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This one is all about a different definition of God and God's goodness taken from the Stoics. How to align a good divinity with good fruit in your life.

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• Why Christian theology is ultimately derivative of Greek philosophy.
• the Four-Virtue, or Stoic, canon of virtues.
• What Jesus is doing when he says good trees bear good fruit.
• How extreme political leanings cancel out treating people with ethical justice.
• How you are a fish in a bowl, God is the water inside and outside the fish, and the water is LOVE.

Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
--Jesus 

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Mark and Eric

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This one is all about what happens when we flip the arrow of revelation, so that humanity climbs a mountain and points to the divine... not the other way around. Just think on it. We'll help!

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• Mark and Eric's poetry and suitcase drum set world tour.  Almost. We're getting there Text and Rockers....
• A poem by Mark called "Arrows and Mountains."
• The danger of woodenly applying Iron Age laws to modern society.
• How the model of arrows and mountains from antiquity should be flipped.
• What happens when you make the switch in how you read the Bible, New Testament, Talmud, Quran, Upanishads, etc...

They say that if you climb up

the god will climb down 

and tell you how to run your town...

--Swift-footed Markilles
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This one is all about what to take away from the Epic of Gilgamesh series: What to do with what we've learned together.

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• how as bizarre as it is, Gilgamesh was a religious text for a long, long time.
• why in the world Mark picked Gilgamesh for an expanded series.
• how deep learning comes after fun and knowing a teacher is "for" you.
• whether the goal of a faith that actually matters is belief or unity and a better world.
• how to hold your text with levity and wonder.
• why logic rocks will weigh down your ability to grow wise from ancient literature.

Everything, Everything's magic!
--Angels and Airwaves
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This one is all about what to do when all seems lost.

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• The search for immortality then and now.
• The etymology of snakes/dragons in the ancient Near East.
• When you have invested so much in a dead end.
• How death, loss of dreams, and betrayal causes grief...
• but also a rare opportunity for a new life.
• how to treat these moments like you're already dead.
• how to view past success and disaster as a warm up.

So long, so long-- and thanks for nothing.
I'm gone, moving on-- watch my resurrection.
--New Found Glory
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This one is all about how ancients write stories.

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• Wolfgang Iser's theory of CULTURAL REPERTOIRE.
• FLOATING MOTIFS and repeated core storylines in ancient literature.
• The literary stations, or steps of a floating motif, in the FLOOD STORY.
• Literature as reaction to event.
• the RIGHT question to ask about comparative stories.
• a little bonus rant on what makes the Noah story different and fascinating.

um...some dad joke about needing a boat that ends in "I Noah guy!"
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This one is all about how to think about your story among the stories of ancient literature.

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• how Gilgamesh's convo with "the Faraway" leads us to a pretty familiar story.
• why so many ancient cultures have a flood story.
• how to think about your story and comparative literature.
• all about how the ancients thought about the founding of ancient cities.
• your mom built an ark, and so did a lot of other folks.
• a little Mesopotamian cosmology, if you're down tot clown.

Anchors away, Utnapishtim!
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This one is all about the two key mistakes people make in reading an ancient text.

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• how digging though comparative literature changes everything.
• why sitting with tradition is the best way to bring a text forward.
• the example of Jesus as someone who pulls a text forward with brilliance...
• and what all REAL antiquity scholars do with ancient texts.
• Mark's FOREVER CRITIQUE of fundamentalism.
• how digging and sitting results in levity.

Your now is not your forever.
--John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
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This one is all about a way to think about scriptures in any tradition that you can put to work immediately and LOVE reading your story again.

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• how ancient cities get built and rebuilt, and what a TELL is...
• what to do with the tension of morally backwards or outdated ideas in your scripture.
• how thinking about texts like a dig site is a better way forward...
• and what all REAL antiquity scholars do with ancient texts.

I think it's time to ask yourself... what do you believe in?
--Indiana Jones
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This one is all about how to stop pretending to be young and how to grow into maturity.

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• how to look the reality of mortality in the eyes.
• why the western value of eternal youth is a charade.
• how aging the is journey not the enemy.
• leveraging limited time for the best of life.
• the shift to investing in young people over your own success.
• a little backend fun on how ancient sacrifice works and doesn't work.

down with the shine, the perfect shine.
that poisons the well and ruins my mind...
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Be good to each other,

Mark and Eric

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This one is all about how to enjoy life BECAUSE you die.

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• how our hero arrives at a dive bar between two worlds.
• leaving the map of mortality in ancient literature.
• the garden after the darkness in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
• how the reality of mortality can give you a joy for life.
• how the book of Ecclesiastes and Gilgamesh bring light to the dark side of wisdom.
• why you can enjoy your life because you are already blessed.

see you at the crossroads... so you won't be lonely.
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Mark and Eric

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