| At first it was as the old warriors around the village | | | | had done good or evil in his life made a difference on |
| water hole in their older days, reflecting on what had | | | | how he could die, and expect to go to a better life with |
| gone right and what had gone wrong in all their battles, | | | | God, as Socrates told Aristotle, and as Aristotle told |
| defeats, retreats, returns with victories. | | | | Alexander, and as I tell my grand children, his horse told |
| What had it all been for? That would be Socrates. | | | | me. |
| Others, as today, would shout all the platitudes of the | | | | This really is about people and how they respond to |
| day, defending what ever decisions, however | | | | the situations they find themselves facing, and how |
| apparently harmful, the present administration was | | | | well prepared they are to effect change, and accept |
| taking. This little civilization on a hill was surrounded by | | | | their fate. Socrates died quietly and told Aristotle, who |
| ignorance or power. | | | | told his pupil Alexander, that he was going to a better |
| All citizens of Greece needed to be on their alert. As | | | | life. |
| at Gettysburg two thousand years later, the fate of | | | | Alexander almost died in the desert in Egypt seeking a |
| democracy could some times hang by threads. | | | | Wise Holy Man : they blessed each other. 350 years |
| Socrates made the leaders of ancient Greece jealous | | | | before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.Other ancient |
| and was forced to die. | | | | texts tell us that the disciples of Buddha were in |
| The immediate response was that the people of | | | | Greece by about this time. |
| Athens arose as one and hounded those Governing | | | | We know from history that Buddha had evolved the |
| 30 out of Athens: death, rejection, forever out of any | | | | ancient Hindu faith of a caste system and his beliefs |
| inner council of wiser gentler Athens. This was the | | | | led him and his followers since to belief that a life of |
| Athens Alexander arrived in, and took note. | | | | pure living and honest behavior towards others allowed |
| Heroic to a fault, he saw his chance for immortality, I | | | | one to enter naturally into a state of Nirvana at death, |
| think, and I have seen no published thoughts on this | | | | or Heaven. |
| motivation behind Alexander deciding with his life to go | | | | But even our Bible speaks of the Three Wise Men of |
| for it! No guts no glory, his inspiration would affect | | | | the east, and the only wise religion we can really think |
| other people after his death, as with Socrates. | | | | of out east was the teachings of Buddha, which fit |
| He must be good, he might as well be Great.It seems | | | | well with the gentle teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. |
| that Alexander, unlike most of us, had plenty example | | | | Peace. |
| how life could end quickly, and unless that dying man | | | | |