Jack Pelham

It had been the simplest of commands—
You can eat all this, but not that.

He has no food,
And yet he is not hungry,
For he has learned to live
Without feeding his mind.

Somewhere on the journey to mastery,
One starts to realize that even though
He doesn’t know everything yet, so much of
What he sees in this world can be fixed—
And that he knows how to fix some of it.

Funny how we can learn so very much
About the nature of things
While ignoring so very much
About the nature of us!

When the man will not be a good man—
It makes the good wife’s life a living hell.

My intent with this post is to write a short and useful generalization of how I see Christianity today as a largely-compromised version of the original religion, as taught and demonstrated by Jesus and his apostles in the First Century. To be useful as I envision, it needs to stay short–yet if it stays short, it must make use of generalizations that aren’t true of every single believer. I hope that you can forgive this as you read, realizing that you or someone you know may well be an exception to the general observations here. Indeed, I hope you are!

From: Botocrat.com Identity Transition Team

RE: Status Upgrade

17 May 2023

Dear Former Human,

I’m not sure it was invented once and for all,
And then adopted by others, as are many things,
For it seems that each of us reinvents it for himself—
As if by necessity—rather than learning it from someone else.

That a man may choose to imagine
Things as they are not
Is a blessing of beyond calculation
Yet the very same man, so blessed,
Can bring himself to utter ruin
When he chooses to believe
Things as they are not.

Having considered your position and your circumstances,
I perceive that you need me to be wrong about this.
And suddenly, it makes sense why you are so concerned
With peripheral matters, such as my tone or my spelling,
Or my motives—or whether there may be some discoverable
Moral fault with me.