up to the father of scripture, Marcion himself, and intend to work in his shadow.
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+Marcion's Apostolicon, the first and definitive Christian scripture, consists of ten letters by Paul, plus one - *the* - gospel. I am still struggling with the Apostle (whose Gnostic identity is well-known but rarely understood - don't believe the Catholics one word), so I will focus first on the one person who Marcion and I both *do* know - the Savior.
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+I already wrote the first half of a complete gospel in March, but it's more of a cute harmonization of the Christian and Jewish account of Jesus, one that shows that taking *all* the texts into account and thinking outside the Jewish box, yields a coherent narrative without any holes or mysteries left over. (No more details until it is finished.) Still, it focuses primarily not on the Savior, and while potentially a good apocryphal work, it doesn't contain the essential message.
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+Some of my logs and tweets already included little pieces from the gospel, and the first iteration includes them all. It's still woefully incomplete, not even at the level of the twin's collection of sayings, but at least it overcomes the barrier of not even *having* a gospel. Now I can add to it from time to time.
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+As a deliberate ideological move, I'll change and revert some common terminology. Some word choices and framings might seem idiosyncratic or forced, but are meant to illustrate the point of a parable more clearly. The text is meant to be retold to every generation, and as such, there can never be a canon in either tone, frame or content. I have added commentaries in the footnotes, but those should not be taken as definitive or as belonging to the text itself. I have not yet added chapter titles or any numbering scheme. The text is still too much in flux for that.
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+More importantly, I have re-mythologized the narrative, stripping it of all historical frames. It can be argued that this is not strictly necessary, if the mythological context is apparent enough, but I'll push all historical references into the apocryphal stories. Additionally, I've undone the Catholic merger of Jesus. Generally speaking, I try to be consistent with names, and if there are two names, I mean two different people. I'm not denying all syncretic readings, nor do I think that some people *can* be easily separated, but there is the opposite problem of, as the old dope fiend said, "interpret[ing] every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul".
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+A lot of talk about one measly chapter. [Here it is][The Message].
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-title: The Good News
-date: 2012-08-17
+title: The Message
+date: 2012-11-13
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-episteme: :believed
+episteme: :inspired
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-In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.
+Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone what has happened here, or else health will stop being a 
+costly signal." -Luke 5:14 #hansoniantheology
+
+Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they are immune to moral basilisks and shall inherit the kingdom 
+by default.
+
+There is no such thing as independence; only degrees of control. #rationalw40k
+
+Jesus said, I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, so I can create perverse social 
+incentives to keep sinning, lulz.
+
+
+Jesus said, if you want to be perfect, go, date someone beneath you, make that nerd's day. I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, who is dated by and dates all.
+
+Do not eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden because it is a Schelling point and 
+will allow Death to find you. #hideyosins
+
+Dear apologists: next time someone says "the Jews expected a triumphant messiah, not Jesus", I want 
+you to bring up countersignaling.
+
+See also Mark 5:1-20, in which Jesus rebukes a demonic attempt to hijack his decision-making 
+through average utilitarianism.
+
+The disciples of Bayes came to Him, saying, "Why do we update, but your disciples do not update?" 
+Jesus said, "Can the agent update as long as Omega is with them? The days will come when Omega is 
+gone, and then they will update. The lazy hacker does not write new programs for new ideas. No, they reuse the legacy code until it breaks."
+
+"Why do you worry about batteries? See how the trolls of the forums troll, how they flourish, yet they do not reason or care. If that is how God supplies the trolls of the forums, who are here today and banned tomorrow, will He not much more supply you? Your bored Father knows that you need them. Seek first His entertainment, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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+The women hurried from the tomb. Suddenly Jesus met them and said, "Do not be afraid. 
+Go and tell my brothers, 'first lol'".
+
+The heathen abandons God when bad things happen to good people. The Catholic only abandons Him when lame things happen to awesome people.