ARGUING WITH IAGO

so you're watching tv on the pilgrims ... and king james shows up and says he will be obeyed as was the centurion in the bible ... but the king might have remembered it wasn't the authority of the centurion's command that impressed jesus ... it was the authority of his obedience to jesus that did that ... now jesus being the kind of man he was wasn't often surprised ... but the simplicity and efficiency of the centurion's action and thought ... the purity of his assumptions ... surprised him ... must have pleased him ... must have strengthened his hope for mankind ... and this follows because it's what would take place in the mind of any thoughtful man ... and jesus was that ... indeed based on this last most reasonable assumption we can say a lot about jesus and how he might have thought about things not to be found in the bible ... we can for example read what other thoughtful people think that jesus might do ... or we can listen inside instead to the voice of reason always by our side inside our head ... for he's the third one at the table as we sit inside arguing with iago


cf a&e on the mayflower (11/06) and tom wright on luke