Chapter 937 By the Tiber River

Rome is full of great expressions of pure human strength and steadfast will.

——German writer Paul Heizer

With reloaded "ammunition", Joseph and the principal returned along the original path, leaving the too quiet underground and returning to the noisy ground.

The underground of Rome is like a sedimentary layer of culture. Under the uppermost primary school are churches, ancient alleys, Mithraic altars and the ancient Roman water supply system. It is like Leonardo da Vinci proposed that those towering peaks were once under the sea.

Just as surprising.

Those fossils were not brought by a great flood, and they appeared before humans. The story of Noah's Ark is false.

Leonardo da Vinci was not afraid of death at all, but his daring to say that all depended on his tact. He had sharp insights and could see the unpredictable struggles of the powerful, so he could always find strong supporters.

When he was alive, he was fine. After his death, no one has disturbed his tomb. He is not like those saints who have to worry about their bones being exhumed and stolen and sold after death.

If people are too kind, they will be used after death. Sinners cannot be redeemed by mercy.

Will the prodigal son in the story really change his ways and stop squandering money? If he lives a good life outside the family after the separation, will he still remember his father and brother?

Leonardo da Vinci finally died in France and did not return to his hometown. He would "turn back" only when things were not going well outside.

There are even people who refuse to go home when they are not having a good life outside. You can often see this kind of people in big cities like New York and Los Angeles, who will do anything to climb up in order to succeed.

The lawyer who was killed by the "Seven Deadly Sins Killer" was this kind of person. As long as he could win the case, he would be exonerated even if he knew that his client deserved the crime.

The "Seven Deadly Sins Killer" uses preaching as a disguise. He is very happy when he kills and tortures people. In front of his victims, he feels that he is "God" and is judging them. He sends "sinners" to hell.

However, when Mills' wife Trish asked the "Seven Deadly Sins Killer" to spare her and the child in her belly, he did not choose mercy.

In addition to the Ten Commandments of Moses, Catholicism also has ten other commandments: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not seduce other people’s wives, and do not swear false oaths in the name of God.

While he was judging others, he was also a sinner himself. Perhaps it was then that he realized that he was not the "chosen" child of destiny.

Perhaps in addition to his obsessive personality, John Doe also suffered from paranoia. Among the relics he left in the house were many empty pill bottles, placed together with Bibles, rosary beads and bullets.

No one wants to admit that they are crazy. People with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder pay too much attention to whether their actions are correct. They often pay attention to details due to being too serious and ignore the overall situation. They have difficulty making decisions when facing conflicts. Freudians believe that this is the patient's unconsciousness.

Although the resulting defense mechanism is mature in terms of intelligence and physical age, its emotional age is not yet mature. It is often too rational and excessively suppresses one's emotions. Once the emotions are leaked, fear takes over.

, John Doe came up with a solution to this problem by accepting a "trial" himself.

"I hate kids," he whispered, looking at the elementary school.

"Really? I quite like children." said the principal. "Are you okay, Father?"

Joseph did not answer him.

After experiencing too much today, Joseph felt that his mind was in chaos and he seemed to be close to going crazy.

Just now, he was probably talking to himself as if he was suffering from hysteria while reaching out for his rosary beads.

Modern people have completely different concepts of "Sunday" than ancient people. Modern people think that Sunday is a day of rest. God can rest, and of course people can rest.

In the Middle Ages, it was the other way around. People worked and lived a secular life six days a week, and on Sundays they had to serve the church. These services were unrewarded and were part of the public welfare. Everyone had to live a collective life, say mass together, and

Eat Holy Communion and worship together.

The supernatural life is more difficult and tiring than the secular life. Preaching and educating people is very hard and tiring, and there is no material return. This is naturally the case for people who spend their weekends in clubs, bouncing their heads to rock music and partying all night long.

Don’t understand.

They think the believers are crazy, and the believers also feel crazy when they see them having sex in the nightclub.

"Here, have a drink." The principal handed over a bottle of beer. "You look like you need this."

"Where did you get it?" Joseph asked, looking at the bottle of beer. The principal had just left for a while, and he had two bottles of cold beer in his hand, and there were even water drops on the bottles.

"Everyone has their own secret." The principal shrugged. "My 'secret life' saved my marriage, and in return I have the best beer to drink. Don't worry, it's really brewed by monks."

, guaranteed to comply with your precepts."

