Meditation for December 14th, 2016
Jesus Q. Christ: Schizophrenic
After Christianity begin to spread in the Middle East, Asia, and even into the barbaric wilderness that was Europe, the very nature of Christ became the debate. The Council of Chalcedon was formed in 451 to argue the very science of Jesus’ time here in earth. Was he man or God? Did he have a soul?
To be fair to those early theologians, they were as smart as the time in history and technological advances allowed, so they were pretty dumb, but they came up with the Hypostatic Union where two distinct natures: one divine and one a person in one man.
Others lost their argument that day. The Apollinarianists were sure Jesus was born a normal man, but absent a human soul where a divine soul sat. Others were sure that Jesus walked along Men a God like his Father did in the Garden of Eden. Some described Jesus as being from a total new third nature, but religious people come up with the damnsest things.
Jesus traveled Judea with one mind and two wills. This is a fractured tortured person, and it plays out in his refusal of temptations while fasting and tripping in the desert. Jesus was mad.
He was all the right kinds of mad though, so it didn’t go down as just another man gone crazy from the syphillis, nor did the insanity turn into world domination. He had an insanity places in humility.
He walked around a man, but his primal jnstincts were being overwritten by a divine will. Usually a homeless man expressing a communication with a deity is placated by a quarter or cruel laughter, but Jesus had Apostles and other followers instead.
People deal with conflicting thoughts all the time. On one hand we want to do the right thing, but in the other hand, we really want to be on top, and we have to fuck other people over to do that. Jesus wanted to do the right thing AND God is telling him to be even better than human.
The fact is, Jesus didn’t have a chance. He was born in a lower working class family where the father was much older than the mother who claimed an angel had impregnated her for God, and then a weird post birth abortion law passed, so the family has to illegally immigrate to Egypt until shit cools down, and then comes back to be more interested in religious philosophies than Dad’s (the human one) work.
He saw a corrupt system and his mind reacted to it the same way a person becomes a paronoid schitozophrenic might grab on to conspiracy theories.
So, to make sure we take care of the returning Christ, we oughta fund mental illness programs, take care of our immigrants, illegal or otherwise, pay attention to all paronoid conspiracy theorists, and we’ll have to take the word of every person who claims God is a parent or maybe just a confidant.