In the Garden of Gethsemane, a terribly worried Yeshua fell to his knees, and pleaded with YHWH. The following conversation ensued:
Yeshua: Father, if it is your will, relieve me of this cup of suffering.
YHWH: Can’t. It is your destiny to drink from that cup.
Yeshua: Make it such that it becomes my destiny to fight that destiny, then.
YHWH: If I did that, you wouldn’t be able to resist the destiny to fight your destiny. And if you thus fought your destiny, my plans for mankind’s redemption would be foiled.
Yeshua: But what if I fought the destiny to fight my destiny by not fighting it?
Short pause.
YHWH: You are starting to irritate me with your word play. Not very wise of you. I’ll make your cup of suffering bigger. I’ll make it into a mug of suffering.
Yeshua: No! Please don’t do that. The cup is fine, dad. Actually, if you could make it even smaller, I’d be ever grateful. Say, a thimbleful of suffering.
YHWH: A thimbleful of suffering is not enough. The minimum amount of suffering you should drink is a cupful. We are trying to wash away the sins of ALL mankind, remember?
Yeshua: But isn’t it all symbolic? The cleansing?
YHWH: It IS symbolic, yes. But even symbolic gestures have to scale in relation to the reality they represent. In this particular case, cleansing the entire human kind requires you to drink at least one cup of suffering.
Yeshua: I think your scale of reference is arbitral.
YHWH: Keep talking like that, and my arbitral scale will arbitrary award you with an entire pot to drink the suffering from.
Short silence.
Yeshua: What if I can’t drink an entire cup of suffering? What if the cup proves to be too much, and I drink, say, half the suffering?
YHWH: Then only the Jews will be cleansed. You’ll have to drink another cup for the gentiles later on. AND ride the donkey once again, into Jerusalem.
Yeshua: Whoa. I’ll drink the entire cup of suffering at a go, then. Didn’t like the donkey ride at all. People started calling me “Ass-Rider” from that day.
YHWH: Wise decision, son. Drink the entire cup at a go.
N/B: For access to all anecdotes in this series, check out List of all “Chronicles of YHWH” notes.
Random thoughts 
LOL! With the population explosion what it is today, I imagine now it would probably be an entire kettle of suffering. Damn benevolent and understanding mythical deity!
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Ha ha. Yeah, or it might even be a whole tank of suffering. Jesus would need several months to drink it all in. Thanks for passing by, my friend. 🙂
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🙂
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Ha ha. It must be really confusing for them to hold any sort of conversation:
“I want you to die for mankind, Jesus”
“But I am you and you are me, YHWH. If I die, how will you remain alive, and you are me?”
And so on. Eternal nonsense.
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““But I am you and you are me, YHWH. If I die, how will you remain alive, and you are me?””
God: “Don’t you remember? We’ve got that covered: I set the alarm for sunrise, Sunday – so I’ll be dead for three days, I could use the vacation –“
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It’s a confusing world over there. A world where the more outrageous and irrational some things are, the more they are held in high esteem. It’s an upside-down world.
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This really did have me laughing out loud. Well done.
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Ha ha ha. Thank you, John. As ever, your passing by here is truly appreciated.
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Aaah- the beneficent cup of suffering…:)
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Indeed, Tish. I hope you have been well. Will be looking over your home on the net for more of your ever so enchanting photos and narrations. 🙂
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Thank you, Joseph, I am fine. Here’s wishing you a good week.
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A good week ahead to you too, Tish. Monday is already over.
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That’s always a good start!
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Brilliant! 🙂
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Thanks a lot, Alex! Stay locked, for more such notes are on the way. 🙂
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Hahaha! I think the cup was too small. It should have been a drum maybe then most people would be covered!
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If it was a ‘C’ cup, I’d consider that just right.
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A C cup must be a really big cup
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Is Archaeopteryx1 referring to bra sizes? 🙂
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:-SS
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— not really an expert on bra sizes, are you, Mak?
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Now when you get into ‘D’s,’ we’re talkin’ some serious volume here, but I prefer to think of the ‘C’ as the Goldilocks size – just right!
But I digress —
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But I do agree with you, Archeopteryx1 – C is the Goldilocks Size indeed. 🙂
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I totally agree with you, Noel. Ha ha. Several drums, even. If Jesus were to drink from that cup now, he’d probably need to deal with a lake full of suffering. Drink it over several years, to complete cleanse the seven billion people on earth. He he.
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I think he died too young. He would have told the god to keep his cup
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Or, even better, he might have told his dad to drink from the cup himself. But then again, YHWH probably wouldn’t have agreed. The last time he came down to earth, he got beaten up for an entire night by Jacob. ha ha.
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Hahaha, interesting really, why cups in the first place. How do you measure suffering in cups
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That was exactly the whole point of this post, Noel. Ha ha. Suffering can’t be measured in cups. Actually, suffering isn’t quantitative – so the whole thing of trying to measure it in discrete units is moot.
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Agreed
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Holy F**k!. Gut buster. You’ve become satirical lethal. Respect.
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Ha ha. Thanks, Lexborgia. 🙂 More of the same coming in due time. Keep it locked!
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Bwhahahahahah! Well done once again Joe! “Suffering cups” .. bleh! I prefer mugs of beer. Thank you. 😆
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Terrible, wasn’t it, that the poor son was forced to drink a cup of suffering, instead of beer? Ha ha.
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A terrible suffering indeed! And we think life sucks today? Never! At least we have beer! 😆
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And it is served in mugs and big ol’ bottles, not cups!
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