Joseph looked at him in disbelief.

"Those relics of saints are treasures in your eyes, but they are medical waste in the eyes of non-believers. What are you doing with empty bottles?"

"That's a secret." Joseph took the beer angrily.

Upon entering the mouth, the wine exuded the aroma of chocolate and ripe fruits, and he drank it like a worker after a day's work.

There is a movie called The Shawshank Redemption. A group of prisoners like him sit in a group on the roof of the prison, drinking beer served by the prison officer in the sun.

They felt as if they were sitting on the roof of their own home, feeling peaceful and quiet.

At this moment, he was sitting in the stands of the playground, feeling the wind blowing from the Tiber River, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Those saints are already dead, so they don't know what "living" means.

"Are those relics of saints 'trash' to you?" Joseph asked the principal.

"I'm not so much a principal as a security guard. I heard that there are also security guards in scrap car factories." The principal smiled bitterly and took a sip of wine. "Many people are not convinced by me as an 'airborne' principal and think that I am not competent and honest.

He said, I feel that although those children are sitting in the classroom, their minds are not there, and I really don’t know what the need to improve this kind of teaching is.”

"If you don't want to go to class, you can just leave. It's like when only one person comes during mass, your heart is not in the church at all. Those who want to play golf can go play golf, and those who want to go on a beach vacation can go on vacation. Such perfunctory work is a waste of each other.

time." Joseph sneered, "This is why I chose to be an exorcist instead of a priest."

"You look like you're having a rough time," the principal said. "You're going to have a hard time if you're too different from ordinary people."

"Science has replaced God and has absolute say. Not only God, but alchemy and magic are also regarded as superstitions. This is because those scientists sacrificed their lives to allow the minority to defeat the majority." Joseph drank again.

After a sip of wine, he said, "In the Middle Ages, in order to prove the barbarians in Germany, a missionary chopped down their tree symbolizing Thor, the God of Thunder, with an axe. He was also a minority facing the majority. Do you think he was afraid? Everyone is afraid of being isolated.

The fear of isolation corresponds to the herd mentality. Many people will lose their judgment as soon as they join a group, and even abandon the concept of right and wrong in order to gain a sense of identity. Do the same thing as everyone else.

It will make you feel much more relaxed. Go to church and go to school together. Conformity is the least likely solution to problems that people think. Some people volunteer in Lourdes, and some people create chaos and looting during demonstrations. Among these people

It seems that even if the "people" I am attached to are wrong, then the public will bear the responsibility together. Even if it is a capital crime, it will become a small crime if it is shared by everyone. The law does not blame the public. Maybe there will only be more in the Doomsday Judgment, just like ants.

Only those who must be judged by God will be judged by God. The desert is not like a beach where tropical fruit juices are supplied. Trekking in the desert feels very painful and tiring. Many people and animals gave up midway and eventually turned into bones and remained in the sea of ​​sand forever.

.When facing the devil, we don’t rely on numbers, but on our own. Although people’s changes are often made through pain, only then will life be complete. I will not change myself in order to gain the approval of others.

Weird temper and withdrawn behavior, because that's my style."

"You are really an American." The principal exclaimed.

"I was born in the United States, but I am not an American." Joseph said with a stiff face.

"I heard that Americans like 'freedom of speech,' in other words, speaking without restraint." The principal said with a hint.

"I won't tell anyone what happened today."

"It's best like this." The principal patted Joseph on the shoulder. "Although the Knights of Malta are no longer what they used to be, we are still soldiers. We are not like the priest who refuses to stain our hands with blood."

"Is this part of your 'secret life'?"

"I heard that you killed a sniper. Let's see if you are so lucky next time." The principal raised his chin and stood up. "Just drink this bottle of wine and leave, and then forget that you were ever here."

here."

Joseph watched the middle-aged, stout Italian man leave the stands.

"You served in the Mountain Division?" Joseph shouted at the principal.

The principal waved his hand with his back to him calmly, and the next second he walked into the shadows and disappeared.

It is true that the missionaries chopped down the tree belonging to the god of thunder. After cutting down, the missionaries were not struck by lightning and were not punished. So the Germanic people of that tribe did not believe in the god of thunder and converted to Catholicism. They had no choice but to pray to gods and worship Buddha when the plague came.

One reason to stop the plague

Why believe in the God you worship if it doesn’t work? Not everyone is Job
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