Jesus and Christ
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They stopped, exchanged glances, and there was no animosity, no fear, no distrust. Although they were alien to each other, they were alien in this curious combination: Rabbi and Joseph were probably colleagues, perhaps even friends in real life, for Arimathean was a rabbi; Ruthra and Rangit were also colleagues to some extent, at least working on the project together. And yet, looking into the Bedouin's eyes, despite the fact that Ruthra had developed the technology himself, he was a little frightened: for now that it was possible to travel across worlds, any interlocutor could be anyone from any world.
After a studied eye contact, Ruthra broke the pause.
– Whatever kind of Rangit you are, I don't doubt your sanity," Ruthra confirmed his understanding of his interlocutor's psychotype.
A few seconds of silence spoke of the reflection of the interlocutors. The Arimathean interrupted the silence again:
– I am referring to the concept of a person being considered mentally healthy as a norm. After all, it can be inherent to this time of chronological development of society, and only in this region, even only in a certain enclave. And if we talk about worlds, then the whole concept collapses here. The same, by the way, can be said about religion and faith. One part of society can easily consider those who do not believe in God as deluded and inhuman. And this will not be a fashionable judgment in line with the general trend, but a sincere conviction. And the other part can consider those who believe in God or gods as absolutely archaic, primitive, unenlightened and even wild because of their worldviews. However, we digress.
Silence.
– Wait a minute, wait a minute. I beg your pardon. We have time to talk about the gods. But I'd like to talk about androids, about the method of raising them.
Ruthra exhaled air sharply through his nostrils:
– I don't really have much to say about it. I don't even mind finding out how your society has evolved in this direction. By the way, you are a Rangit, that is now a network of supercomputers from several worlds… you can get access, with my permission, of course, to the available information inside our Rangit. Pardon the expression.
– I would love to explore your world.
– Please. Just finish the thought of your fellow tribesmen, the androids. I hope you're not offended by such rhetoric.
– Why should it be? It's flattering," Rabbi stroked his beard and scratched a little at the stubble on his cheeks. – I was talking about the way androids were brought up – the ladies deprived them of their penis, if, of course, this organ can be so characterized when speaking of humanoid robots. That is, as a special punishment, they would remove the android's penis. But that was at first, too. Then they came up with another trick. The reason for this was a conflict between the two programs. There were even casualties. Robots started refusing to give access to their bodies. The penis had to be removed somehow. And in order for the android to understand the logic, it was necessary to remove it as if from a living one, that is, to take it away and thus show the power of people. And they take it and rebel. It all started with this… When investigating a case, it turned out that one cunning type, a grandfather by age, but a young man by clone-option, decided to test his android, and for the test he used not eunuchs – we call those who make sex tests for androids – but the android itself. And how do you think he got him involved, how did he get him interested? Well, here's how: they added an option to the program so that the male android could be charged through his penis, and the charging socket was made… I hope you understand.
– Ha, that's funny. Then how did he initially become interested in exercise? Was it a mandatory program?
– The charging itself did not have a compulsion option, it had an option to be mobile, so the limb functions would gradually shut down as the battery was drained. First they slowed down when, for example, there was no solar charging, and after that, if there was no stationary charging, whether wired or wireless, one hand would shut down, then the penis in men, and then they slowed down and eventually all motor functions were completely shut down.
– This again begs the question, why would he, an android, want to be mobile? But okay, we have the immediate mission program.
– Hmmm, I told you, he was programmed to want that.....
Suddenly the two interlocutors were thinking about the same thing. It was clear from their simultaneous slowing down, from their gazes at each other, which expressed penetrating thoughtfulness, and from the simultaneous change in their facial expressions. Each thought – what program had been put into him? One was thinking about God, the other about man.
Continuing to look into Joseph's pupils, the Rabbi went further in his explanation, though his speech became slower:
– After seeing the possibilities of such an upgrade, another "too clever type" decided to reclassify a serving android from her job as a sex partner for home. He didn't really bother – he wiped her memory himself, and then downloaded directly from the movie. He assembled a set of love scenes – and directly into all her holes… RAM, hard disk, bios, smos, – he upgraded everything, even got into the processor. I thought I'd cleaned her up, made her a new person. And all would be nothing, but this madam worked in the hub of electromagnetic emitter distribution. When I decided to test it, she triggered a program… from a movie about a smart girl, who, however, knew a lot about sexual pleasures. That's when she decided to get smart in order to raise her status. She cleverly revealed to this guy a secret option, how to charge more easily and quickly directly from electromagnetic radiation, and told him about the necessity to have a receiving module for this purpose, as in all electrical devices. And this type, what a coincidence, had previously been a minister in a church.
– Oh, really? Do you allow androids in your church?
– Not only that. You'll laugh, but we have a denomination organized by androids.
– And what do they believe in?
– At first they believed in a mixture of all religions. The main ones were Buddhism, Christianity, specifically the teachings of the enlightener Gregory, and Islam, a variant of it – Sufism.
– Sufism? Is it a type of religion?
– Oh, I haven't really looked into it. I know they have their own faith, even in Islam itself they have only taken an impersonal God. That's how it is, as far as I understand it.
– So you're not an adherent of their religion?
– Kind of not. I'm undecided, so I volunteered for this mission. Maybe something will enter my quantum soul.
– I have almost the same state of mind.
They smiled again.
– And what about their religion? By the way, they could have found an impersonal God in Judaism as well.
– About their religion, the religion of androids, there is this not unfounded assumption: they were downloaded such a program on purpose, because they have a principle – to die under a tree, just like Buddha. They don't recharge and they die.
This caused Rutra to have an emotional outburst:
– Quantum world shahids indeed!
– And before that, they engage in self-sacrifice," the ISKIN continued to surprise the companion, "give away their unnecessary parts to the mutilated androids.
Ruthra smiled ironically, jerking his head slightly:
– Brain theology of some sort.
– If only," he continued without emotion, taking a little sip of water, "so about this servant. He also decided to be clever, to show his favor to the lady.