Unity after Detachment

I am posing the question of whether or not it is possible for our human race to dually detach from hierarchy and at the same time unify under communal effort.  The reason I bring this up is because I would like to make some noise during this most pinnacle moment in our human history, as to whether we should be thinking of ways to ultimately unify in leu of our potential for mass nuclear destruction.  I would like to create some dialogue about this possibility because its imperative to how we would like to see our world operate.  How perhaps could we learn from mistakes made before us?  Could we perhaps as intelligent species evolve into egalitarian naturalists, or is our survival dependent on more animal like instincts? If everyone was enlightened and still needed to survive together on this earth would they even act out of egalitarian principles, or would they wander and eat only what they find?  Give me your thoughts.

Jesus, The Philosopher

One theme that could be taken away from Crossan’s description of Jesus is that he wasn’t exactly the immortal messiah that performed physical miracle, but an extraordinary religious student whose moral attachment and divine understanding of human interaction drove him to act towards revolutionary social reconstruction.  To undertake the responsibilities he enlisted to himself and to his followers, Jesus subscribed to a certain understanding of the world in which philosophers or religious scholars before him had most likely thought of before.  Jesus’ actions are a reflection of free will’s possibly imperative influence on human relationships and their potential for absolute cooperation.  This involves acting under certain moral criteria which in this case is a universal principle of justice and morality much like principles of deontology.  The thing that makes Jesus so extraordinary is his ability to take the principles in Judaic text and assure that himself and his people are acting upon such to their fullest significance.  Jesus is an incredible example of the improved and elaborated product of a past idea or way of doing things.  This Theme is also found throughout the evolution of music composition, art composition, social construction and possibly even the manifestation of life itself.    

The Image of a Messiah

People tell me that I look like Jesus.  In fact many of my peers know me as baby Jesus.  But do they even know what the messiah really looked like?  In our culture Jesus is associated with a white, slender, tall man with long brown hair and a beard but other cultures have their own image of the man.  Consider that image though with the historical context in mind; Jesus would have looked very different from everyone else if that’s how he looked.  He would have had darker skin as a middle-eastern Jew for one. Different cultures have different interpretations of the image of Jesus, projecting him as similar to their own kind, probably making him easier to relate to.  A team of researchers has designed a more likely view of Jesus based on anthropological and archeological evidence that is far different from our Western view of Jesus. This website explains a different view of Jesus that may change the way you think of him in your minds: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186