Streamlining
Some people have excellent artistic abilities. They can turn the edges of a book into a short stickman story. The stickman would do a backflip, landing stylishly only to have a truck appear out of nowhere and knock it down. It’s an ability that requires a great deal of planning, managing the frames and pages, careful consideration of the story’s progression, and patience to draw each individual frame/pages a hundred times, only for it to last less than 3 seconds.
As difficult as it sounds, a seasoned artist/animator could do it fairly fast, less than 30 minutes. Practice makes perfect they say, and it certainly shows through the many, many amazing artists the world has to offer. I have too many dreams, and one of it is building a studio for artists to collaborate, refine their stories, then build the best way possible to hopefully inspire change and unity in this world. There are many untold stories and we’re living in the content creator boom, a viable economy of the future, for every country.
Short form content has become an efficient tool to quickly educate and enrich a persons knowledge, especially through the right commentator. Very few people are able to recognize stories as puzzle pieces in the grand scheme of things, and usually assess them individually. People aren’t interested to connect the dots themselves and when we fail to do so, we become disjointed and disunited, polarizing ourselves further — in some cases, especially politically.
We obsess with dots too much and fail to see the bigger picture. We assert ourselves only to certain noises that are typically much louder and more popular due to political motivations, but there are dozens of other ‘noises’ that will never be picked up, never be heard of because of biases and prejudices. The very thing most pretend not to have.
I’m not sure how difficult, or challenging life should become before God intervenes, or should the perspective change to, how long would it take us to unite before God blesses us? The Tower of Babel could be about how God purposefully separated us to spread across the lands or it could be about how he punished us for being disobedient.
From His point of view, Tower of Babel, even Israel, is but a mere dot, a speck on earth. His vision was not to have His love known only by people within that speck, but throughout the land. This story takes place only 300 years after the story of Noah. Sometimes I wondered why God chose them, they continually disobeyed Him, but rationally, it would’ve been the same for all of us.
As typical with mankind, we think we know what’s best for ourselves and everything around us, including God. Despite Him already telling us what to do. Perhaps The Tower of Babel is a story against totalitarianism. What we need now is to tell a story without parables or analogies to be able to unite and carry ourselves forward without much argument, also definitely not through a similar structure. Let us take a look at why this is important.
God literally came down to earth and revealed Himself to all of us. We have more that sufficient evidence He truly walked amongst us and even sacrificed Himself to liberate us from earthly woes (sins). Our sins are forgiven even before we die to allow us to continually seek self improvement and come close to perfection for His purposes. Yet, how many of us are true followers of Christ? I still think of those two, so yes, I am still a hypocrite.
He doesn’t want blind worship. He doesn’t need your conditional love. He doesn’t need you to shout affirmations in His temple. Our Creator has given us many stories for us to learn, it is a reflection of how we should live and how we can unite. And the answer is to love and sacrifice for one another, not for selfish gain.
Do not get hung up on individual stories and try to paint Him in another light other than loving. Yes, He wiped off people and civilizations. Yes, He killed women and children. Yes, He brings us pains, but He also liberates us from them. We already know that success only comes through hard work, yet we nitpick when it comes to eternal life. Our selfish desires and worldviews not only affects ourselves, but also everyone around us. Every sin left unchecked, unrepented, is a disease that grows and spread.
If he can do it, why not me? Ah, 2 million bucks isn’t much. Let me hide it under the bed. Boy, polyamory sounds like a great way to meet new people and experiment with sex. I’m sure the government always has us in their best interest. Tommy’s just a little kid, I don’t need to discipline him for that, boys roughhouse, it’s fine. I’m going to eat anytime I want, I’m an adult, I know how to take care of myself! These are foundational untruths that we tell ourselves, if we practice this as leaders we’re akin to Nimrod, thinking we’re more knowledgeable than God. Hence why the Tower of Babel is a similar story found in many regions.
Do you know what is next in the Biblical timeline? We’re currently living in the ‘signs of the times’, the age with increasing global distress, conflicts, natural disasters, moral decay, and widespread ignorance of God. This cycle is repeating fairly frequently now, but there will be a time (hopefully not soon) when the antichrist will rise and force people to worship him. Everyone will be forced to carry the ‘mark of the beast’ to be able to buy and sell on either their forehead or hand, symbolizing their allegiance to him. Israel’s 7 year peace treaty with the antichrist will be the clearest indicator of the end times — this indicator tells me that we have some time left before Jesus’ second coming.
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I don’t think Israel is dumb enough to ignore such an obvious sign today, especially in times of war, but they still rebuke Jesus as God, so I can’t say for certain. Israel’s suffering today is an indicator that dangerous ideologies should be handled extremely delicately — no matter how laughable they are. I see Judaism and Catholicism as fundamentalist religions. They’re empowered by God to determine the correct path themselves, because God established them, and could see their future, so though I may not agree 100% with them and many other branches of Christianity, I do however consider them the ‘big bros’ of the faith.
Though there are many deviations that become cult-like piggy backing of the Abrahamic faiths, and become essentially anti-Christ, I have no idea what is the right way to approach this matter. I personally am a Methodist, and the church I come from emphasizes servanthood. Becoming a servant of Christ, and enriching the lives of the less fortunate, mainly through social work, which today is extremely difficult. Everything costs plenty and even building a social center has taken us more than a decade to achieve — hence this project.
The only conclusion I can come to about solving difference in faiths boils down to building & leading an exemplary life. Showing how its done so to speak. The church has to find new ways to build communities.
I suppose the story of The Tower of Babel, could be about decentralization. Everyone uniting according to scripture. Accumulating power and wealth is not meant for one, but for all, to be shared, just like the word of God. Staying true to the word of God while doing so proves your allegiance to God. God did not ask you to rule over man, but over the earth. We have a shared responsibility over this beautiful planet we call home. There cannot be one absolute ruler, except God.
I have no idea what to do with the various religions and ideologies around us, but if Christians can’t unite, we can’t show what we’re made of. I have a plan to overcome this, peacefully, and can use your support. We have enough pixels to make a picture, and enough pictures to make a movie. All I want to do is try to do it. I have a general idea on what to do, and venturing into uncharted territories requires plenty of resources, and collaboration.
I’ll be transparent with it and pass the framework along to anyone who wants to contribute. You know the saying, don’t put all your eggs in one basket? Yeah, I have too many baskets, figuratively and literally, and I need plenty of help. How else can you try to change the world? There are too many verticals, and they all need help.
The bigger picture can’t fully be understood without the dot, and the dot should not take away the bigger picture, even if it’s with HR at a Coldplay concert. =P
Apologies for the delay in posting, I’ve been going some stuff. I’ve lost the Spirit that carried me through more than the first half of this project. I’m still centered in my faith and highly optimistic, but I am no longer ‘above myself’ — as previously mentioned.
I’m a little scared I might forget that feeling. Maybe it’s all the caffeine, or the disobedience, or maybe that is just how He works, but right now, I just can’t wait to get baptized and leave the past & guilt behind me. Most of all, give up living as a hypocrite and truly only for Him.
This is part of a series under “Project Kuchiku”, a project designed to help Fix the Future through Platform Building.
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