I was just reading in my chronological Bible about the crucifixion and saw something I’d never noticed before that started me thinking. John 19:25 says, “ … standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, …” Jesus’s aunt was at His crucifixion. The Bible talks about Mary, Joseph, and Jesus’s brothers. It talks about Elizabeth, a more distant relative. I think this is the only mention of anyone from Mary’s home growing up.
Did Mary tell her parents or sister about being visited by and angel and told she would mother the Messiah by the Holy Spirit or did she remain silent because it was so unbelievable? When she became pregnant, did she then try to explain to her family, but get rejected? Was Jesus’s aunt ever around when Jesus was growing up, or was her first appearance due to her feeling bad for her sister who had previously lost her husband and now was loosing her eldest son in the most horrific way?
In the whole scheme of things, these aren’t critical questions, but it still tells us something about what Mary went through having a child out of wedlock, seemingly through sin.
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Yeah, it's really early, on the road map, but we spent 6 months just doing trial-and-error on the basic data structure and backend (including relays), and tightening performance enough to make it usable enough to demo.
Will take at least 2 more years, and four minor versions (Gutenberg, Euler, Defoe, #Biblestr), to get to v1.0. And we're developing our own Nostr SDK (in C++), and working with the relay devs on the side, and we have all the infrastructure and DevOps to support this, which is its own subproject and is being successively Nostr-ized.
It's actually sort of amazing because we're a bunch of volunteers doing this in parallel to our day jobs and subsisting entirely off of crowdfunding, tips, and relay subscriptions. 😅
Whole thing is sort of insane and the grant funds have just been like no way go away, but we've kept right on grinding for over a year, and we keep gaining steam and adding members, because it's just an inspiring project that is worth building, for its own sake.
I think of it like building a digital cathedral, with Gutenberg, Euler, and Defoe being the building blocks to Biblestr. That helps me keep the product scope of #Alexandria defined and it keeps me motivated.
Providing an uncensorable platform for theological scholastics, debates, research, and discussion is in keeping with the idea that rhetoric is the highest form of speech and philosophy is the highest intellectual art and that protecting people's right to form their own conscience is the reason why free speech exists, in the first place.
So, it seems like #Biblestr is peak Alexandria and then we move on to GitRepublic, to make it easier for us to collaborate on maintaining Alexandria.
I only want to build things I want to use myself or that serve some higher purpose than myself, because otherwise it feels too much like work and then bitch better have my money.
Here's the thing: I think Christians who have matured continue to have different talents and they live out their faith with different sets of works.
I have a talent for creating welcoming, inviting spaces, online and offline, so that's what I focus on, by being a sextant and running the parish website. I also have a talent for being a systems analyst, so that's also what I put my focus on. That's why I'm concentrating on digitizing and distributing the Bible on an uncensorable data storage system on Nostr, and making it readable over an open-source interface on git, so that everyone, everywhere can get hold of a copy, read it, and share it with their frens, and jump into the Bible study section and tell me everything I'm saying that is wrong. 😁
The Bible is not the project, but it was the impetus for the project and probably a big factor in the longevity of the project because building the first three minor releases of Alexandria and then spinning it off into #Biblestr is something that really motivates because it feels like building a digital cathedral.
I don't find it perturbing that people think my personal theological views are wrong. I've spent decades thinking them through and researching them, as have those defending the counter-argument. I find it perturbing that they think that they mean that I'm not a Christian. Because I think it's obvious that I'm Christian, otherwise my behavior makes no sense, at all.
Yeah, I'm planning on
30040 Bible
|__ 30040 Introduction
|__ 30040 New Testament
|__ 30040 Gospels
|__ 30040 Mark
|__ 30040 Chapter 4
|__ 30041 Verse 4:11
|__ 30040 Old Testament
|__ 30040 Apocrypha
|__ 30040 Appendices
Something like that. In the final version, the bottom 30041 content-level will be individual versions. In this training material, it's all lumped together in the 30041 chapters, but we need verse-events for #biblestr The idea is that we atomize large publications and then any npub can piece them back together, in various formats and orders.
Of course, it's Nostr, so someone else is free to create a different tree out of the same content. They could even add commentary, at the various levels, or something. Just have to include an additional event, in between, and reorder (and, with this change) and *renumber* the 30040.
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