[NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: The Apocalypse

Edward Picot julian.lesaux at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 19:21:37 CEST 2019


Max,

Thanks very much! I do like your habit of always looking carefully at 
word origins - we tend to think of 'apocalypse' as meaning 'ultimate 
destruction of the world', but as you say it originally meant 
'uncovering'. As regards the pages in the book being blank - no, that's 
my own idea, but in Revelation we're never actually told what the book 
(or scroll) contains, and I rather like the idea of it containing 
nothing at all.

Edward

On 06/10/2019 22:54, Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> I like this play Edward!
>
> I sometimes think of the apocalypse or uncovering as when the 
> prevailing patterns in a non-infinite complex information system reach 
> saturation stage and become manifest in more final ways, like 
> asymptotes say along certain parameters.  This is a certain type of 
> new information itself which then interacts with the other new 
> information for perhaps a new entirety.
>
> I never knew the book was blank however.  Is that an invention?  
> Perhaps I need to research more to learn.
>
> Thanks for posting the play, perhaps the thing
> Wherein we catch the conscience of the king.
>
>
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> *To:* Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> *Cc:* Max Herman <maxnmherman at hotmail.com>; Edward Picot 
> <julian.lesaux at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: The Apocalypse
>
> Will definitely read!
>
> Thinking today, perhaps coincidentally, of the gnostic gospel of 
> Thomas: "When you come to know yourselves, you will become known, and 
> you will realize that it is you who are the children of the Living 
> Father.  But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty, 
> and it is you who are that poverty."
>
> What I didn't know till research this AM was the precursor to that 
> passage, was illuminating too.
> It discusses what results from following leaders who say that the 
> Kingdom of God is in the sky or in the sea, obscuring that "the 
> network" which is reality (any reality) is both within and without.
>
> On a side note, I'm wondering about the usage of "Turmp" in both 
> verbal and written form.
> Internet search for "Turmp" has odd results.
>
> Of course the gnostic gospels were banned in a sense for not being 
> hierarchical enough, including diverse perspectives, more equality, etc.
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> behalf of Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 
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> *Sent:* Sunday, October 6, 2019 7:32 AM
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> *Cc:* Edward Picot <julian.lesaux at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: The Apocalypse
> 'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
> Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
> Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of view of
> a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't believe in
> God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
>
> There are fourteen of these plays, and the last one is now online: 'The
> Apocalypse'.
>
> http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/14theapocalypse.html (or for the full
> series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)
>
> - Edward Picot
> http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
>
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