#the life of jesus

[sincericida]

Andrew Garfield when he reads a script for a religious role or biopic:

Now, I’m here thinking things about Andrew and Miles in the same movie...

[alephskoteinos]

Just found out there's a myth about Jesus of Nazareth and Judas Iscariot recorded in the Toledot Yeshu, an ancient Jewish biographical text about Jesus, in which they both fight over the Tetragrammaton (the Ineffable Name of God), which Jesus smuggles from the Temple by cramming it into his thigh, and then Judas and Jesus fight in the sky, both powered by the name of God, and then Judas literally masturbates (or at least urinates) all over Jesus and causes him to fall to the ground like Simon Magus.

In context, there is an interesting angle where Jesus is alleged to have attained the signifiers of Messiah status through deceit or illicit means, or, like for Roman polytheist critics such as Celsus, he was essentially a magician in the classically perjorative sense; a practitioner of goeteia or mageia, acting not in the name of the "highest divine good" (God, in this case) but instead for his own self-interested goals. Apparently using the name of God to cure illness and banish demons was proof of that, at least insofar as the Toledot Yeshu takes this as being with the aim of establishing himself as the Messiah, and therefore the spiritual leader of Judaea. But of course, if the accusation is mageia or goeteia, then the only meaning this has is the moral designation of the terrain of magic in itself: in other words, it only matters insofar as someone says this brand of magic is wrong, because your goals are somehow incorrect or corrupt.

Judas' act of coitus occupies a strange dual poistion, wherein even though it aims to challenge and negate Jesus' claim to messianic power and stature, which is implied to be illegitimate and ill-gotten, it is still itself a blasphemy, a transgression, a "wrongful" intermingling of the sacred and profane - in this case, God with the activity of coitus and therefore the body at its basest. The legitimation and delegitimisation of divine authority, these are both contained within the human body and its activity in some way. The flipside of that is that from there we're to take this episode as evidence that, at least for a certain tradition of Judaism expressed within the Toledot Yeshu, the God-principle or sacredness is not supposed to merge with the "profane" world of corporeality or body, and that therefore to unite those two worlds is a sacrilege, a religious and moral transgression, and in a sense blasphemy.

There is also a strange similarity or at least a shared theme with the Orphic myth of the rebirth of Dionysus. You know the myth: Dionysus is born, he is supposed to inherit Zeus' throne, but Hera, hating this arrangement, had Dionysus killed by the Titans, and then Zeus discovers that the Titans had dismembered, cooked, and ate Dionysus' flesh and destroyed them, but, seeing that Dionysus' heart was still there, saved his heart and smuggled it in his thigh, and then Dionysus is born a second time. In Orphic terms Dionysus is frequently likened to spirit, or the spiritual nature of humans, which is tragically stuck in the corporeal form of the human body and the vice that it inherits from the Titans, whose ashes were used to make the human body. Whether tragically or blasphemously, the spirit-principle finds itself passing into the human body in a very similar way: through the thigh.

But anyway, props to Judas Isacriot, the world-class coomer whose seed caused Jesus to fall to the ground, thereby proving that cooming dispels the authority of God and is therefore based.

Catch the fever, Jesus of Nazareth!

[frnndlcs]

La Vie de Jésus, Bruno Dumont, 1997

[memoriesofthingspast]

hegel; “the life of jesus”

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[careful-disorder]

Giotto, Kiss of Giudas, Scrovegni Chapel

"The life of Jesus is primarily outlined in the four canonical gospels, which includes his genealogy and nativity, public ministry, passion, prophecy, resurrection and ascension." The life of Jesus

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

[bible-prophecy-in-action]

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[empireofthestates]

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[alakuhfuckingzam]

the v's are so funny to me. they own some of the biggest media companies in hell. they're a bunch of upstarts who have the patience of a toddler. only one of them can deal with the others shit at a time like they're playing the worst game of rock paper scissors ever. they call each other pet names. they're hells worst polycule. they're somehow the least and most efficient business partners ever. they're some of the most impulsive people on the cast. they manipulate each other constantly. they're a moth, a tv, and a clown. one of them is shown to be so much worse than the other two. i think they'd kill each other if they were allowed too. they lean on each other so heavily they'd knock over the leaning tower of piza. ive never seen three cunts try so hard in my life.

like what is wrong with them i want to put them in a terrarium and observe them with a magnifying glass.

[sincericida]

It looks like Martin Scorsese’s “The Life of Jesus” is definitely happening. It’s going to be starting production in the fall, most likely in October.

I can also confirm Andrew Garfield’s participation in the project, but Miles Teller, the other rumored actor, seems to be a maybe at the moment. The film, mostly set in the present day, will be shooting in Italy, Egypt and Israel.

Scorsese is independently financing “The Life of Jesus,” based on Shūsaku Endō’s 1973 book, and it’s set to be one of the least costly projects for him in quite some time. For the last 25 years he’s been helming big studio productions, and this one seems to be a much more intimate film.

Describing the project, Scorsese has said that it would be around 80 minutes and focus on “Jesus’ core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesn’t proselytize,” adding “it’s kind of a film, but it wouldn’t be a straight narrative, it wouldn’t be a documentary, it’d be a combination of things.

Scorsese completed the screenplay, collaborating with critic and filmmaker Kent Jones, and it’ll be set, mostly, in the present day, although Scorsese admitted that he doesn’t want to be locked into a certain period, because he wants the film to feel timeless.

“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” Scorsese says.

Last July, Scorsese mentioned that for years he’s been looking to make a film about the life of Christ. He wanted to make one in the early ‘70s, in 16mm black and white. However, it was seeing Pasolini’s “The Gospel According to St Matthew” that made him decide against it.

Before he embarks on “The Life of Jesus,” Scorsese recently arrived in Italy to shoot the documentary about ancient shipwrecks in Sicily.

[willowcrowned]

in europe and made the fatal mistake of trying to order nachos at a restaurant and look. europeans. I say this with all the love in my heart. but what exactly do you think nachos are

[wordswithloveee]

[vaguely-concerned]

So much of Garak as a person starts to make sense once you know his childhood was a fucking gothic novel. His main playground was a graveyard and he'd play pretend by perfoming improv eulogies to an imagined audience. For a long time his main touchstone for most important figures from recent history is 'oh yeah I know about that guy my dad buried him. great flower arrangements for that one'. He finds out later his 'parents' are actually a brother and sister who had to get married to avoid the utter shame and social devastation of having a child born out of wedlock, and they live in the basement of his biological father's house. (the madwoman in the attic vs. the tiny elim in the basement.) His biological father calls himself his uncle and locks him in a closet whenever he fails to live up to his insane and unpredictable expectations and everyone just has to act like that's normal and expected, and his will hangs over everything at all times, unseen but always felt keener than anything else. The father who actually raised him grows the world's most beautiful (and as it turns out, most poisonous) orchids and keeps the mask of a god hidden in a box in his work shed. Everyone in the house is choking down secrets like it's the only air they know how to breathe anymore.

What I'm saying is that right from the get-go this guy never had the faintest shot at turning out normal, so I'm glad that by middle age he's found a way to get a bit silly with it as he continues to be deeply deeply not normal about anything ever <3

[risibledeer]

I think I draw too much of him... I should really stop lol