My project is going okay I would say. But I am a bit worried about the children. Some of them are starting to have some sort of stigma about me now. A saying that comes to mind right now is people fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer. That’s what’s been happening as of lately. Some of them have sort of drifted away from our discussions. I’m not sure why but I think it has to do with peer pressure from their friends. Another reason is because strangely these children think that I’m tricking them in some sort of way which is just ridiculous. I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of these kids aren’t used to someone taking out time with them. Or asking them questions about their day or what they think about a certain subject. When I asked them all what was a common sentence that they hear everyday and five out of the eight responded with “shut up”. I asked them why do they always hear that and they responded that’s what people always tell them whenever they try to speak because they don’t want to hear or they don’t care enough to hear what they have to say. I think that I was being a bit naïve thinking that it would be easy to sit there and talk to these kids. At first it was. But the more I got to talk to them; I realized that they guard themselves and their emotions harder then the soldiers in Iraq. They actually have walls around their mind and heart. Surely everyone does, especially skeptics. But I would have never imagined in a 12 or 13 year old. I understand why though. The majority of them come from a place that I myself am all too familiar with as well. They come from public housing developments affectionately called “the nolia” which is short for the magnolia housing development in which I come from as well; “the yo” short for the calliope housing development; and last but not least “the melph” short for the Melpomene housing development. They weren’t the best of places to grow up in. We had good times despite the environment. But growing up here there was always like an imaginary code of honor, loyalty, and silence. It’s technically not a bad thing, but the children have carried it on unknowingly in a negative way. They are almost scared to admit things in their personal life because they don’t want to break the code and let an “outsider” in. Me, and outsider, not in a million. But that’s how they view me. I often wish I can get their parents involved as well but that would be pushing it. Anyway parents are so busy these days. I often wonder were they this busy before they had children. But it’s okay because everything takes time and I’m sure they will tell me more when the time is right. I just hope that they don’t shut down completely and cut themselves off from something positive.
Deuteronomistic Historians believed that a good king had to do special things for God first. They thought God should be number one in every aspect. God was to be worshipped at put ahead of everything and anything. The king was supposed to enforce Christianity in whatever way and lead his people towards it. He was considered good by how many he could get to convert to Christianity. Of course, men were superior at this time at was considered head of their household. They felt that women were inadequate to protect a family. To be a good king, a king had to provide protection and punishment as well. War was also another sign of being a good king. A historian believed that a good king should have an army that they could lead into battle. All decisions were up to him. He needed no help making decisions concerning the war because after all he is king.
I hate to admit this, but that alcoholic daddy’s boy that we have appointed over our government and money would be considered a king. After he has the most important requirement and that is war. We have been fighting an imaginary war so long that we’ve actually became stupid enough to believe we really are fighting for something. After all I think the whole reason for the war in Iraq was for nuclear weapons. Are you kidding? If you consider dirt and rocks nuclear then I guess that justifies it. But we really are losing too many lives on both sides all for the sake of a prideful man who doesn’t want to admit fault and doesn’t want to disappoint his daddy nor his vice president. Who by the way shot a man in the neck while he was duck hunting. Even though I’m a city girl, what I don’t understand is that Cheney wears glasses and usually on an expedition like that binoculars should have been taken. So you would think that with all that visionary equipment no one should have gotten shot. Surely a duck and a man have different physical and mental characteristics. Surely if it really was an accident he wouldn’t have hit him in the neck but instead in a different body part that doesn’t have major nerves and arteries. Was it a warning? Absolutely! Was anything done about it? Yeah an apology was given. Did Bush give punishment as a good king or a Deuteronomistic king would have? Absolutely not, once Cheney apologized, Bush’s amnesia kicked in. So how could he when he forgot?
Adultery was the worst thing David did. He had no business sleeping with Uriah’s wife. Both of them are dead wrong. Then he had the nerve to get her pregnant. Trying to alleviate his own guilt, he offered his own wife to Uriah. Being the good man he is, Uriah turned him down. David then abused his authority and had Uriah killed.
The temple was built in Jerusalem by Solomon. Later it was destroyed by the Babylonians. The temple was a place for praise and worship and sacrifices. Unfortunately the Romans destroyed the temple sometime later.

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