Forever Nowhere, Forever Nothing

Forever doomed to be nowhere, forever doomed to be nothing.

No thought of mine is original. Everything I say, write, and think are filtered through endless layers of interpretation.

Even my most interesting ideas are directly inspired by previous works of genius. My orchestration system - heavily influenced by the pragmatism of Airflow and the transcendent power of actor models.

Being perpetually derivative does not bother me; I really do not care.

The things I adore bring me closer to truth. What does it matter how I move forward?

There are derivations that enrage me, which undoubtedly give the illusion of forward movement. Consider this passage from John:

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

The New King James bible translates that sentence as this:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

This translation is a moral failure of a catastrophic degree.

The word λόγος (LO-gos), in Koine Greek, means a huge amount of things. It can be used to describe the necessary laws that govern existence, the divine order of things, the divine and transcendent reason at existence's core. For readers, it was simply reduced to "word", which probably captures the most mundane meaning of the word.

The word πρὸς (pr-OS) in Koine Greek implies cardinality. A movement towards something. It implies that the subject, in this case the λόγος, is orientated towards God. In most English bibles, it is reduced to simply "with". A dynamic state of being reduced to flat and static proximity.

Perhaps the greatest failure here is the translation of this section: "καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος." In Koine Greek, this sentence is actually emphasizing that the logos, the order of the universe, has a transcendentally divine nature, yet God remains distinct from it. Translators flatten divinity of cosmic order into a simple equation: Word (a vague idea in English) = God. Divine difference reduced to arithmetic.

Cosmic wonder, divinity in the hidden and guiding order of everything, and the presence and direction of God reduced to: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

The miracle of systems: the ability to corrupt transcendent wonder and joy into the mundane. Interesting derivation is noticeable, uncomfortable, and orientated towards truth. Catastrophic derivation is hardly noticed, comfortable, and orientated towards preservation.