Lucas Soranus
Governor
You have been found guilty and sentenced to be crucified. Do you think you deserve your fate up there? Is it a fair punishment for your crimes?
Very much I tried to run away as a slave I might not like it but I deserve yo die with the shame of the crossYou have been found guilty and sentenced to be crucified. Do you think you deserve your fate up there? Is it a fair punishment for your crimes?
All you can do is accept it, maybe try to hang ones self to avoid the fateIt is law that states whether you deserve it or not.
Question is : when you planned or commited the crime(s) or the action(s) that finally brought you in court, have you considered the risk? did you anticipate or accept the possibility to get crucified?
If you have been overconfident, or complacent, thinking it could not happen to you, or too ignorant about the risks, then you deserve it for that simple reason!
Otherwise, I would simply think : "Shit happens!"
Perhaps, one could say :All you can do is accept it, maybe try to hang ones self to avoid the fate
Death by crucifixion is the only just punishment for my crimes. The torment will be necessary to make me repent and the pain might purify my soul (a little).You have been found guilty and sentenced to be crucified. Do you think you deserve your fate up there? Is it a fair punishment for your crimes?
Now that's a way to view it. The cross as a form of redemption for your sins.Death by crucifixion is the only just punishment for my crimes. The torment will be necessary to make me repent and the pain might purify my soul (a little).
You won't regret the mistake for much longer than a few daysPerhaps, one could say :
"Whatever I did, I deserve the cross, because I was so stupid to have myself get caught!"
You'll definately regret it once you're naked before the crowd though.You won't regret the mistake for much longer than a few days
Now that's a way to view it. The cross as a form of redemption for your sins.
“So, Lucas, you think you deserve your punishment? You see your crucifixion as a redemption of your crimes? I don’t. For mine, it is acceptance. I am pissed off to myself that I got myself caught this time. But well, I always knew that, sooner or later, my luck could run out, and I realized well what would happen to me in that case. Maybe that’s why I had started to attend more and more crucifixions, the last years. To deter myself from going on? Or to get used to the eventuality?I guess, I never answered the question myself, to which the answer is that I absolutely deserve it.
My arrogance, hubris, and utter disregard for the law is unforgivable, and must be met with only one fate, the cross.
I am marched out to the public square, where the cross is waiting there for me. It's there I am stripped. The guard looks over and tells me, "Look at you now, about to pay the ultimate price. Now you stand here, not a scrap of clothes to cover your body, as you hang up there. You are nothing, but another one the the countless bodies that have met our justice."
I am then nailed to the cross, and hoisted up. I am then guarded day and night as people watch as I suffer. For 9 whole days I am up there, slowly dying the death I so rightly deserve.
Yes it is what I truly deserve.You have been found guilty and sentenced to be crucified. Do you think you deserve your fate up there? Is it a fair punishment for your crimes?
That is a fair point. My youth, shall be the source of entertainment, but also a source of sorrow to one so young, forced to die a horrible naked death. But that sympathy will be far and few between, and many will suspend that once they read my titulus and learn of the horrible crimes that condemned me to that fate.Perhaps it is our difference in age that makes our difference in how we deal with it!? You are thirty or more years younger than me. For you, it is not that cruel and humiliating punishment that awaits you, but also the knowledge that your life will be cut short by that cross, and that you will have hours or even days to think about that, while you struggle your agony on that wooden enforcer.
You counted on sympathy because of your young age and your good looking body? Forget about that! Being crucified is a sure proof of guilt! Your titulus just confirms that. There is much less on mine, but all trough the years, I got away with many things, and the people know that. So I neither have to count on sympathy because of my older age.That is a fair point. My youth, shall be the source of entertainment, but also a source of sorrow to one so young, forced to die a horrible naked death. But that sympathy will be far and few between, and many will suspend that once they read my titulus and learn of the horrible crimes that condemned me to that fate.
In my case yes!You have been found guilty and sentenced to be crucified. Do you think you deserve your fate up there? Is it a fair punishment for your crimes?