Chapter 192 Gareth is plain and simple
For the first time, with voting, my side still has such a huge advantage.
Two joys overlap each other. This double joy brings more and more joy.
I should have had a dreamlike happy time.
However, why does it become like this?
It’s me, it’s me first, it’s obviously me who came first, whether it’s democracy, republic, or leading troops to rebel.
Elias was dumbfounded by the election results, but he didn't dare to say anything for a while. He didn't question it when Garris proposed the plan. Could it be that he would question it again after the results came out?
I saw that his face could not help but beat several times, he hesitated to speak, and many things were going through his mind.
Just when he was about to say something.
He was patted lightly. You must know that Garris's big hand was right behind him!
"I, I obey the decision of the team committee!"
Garris led the applause, and then those on the side cheered too.
"Okay! Let us unite as one and create brilliance together! From now on we will become bigger and stronger! Complete the unfinished business!"
After saying this, the leader of this team of hundreds of people was decided.
Of course, in order to appease the people on Elias' side, Elias was elected and appointed deputy captain.
Throughout this process, everything seemed to make sense.
Everyone expressed their opinions, and they elected squadron leaders with whom they agreed, and military tribunes with whom they agreed.
Then these people represented the wishes of ordinary soldiers and elected Garris as the captain, taking into account the force that Garris had shown previously.
The people on Elias' side actually have nothing to object to.
In fact, Elias should be the only one who is really struggling to balance his heart. After all, it is not a happy thing for the duck to fly.
After a while, Garris knew that he was playing dirty tricks.
The cheering and raising of hands vote was indeed something that was done in the early days of Republican Rome, but the cheering and raising of hands voting was abolished.
Moreover, in later generations, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem also proved mathematically that it is difficult to deduce the order of group preferences from the order of [voters'] personal preferences.
It can also be said that as the number of candidates and voters increases, "procedural democracy" will inevitably become farther and farther away from "substantive democracy."
In short, it is generally impossible to achieve a coordinated collective choice result through the voting process.
With the addition of Garris, he started with some dirty tricks, and then moved on to Elias to "adjust the electorate structure".
Concentrate potential opposition voters in large numbers to create a constituency with an absolute advantage for Elias, and in exchange for the other two squadrons, it is a constituency with a relative advantage for Garris.
This behavior undermines the fairness of the election.
But to be honest, Garris is not a firm supporter of a certain system. He has no heartfelt love and support for the so-called voting democracy.
He is just a very simple person. He wants some people to die, he wants to make some people stand up, he wants to make some people realize the truth - they hold the key to changing the world in their hands. strength.
What he needs more than the so-called sanctity of votes is to convince these people of something.
At least, in this era, it is better to believe that the will of the people can change the world than to pin hopes on the idols of "tyrants".
The other side of the [Holy Lord] is the [tyrant], those who have overstepped the rights of the people. How can they serve the people from the bottom of their hearts and from generation to generation?
Therefore, from the beginning, a system should be used to restrain [people with unlimited power].
Unlike China, which has a mature court system, in the Near East, there is essentially no country in the true sense, and most of them are just warlords.
And "tyrant" Isaac is a typical [tyrant] warlord.
The bureaucracy and civil servants in the Middle East are simply unable to refute or restrain the desires of [tyrants].
Then Garris simply adapts to local conditions and plans to give the [tyrants] in the Near and Middle East a small democratic revolution.
This wave of "retro" is called "retro" all the way to a thousand years ago!
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The mountains are shrouded in low-hanging clouds and the streams in the valleys surge with increased rain.
The cold air is crisp and clear, with the moist smell of fresh rain.
Although the vegetation on the mountains is not as lush as in spring and summer, it is still dotted with dark green cedar and cypress trees, which tenaciously resist the harshness of winter.
A team of more than a hundred people is walking in the mountains of Cyprus.
