So it’s the twenty-first, of the twenty first.
Twenty years after, in the Year of the Lord.
After 2000 years of Anno Domini — is seriously just nomenclature to “kids nowadays”, however insipid that sounded. Having our time and days counted and numbered by an event that marked our existence, as Before Christ, and After the Death of Christ, is pretty indicative how important that actually is.
For something to revolve around an event that massive, is confounding. The profundity of which might actually (it occurred to me), escape people. Or have them forget, from time to time.
It is ironic that serious scholars have been baffled for ages — having not understood the implications of being a “bad Catholic”, (not knowing your sunday school facts, or not having gone to formal catholic schools and not knowing what Advent, or Easter was) was considered blasphemy in the literal or literary sense — to forefathers who have founded the faith on their governance — and the other way around, having their faith be the prime foundations of something as primitive as governing other people.
And this is why we are educated, and having assigned our parents to the task, we are subject to its being foundational to being primary citizens of nations that founded it. This applies not just to catholic societies — they are no longer being persecuted or arrested by people who have no belief or choose not to recognise prophet as messiah, and wish to believe in other men, guys, blokes that don’t have those beards, and dress up in rags. (Literally.)
The Jesus conundrum is a symbol of faith. In the daily. We aren’t just blind followers of something impending, or magnanimity in its hindrance of all things evil. Not even in its defining what evil actually is, at this point. Like all ventures, there are glossaries at stake, and defining terms that might conceptually be relevant, is key.
That’s what school is for.
(Not an institution of destruction). It doesn’t destroy beliefs, nor structural integrity. It doesn’t just beheme itself to the follies of the upperclass, or as one might observe “just the few”, but maybe, it is a way of dispelling the unknowns. Knowledge pilfering the vulnerability of the masses — is it modal? Or is that a means to a torturous end (if we don’t pedal, maybe there won’t be a need to “work as hard as my parents” pressure ascending to places they mightn’t need to any longer)?
There are certainties that contain impasses to disbelief — but doesn’t necessarily depend on its implications, it won’t tell you how and when to live your lives, just merely a guide to how other people, and prophets had done it (at a turning point when the World had been at that points f peril, and how they addressed these uncertainties, and persecution).
But at this point, the Jesuits have done a solid with their Question, and all logic will reasonably point you forward and have your own “eureka” to concede to what others simply told or witnessed. It has nothing to do with education or upperclass aptitudes, per se. It has nothing to do with financial at all (being a Catholic will not make you a superstar, or appear mighty at the country or supper clubs), it will though help you become accepted as and when you are.
And that revelation is best believed, when actually seen or in an “as it happens” basis. Because, why make it easy when, the proof is truly in the pudding.
And that’s actually, *Twenty-one years after the Death of Christ. (Or primordially its account of - at the turn of the epic twenty-first century).
Today, one of the greatest faithfuls and minds i have had the privilege to meet as of today, celebrates his 50th birthday, as he walks on this side of the earth, and as it happens is a good friend of mine since we were twelve-ish? His, as mad (probably slightly more of an insomniac) as my one, mind had produced/programmed chikka (the desktop chat applicaton-as-product), in 1999 - and just slightly more Jesuit-educated than i am. And this entry is dedicated to him, as i am as ever, in awe of his dedication, originality, and tireless, shameless invention.
