By a number of factors. Different levels of influence & thus importance.

I wrote an abominably juvenile post yesterday evening in a paroxysm of “humorous” sacrireligious fury.

About Jesus (The “christos”, or “anointed” ) and the ever mysterious Mary Magdalen, in which I speculated that if his authority was from God, then so was hers’, since she seems to be a recurrent character---indeed, a favored one---in his life-story, as reported to us by the redacted (but recoverable?) so-called Gospels (“good news”). 

It certainly has been good news to some throughout these twenty centuries that this man has haunted our collective consciousness. It continues to be, for those who practice religion seriously, which means to be light of spirit and often “like unto little children”.  These people are unmistakable, for they have FAITH. The best definition I have ever heard of “faith” is, to paraphrase, “knowing, trusting, that the next step your feet take will meet solid ground.

Vertigo is not uncommon these days.  Very much as in the archetypal dream of falling into an abyss. We are assured it is a common human condition, and, if it gets too bad---if it affects your ability to effectively conform yourself to the shared social reality---it can be  sedated by the latest marvel of pharmacology, perhaps just the “miracle” you need for your life in order to remain “a productive member of society”.

Sure it helps, this synthetic chemical. No doubt.

In a world where “synthetic” means “artificial”, made from Man’s artifice.

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All three words are darn fine words, if understood fully.

Artifice means not only “modeling, rendering” and “a clever or artful skill”, but also , usually pejoratively, “a clever trick, deception by subtlety.”

I am split right now on whether to define this word in the former or latter sense.

As for “synthetic”, it comes from “synthesis”, the old version of  one of our favorite new trendy words that only time will tell can survive  Her “test”: namely, perserverence, and  continued relevance to our daily lives.

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Like this word, “Christ”.

Used “in vain” in many connotations of “vain”.

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It is probably vain, in all senses,  for any one of us to compare themselves to Christ.

It smacks of 1.megalomania , 2.narcissism, 3. A symptom of the pernicious “mania” we certainly no longer use in the old sense,

“enthusiasm”,

 which itself is rarely used in its ancient  sense.

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My over-analytical mind, which I am endlessly criticized for by all my friends and acquaintances, deigns now to make a (sweeping) synthesis, a “combining of separate (possibly diametrically or dialectically opposed)

 elements to

 make a whole…

a process, a verb,

with a noun form meaning “the whole so formed”.

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(Actually, now that my SYNERGY has kicked  in and is being utilized in my usual useless way,

combining connotations to form symbols

which have multiple denotions,

I find myself prolific and profligate in my language as always)…

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CHRIST: 1.A MYTH, OR 2.AN HISTORICAL FACT.

ANSWER: A MYTHOPOETIC FACT.

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Goshdammit, I wuz so good in my grammar up til now! but heavens to betty boop

and her sister billie jane , I am swept away in synchronicity-addicted silly woolgathering from reluctant sheep!

I am assured by the Christ,or jesus, or Joshua, or the holy roller spirit or simply the Quakers’ divine spark or allah or Buddha or just the’‘higher power”in my immortal stupefied soul

( that surreptitiously gains clarity and may even achieve some semblance of accepted Queen’s English, if the f-ing Queen is a big bore

Like this piece was,

Except it wasn’t for some,

Another synthesis!

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Excuse my eccentricity of syntax and vague semblance of anything passing for “sense” in the immediately preceding paragraph. I shall endeavor to do better. I have been, as they say in the vernacular, enthusiastically “smited by God”.