The Good Kidnapper

Imagine the Bad

Imagine that a good woman gets kidnapped.  The kidnapper tricks that woman into his basement, then shuts and locks the door.  After trying the door, searching about for any discarded tool that would open the door, and so forth, she realizes there is no way to get the door open.  This basement, which is a bit musty, shall be her home.  

Empty hours pass.  That torch will last a long time, and thank goodness there is a whole giant box of torches down there so a new torch can be relit during the days when the old one runs low.  

Why is that damn door locked?  Doesn't anyone know I'm down here?  She pounds for a while, screams for a while, sleeps curled up on the floor sometimes, and thinks that someone has to rescue her someday.  

The Building of the NFDS

She finds some running water that collects in a corner.  A few times a day, some food is pushed through a slot in the door.  As it's pushed through, it topples down to the floor.  Time and again it happens!  She still has to eat some of it to survive, but eating food off the floor is so gross.  The victim decides a change must be made...  

A construction is created, which construction has the purpose of supporting a track which will hold plates of food that slide down to a table.  The eating situation improves.  

The Building of the Bed

When she comes to accept that no one is going to rescue her, she figures it has been so terrible lying on the floor that she assembles a place to sleep out of discarded bits of wooden plank to hold various soft items she finds about the basement, topped by an old blanket she's found.  After much striving, she constructs her bed.  

The Light

Some years pass.  Years!  She has tried the door every so often, but it remains as locked as before.  Out of nowhere, she hears a mysterious clanking on the other side.  Confused, she goes to the door to try to hear better.  Without even thinking of it--because she has long ago discarded hope--she reaches for the door handle and tries it.  

It's open!  Oh wow!  She steps out of the basement, amazement filling her every inch.  

The Birth of Basementology

Everything is fine now, right?  You decide.  In the years ahead, she begins to behave in weird ways.  She wins the lottery, but insists on buying old houses with musty basements, and actually sleeping in those basements instead of in some big bedroom!  Even weirder, instead of some nice new bed, she insists that it is better to sleep on a pile of mostly-straight junk consisting of old doors and urine-soaked mattress bits she actually paid some guy to haul to her house from the dump.  

Is anything wrong?  Do you think that woman's behavior is, er, sub-optimal?  

Actually, you're wrong!  Lots of people say that the way the woman behaves is good, right, and the best.  That woman is simply a Basementologist.  Like all good Basementologists, she feels that being locked in a basement is a wonderful thing.  

The Goods of Basementology

What you are not considering if you do not think the woman is behaving optimally and that she may be showing signs of madness relating to what happened to her, is that Basementology is what created so many good things.  Would that woman have figured out, designed, and built the Non Falling Dinner Server if not for her experience?  No!  The experience was necessary for her to have developed it.  All that hard work, careful selection of pieces that would fit and pieces that would not fit, occurred only because of that basement-related experience.  

Sure, some conspiracy theorists say it was "wrong" that the woman in the story was trapped in that basement, but haven't you really thought about it?  See, that evil man who locked her in there really gave her a nice gift.  By inspiring her to build that dinner-thing and that bed, Basementology led to her improvement!  

See, she had taken a math class before, but the experience of being trapped in that basement (only conspiracy theorists say she was "trapped" against her "will") caused her to develop food-plate-sliders like the NFDS and to really express her inherent bed-construction abilities.  Being trapped WILLFULLY POSITIONED THROUGH FREE CHOICE TO IMPROVE HERSELF in that basement was good, because without it, she would have never shown how good she was at those things.  Her truest of true selves was that experience, and you can from it glean her true goodness and true self.  

Do you believe that?  When it comes to the man who locked her in the basement, was that a good person doing a good thing that helped her express her true self, without which assistance she might never have achieved the majestic creation of Non Falling Dinner Server and Sleeping Place?  

Jesusianism

Do you see the parallels between the above basement story and Legacy Christianity?  The story illustrates how the narrative of a horrible situation, and peoples' making it through such a situation while conforming to related strictures, have been rationalized by some of the distant descendants of the victims as having been good strictures.  It is absurd to behave that way, but it can be seen--many have exhibited such behavior.  There are still Jesusians.  Even now, far removed from the requirements, there are people who've utterly discarded--most often not even knowing about--what their ancestors went through.  

The establishment of safe places to live, societies where votes are actually counted fairly, free economies where meritocracy rather than clannism under some guise of benefiting everyone (socialism) are possible.  We have experienced such things beginning to dissipate, as skimanaged social welfare grows in strength alongside vote-reporting mechanisms said to be quite honest.  Predictably, many useful cogs say and even think that better adherence to rabbinical egalitarianism will stop those things.  "Oh, if only we could have more basement-door-lockers!"  The ultimate policies they want have nothing whatsoever to do with the universal brotherhood and egalitarianism advocated by S.R.  Jesusianism is a toxic ideological poison; a "deadly superstition" as it was named by Tacitus.  

No Evidence

Christians have tried very eagerly for a very long time to find proof of there actually having existed an S.R.  The best they have found is that Tacitus, writing a little after ^CE100, gave references to there being Christians many decades before he wrote, and concluding that such a person executed as described would have been executed during the reign of Tiberius ^CE14-^CE37 under Pontius Pilate's  ^CE26-^CE36 governorship.  Thus, the bestest "evidence" of there having been an S.R. is evidence that some people were worshiping Jesus a few decades ago.  That is like someone in ^CE2080 writing about how St. George Floyd had been worshiped for being a Saint who devoted his time to walking on water to bring meals to hungry children.  It is not contemporary accounts, but an account of "people were saying a long time ago," which is even less reliable than "people were saying."  

Assumedly Tacitus is correct, and there were rabbinical egalitarians worshiping some ^CE26-^CE36-ish version of Zohran Mamdani (Deep Middle East person who follows Jesus in saying that riches are bad and egalitarianism is good), that doesn't mean that such a person actually existed, walked on water, healed the sick, etc.  

Why did some Romans think that Christianity was dangerous?  For the same reason that some people now think Mamdani is--because egalitarianism is very bad.  That is why considering people reacting to a M.E. egalitarian now can help you recognize why Jesusianism is so toxic, and why thinking that it was/is/will be a good thing is like being one of the usefuls now who has fallen for Mamdani's stories.  If you would think it wrong if those like you were written of as demanding Mamdani's election, and your farchildren wore special hammer and sickle jewelry commending that, you know how much honor you do to your predecessors who lived through the imposition of Jesus' egalitarianism on Europe when you proudly wear a cross and say Amen!  

Do people like you really feel that an egalitarianism-promoting Middle Easterner should be in charge of the West?  Because that's what the cross represents.