Ah, a 'new year'—azi`twerh. A pre-rebirth in the life/death-cycle of this planet, of this "microscopic dot in a microscopic dot"-of this particular universe.

It causes one to think of the eternal lives each of us lead ... or should I say 'the eternal life each of us leads"—semantics gets in the woy of infinity-discussions like that, it does it does! oh well ...

Christians refer to that eternal life by the name "Jesus Christ." Those of you who tie my writings together probably understand exactly what the eternal life I'm talking about might also be called: possibly Tradition, though this Audaciousness might seem its evil twin.

I certainly hope it isn't, but we'll see in the discussion that follows.

Audaciousness is a dangerous tool, like an atom-bomb. You might call it "audacity;" I call it 'higher logic.' You might call it "flying in the face of the rules;" I call it 'challenging the rules with higher logic.'

Our example, Christ, knew what a king was. He knew who 'the rules' said a king was, but he also knew who 'the higher logic' said a king was. The people upheld him as their king, and to deny them would've meant real death (and not what the stories say happened).

He would've died a nobody. The tradition I would draw my eternal life from would've been Abraham's, Jacob's, or {gulp!} Jon Stewart's.

One of the messages of The Book of Audaciousness would be like one of Jesus's messages: in short, be good (no matter how great the badness surrounding you). I agree; that message is not one of His Hallmark Easter-card messages (of course, neither were the eggs or the bunny), but the rock-hard truth isn't all 'posies and curly-q's.'

But another lesson learned: "Law" doesn't care how good you are unless it's written in their book that you're so good. If Caesar had posted a decree calling Jesus "King of the Jews," Jesus would have slipped right through the court-system!

Another example that teaches us ''law' doesn't care how good you are unless it's written in their book'? (you've seen me write this example and you'll probably see it again-and-again) The Life of a 14-year-old was STOLEN FROM HIM (i.e. His then-current plans and pain-stakingly built abilities were knocked out of his body, leaving him doomed to uselessness if he were anyone but The One).

But, listening to his elders and granting Jesus eternal life, he remembered the silent instructions for application of the second lesson.

One might hear it–if one understands a "'rule'-king's life" to be 'the court'–in the last line of "So You Are the Christ," a song in Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tim Rice's (but most-famously Webber's) Jesus Christ Superstar.