Return with something worth sharing.

Five acts, not a ladder

The circle is an original modern ouroboros: a serpent holding its tail. Here it means returning to familiar questions with more experience and more care. It is a course map, not a ranking of souls. Later act boundaries are an editorial plan, not a prediction about your life.

The artwork combines the thick outlines and bold colors of American traditional tattoo art with an expressive anime influence. Its winding shape takes a specific cue from Serpent Mound. It is a modern original, not authentic tribal iconography or a borrowed ceremonial design.

1. Days 1–40: Awakening. Notice what has shaped you.
2. Days 41–120: Finding balance. Learn to give and receive care without control or self-erasure.
3. Days 121–200: Love under pressure. Keep care and conscience when the easy answer fails.
4. Days 201–280: The common work. Share resources, responsibility, and power.
5. Days 281–365: The return. Pass wisdom and love forward; begin again with more to give.

What guides the writing

Kevin’s working theology begins with a higher power, nonviolence, and care for one another. It asks how people can resist exploitation, share resources and responsibility, and pass intelligence and love forward. Remembering vulnerability should make another person’s need harder to dismiss. These are convictions offered for reflection, not conditions of belonging.

The conflict is between exploitation and common good, not between races or kinds of people. Generosity must remain voluntary; it does not demand unsafe contact, neglect of dependents, or giving beyond one’s means. Faith is welcome, and so are questions. Neither ThinkBot nor this project claims to speak for God.

Serpent Mound is not our logo’s history

In a 2021 article, Shawnee Chief Ben Barnes and archaeologist Brad Lepper describe a Shawnee King of the Serpents tradition and the sacred importance of Serpent Mound to living Indigenous communities. They identify a summer-solstice sunset alignment while explaining uncertainty about other proposed alignments and the mound’s date.

Our circular symbol is not a map of that earthwork or a claim to represent a shared “Native American religion.” We do not claim a verified constellation code, a prophecy about all humanity, or an ancient connection to biblical Israel. The inspiration is an invitation to remember ancestors and consider what we leave behind, while learning from named living communities in their own words.

Read Barnes and Lepper, “Ohio’s Serpent Mound—An American Indian Story Written in the Earth” (2021).

Sources are allowed to disagree

Scripture, philosophy, historical testimony, and our application keep their own names. Remembering Egypt, loving a neighbor, sharing possessions, and restraining power are related questions, not interchangeable quotations. Paul’s arguments about Torah also vary by audience and context; we will not reduce them to a blanket claim that everyone must follow it.

Future lessons must explain what a source actually argues, what another voice changes, and why one modest action follows. Repeated template prose is not an acceptable daily lesson.