As a large island with an area of 9,000 square kilometers, Cyprus is approximately 1.5 times the size of Shanghai.
There are two mountain ranges in the north and south of the island, namely the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia Mountains. Between the two mountain ranges is the central plain, the Mesaoria Plain.
The narrow Kyrenia Mountains, which run along the northern coastline, are not as high as the Troodos Mountains and cover a much smaller area.
The Troodos Mountains cover most of the south and west of the island, accounting for about half of the island's area.
Therefore, this third largest island in the Mediterranean has a large mountainous area.
It is precisely because of this mountainous area that it is so difficult for the soldiers under Isaac's command to hunt down Nicholas and his gang.
After integrating Elias' dozens of people, Nicholas's original hiding place seemed extremely crowded, and the food reserves there were about to bottom out.
For the training of the team and the subsequent uprising activities, the first brigade of the Cyprus Liberation Front is bound to be transferred.
But where to turn? There are two choices before everyone.
One is to go to a village slightly on the edge of the mountain, which is Elias' hometown.
Over there, the village is slightly richer, and everyone can eat better.
The other one is to continue deeper into the mountainous area, which is Andre's hometown.
The villages in the mountainous areas were naturally much poorer, but they were relatively safer and easier to avoid Isaac's eyes and ears.
After some discussion, Garris convinced Elias and Nicholas that the team should head towards the mountains as a whole.
After entering the mountainous area, although life is difficult, at least the training of troops can be released, and new soldiers can be recruited from the nearby mountain people, which will also help the development of the subsequent uprising.
Andre, who led the way, trudged all the way. He led everyone along the road in the mountains of Cyprus.
He hadn't been back for some time, and a feeling of cowardice gradually emerged.
The fresh air in the mountains made it feel heavier and heavier on his chest.
But when he led everyone around a corner and stepped onto the muddy path into the village, the sight in front of them suddenly stopped everyone in their tracks.
The smell of death was permeating the air, and everywhere as far as the eye could see, there were only burned ruins.
A few ashes swirled in the breeze, as the earth mourned these ruins.
When everyone stopped, Andre took a few steps forward and walked into the village.
Looking up, the broken walls, charred trees, and debris on the ground all tell the story of the tragedy that happened here.
Even the wells that once provided people with water are now scattered with broken wooden barrels and human heads of different sizes.
I saw Andre's knees weakened and he fell to his knees, tears pouring out uncontrollably and wetting his dusty cheeks.
Everything he knew, the people, the laughter, the village, was gone.
Only the silent ruins were left, and his heart-rending cries echoed in the empty space. The setting sun shone on him, making him look particularly sad.
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The ruins shrouded in night seemed even more eerie and silent, with only the cold wind whispering among the dilapidated houses.
The charred wooden beams cast dim shadows in the faint moonlight, like twisted fingers, as if telling silent misery.
Garris did not sleep with the others in the intact house in front of him, but sat on a nearby cliff, quietly overlooking the village that had experienced massacre and burning.
After a while, there was a sound of footsteps, and Garris knew that it was Andre without looking back.
Andre sat next to Garris and handed a piece of bread to Garris.
"Is this the food you brought people to find?"
Looking at Andre beside him, Garris' voice was a little dull.
Andre nodded, indicating that this was indeed the case.
Then they looked down at the ruins together.
The village had been burned, but their team had nowhere to go.
Even if they want to go to the village where Elias's family is located, it is impossible to travel overnight. It would be too dangerous to do so.
Therefore, their team could only spend the night in this ruins.
After seeing everything, Andre became much more taciturn, but he still expressed that he could lead some brothers to get some food nearby.
In order to fight against the tax collectors, they, the mountain people, would not pile up all the food in the village.
"Do you have something to say to me?"
"Indeed, I have something to say."
"What?"
Andre whispered:
"A priest once taught me not to repay evil with evil, not to avenge myself, rather to give in than to surrender to the wrath of the Lord, to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."
