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How to Settle Conflict // Braylan Stringfellow

    I know that a trial is happening in this story, but there was a part of it that can be use to settle conflict between two people. Basically what is happening is Orestes in on trial for killing his mother. So he says his side of the story, and the accuser says their side. Then with a neutral party (Athena in this case) hears both sides and deals with what they said. 
    The Bible says that when we have a problem with someone that we should go to them about it. If that doesn't work then we should bring in a third party of some sort. This is a similar process we see in a trial. One party does someone wrong, and they are in front of a third party, and each say there side of the issue. If we were to do this instead of going around and telling other people about our problem with someone and quit gossiping, we would have so many fewer problems. 

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  1. Lily CaswellSeptember 22, 2020 at 6:49 AM

    I completely agree with you, Braylan. I feel like the tendency today is that when people hurt others, the person who was hurt tends to put it on social media first, which is a big no-no. Something that I’ve always been taught is that when a person hurts you or you make a hurt a person, the first thing you should do is apologize because the problem gets resolved quickly, instead of someone telling someone else and it becomes like a game of telephone.

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