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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Women dying, jails and hospitals shifting, lakes, rivers, and open ocean all test whether anyone mistaken for Jesus can survive belief.
The repeated question is accusatory, asking whether influence, damage, and devotion have made someone imagine himself divine. Women, jail, and hospitals show how one gesture can alter whole systems of suffering and confinement. The final sequence ranks dangers with brutal clarity: drunkenness in a lake is foolish, a wild river is considered peril, and the middle of the ocean means true loss.
Interrogation: do you think you are Jesus when women die for you, when a move alters the world permanently like a cross? Drunk in the lake is foolish, crossing the wild river is a danger first thought about, diving into the middle of the ocean means you are lost.