The GOSPEL of THOMAS
Elucidation of the secret words
The TAO TE CHING of LAO TZU
 
The Gospel
Multatuli (ideas)

Simple meaning of
the Gospel


Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching

The fall of man
Quest for the Truth
Sermon on Mountain
The Son of God
The Matrix
Opinions
The True Man
The State of Nature
On Righteousness
Ain't righteous
Accusation
The Colloquy
John Zerzan, interview
John Zerzan, articles
Letters
Letters - 2
Letters - 3
Gospel of 3 Dimensions
Ecclesiastes
Doors of Perception
The Papalagi

L. E. J. Brouwer
Life, Art and
Mysticism


Gödel and Brouwer

Robert Taylor
The Diegesis, 1829 written in prison

Frederik van Eeden
The Quest

Jim Henson
The Cube, 1969
The Cube, 1969


Anonymus
The Treatise of the
Three Impostors
Moses, Jesus and
Mahomet


Flavius Josephus
Was Joseph of Arimathea Flavius Josephus?


 

Ain't righteous

by Bob Dylan

When a man he serves the Lord, it makes his life worthwhile.
It don't matter 'bout his position, it don't matter 'bout his lifestyle.
Talk about perfection, I ain't never seen none
And there ain't no man righteous, no not one.

Sometimes the devil likes to drive you from the neighborhood.
He'll even work his ways through those whose intentions are good.
Some like to worship on the moon, others are worshipping the sun
And there ain't no man righteous, no not one.

Look around, ya see so many social hypocrites
Like to make rules for others while they do just the opposite.

You can't get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag.
Put your goodness next to God's and it comes out like a filthy rag.
In a city of darkness there's no need of the sun
And there ain't no man righteous, no not one.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame
I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Pull your hat down, baby, pull the wool down over your eyes,
Keep a-talking, baby, 'til you run right out of alibis.
Someday you'll account for all the deeds that you done.
Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one.

God got the power, man has got his vanity,
Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
Don't you know there's nothing new that's under the sun?
Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one.

When I'm gone don't wonder where I be.
Just say that I trusted in God and that Christ was in me.
Say He defeated the devil, He was God's chosen Son
And that there ain't no man righteous, no not one.



 
 

Almost honest is dishonest. Almost true is untrue. Almost pure is impure. Almost perfect is imperfect. Almost pregnant is not pregnant. Almost holy is sanctimonious. Almost light is twilight. Almost white is grey. Almost righteous is unrighteous. Almost straight is crooked. Almost mature is immature. Almost rooted is disrooted.. Almost certain is uncertain. Almost free is unfree. Almost loose is fastened. Almost awake is sleeping. Almost sane is insane. Almost genuine is false. Almost released is imprisoned. Almost wise is foolish. Almost quiet is unquiet.  Almost dry is wet. Almost living is dead.
And so in this world there are only dishonest, imperfect, sanctimonious, unrighteous, immature, disrooted, uncertain, unfree, sleeping , insane, spurious and foolish people, showing each other the way, helping and guiding each other and quarreling about the right way.
The psychiatrist says nobody is normal, the doctor nobody is healthy, the church nobody is without sin.  Everybody has dirty hands wrote Sartre and everybody blames another. People are zealous for a more righteous world, for a more honest distribution, for more freedom but then it stays unrighteous, dishonest and unfree. And who will state in an unrighteous world what is righteous? The nuances and greys between white and black are endless but it remains grey and it only depends on your own point of view if it is more or less grey.

They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there] [is] none that doeth good.(Psalms 14:1) They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there] [is] none that doeth good,
no, not one.(Psalms14:3)

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one (Rom.3:10) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.(Rom.3:12)