In the Plymouth plantation:People live very honest to their believes they thought God had send us all human being to earth to pay for Adam's and eve's sin, and his faithful mercy will be only for several people. Their imagination in heaven and hell where unexplainable, there were many things I just didn't agree on. A mysterious God that no one had ever seen or knew was their leader the one who speak and let them know his will and what he wanted from every individual. It's really amazing how God speaks to them and share's his toughs .
The Plymouth plantation remembers me of my family, Their Christians and they have about the same believes and thoughts as the Puritans.
Their society was very independent , they were like a small family they knew everybody and had something special that will unite all of them. They knew that they were able to trust on the people that were in the path of god for ex:"Squanto continued with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation" so Squanto was send from gos to make treaty with the Indians.Indeed i think that is awesome , being send by God to do something that will change the lives of lots of people. I will love to experience something like what Squanto did.
new Governor, first marriage: When i read this section I was surprise in how so many people could be affected by the death of a governor."Whose death was much lamented and caused great heaviness amongst them, as there was cause. And his wife, being a weak woman, died within five or six weeks after him. " This lady had to really love her husband to die after he did it's confusing cause i still don't understand how she died. in the first marriage i was kind of confuse in how it was celebrate, it didn't sound like a wedding it sound more like a small get together.
First harvest & private communal farming:In their first harvest they had really good luck with the fishing. They had no worries because their where enough fishes for the whole valley. It must hard having to eat fish about every day i know i wouldn't be able to handle something like that.When they started the communal farming it must had been hard for every family to be on their own.Having to struggle to get all the family to help even the little ones."The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn." When time past the government has the idea of uniting all men and young boys to work in farming so they will sell the cops and make money. " Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times; and that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing."unbelievable how a the valley has to obey the government even thou it's affecting their family. But not only did they make the man work but they made their wife's do all the chore's for other man. It's sad how god let many people suffer you could say their where their slaves." And for men's wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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This is looking pretty good. You are ready to move onto the Rationalists (the second half of this project).
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