Julius Caesar is our travel guide as he takes us through his murderous subjugation of the native Celtic tribal peoples of ancient Gaul. It sounds vaguely like other, recent European colonial conquests...until the natives nearly win.
It's hardcore history.
If I asked you to get a piece of paper and something to write with and to make a numerical list of all the things that you would be willing to die for, how long is your listen and what's on it?
This is kind of an exercise and you run into these things elsewhere, I'm sure, as sort of a clarify your life and priorities exercise.
Another one I've heard is go write your own obituary now.
And you can see how that might help you get a sense of, oh, gee, this is what I'd like to be someday, and here's how far I am from that now and sort of help you figure out how you're doing.
The what would you be willing to die for question is a priority question helps you sort of figure out what are the most important things to me.
And if you think about lists like that, I mean, I think we probably all have pretty similar things, at least at the top of the list.
Wouldn't we, wouldn't loved ones be on that list?
Right near the top, I would be willing to die for my wife and children or parents.
I have to believe that's pretty common in any era in history.
And then likely something on that list near the top would be possessions of one kind or another.
Land comes to mind right off the top of my head.
This farm has been in my family for three generations.
I would give my life for it.
The number of conflicts that were land ownership based since time immemorial is uncountable.
Isn't it pretty common?
Other kinds of possession you might think of as like money.
How long down on your list, though, does it go before you get to things that are a little harder to get your hands on?
Tangibly.
I mean, where's something like freedom on your list?