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Virgils ADD and the necessity of counsel/// Micah Powers

    Communication is such a vital aspect of decision making. We are instructed as children not to base our decisions on brash emotional impulses. Listening to the council of the experienced often benefits us in better outcomes. Unfortunately, Troy and Priam did not accept the admonishing from Capys and suffered the results of a misdirected decision. 
    "Capys opposed him; so did the wiser heads: 'into the sea with it,' they said, 'or burn it, Build up a bonfire under it, This trick of the Greeks, a gift no one can trust, Or cut it open, search the hollow belly!" - (Aeneid 34)
    We know the importance of heeding the wise counsel. In American culture past presidents still receive information on current events in order to council presidents that are currently serving their term/terms. In general, the Trojans seem to have come to a decision to destroy the massive horse but no-no-no. Input Virgil's ADD. A captured soldier of deception proceeds to tell his tale and Neptunes priest is killed by snakes along with two of his sons.  The horse of which many were suspicious of fulfilled suspicion and flooded troy with enemy soldiers. 
    The trojan horse is a great life lesson concerning relationships. I haven't been in very many relationships but I have witnessed relationships that experience the trojan horse effect. They say love is blind and in a similar sense there was a level of gullibility in bringing the Horse into troy. People outside of a relationship can typically see a lot more of the problems said the relationship could cause than those in the relationship. My last relationship seemed all hunky-dory to me... but my mother called me out and said, "Hey look the relationship is adding up very biblically, if she says she is a Christian but avoids church whenever you invite her that might not be the best marriage material." My mother was correct as they often are. Sometimes being on the outside looking in is better than trusting the person on the inside looking out.  I feel as though I am repeating myself but WISE COUNSEL IS SO IMPORTANT. Even Aeneus, speaking in the first person tells the readers, "If our own minds had not been crazed, He would have made us foul that Argive den With bloody steel and troy would stand today-" - (Aeneid 35) That statement is almost word for word what my cousin said about his ex-wife. Heed the words of the neighbors now to avoid the hurt of horrible conclusions. 


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  1. Ah yes, the ever prevalent point that the greatest of us all are those who find a way to combine their heightened intelligence with a great deal of wisdom. I personally think that the Trojans were blinded by a sense of futility as they were already beaten and battered in their ranks from a decade of fighting. Even if there were soldiers in the horse after all, it would be a swift (yet destructive) end that would bring many in the city's walls peace.

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