I was set on another mental birdwalk today while listening to the 
radio.  When we tell our kids to live your life like Jesus did are we 
saying we want them to be social revolutionaries who give up their 
regular lives to challenge the most power empire in the world and lose? 
 While small parts of his story would be cooped into a world religion, 
Jesus lost his fight against the Roman occupation of Israel (and the 
decadent culture they brought with them) and he died 
quite horribly for it. What parent thinks to themselves "I want to give 
my kids values that lead to them being force marched through the streets
 and crucified by the government?" This led me to wonder as long as we 
are tell our children to live meaningful lives, should we be teaching 
our kids to be more like Osama Bin Laden rather than Jesus. Osama also 
led a revolution to oust a foreign invader and their foreign culture 
from his country. Imagine if Saudi Arabia wanted to create enclaves of 
armed soldiers in the US that were governed by Saudi not US law, and the
 US government just gave away whole parts of cities to Saudi Arabia to 
make this happen. Very few if any Americans, especially the Americans 
who had their land taken, would just stand idly by and let that happen 
without armed revolt...so honestly if you were counseling your children 
on how to react - would you tell them to fight like Jesus and MLK? OR 
like Osama? All 3 died..but while Jesus and MLK peaceful demonstration 
just led more praceful demonstration and endless debate - I'm pretty 
sure no one will be building foreign bases in a Muslim county any time 
soon. 
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At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either  live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no  future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is  complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier  of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and  outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I  chose the nothing.
-James Bolivar DiGriz
-James Bolivar DiGriz

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