In reading Numbers Chapter 35 there is a section titled 'Cities of Refuge' and to fit this in with society today it mentions that if anybody kills accidently, they can go to that city and be safe till they have a trial to determine guilt or innocence. Not sure this reminds me of sanctuary in various locations now-a-days. It goes on with the idea of if one murders the murderer should be put to death by an avenger like a prosecutor. One must prove intentionality and enmity with more than one witness, and it finishes with not accepting ransom.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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All the Leaves are Falling
In November when the leaves are falling what do I think of doing, but going out and raking them up into a huge pile and then jumping into that said pile. When I am done jumping and throwing up all the leaves begin raking them again, and I would do that at three times before raking them up and bagging them or placing them on a garden for some fertilizer when they decay into the soil and protecting the roots to some flowers from the cold and frost. Raking the leaves is a chore, but a fun chore for me.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH12 days ago in Critique
Miss Persephone's Manual to a Seemingly Ordinary Life
Miss Persephone was found at the dining table, her blue eyes swollen, her tears arriving and retreating like the tides of the ocean. Earlier that day, her family had visited her in the retirement home where she had lived for eight years. It was her eightieth birthday.
By Imola Tóth3 days ago in Fiction
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This is interesting. I did not remember this part of the Old Testament.
Now that is interesting, have we progressed as a society?