Dean: Hey Jack, how are your faith lessons going?
Jack: I don’t know Dean, just trying various things here.
Dean: You do know right, faith is nothing without actions.
Jack: There’s been enough bullshit for one day and I’m tired of chasing lessons of faith that are just said but those who say and tell them never really follow them to fullness. And I’ve been fucking to the hill and back one too many times.
Dean: How can you help others living in distress?
Jack: I guess when you become fish, there is no water. So you breath. It becomes old and you realize, you are walking on the sea floor, and the oceans been sucked out, the sunlight reaches the depths and … what else?
Dean: I gave you Bible, the best book in the world. Can’t it guide you a little?
Jack: I’m trying man, but not all the answers are in the book. The book is just a clue, you know. Life’s a car, you get the manual but things are always tricky in practice.
Dean: What do you think Bible is not good enough for conversions? Shame on the way you think.
Jack: I’m just trying to get people to church, whether they convert or not is not my head ache, jeez! You can be sometimes dark when it comes to faith.
Dean: We’re just trying to bring people under the same roof, remember?
Jack: People don’t just buy your faith like that anymore. We are looking at one of the most wisest and clever generation in the history, you think they’ll just believe in Bible without proof? Then pray to heavens to give us some sign.
Dean: There are countless signs in the Bible!!
Jack: Well that’s exactly what all the other books baost.
Dean: Why are you trying to compete, just put together your shit and dig into the facts
Jack: People don’t want facts, people want evidence that they literally can’t escape from.
Dean: Bible’s been traveling through time, it’s been there for ages
Jack: Yeah, the sanskrit beats us to carbon dating
Dean: It’s not matter of language man, it’s about what we’ve been carying in our genes
Jack: Tell that to the dummies who would just keep on reading scriptures without knowing its mean. You must at least read the message in a language that you understand man
Dean: Why would hindus not read their scripture in hindi, does it have to be suns… what was that language again
Jack: Sunskrit
Dean: Then target hindus, those polytheist bastards will come running to church cause you know what, trinity bitches!
Jack: Don’t be child dean. Last time I met a yogi, he always had me convinced Jesus was just reincarnation of Krishna. Do you have any idea how hard it is to shake of things that just stick to your mind. Hindus wait for the tenth incarnation of vishnu, everybody’s throwing their hopes on a future guy that can fly, I don’t just get it, why would then believers despise comic book junkies, I mean if you have to live a life of imagination, why not superman?
Dean: Because he’s fast and strong but he can’t get you to heaven
Jack: God have mercy. Does it has to be about heaven?
Dean: Strictly speaking, if you could show people their dead loved ones who’ve gone to hell or heaven on a projector screen, it will be a movie they will never forget
Jack: Be practical dean, just be fucking practical
Dean: All that I care is that I survived, I’m just very Biblical, I have faith in my lyrics, so have some faith Jack, Mom and Dad didn’t baptized you so you can look like a big ball of regrets, dancing in your fancy shit, and forever keep loathing yourself for things that are not in your control
Jack: Okay, I’m listening, you better suggest something good.
Dean: Alright, see. Nice and easy. Just relax man.
Jack: Don’t push it, just give it to me straight
Dean: Alright, so 1, Timothy, 3:6…. He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.
Jack: What’s the point?
Dean: You are a recent convert, and more importantly, a crescent convert, do you know how hard it is for crescents to convert to cross?
Jack: What are you saying?
Dean: Pressure. Peer pressure. You are a new convert, people only believe in experienced preachers.
Jack: I get it, I’m a recent crescent convert, now that I’m cross, I follow my new boss, so boss, is there anything more!!
Dean: Roman, 16:5… Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.
Jack: And…?
Dean: You are Asian, right?
Jack: So?
Dean: Which makes you first fruit in Asia
Jack: Yada yada, fast forward to…?
Dean: Epenetus, means praise worthy… those who break out from hardshells. And crescent culture is a hardshell. Are you not told that crosses in America are converting to crescent all the time while you are running in the opposite direction?
Jack: How does that help my preaching?
