At the urging of some close Christian friends I watched the movie "The Book of Eli". I was underwhelmed by the apocalyptic degradation theme, but I watched the whole thing. At the end I said "Eli was blind and my friends had to watch it again. They didn't get that part. In real life this is also true. I have been trained to read the bible from a certain perspective and giving weight to the "new testament". In my upbringing we ignore prophecy, the law has all been put on the cross, and the guy who saves us is the worse looking hippie I ever saw and Greek to boot. No, that's Greek to sandal, Roman to boot. There were a part that pertained to us and the rest was between god and those phony ones in Israel today.
Anyway I so embraced that Eli became "the book", was able to speak it's entire contents. I was also pissed that after the miracle of Eli's delivery, the book was printed, then shelved with a cavalier archival attitude, next to other so-called sacred literary works. So much for one god. Oh Arnold, there are many divinely inspired books. I don't know. We fight over "the book" who wrote it, who it is addressed to, what it is about. It has been altered, tampered with and yet by faith and by god's great power has been delivered to us intact (as if unaltered). We got a question as to what something meant, we go to the Greek, and yet the Torah and Prophets were all originally written in Hebrew by Hebrews. The new testament was written Greek, but they found some stuff in Hebrew, not sure. Ooh, they despised each other, had vastly different culture, language and thinking. I guess that explains why library looting and burning was a Roman army mainstay of subjugating other peoples. How easy it was to write a lie and pronounce "read'em and weep or die!". It has been used as the vary means to keep us down. Yet if you actually read it, if you can do it outside the enslavers construct, it will liberate you.
"Hey you, where are your chains, everybody's got chains, a man without chains is a threat to my freedom, my liberty, my way of life. You must read the book this way, see you must have chains."
"I hate reading but even more a Greek trained one telling me what I'm looking at."
"Damn son, I keep putting you in chains and they keep falling off, boy, what's the matter with you?"
"I'm sorry but they don't seem fit me, I think these are meant for you. It is not my fault you believe your own lies. I am immersed in your culture, schooling, thought paths, I go to church, watch you on TV, I can't understand why these chains don't fit. I started turning a def-ear to what you say and chains started dropping. I feel better though everybody thinks I'm odd now, I don't mean to be trouble."
"I hope this is not contagious, can't have all like you to be like you. This global plantation thing is not working."
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