“So, who the Hell is Qoheleth?” - An Illustrated Screenplay - Image Macros (“memes”) [satire]
What had been, is what will be. There is nothing new under the sun.
Abstract
Josephus was a budding philosopher of Jewish descent in Damascus of Hellenistic times, when he took a bet that he could produce a decent work of philosophy, and wrote the Biblical scroll of Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth). Soon after that, he became the most notorious celebrity in his town, made a moderate fortune from donations of enthusiastic fans of the scroll, and became annoyed by the fact that he has become the object of affection of nearly every unmarried young female in Damascus.
However, nothing could prepare Josephus to the day he ran into a trio of female Celtic travellers, who provide him with many questions, including the million dollar question, “Who is the Qoheleth (Now)?”.
This is an illustrated screenplay inspired by the #SummerNSA effort and set in a time of great confusion — not unlike our own — while containing some anachronisms.
Most philosophers at ancient times (and similar phenomena such as the Israelite nev'im) were essentially a form of entertainers. I suspect "le-nabé" meant "to be crazy / to act crazy" including in today's casual sense. These philosophers were treated with the same contempt as we now treat actors, models or most recently (as of 2014) — reality T.V. show contestants, or independent (covers/parodies/remixes/etc.) artists on YouTube and other social media and Web resources (e.g.: YouTubers).
Many philosophers were joking and didn't take their philosophies seriously. They were often amateurs (= artists or workers who enjoy their work, regardless of how much or how little they were paid; a.k.a: "geeks") and polymaths, who accepted different opinions, or people who built, parodied, and expanded upon their work.
I suspect that despite what Jaynes describes in his book, most of the good nev'im and story tellers of ancient times were only hypomanic (= mildly manic) at worse, or possibly manic, who satirised fanatical or cynical zealots, often spoke in prose, drama or freeform verse, and were in effect "stand-up comedians".
“There’s nothing sexier than a man who does not want to have sex.”
“As a woman, there is nothing sexier than a man who does not want to have sex.”
This is a quote from the Television series Friends which I’ve reused in a screenplay and also decided to place here. Also see a Reddit discussion of this captioned image.
This purposely alludes to sex, but is about something else. In the Bible, Rahab is being visited by Canaanite soldiers who ask her if she hides the Israelite spies, and they leave after she testifies that it isn't the case. Even today, alpha females are held with enough admiration and respect to assume they know what they are doing. That is because, among humans, sex appeal corresponds to competence.