Did Jesus have non-linear thoughts, the "I/Me" and the Beatitudes.

A Land of Ice and Snow

 To summarize, we People have a "Me" and an "I." "The I" is mostly somatic and when exchanging opinions "The I" issues from the limbic system, it's the grumpy old guy devoted to surrealist utterances, who lives in the basement. The "Me" is both sides of a gossiping couple called the  Prefrontal Cortex. "The I," being somatic and bodily, isn't big on language, the "I" produces "Affects" which for a doctor are the physical symptoms of an internal emotional condition that requires diagnosis.

Our couple, the "Me" has a bit of a cogitate, during which conclusions about the legitimacy of the "I's" position are  reached. Many of "Our" conclusions  are based on the perceived Affect "The I" position will have on other members of "Our" species.

Why on earth? An understanding of society is socially constructed. This makes it a symbolic understanding of something that may or may not be real. Like the curate's egg our symbolic understandings of the real have good parts and bad parts.

The other thing we have to try to accept is that we share these constructed symbols and together they comprise the cognitive architecture that enables society. We like to think we control this operating system but we don't. What we are is a little piece of what evolved to be an interdependent system which in evolutionary terms has been very successful but which in more recent iterations of Western society seems to encourage those of us with a more sociopathic attitude toward The Beatitudes.

Baxter and I with much assistance from Can Bobby and no help whatsoever from Ivan have come to an "I/Me" conclusion that "I" should henceforth be referred to as "The Department of Limbic Emissions" and the "Me" should be charged with the administrative task of running "The Department of Administrative Satisfaction, Confessions and Healing."

Our inspiration for this decision comes from Zhang Daoling and his "Way of the Five Pecks of Rice." Successive leaders of the movement became depressingly theocratic and authoritarian.They took to increasing the number of rules, decreasing the number of people allowed into paradise and to calling themselves "The Celestial Masters."

The Point is, with ICE in the trees and Snow on the ground I wish to argue for an understanding of the beatitudes that suggest they may have come from the non-linear mind of a Hunter-Gatherer and later his message was realigned to suit an Augustinian Iron Cage of Stalinesque Linear Thinking.

The question is, was Jesus cynically hunting and gathering converts to the linear cause and its demand for absolute obedience. Or was he in any way non-linear. Was his  "Blessed are the Meek," a rejection by the less responsive and surly of the absolute control demanded of them by the Trinity. Was "Blessed are the Poor in Spirit," a rejection of spiritual accumulation. Was "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst," a validation of the "I" in the basement roaring what the F's the matter with everyone then sticking a finger down his throat while the quarreling storage and hierarchy couple who lived upstairs admired an invitation to the White House Easter Egg Hunt and attempted to interpret their sense of abject and pointless emptiness.