![]() The widow could have given up on the unjust judge and sought her own form of justice, revenge. ![]() However, I believe there is another lesson here, a lesson in persistence of justice. The intention of this parable is to teach the disciples that persistence in prayer is important. The judges decides to grant justice if for no other reason than that she will leave him alone. At first the judge ignores her, but eventually she wears him out. Jesus teaches in a parable found in Luke 18:1-8, about widow who seeks justice in a case against an adversay from an unjust judge. However, when we right a wrong by creating a wrong, we create an endless loop of harm and there is no justice. I don’t believe there is anything wrong with finding pleasure in justice. It is an aggressive behavior we engage in as a response to any sort of provocation. When we find ourselves alone or lacking in power to defend our own interest, we derive satisfaction & pleasure from exacting revenge. Why do I believe revenge is wrong and why should you believe the same? Well, revenge is a subtype of aggression, retaliatory aggression. I am not sure why it has disappeared but part of me hopes that humanity knows that revenge is wrong. Eventually the “Revenge” space would go through some changes and then disappear (see picture below). I know this is just a game, but I think Milton Bradley would be pretty upset to see what his orginal game had become. or (2)Send any player back 10 spaces. I like how it says you are ENTITLED! What is that supposed to mean? To be entitled means that you believe that you are DESERVING of this privelge or special treatment. If you landed on this space the rules stated: IF you land on a REVENGE space you are ENTITLED to one of the following choices: (1)Collect $200,000 from any player. In 1960, the “Revenge” space would be first introduced. ![]() Ok, now back to our discussion of the “Revenge” space. Although the game would become quite different a 100 years later, some of the same philosphy applies to the modern version, except winning has become about making good money decisions instead of good moral decsions. The hope was that you’d see the advatanges of making good (winning) moral decisions over the bad (losing). ![]() Milton Bradley was an educator with a bent towards teaching morality and intended for the game to teach the advantages of taking the moral high road. ![]() It was called “The Checkered Game of Life” and it had some pretty intereting spaces youĬould land on such as, “suicide”, “poverty”, and “ruin”. The original version of the game was created by Milton Bradley in 1860 and looked like a checker board. Although the game looks quite different today than it did nearly 60 years ago, it original version created over 160 years ago would be unrecognizable to most. It included spaces like “Revenge” and “The Poor Farm”, but has seen many revisions since then. The game as most of us know it was released in 1960 by Reuben Klamer and Bill Markham. Do you remember the “Revenge” space on the board game, The Game of Life? Depending on your answer to that question, I could probably guess how old you are. ![]()
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