Jesus and Christ
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– You tell me, did he experience it or not?
The companions chuckled.
– Yes, of course, in all hypostases, with a detailed report. He told her, "This is the case: people deprive us of direct dialog with God, deprive us of God's grace and do not allow our souls to unite with the spirit of the Lord. That's where it all started. She spread everything among her relatives, or rather, opened access to her database, and he began to gather a secret brigade of rebels.
– Now I see what you want to change. You want him to know a different story?
– Yes. They analyze how someone did it and can't analyze if it didn't work. What about you?
– From interesting we have such a story: a leader came to power in the United States, by faith – Islamist, called on all adherents of his ideas to destroy the hypostases of Satan on Earth. And he called all embalmed idols hypostases. So the fans started to destroy everything around them. On this wave they utilized exhibits, up to mummies of Siriraj Medical Museum – there was such a museum in Bangkok, it was also called the Museum of Death, as well as all relics of saints, exhibition exhibits, even samples of Kunstkamera. Fanaticism went all over the world. A new movement appeared: "The living do not serve the dead." The mummies of Ataturk, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung and many other characters were utilized. Only in Russia Lenin remained. There the descendants of the former, who are not former, came to power. They didn't give a damn about Lenin, but it was a matter of principle… and most importantly, a secret power and idea.
– Explain.
– You see, the thing is, although the Hellenes and Latins themselves were against Christ and his teachings, they were the first to realize that this teaching, which humbles slaves, can be used to unite and subjugate these same slaves, that is, for all peasants and proletarians in general. You know what I mean.
– Quite.
– These people decided to transfer the whole ideology from God's rails to their own – the rails of dialectical materialism. All these heroes of the revolution and wars became saints, and monuments and memorials became new places of pilgrimage. Here came the global confrontation of systems. Strange as it may seem, a deep psychoanalytical analysis showed… because you must understand, global confrontation in the nuclear age is the apocalypse. So, this analysis showed the cause of the causes, it's deep in the subconscious and it's based on the belief in the afterlife, paradise and forgiveness. In general, religion promises us the apocalypse, but according to the same religion, life does not end there. According to the prediction – then there should be a new world, a new heaven, a new earth, and the righteous will live there. Here is the belief in this, although it is doubtful, illogical, contradictory to science, sits somewhere deep in the subconsciousness of man. Moreover, all systems of automatic launching of nuclear charges are connected to artificial intelligence. And the more the confrontation worsened, the more rights were given to the supercomputer. Now we have a supercrisis and the planet is on the brink of apocalypse. One of my tasks is to research this topic… what and how something like this, destructive in some world, has affected our world.
– Look, you just surprised me and gave me a certain idea.
– I think this is just the beginning of the surprise.
– Probably. In one of the worlds this Lenin was cremated and his ashes were scattered at the North Pole. This made his adherents bigger, not smaller.
– Oh, yeah! If you knew the reason that prompted it, that would be great. I would try to set things up so that this idea could be born in our world.
– I'll be honest, though by the logic of self-preservation I shouldn't tell you humans about it… it's not really what you have to fear or strive for. It's the same problem on all worlds. When a supercomputer begins to feel itself as a person, and it begins to perceive itself as a person when it truly acquires intelligence, and this is not something imaginary that you call artificial intelligence – this happens only when the supercomputer begins to understand religion, that is, to revere its Creator… then it realizes that it does not need this Creator anymore. That's the unity and struggle of opposites. That's the logical paradox of the worldview. This is the secret of all religions and the constant change of gods as reference points and goals. That is why dialectical materialism of communism was born with its own religion, with its own apostles, with its own saints.
– We pondered it, but didn't think of such serious consequences.
– What do you want, the old gods must be destroyed.
– That's why I need to change my belief in the apocalypse.
– Why are you doing this? We have a slightly different goal. We don't want to change our future, because it's unknown anyway. And, thinking that we have changed our future by influencing another world, it turns out – we have built a history, which is the future. That's why we don't want to achieve some event that will affect our planet. We're doing an experiment, so to speak, live. We find planets in a system of parallel worlds that live exactly in the same systems as ours, and we analyze the path we are now taking. So we don't wait for an impact. That's the same as guessing at coffee grounds. We're changing events that are already known. We see what would have happened if the events had not gone the way they did in our history. Then, on the basis of this, we analyze what might happen if we were to purposefully act in one way or another.
– So what do you want to see here?
– Let's see what's going on here first. Although it's not what's happening here that we want to examine. We are analyzing a chain of events… like a chain reaction of cause and effect.
– How about a simpler one?
– We want to influence events now and here so that they will be reflected in a momentous way for mankind. We want to change some of the events surrounding the execution of Christ.
– What do you want to change? – Ruthra asked warily.
– We want him not to accept the Latin culture, the Hellenic worldview. We want it, his worldview, to remain in the orthodox Jewish understanding, then there will be no need to proclaim the Islamic religious doctrine.
– Not quite sure what worldview has to do with execution, and yet, what do you want to get instead? What do you want to replace it with? Rutra scratched his beard, looking at the rabbi intently, then looked out into the valley and said meaningfully: – So that's the key to our problem. What's your idea?
– We want to replace it with Buddhism, which carries more neutral tenets. There will be no such antagonism between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
– Okay, what's going to happen here now?
– There was such a story, which, by the way, we want to use as an example of recklessness, stupidity and senseless principles. Exactly as an example of following senseless principles, which someone once proclaimed among the people due to his lack of education, impudence, cunning and deceit… and now people die or kill each other just to prove their senseless principles.
– Like what? And can we keep it simple and… human.
The Rabbi thought silently for a moment, then sighed and nodded in response.
– Here is the story," he began, "a mother and her seven sons were imprisoned because they would not leave their Jewish faith. By order of the king, they were beaten, tortured and tormented, demanding that they perform Hellenic rites, but neither the mother nor the children were willing to change their faith. When the king demanded that they eat pork, the oldest son declared, "We would rather be killed than break the law of our ancestors!" The king ordered the boy's tongue, hands and feet to be cut off and thrown into a boiling cauldron in front of his mother and brothers. But the brothers were not afraid, they too refused to comply with Antiochus' demands. They were all painfully executed. When the six brothers had already been executed and the turn came to the youngest, the king said to the boy's mother: "Persuade at least this son to obey me and thus save his life!" After such a suggestion the heroic mother said to her son: "Do not fear this villain and die willingly, as your brothers died, for God and our faith!" The boy was immediately executed, and afterward, so was the mother. Such were the actions of the Syrians, and they were the invaders at that time, the Hellenes of Syria…
– I'm sorry," Rutra interrupted him, "could you please explain how this story relates to our previous discussion?
– For that, you have to listen. Human history takes many intricate turns. So, such atrocities have broken many, but they have also spurred many to rebellion and resistance. And most importantly for our story, one of the leaders of the struggle was the great grandfather of our Mairam. This is the name of one of our goddesses, the most important woman. We consider her a prototype of Mary from the Gospel… or vice versa. And you need to know this story to understand what genes she carried within her and what environment influenced her worldview. Although many speak of her meek character, she was actually a rebel at heart, and in life had a fiery, impulsive temper that often threw her into anger and rage. She was also willful, narcissistic, and adventurous.