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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