{"id":2907,"date":"2011-04-17T23:58:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/matthew-excerpt-from-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:12:33","slug":"matthew-excerpt-from-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/17\/matthew-excerpt-from-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"MATTHEW (Excerpt from THE FINAL TESTAMENT OF THE HOLY BIBLE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v18n4\/htdocs\/matthew-770.php\" target=\"_blank\">from VICE Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; color: black; border-width: 0px\"><font color=\"#ed1c24\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">MATTHEW<\/font><\/h1>\n<p>BY JAMES FREY<br \/>\n<em>An excerpt from\u00a0<\/em>The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<em>, \u00a92011 James Frey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Below is the world\u2019s first and only sneak peek of James Frey\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<em>, which will be released through myriad digital, print, and artistic formats on Good Friday, April 22.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The book takes place in modern-day New York City and is sectioned like the Gospel. Chapters are named after their respective narrators, individuals whose lives have been drastically changed by the protagonist and supposed modern-day Messiah Ben Zion Avrohom. Ben\u2019s speech appears in red type throughout the book, a nod toward red-letter Bibles made popular in the early 20th century that printed Jesus\u2019s spoken words the same way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Early in the story, Ben is working as a security guard at a skyscraper construction site when a very large and heavy plate of exterior glass falls and flattens him. Against all odds and physical limitations, he survives and awakes from a deep coma to discover that he possesses preternatural abilities and may be fulfilling prophecies foretold in his youth. He proceeds to roam the city and surrounding areas, reuniting with estranged family members, shooting buckets of miracle cum into the orifices of a wide variety of women and men who afterward will be happy forever, denounces the Bible and other organized religion, speaks to the entity humans understand to be God and tells them that He isn\u2019t going to save them, warns that the end is nigh, generally has a good time doing whatever he fancies, and advises others to do so as long as nobody gets hurt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>If you\u2019ve made it this far chances are you are going to keep reading regardless of your predisposition to\u00a0<\/em>The Final Testament<em>\u2019s subject matter or how you feel about its author. Lots of media outlets have already made and will continue to make a big, predictable fuss about the book\u2019s release. For now we\u2019re just going to shut up, step back, and let you judge for yourself. We\u2019ll have more to say about James next Monday, the 18th, when we publish an exclusive interview with him and a corresponding episode of\u00a0<\/em>VBS Meets\u2026 James Frey<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<table width=\"16\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; font-weight: normal; color: #292929; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 18px\"><font style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #ed1c24; text-align: left; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">S<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>ome people just ain\u2019t made for the world. Can\u2019t fucking take it. Can\u2019t deal with Momma and Dadda and school teaching you nothing and a fucking job with some motherfucking boss going blah blah blah and bills and neighbors and some kind of bullshit church and having a good credit score and a mortgage and getting married with kids and some kind of mysterious motherfucking retirement plan that don\u2019t ever let you do nothing but put more in and get none back. Lotta people ain\u2019t made for it. They the people you see on the streets, in dirty clothes, talking to themselves, screaming on the corner like they demonized, mumbling and crying, they the ones in your family and your town you always scared of and feeling sorry for and making excuses about, the ones you don\u2019t even thinks is fucking human. They is, they just ain\u2019t made like the rest of you and they can\u2019t deal with it so they go to drinking and getting fucking high and being criminal and getting locked-the-fuck-up and just saying who gives a fuck to all of it. People be thinking they\u2019re crazy and be needing some kind of fucking help, but the help ain\u2019t nothing \u2019cause a motherfucking soup kitchen or some kind of shelter that can\u2019t hold enough or a nuthouse where we get beat or some charity that\u2019s really about motherfuckers\u2019 friends knowing how good they is and how much they care ain\u2019t nothing but bullshit. And don\u2019t even bring up that made-up motherfucker people be calling God, \u2019cause that motherfucker don\u2019t even exist, and don\u2019t be bringing up all these so-called houses of God, \u2019cause they more about killing and hating than they is about helping and loving. Sorry to break the motherfucking news if you ain\u2019t heard it, but that\u2019s it motherfucker, that\u2019s the fucking news.<\/p>\n<p>I been living underground for a long-ass motherfucking time. Living underneath New York fucking City, where there\u2019s tunnels, and there\u2019s tunnels underneath the tunnels, and there\u2019s some more fucking tunnels under those tunnels. Some of \u2019em empty, some still got trains rolling through \u2019em, some of \u2019em gots the subways and some of \u2019em gots peoples. And then there\u2019s some so dark, so goddamn dark, darker than the darkest night, and blacker than what you see when your eyes closed, that most peoples, even underground peoples, won\u2019t go into \u2019em. And those are the tunnels where miracles happen, where people like Yahya and Ben go and come back something different, where motherfuckers who got the gift go and in the blackness they see. I know it be sounding crazy, but the ones with gifts got to go into blackness, \u2019cause that\u2019s where they learn to see.<span style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\">Read the rest at Vice Magazine:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v18n4\/htdocs\/matthew-770.php#ixzz1JsrLVzT3\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: 900; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">MATTHEW &#8211; Vice Magazine<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VICE Magazine MATTHEW BY JAMES FREY An excerpt from\u00a0The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, \u00a92011 James Frey Below is the world\u2019s first and only sneak peek of James Frey\u2019s\u00a0The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, which will be released through myriad digital, print, and artistic formats on Good Friday, April 22. 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