Virtual Truth

The website will be going live in the next couple of days, and I'm very excited. In the meantime I can write some more. I am so happy about the site. Our Web designer did a great job. A site is a virtual world, but we humans are all virtual anyway. When we wake up we decide what clothes to wear or the first words we'll say that day. It's basically a virtual me, a version or design of myself just for now and for today. We're always making up who we're going to be.

Jesus did the biggest virtual design ever: he said the kingdom of God is close, so get ready! A kingdom is supposed to arrive with big thumping armies and crushing power. Jesus didn't try to force "reality" like that. He said it will happen if you act like it. Or like Alcholics Anonymous say, "fake it until you make it." That's the only way to make a nonviolent world arrive, by acting "as if" it's already here. Despite all contrary evidence. The Cruxifixion is the biggest virtuality imaginable. Acting as if forgiveness and life are possible in the middle of the most acute violence. But then this virtuality became an even greater virtuality: Resurrection. Only a few disciples saw it, believed it, got it... It was not like it was plastered over the front page of the Jerusalem Times or the Roman Telegraph. But then--the most amazing thing--these people started also acting "as if."

So finally today, all these centuries later, we're really getting down to really serious as iffing...

Tony