Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Why is death lucky? We don't know what happens after death.
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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Interesting to see that he has no more insight than a clueless child does. We are all clueless children.
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A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient, They are but parts, any thing is but a part.
Everything is just a thing and we give meaning to said thing.
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but the fathomless human brain, And what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?
Deep thinking done here. He makes a good point by saying we really can't grasp how deep some concepts really are.
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I am there again.
Really like this line. Makes you feel for him.
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The disdain and calmness of martyrs, The mother of old, condemn’d for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on, The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover’d with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.
Very dark imagery he is presenting here. Makes me wonder why he feels this way, since he says: "All these I feel or am".
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seven satellites
What are the seven satellites?
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Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the wall,
I don't know what this means.
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What I guess’d while I lay alone in my bed,
Sounds depressed
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Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Seems he has a problem with authority
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When I lived in prosperity, having the comforts of the world about me, my relations by me, my heart cheerful, and taking little care for anything
I think everyone can relate to this.
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He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat
Now I see why the first sentence of the reading labeled them as "barbarous creatures".
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that it would be no matter if my head were off too.
Very interesting contrast from her best night of lodging, to them caring less that her back was cut up.
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pancake, about as big as two fingers
It may be a small portion, but I can only imagine how satisfying it must have tasted.
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I was at this time knitting a pair of white cotton stockings for my mistress
Interesting to see that even in such times of peril, she still manages to find a will to do leisurely activities. If that was me, I probably would have lost the will to do a lot of things.
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sold for a gun
Seems fitting, since there was no regard for a sick child's health.
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nine days
That's a long time to suffer, and a horrible way to go out.
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oaken leaves
This reminds me of the story we read before about the birth of medicine and how the plants were on Man's side.
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now merciless enemies
Seems as though there was a betrayal. Were the Pagans responsible for putting this predicament?
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now down I must sit in the snow, by a little fire, and a few boughs behind me, with my sick child in my lap; and calling much for water, being now (through the wound) fallen into a violent fever
Interesting contrast to the previous paragraph. The first paragraph seemed as though the Natives were showing compassion, but now it seems as though that compassion is lost.
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Marlborough’s Praying Indians
You would think that with the title "Praying Indians", they wouldn't have killed people. Who gave them this name? I'm curious if that's how their name translated or if that's what the English named them.
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barbarous creatures
Strong language, setting the tone immediately. It makes them seem primitive.
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many people say sarcastically that we have drunk ourselves into Christianity, and that we are demented. I am a peyote eater, but I have never found a demented person among them.
Curious to see what other people's opinions are. I also don't know much about the culture, but I haven't ever heard of it being associated with Christianity. I wonder if it is still associated with Christianity, or if it evolved into something completely different from which it started.
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If a peyote eater relapses into his old way of living, then the peyote causes him great suffering.
Sounds like they are trapped into their new Christian lifestyle. I am beginning to see why it is called a cult.
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After eating peyote I grasped the meaning of the Bible
VERY interesting statement. Curious if the drugs morphed the mind and brainwashed the author, or if their mind is free and now believes truth.
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though he is not educated, is full of real intelligence and religion.
Very vague. I'm curious if he would preach that he was full of real intelligence and the people would take his word for it.
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bad person
Was this because of his actions, or because of him teaching people about Christianity? Christianity seems to have a negative influence so far.
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cult
I wonder if this has a negative stigma that the word has today.
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In that year he went to Oklahoma and while there ate the peyote
Curious as to who gave him the peyote. Was it another tribe, or perhaps Christians?
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