Dean: The original Epenetus was greeted by Saint Paul, and only a prisoner knows best how to help another prisoner towards salvation
Jack: What are you trying to imply?
Dean: For crescents, those who follow the cross are prisoners, now we’ve been preached freedom of faith for long enough, why not turn the page around and see the otherside?
Jack: You are saying that I used to be a crescent, and because I’ve lived among the league of prisoners, it somehow gives me a great advantage to free them?
Dean: Yes!! Yess!!
Jack: Haven’t you been listening? When you live in volunteer imprisonment, you don’t say you are a prisoner, you say you are best buddies with the jailor, and the jailor will eventually free you after you’ve served in the prison for long enough, for God knows what sins. So their imprisonment is voluntary. I broke out cause I just wanted to be out in the open. Cross is the open… source… kinda thing for me.
Dean: How bad it is?
Jack: Well, you know how our law says be buddies with Jesus and be slave to God?
Dean: okay…
Jack: Their law says don’t be buddies with high hollies, be a slave of the prophet and God as well. So they are basically serving two Gods.
Dean: Why is that too hard to see?
Jack: Because on the reputation of the prophet is used to carry out goals of regimes. I know it happens in our world too, but you should see the locks that never seem to rust
Dean: That’s insane, you can and you should only be slave to God, be follower of nobles, don’t be their slaves.
Jack: Not when you are told to be slave and feel pride in it
Dean: Why?
Jack: Salvation… heaven… pretty much the same things that we say Jesus can offer, minus aggression that you don’t get by making cartoons and making fun of Jesus.
Dean: Man that’s bad… brutal
Jack: What’s worse is that they are not only bound by the book but bound by the law as well. Can you imagine, in this time and age, in this age of modernism… that no human rights organization can deliver the prisoners who are going through life time imprisonment just because they are born in the prison. C’mon dude, our prisons ain’t like that. There are rules in Christianity, there are rules in America. No one’s above the law. Not even the president.
Dean: Oooh. Let me echo that. NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT!!
Jack: Don’t put me into politics again. I beg you. Spare me some peace of mind.
Dean: Granted! So how did you break out?
Jack: I broke out of the tradition, not the law. Crescent court systems literally empower jails to persecute those who say their imprisonment is not voluntary.
Dean: So you are forced to live in a jail and say that it is voluntary?
Jack: Believe it or not, that’s how it works.
Dean: How’s that working out for the prisoners?
Jack: What can you do? Those who are part of the system will never speak against it. It’s like being in North Korea where you can’t say anything about Kim Jung Un. So imagine who they are making KJU?
Dean: Their own noble? No noble deserves that. It’s unkind, unncessary, and… dammit. Unbelievable. What will we tell to our father, a noble’s naem is misused in that way and we were there to do nothing about it?
Jack: Yeah, dude, the supernatural we live in, the freedom that we get in the states, is only in the states.
Dean: And they are convinced that it is about the states of the mind
Jack: Go figure
Dean: So what can a guy that somehow received a part of the bail from a jail form which you can’t get out would have to say to the prisoners that he left behind?
Jack: I know that you think you are free, try to be free to find out if you are really free
Dean: And what if they can’t be free and know it, what if they know their situation and that there’s no way out of it?
Jack: Then at least stop giving hand outs to tourists who come to visit the jail and tell them about the luxuries of not having the power to say anything about the jail from which you just can’t get out.
Dean: They live in there voluntarily, doesn’t mean they have the right to change the definition of what is volunteerism
Jack: You don’t know these happy places. The dictionaries they abide by. It has meaning of the words, what they want it to mean, to keep the jail fortified, inescapable.
Dean: The only you can know there’s air is by stepping out of the water
Jack: Well, when you are a crossling in the world of crescent, they don’t get why dolphins have those blow holes, you can’t think straight from voluntary gills. Fishes will be fishes, dolphins will be dolphins.
Dean: Alright, that’s enough for Atlantic news. What’s outside the water world?
Jack: Well, their christmas is close, I don’t want to ruin it
Dean: Then what do you have to give to them for their christmas?
Jack: I wish I had something.