"But now I only have overwhelming anger in my heart. I want to find those evildoers who massacred the village one by one, and then kill them one by one!"
Listening to Andre's words, Garris snorted lightly, and then he said: "Then have you ever heard another sentence?"
"What?"
"Those who love the Lord will hate sin, because He protects the lives of the godly and delivers them from the hands of the wicked. Those who love God should have a strong aversion to and rejection of sin. There is nothing wrong with that. This is the way it should be."< br>
Listening to Garris's words, Andre couldn't help but say something else.
"Revenge and hatred, shouldn't they be advocated?"
For this kind of question, Garris naturally has his own response.
"Would you kill the family members of those enemies? Would you insult the wives and daughters of those enemies? I'm not asking you if you think so, but whether you would do it."
There was some struggle on Andre's face. He had indeed thought about it, but if he really had to do it, his conscience was shaking violently at this moment.
In the end, Andre chose to tell the truth in his heart: "I might do it, maybe, I... I don't know."
Garris looked at the painful Andre and sighed slightly. No one is a saint, and no one can make mistakes.
At least, this strong man will already feel pain for this possibility.
Much better than that guy Temujin. After all, Temujin has a famous saying: The happiest thing in a man's life is to kill his life, take away all his property, eradicate him, make his relatives cry bitterly, and then rape his wife and daughter. .
"Heavenly Father, He has given all people a gift, and that is freedom."
"You hate your enemies from the bottom of your heart. This is your freedom. You must cherish this freedom. It is this freedom that makes you appear to be a human being."
"If a person is indifferent even if his parents are killed or his wife and daughter are raped, then is he still a human being?"
"Therefore, hatred is justified to you. Even if you want to regret it afterwards, you should remember what you have experienced."
"But for you to remember this and the taste of hatred, it is not to let you take back what has happened unchanged, but to prevent this from happening again."
Just like Garris had patched the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" earlier.
Nowadays, Garris is also patching up Christian teachings.
It is a grave sin to inflict one's own misery on innocent people.
But if it is to stop evil people from doing evil again, then it makes sense to remember hatred.
What Andre said is basically from the New Testament, and many of what Gareth said in response to him are actually from the Old Testament.
The Bible was not a work written consistently by a single person or a group of people in a short period of time.
In fact, the time when the Bible was written spanned at least a thousand years.
This means that many words in the Bible are actually inconsistent if taken purely literally.
This means that although the Bible is the most classic book of religion, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and there are a thousand Bibles in the eyes of a thousand people.
He, Gareth, wanted to teach his knowledge of the Bible and let more and more people know the original intention of Jehovah.
"Remembering history is to prevent history from repeating itself. Remembering hatred is to prevent hatred from appearing again."
"Don't let hatred blind you so that you fall into the temptation of the devil."
"Light has arisen to give light to the righteous and give joy to those who are upright in heart."
"The Lord will use your hand to spread righteousness into the world."
"Those who do evil things, the Lord will bless you and kill them all!"
When Garris said that he would kill everyone, Andre's heart was severely touched.
Under this night, beside the burned village, Gerys, the holy man from Jerusalem, made a promise to him.
The small world of Cyprus is bound to burn with the fire of justice.
It took me some time to reorganize the subsequent story, and it became much smoother. However, there was not enough time for today’s update, so the number of words was a little less than before.
I will make up for it tomorrow depending on the situation, and then publish an obituary.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, the founder of Liberation Theology, Peruvian Catholic theologian and philosopher, Dominican priest, academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and professor at the University of Notre Dame, held the ceremony on October 22, local time. He died at the age of 96 in a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Gutierrez is considered the founder and main theorist of liberation theology, which was born in the late 1960s with the idea of refocusing the church on the poorest segments of the population.
After his death, Vatican News called him the "defender of the poor" (difensoredeipoveri) and the "founder of liberation theology" (teologodellaliberazione).
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