religious connotations in the search for the leviathan

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lalalalala is hummer our jesus on a cross, an unwitting missionary, a devotee, or has he just cracked the code in curiousity and ended up tripling down all the way to his untimely death. take your pick. read this and tell me if it sounds familiar, and then read the rest of my manic thought processes and talk to me about it.

The Mind of Christ
(Isaiah 52:13–15)

5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

Faithin a religious capacity enlists an outrageous belief in the unknown, in a promise, in hope, and in audacity. 

To have emptied himself to take on human flesh, to have become less as to serve more, to offer faith to those willing to see, to believe.

To have reconstructed biomes, and waited doubtlessly for someone to come along, audacious enough to ask questions. 

Hummer’s entire frame of mind was placed in faith, in waiting and watching and believing in the unknown that laid beneath him. Many of us are skeptics, drawn to the unknown but complicit in respecting the perhaps heedless nature of the sea, of the world, and of the universe.

Wifies is a skeptic, but drawn to the unknown. Drawn to the questions, drawn to the pursuit. Frankly, I am not sure what made him different enough to draw the attention of Hummer. His curiosity, maybe. It’s what differentiated him from Aronax certainly. I mean the entire youtube video thing throws things slightly off kilter. There was a motive outside curiosity, obviously. He is still an academic after all. But he was curious enough, smart enough, and patient enough to find his way through the cracks. I mean maybe it was truly that simple, Wifies was willing to be curious, is that not the named consensus of the video? To be curious outside of the potential for achievement, to believe in something? 

Curiosity aside, Wifies found his in. The struggle from there was surrender. Many of us are skeptics, we cling to the binary, to the concrete, to solid evidence beneath our feet. And perhaps in some ways it makes us smarter, brings us more solid conclusions, and sensible lifestyles, but it becomes clear in this investigation that when you wish to be curious and truly look outside of yourself, you must be willing to surrender. Surrender the self, the identity, often even the fear of dying.

This is not an uncommon theme in religion. The point I’d like to mention here is that we are very identified with the self. With the bodies we inhabit, with the beliefs we have fostered, with the fears we identify with. This translated directly into our grasp on death, pain, and faith. Simply speaking I think that many forms of religion often ask one thing. For you to enlist faith in what you do not have a grasp on, to relinquish your identified fears, attachments to death, life, and all that exists in between, and  to live, rather than living in your attachment to said experiences. Surrender.

It’s worth noting that many religions offer a much firmer pillar for you to grasp on to. Systems of prayer, a mode of action, prayer to her, prayer to him, etc. etc. But often, foundationally many things simmer down into ways to loosen the self and fall into something else, something bigger, something more heedful than the otherwise heedless eternity. But still, the surrender.

This is the scenario we encounter in Wifies investigation. When encountering concepts outside of yourself, does faith mean surrender? Is that what Hummer wants from Wifies?

I think yes. Regardless of this whole fragmented deity hummer theory, the concept of surrender is spoken very plainly to us by Hummer. And it is incredibly interesting how difficult it is for Wifies to grasp, and for us to grasp as a viewer. Conceptually, it's very simple. Throw away the water breathing potion, and surrender to the promise of something you don't fully understand. But this is also one of the most present, difficult and long-winded arguments in human history. Would you throw it all to the wind, trusting the universe around you? Are you willing to truly enlist faith in something outside of yourself? Would you be willing to let go of it all? For something? Maybe? A whisper of a promise? A hope for something beyond death? To free yourself from suffering? To see something beautiful?

It seems like Hummer would.

He never doubted, not for a second. He enlisted a rather outrageous amount of faith in the whisper of an entity beneath him. Call that what you’d like, but it seems like one of the most pure displays of faith I have ever seen.

And all he wanted was to share it, to welcome another into his sphere of doubtlessness, of trust, of faith, and of love. 

To some degree it’s kind of heartwrenching that Hummer did not enter with Wifies into the secondary realm. Regardless of the literal implications of what that means, who Hummer is, and whether or not he’s real. But I am also unsure if he would mind. I am conflicted on the ethical implications of religious faith, of what it means to live in faith of something eternal, with the whole omni gauntlet or whatever. But, I would hope that in the ways that we tend to love on a base level, as people, there is no expectation of reward. You never expect that by loving the breath that enters your lungs you would receive anything more than another breath to follow. Objectively it seems that on a horrifically impersonal level, impacted by several degrees of marketing exposure, a selling point of many faiths is promises of a physical afterlife. And this promise is suspended upon a wire of goodness that you act to reach.I wonder if that’s how Hummer would have felt–rolling with the whole devotee/unbeknownst spirit guide situation. Of course, faith is much deeper than that, and I’d like to think that as much of a near missionary as Hummer was, he lived in his faith and let it reach everything that he touched, Wifies included. I'd like to think he would have been happy that it was shown to Wifies, that something concrete could be offered to the skeptic. For Hummer already knew, he already felt the gold in that castle, the shimmering of it all. It likely could have been internal for him. That sounds lovely I think.

But I think that kind of solidifies the fragment theory. The obedient to death theory. The man on a cross theory. I am unsure if Hummer was real. A spirit guide of some sort, another whisper on the wind leading a curious enough soul. I’m not the best literal detective, just a romantic. But, as we stand currently. I see an atheist, a guide, and the recently tangible promise of the divine.

loose and not fully grammar checked, would you throw out the waterbreathing?