Monday, October 1, 2012

Gooogle Narrative



Constructing a narrative from all the random information a google search yields is a daunting task. The conversion of a google of jesus' name into a narrative would begin something like this...

Once upon a time there was a man named Jesus, also known as Jesus of Nazareth who was the son of God, and eventually came to be the central figure of worship for all Christian denominations (wikipedia). This first chapter would be something of a look at christ as both a historical, and religious figure.

The next chapter would take a different perspective. From a person in the 21st century attempting to figure out who Christ was, and is. This quest would bring him/her to jesus.org which to me would be something like a revival meeting in the format of a website. At this meeting a man would be spewing the absolute "truth" of who Christ was, and how to follow him.

Chapter three would begin with our young protagonist so inspired by the ideas of the revival meeting attempt to establish a personal relationship with Jesus. This would manifest itself in really the only way our hero knows how which is to add him on Facebook. Yes, Jesus has a facebook. Here they would develop a relationship, and our hero would learn to exercise his or her faith through the internet whether that be through inspirational memes or liking Jesus' status's.

Eventually our hero would become curious of more orthodox ideas of who Jesus was, and is. This would bring him to the catholic church. Here he would search the annals of the catholic encyclopedia.

Then disaster will strike. The shard of papyrus discovered from the 4th century alluding that Christ may have had a wife will rock our young hero's faith. He will then turn his back on his beloved Fox News, and read an article from the New York Times on the subject. With this seemingly innocent act our hero will begin a long and troublesome journey towards atheism.

Along this path he will befriend Jesus on twitter. Where he will not build a relationship with Christ as he did on facebook, but will begin to mock christianity, as well as the very concept of Christ through the form of hilarious memes, and tweets.

Eventually our young hero will comeback to Christ once he hits rock bottom in the depths of twitter. In the end he will turn back to the web site, whoisjesus-really.com and his faith will be restored, after which he will close his twitter account, and cancel his online subscription to the New York Times.




7 comments:

  1. Maybe I should google Jesus and see what happens, i bet there are more results for your topic in a quarter of a second than mine... wait... I am going to check now... well you have nearly 8 times as many results as I got in less than a quarter of a second. Your topic turned up 830 million results in .19 of a second. Mine turned up about 90 million in .25 of a second. I guess you will not have any trouble finding information on your topic. Good luck. I found it funny that Jesus has a twitter account and a Facebook account... I wonder who manages those, and I wonder what Jesus tweets and retweets. Maybe bible versus.

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  2. I kind of want a Twitter account now. I would love to see Jesus in my friends on Facebook. Do you think he would really send me to Hell for not sharing a photo of someone kissing a dead puppy or whatever it is those ridiculous memes claim?

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  3. Do you think Jesus creates those memes?
    Ah the questions are endless.

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    1. Yes, yes I do. The lord works in mysterious ways.

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  4. Loved the twist at the end of your story when your character's faith is restored. You're a great writer ("...he hits rock bottom in the very depths of Twitter."

    Eric posed an interesting question...what does Jesus tweet about? Who does he follow on Twitter?

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  6. I should have explained that....my post would have made more sense. So the Jesus on facebook is quite reverent. He spends most of his time posting memes that are inspiring and promote faith, while twitter Jesus is a little more blasphemous. Most of Jesus' tweets are borderline offensive....I recommend you check both out they're pretty entertaining in their own right.

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