Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Varieties of oaths

Swearing is a human behavior.Other living things, such as chickens, ducks, geese, horses, cattle and sheep, mole crickets, grasshoppers, bumblebees, cockles, dolphins and squids, probably don't know what the oath of punishment is. There are many forms of penalty oaths, but no matter what the form is, it cannot be separated from one of the most important principles, that is, in the whole process of behavior, there must be a statement first, and then explain that if there is any violation of this statement, there will be punishment. What kind of result, and then, invite one or more forces that are believed to have an executive effect as witnesses, and then the entire process of punishing the oath will be completed.

Sound complicated? Yes, it is a very simple thing, but if it is theoreticalized, it will become very complicated, and people will feel dizzy when they see or hear it, thinking that there is a problem with their intelligence, but to put it bluntly, everyone knows it. Give two examples to illustrate the principles and process of taking oaths. One example: the emperor is above, and the earth is below. I, Wang Xiaomao, vowed not to be ungrateful to Zhang Xiaojuan. Such an oath includes the aforementioned "three major principles". Example 2: Today's courts, especially those in the West, have to swear by laying their hands on the Bible.Although there is no statement of what punishment will be accepted after breaking the oath, everyone knows the result, and "swearing false oaths" can get people to jail.Westerners pay more attention to reality than Easterners, replacing the original illusory with the laws of the world, and relying on the power of gods to carry out their oaths.

Although the styles of the East and the West are slightly different, they are essentially the same. The existence of human behavior such as punishment oath is naturally for the communication between people, it is a kind of indirect communication - one person can never know what is really thinking in another person's heart, in order to gain the trust of the other person, it is necessary to With the act of punishment oath.Under the swearing, the other party will naturally believe it more easily.Moreover, the stricter the punishment for violating the police, the higher the degree of trust of the other party, which is the so-called "poisonous oath".

All poisonous oaths, the punishment after expressing to the gods that one has violated the police, is mostly bloody, horrible and cruel, and some of them are even unreasonable and unimaginable. Orientals are the best at this point. Among the poisonous oaths made, there is also the sentence "those who give birth to boys will be slaves for generations, and those who give birth to daughters will be prostitutes for generations", which makes people shudder. Others such as "cutting off children and grandchildren", "unlucky death", "bleeding from seven holes", "death without a place to bury", and even "shoveling down the street and shoveling the house" are all terrible punishments.

No matter in ancient times or now, when a person takes an oath, how reliable is what he said? The answer is: from zero to one hundred - it may be all lies, or it may be all the truth. It is absolutely impossible to judge the truthfulness of a person's words from the sincerity of a person's oath and the bloody promises he made. Because, the supervisory force proposed by the person who punishes the oath, whether it is "Emperor Empress Dowager", "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", or the "gods of the past" who temporarily arrest husbands, is not suitable for the supervision and execution of the nominated oath. People seem to have no interest in this point, and the implementation is not serious, or it is not implemented at all, or it is just wishful thinking of the person who punished the oath, and the gods have not promised to accept the commission at all.

Under such circumstances, it is natural that no matter what vows are made, they will not work.People who take oaths, especially those who take poison oaths, know this well. Therefore, in real life, if someone suddenly raises his hand, with a solemn expression, and declares, "If it wasn't like that, I would be hit by a car when I go out", he never thought that he would really be hit by a car It really happens. This kind of behavior is naturally an insult to the god he mentioned. If the power of the god suddenly descends, it is very likely that his oath will become true. Therefore, oaths, especially poisonous oaths, if you don’t really want to do that, it’s best not to speak indiscriminately—everything happens in the world, if a thousand oaths are punished, nine hundred and ninety-nine are not fulfilled. If one is fulfilled, that's enough to see, whoever told you to punish is a poisonous oath.

Therefore, some people, especially the ancients (the ancients believed in the power of gods more), did not take oaths easily, and the oaths were more credible.Even when you know that you swear, you must have some small actions to reduce or show that what you say is not the truth.For example, in a famous popular novel, there is a witty and cunning character, Zhihua, nicknamed "Black Demon Fox". It means that the oath he took is false and cannot be taken seriously. Under such circumstances, even if there is a "god of the past" who has accepted the entrustment of supervision, he cannot be punished.

No one can predict the final result of any oath, because no one knows what will happen in the future. No matter what will happen in the future, what will happen will happen, and what will not happen will not happen. It seems like nonsense again. Isn't that right, one is just "full of absurd words", so let's not gossip, let's see what this story is about.