The scene opens with a crowded marketplace. Happy Jewish music is playing (I’m thinking something like “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof), when all the sudden the music stops, a man falls down dead, and the crowd creates a circle of onlookers surrounding the bloody body. The music picks back up and in the corner of the camera angle a man wipes his sicae and places it back into his coat (or whatever they wear). All the while another man is taking advantage of this distraction to pick peoples coin purses; which you see in the next scene will go to a starving family (possibly of bunnies and he’ll keep some to buy something nice for Maid Miriam)
Okay so Dixie will not soon be going into film making, but how fun was it to read about the different peoples of the Revolutionary Movements? My favorites were the social bandits and the Sicarii. This was not just some story, but it was their way of life. It’s cool to think about their lives, but to really meditate on how much they fought for what they believed in, their freedom. I could endure watching my husband and kids (the hypothetical ones I will hopefully one day have) be killed for the sake of Christ, but to kill them myself?? To murder in broad daylight and watch the number of your friends and allies quickly drop because of execution?? That is either really twisted theology or whole hearted passion.
DIXIE W
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It is strange to read about the social bandits killing their family members. This is definitely not a practice we are used to, and I can't imagine being in an environment where this is commonplace.
Dixie,
Nice post but FYI rabbits are unclean.
peace,
RFoster
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