barstool talk, albeit not on a barstool
I think this here is a conversation everybody takes a part of at some point in their life.
“I like the image of Jesus. Really comfortable clothing. Good Sandals. Leads to wisdom.”
“Yeah, Jesus is cool. Good miracles. Loaves into bread, and etc. There is part of the message I don’t like. The meek shall inherit the Earth? Haven’t seen that happen.”
“Maybe the meek inherited the Earth, but the Strong just took it back from them.”
“I think the meek inherited the Earth, than simply became the enemy they once despised. Also, Moses… He parted the Red Sea.”
“Yeah, but that’s not that impressive. The more impressive part is parting it back up right when the Pharoa’s army crosses.”
“I saw a movie once. It looked pretty good. But I think Moses ended up becoming this cranky gun nut.”
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A game to play might be to figure out which lines from that were mine. Another game is to sort through your mind and recall the discussion you participated in which most closely matches that batch of talk, or to see if you end up in the exact same lines. I note that the observation from sandals, slightly tweaked, was posited from Cliff Clavin on Cheers. Human interaction is an interesting thing (I say as though I am a Robotic Mass puzzled over such a concept), in that you are compelled to say something, and thus you do.
Although that conversation is probably in some ways as ubiquitious, in the correct scheme of things, somewhere in the next 60 years I am likely to find myself dissecting it with a group in people in that matter.